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Kheyti
●Customer story · Nonprofit

How Kheyti gives every farmer advice that remembers their last call

Field agronomists see each farmer’s greenhouses, crops and open issues on one screen, with an AI summary ready before they pick up the phone.

India · Digital & App Innovation · Zoho CRM, Python, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, OpenAPI, React, TypeScript, Railway, generative AI

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Results

Under 2 sec

to bring up a farmer’s full history, from search to screen

97 to 100

accessibility score for the app (Lighthouse)

The story in short

Where they started

Farmer records sat in several Zoho CRM modules, so agronomists went into calls without the full picture.

What we built

A Farmer 360° web app that pulls those records into one view and adds an AI summary for each greenhouse.

Where they are now

Agronomists prepare in moments and pick up each conversation where the last one ended.

The people they serve

When a smallholder farmer calls about a struggling crop, the agronomist on the line needs to know which greenhouse, which crop, how far along it is, and what was tried last time.

About Kheyti

Kheyti is an Indian agritech enterprise and an Earthshot Prize winner. It helps smallholder farmers build climate-resilient, profitable livelihoods.

Its Greenhouse-in-a-Box is an affordable, modular greenhouse that protects crops from weather, heat and pests. Field Support Agronomists and a remote support team give farmers crop advice and ongoing support.

The challenge

Every call started with a hunt through the CRM.

The information was all there. It just lived in too many places for anyone to hold in their head before a call.

01

Records in pieces

Crop growth, greenhouse details, field visits and support cases each lived in a different Zoho CRM module.

02

Context lost between calls

Agents struggled to recall earlier conversations and ongoing issues before a call or a visit.

03

Advice that varied

Agents risked missing context and asking farmers questions already answered, and the quality of advice varied from one agent to the next.

The route

One screen per farmer, with AI that reads the history for you.

We kept Zoho CRM as the system of record and built a view on top of it, so nobody enters data twice.

01 · Listen

What agronomists did before every call

Field Support Agronomists and remote support teams prepared for each farmer interaction by manually reviewing records across several Zoho CRM modules. We designed one view around that routine.

02 · Connect

Reading the CRM as it is

A Python API reads the Zoho CRM modules for crops, greenhouses, visits and cases.

03 · Summarize

AI that briefs the agent

Generative AI summarizes crop health, symptoms, recent remedies and the last five interactions for each greenhouse.

04 · In the field

Agronomists on every call

Field and remote agronomists open the Farmer 360° view before each call or visit.

Straight talk

Zoho CRM stayed the system of record. Voice AI and IVRS, and any redesign of the CRM schema or modules, were out of scope for this phase. Where the view needed new fields, we proposed them rather than building them directly.

One farmer, every greenhouse, and an AI summary of what’s happening.

What's on the screen

Search by phone, name or ID

Agents find the right farmer in seconds.

A tab for every greenhouse

Current crop, stage and age, sowing and expected harvest dates, and yield history.

Visits, calls and cases

The last visit and call, plus open and closed support cases linked back to the CRM.

An AI summary on demand

Crop health, symptoms, recent remedies and open issues, refreshed with one click.

Technologies used

Zoho CRM
Python
PostgreSQL
FastAPI
OpenAPI
React
TypeScript
Railways
What changed

Agents walk into every call already briefed.

Agronomists find a farmer quickly and see the whole history on one screen. Open cases stay in view until they close, and the advice farmers get is consistent from one agent to the next.

●What's next

[WHAT’S NEXT · where Kheyti takes the Farmer 360° view from here, and whether our team is still working with them]

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