Agronomy · client lead · Indonesia
Afa Sjarifarudin
Decades of oil palm estate management across agronomy and operations in Indonesia. Author of The Algorithmic Estate: A Green AI Blueprint in Oil Palm Plantation.
Plantation intelligence · oil palm · Singapore + Indonesia
A plantation isn't a grid of blocks. It's a million individual trees.
Raih AI fuses agronomic, weather, satellite, and operational data into a digital twin of the oil palm estate — predictive intelligence that turns plantation complexity into confident operational decisions.
01 · The problem
Estates run on block averages. Losses don't.
A block is 25–30 hectares — three to four thousand trees — reported as one number. Performance varies tree by tree; block-level reporting cannot show where.
SAT VIEW · BLOCK 07 · KALIMANTAN EST.NDVI · COMPOSITE
Block 07 · one number
82% of target
3,412 trees · 28.4 ha
cluster · 38 trees
on target
watch
below target
Same block, tree by tree · 214 below target · clustered south-east.
The block report says
82% of target. Acceptable. No action raised.
Tree-level shows
A 38-tree cluster failing in the south-east corner — consistent with a drainage fault, not a nutrition gap.
The difference
One targeted intervention, instead of a blanket response across 28 hectares.
Illustrative visualisation · 1 dot ≈ 10 trees.
02 · The platform
From field data to defensible decisions.
Data fusion
Agronomic records, weather, satellite imagery, and daily operations — brought into one consistent picture of the estate.
Digital twin
A living model of the plantation that stays current as conditions on the ground change.
Predictive analytics
Yield, stress, and risk signals surfaced early — before they become losses in the monthly report.
Operational intelligence
Clear, auditable recommendations, delivered into existing estate workflows and management reporting.
03 · The team
Agronomy and engineering, in one team.
Machine learning · systems · Singapore
Zulfadli Ghani
Leads technology development — machine learning models and data-fusion systems across agronomic, weather, satellite, and operational data. Founder of Lucky Shovel Pte. Ltd., the Singapore technology company behind Raih AI.
DEVELOPED AND VALIDATED ON WORKING OIL PALM ESTATES IN INDONESIA.
04 · Direction
From blocks, to trees.
Today — the industry standard
Block-level
The smallest unit most estates analyse today. Thousands of trees, one number — adequate for reporting, blind to tree-level variance.
In development
Tree-level
Individual tree health, yield, and history — a record for every trunk, at estate scale. In development with partner estates in Indonesia.
Contact
Start the conversation.
Tell us about your estate and where block-level reporting stops. Enquiries reach the leadership team directly.