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Know Your Water. Keep the Record.Stay SGMA-Ready.

Irrigation decision support on the probes already in your dirt, built with a Central Valley crop-advising practice.

Dashboard

Sample data
Soil Moisture
78%
Optimal
ET Rate
0.28
in/day
Draft order
Thursday
for your adviser to review
Stress Signal
Low
all zones, today
Allocation on track

A representative week

Monday

The written record lands by 7am if anything needs attention: a ranked do-today list, same-day crop-stress signals by block, silent loggers. Quiet weeks stay quiet.

Midweek

The crew works the queue in the field app and logs pressure chamber readings, gauge photos and set changes from the orchard.

Thursday

The coming week’s water order goes out after an agronomist reviews the draft against the sensor record, forecast ETo and your allocation.

See a full sample of the weekly record

Block-level actions

Front-load a drying block

Low profile plus heat in the extended forecast: refill before the heat, not during it.

Hold a set on a full profile

Depletion tracking shows the root zone is still wet; hours-per-block guidance says wait.

Salt reading when pore-water EC climbs

Salinity read from the probe, so your adviser can make the flushing call before salt damage builds.

Dispatch to a silent logger

Sensor and flow-meter health checks flag offline equipment.

Measured versus estimated

Every output on the dashboard carries its source and validation status.

Measured: read from your sensors and meters

  • Soil moisture by depth
  • Pore-water electrical conductivity
  • Soil temperature
  • Pump on and off events
  • Flow, where a meter is installed

Estimated: model or physics output, labeled as such

  • Same-day crop-stress signals
  • Depletion and hours-per-block suggestions
  • Allocation used to date where no meter exists (pump runtime and application rates)
  • Penalty exposure against your GSA schedule

SGMA figures are estimates; your GSA's records control. Tamper-evident records preserve attested readings and reports; they do not by themselves establish measurement accuracy, water savings or regulatory compliance.

Evidence

70
Instrumented sensor sites
11.4M
Sensor readings
320
Site-years

Three trained AI models are live in the irrigation decision today (SENTRY, WATCHDOG, PULSE); more are trained and staged behind promotion gates.

Connecting your sensors

Sentek via IrriMAX: self-serve

Paste your IrriMAX API key. We verify it and pull your sites; your first record follows once sites are mapped to blocks.

METER, Irrometer, AquaSpy and others: concierge

Our team checks feed access and handles the connection. No new hardware on Platform.

Price

Platform

$20/acre/year

On your own sensors. Free for 90 days from when your probe data connects, no credit card; sign up October through December and it stays free through March 31. The paid plan starts on Day 91 (or April 1) unless you cancel in writing by Day 88 (or March 28). After the Platform trial converts, cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing quarter.

  • Water use against your allocation every week, signed water records and the monthly meter record
  • Alerts for missed sets and dry and overdue blocks (once a block has its own pump records and a season of probe history), and for probes that stop reporting
  • Better tools for the crop adviser you already pay; chamber readings optional
  • You or your own CCA run the field work
  • You own your data. We do not sell raw or identifiable farm data
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Managed

$80/acre/year

Everything in Platform, plus sensors and field service under a signed agreement.

  • Soil moisture probe installation
  • Our agronomist, a Certified Crop Adviser, and our crew's pressure chamber program
  • Direct phone and email access to our team
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Frequently Asked Questions

How much water can irrigation AI save?▼
We have not measured a water saving from the software or its models, and we quote no savings figure. What the software gives you is your water use against your groundwater allocation each week, from your own well meters, so you and your agronomist can act while there is season left. No AI-attributable water-savings figure has been established.
Does irrigation AI work without sensors?▼
The trained models need soil-sensor data. Without sensors you can still use the free SGMA penalty estimator and allocation tracking from your meter and allocation records; once probes are connected, the water-use estimate and probe checks start, and the stress ranking switches on block by block as your farm's own chamber readings come in.
What crops does AgWaterAI support?▼
AgWaterAI is trained on 320 site-years of daily multi-depth soil data (daily data since 2016 on the oldest site) from California permanent crops including almonds, pistachios, citrus, grapes, and stone fruit. The models work best for tree crops and vineyards where soil moisture dynamics are predictable. Row crops may have different requirements.
How long does it take to set up AgWaterAI?▼
IrriMAX is self-serve, and the SGMA position, the signed record and the first draft order are live the week the probes connect. For other sensor brands our team checks feed access and handles the connection. Without sensors, the free SGMA estimator and allocation tracking are available right away. New sensor installations typically take 1 to 2 weeks.