AI & Intelligence
Your digital beekeeping advisor
A context-aware AI assistant that knows every hive in your operation, plus GPS Yard AR that identifies hives the moment you walk up — no tapping, no scanning, just answers.
AI assistant
Your personal hive consultant
The AI knows your full inspection history, treatments, queen status, and Varroa counts for every hive. Ask a question in plain language — it responds with advice grounded in your data, not generic tips.
- Chat interface with full per-hive context — no copy-pasting data
- On-demand AI hive summary — generate a narrative overview from your activity log
- Voice input — dictate field notes in the yard; AI structures the inspection record
- Paste & parse — drop in handwritten notes; AI fills the form for you
- Frame photo analysis — upload a frame photo and AI identifies capping %, brood pattern, pests, and moisture
- AI-suggested floral source — at batch creation, AI cross-references forage, bloom, and local pollen data to suggest honey type
- Quick inspection — rapid-entry mode with large gloved-hand targets for queen, mites, stores, brood, and notes in one screen
- Upload your insurance policy PDF — AI extracts your coverage details so you know exactly what’s protected
- Bring your own OpenAI or xAI (Grok) key to use your preferred model and your own account’s usage limits — or the built-in AI handles everything with no setup required
Hive AI
Hive #3 · Italian · 4 inspections
Voice inspection
Hands-free inspections — just talk
Walk the yard with both hands on your frames. The app prompts each inspection step through your speaker, listens for your spoken answer, and AI parses natural language into structured data. Review and edit before saving — nothing is committed until you confirm.
- TTS prompts walk you through every field — queen seen, brood pattern, varroa count, stores, notes
- STT captures your spoken response and AI converts it to structured inspection data
- Follow-up questions when AI needs clarification, with up to 2 retries per step
- Full review screen before save — edit any field the AI parsed
- Works on-device — core flow requires no internet connection
- Web and mobile — Chrome, Safari, iOS, Android
Step 2 of 5 — Brood & Queen
AI asked:
“How many frames of brood did you see?”
You said:
“About seven frames, good pattern, eggs and larvae present.”
AI parsed
Tap to answer · or just start talking
Sound inspection
Listen to your hives — AI hears the rest
Hold your phone near the hive entrance for 30 seconds. A 3-layer AI pipeline analyzes the audio — DSP feature extraction, rule-based bee acoustic signatures, and deep-learning AI spectrogram analysis — then returns queen status, colony mood, varroa risk, swarming risk, and a full narrative summary.
- 30-second recording at the hive entrance — no special equipment needed
- Layer 1: DSP feature extraction — FFT, spectral centroid, dominant frequency, harmonic-to-noise ratio
- Layer 2: Rule-based acoustic signatures — matches known bee sound patterns
- Layer 3: Deep-learning AI — analyzes generated spectrograms for deeper patterns
- Results: overall assessment, queen status, colony mood, varroa risk, swarming risk, detected issues with confidence scores
- AI narrative summary — plain-language explanation of what the hive sounds tell you
- Persisted to hive history — track acoustic health over time
- User feedback loop — confirm or correct results to improve future accuracy
Healthy
Overall assessment
87%
Confidence
Queen status
Likely present
Colony mood
Calm
Varroa risk
Low
Swarming risk
None detected
DSP Analysis
312 Hz
Normal worker hum
AI Narrative
Colony sounds indicate a healthy, queen-right hive with normal worker activity. No signs of distress or queenlessness detected.
No issues detected
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Yard AR
Your yard. Already identified.
Walk up → GPS auto-identifies → Instant live health overlays & one-tap actions. No tags, no scanning.
How it works
1
Approach the yard
Open the app and walk toward your hives — camera open, no overlay yet.
2
GPS locks onto nearest hive
Coordinates auto-identify the hive. No barcodes, no NFC, no searching.
3
Health overlay appears
Score, last inspection, and AI warnings render in your camera view.
AI pulls per-hive data: history, Varroa trends, treatments
4
One-tap actions
Inspect, note, photo, or view — every visit GPS-timestamped automatically.
Hive #7 · Italian · 0 m
82
Good
Inspected 8 days ago
6 hives · by proximity
Hive #7
Italian
Hive #3
Carniolan
Hive #12
Buckfast · Queenless?
Perfect for new beekeepers – labeled hive parts in real time.
GPS Yard Mode
Walk into any yard — the nearest hive is auto-identified by GPS coordinates. No tapping, no scanning, no searching.
Live Health Overlay
Health score, last inspection date, and warning badges rendered directly in your camera view.
Quick Action Bar
Inspect, Note, Photo, View Hive — one-tap actions anchored to the screen so you never lose your place.
Training Mode
Toggle labeled overlays that identify each hive component — honey super, brood box, screened bottom board — great for new beekeepers.
Built for the Field
High-contrast dark UI, torch toggle, live weather chip, haptic feedback, and foraging conditions — designed for gloved hands in bright sun.
Predictive insights
The AI analyzes your operation's historical data — inspection frequency, Varroa trends, weight curves, treatment patterns — and surfaces predictive alerts like “Hive #12 is trending toward a swarm event based on weight gain and brood pattern,” giving you time to act before problems develop.
Premium feature
Yard AR is available on the Premium plan. Free-tier users can still use the hive list and manual search — AR overlay and GPS auto-identification require Premium.
Auto-logged AR visits
Every time you open a hive through Yard AR, the visit is logged with a GPS timestamp. Your inspection timeline stays complete even when you don't fill out a full report.
Ready to master your apiaries?
Sign up for the beta — all Premium features included for early testers
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