About AgWaterAI
Irrigation decision software for orchard growers in the Central Valley, California, built by an agronomist and an engineer.
Why we exist
Every drop, from the pump to the plan
A 45-second film about the night irrigation run, the morning check and the decision in between. That gap is what AgWaterAI is built to close.
What we do and where
AgWaterAI was founded in 2025. We build software around a grower's weekly irrigation program. Three trained models support the weekly irrigation decision. They work alongside adviser-derived rules and a physics water balance, and each model is tested separately with its limits reported.
We work with orchard growers in California's Central Valley. Crops include almonds, pistachios, citrus, walnuts, pecans, stone fruit, grapes, avocados, pomegranates and olives.
Team
Nick McGill
Co-founder, CEO and lead agronomist
Runs the Managed field program: sensor placement, irrigation review and grower relationships.
JP
Co-founder and CTO
Built the models, the data pipeline and the software, and is responsible for testing each model and reporting its limits.
Credentials
Nick is a Certified Crop Adviser and a second-generation irrigation consultant with more than 16 years in the field. He serves about 20,000 acres under his crop-adviser practice, of which about 4,000 are contracted to AgWaterAI. The consulting practice has operated since 1984 and is separate from AgWaterAI.
JP is an AI engineer. The company's methods for sensor diagnostics and water-use verification are patent-pending.
Field-data history
The oldest site in the program has daily, multi-depth soil data going back to 2016, the longest-running instrumented ground we work on. Today the platform covers 70 instrumented sensor sites (68 active as of Aug 30 2026), 11.4 million sensor readings and 320 site-years of daily data. These are deployment figures for sensor sites on AgWaterAI; they are distinct from the 20,000 acres in Nick's consulting practice.
Contact
Email info@agwaterai.com, or book a call and we will walk through your blocks and sensors with you.
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