Wingsure Launches COFFEA™ Farm Intelligence Platform for the Coffee Sector

NEW YORK, USA

 Wingsure, an agricultural intelligence company and SRI spinout, announced the September 28 launch of Wingsure COFFEA™, a platform designed to capture and verify farm-level evidence and convert it into information that can support decision-making across the global coffee sector.

Avi Basu, Founder, CEO Wingsure

Wingsure originated as a spinout of SRI International, where its technology foundation incorporated work in computer vision, geospatial analytics and augmented reality. SRI has separately documented Wingsure’s spinout history and the use of these technologies in its agricultural applications.

Coffee production supports millions of farming households worldwide. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, up to 25 million farmers and their families depend on coffee, while smallholder farms account for a significant share of global coffee production.

Against that backdrop, coffee companies and agricultural organizations are managing requirements related to sourcing, traceability, sustainability, production and risk. Individual farms may currently be assessed separately for sustainability, sourcing, production, certification, finance and risk programs, resulting in repeated data collection and fragmented farm records.

Wingsure COFFEA™ is designed to address that fragmentation by capturing evidence at farm level, associating it with information about where and when it was collected, and developing a record that can be updated over successive seasons and used across multiple programs.

“What excites us about coffee is the opportunity to bring years of foundational deep-tech work to one of the world’s most important agricultural ecosystems — and to do it in a way that creates value on both sides of the farm gate,” said Avi Basu, Founder and CEO of Wingsure. “We have been fortunate to learn alongside some of the most respected organizations and people in coffee. One lesson has become very clear: a farm cannot be understood through a periodic form, a declaration or a satellite image alone. It is a living system.”

“Our job is to turn what is happening on that farm into trusted intelligence that gets better over time. For the grower, that means a farm record that becomes more valuable with every season. For the enterprise, it means a common intelligence foundation for better decisions across sustainability, sourcing, production, risk and finance.”

For growers, the platform is intended to help preserve observations, farming practices and field records that might otherwise remain distributed across separate surveys and programs. Over time, these records can help document agricultural practices and progress and support more relevant advisory programs.

Through participating programs, farm-level information may also be used in connection with initiatives involving incentives, agricultural insurance or credit, subject to the requirements of the applicable program or provider.

Using a compatible smartphone, Wingsure COFFEA™ combines augmented-reality-guided data capture, multilingual voice capabilities, computer vision, geospatial analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. SRI has described COFFEA™ as using guided field capture, multilingual voice interaction, computer vision and geospatial analysis to create time-stamped farm records, including in environments with limited connectivity.

“AI is only as credible as the evidence beneath it,” said Dr. Bikram Sengupta, Co-founder and CTO of Wingsure. “Our architecture keeps every insight connected to what was captured, where and when. That allows verification, inference and prediction to become part of one traceable intelligence system. The goal is not simply more data. It is intelligence you can trust.”

Together, these capabilities are designed to create an evolving information layer covering areas such as crop conditions, farming practices, production signals and agricultural risk. Rather than operating solely as a standalone application, Wingsure COFFEA™ is intended to complement enterprise systems and programs involving sustainability, sourcing, traceability, agricultural finance and risk.

SRI has reported that the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (FNC) and Tata AIG General Insurance Company Ltd. are among the organizations engaging with Wingsure as it develops applications for farm-level intelligence.

Álvaro Gaitán, Technical Manager of the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (FNC), said:

“As a grower-led institution, FNC is focused on building the next generation of capabilities Colombian coffee producers will need to compete globally. Better, more timely farm intelligence is central to that vision. We are engaging with Wingsure to explore how its technology can complement FNC’s existing capabilities and help strengthen the coffee ecosystem for Colombian growers.”

FNC’s existing Coffee Information System, known as SICA, already provides georeferenced and socioeconomic information across Colombia’s coffee sector. The current engagement with Wingsure is exploratory and should not be interpreted as a completed commercial partnership or confirmed technical integration.

From the agricultural risk and insurance sector, Madhukar Sinha, President – Govt & Rural Business at Tata AIG General Insurance Company Ltd., said:

“Agricultural insurance has an important role to play in building farmer resilience, but achieving that at scale requires a much clearer and more timely understanding of what is actually happening at the farm. Wingsure’s approach is compelling because it connects verified field evidence with the intelligence needed for risk assessment and decision-making. The ability to create a trusted, continuously developing record of the farm can be valuable not only for insurance, but across the broader agricultural ecosystem. We believe Wingsure is addressing an important challenge with technology that has the potential to operate at a meaningful scale.”

Tata AIG’s official corporate information identifies the insurer as a joint venture between the Tata Group and American International Group and includes rural and agricultural insurance among its general-insurance offerings.

The COFFEA™ launch builds on Wingsure’s work in agricultural technology involving farm-level information, crop assessment and insurance-related applications. SRI previously documented Wingsure’s use of computer vision and geospatial analysis for crop assessment as part of its agricultural technology platform.

Within the coffee sector, COFFEA™ extends that technology foundation toward applications involving farm records, sourcing, production, sustainability and agricultural risk. The platform is designed so that observations, interventions and seasonal information can contribute to a developing farm record rather than requiring a separate evidence base for each new program or analysis.

Following the September 28 launch, Wingsure participated in two coffee-industry gatherings in Switzerland: the Global Coffee Platform’s 10th Anniversary Celebration in Geneva on September 30 and the Swiss Coffee Trade Association’s 17th Forum & Dinner in Montreux on October 1–2.

About Wingsure

Wingsure is an agricultural intelligence company and SRI spinout developing farm-level technology for the agriculture sector. Its technology draws on computer vision, geospatial analysis, multilingual artificial intelligence, machine learning and guided field-level digital capture to collect, verify and analyze agricultural information.

The company supports applications involving sustainability, production, sourcing, regenerative agriculture, finance, insurance and agricultural risk management. Its technology is designed to help enterprises work with more consistent farm-level information while enabling growers to build more useful records of their farming activities over time.

For more information, visit www.wingsure.co.

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