99%
Accuracy
100%
Digital Audit Trail
$0
New Investment in Hardware
Industry
Agriculture · Seed
Quality Assurance & Lab Operations
Business Function
Capability
Computer Vision · Digital Quality Testing and Audit - Germination, Vigor, Purity Analysis
Tech Stack
YOLOv8 · CNN Classification · React · FastAPI · AWS · PostgreSQL
Overview
A leading vegetable seed company, conducts high-volume quality testing across a diverse crop portfolio under International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) certification standards.
As testing volumes increased and regulatory expectations evolved, the company sought a faster, more consistent approach that could eliminate manual bottlenecks while creating complete digital traceability and providing visibility for downstream decision-making.
Hornbill Ag developed SeedAEye, an AI-powered quality testing platform that automates germination testing, vigor analysis, and purity testing from a smartphone image. The system combines production-grade computer vision with a laboratory workflow designed for scale, accuracy, and regulatory readiness.
Cocopeat Method
Paper Towel Method
Challenge
Our Solution
SeedAEye is a seed quality management platform that automates germination testing, vigor analysis, and purity assessment within the protocols your team already follows. One image from any smartphone or desktop camera. Results in seconds.
The platform's computer vision engine detects and classifies every individual seedling on a germination sheet or cocopeat tray, assigning each as Normal, Abnormal, or Ungerminated per ISTA or Association of Official Seed Analysts (AOSA) standards. Models are trained on 500,000+ annotated seedling images across 25+ vegetable and row crops and support both first-count and final-count evaluation protocols.
Every test is stored with the original image, AI output, batch metadata, and a complete correction history, giving QA teams a fully traceable, searchable record for every lot tested. Results export directly for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integration.
The outcome: faster testing, consistent results across operators, and a digital audit trail that replaces paper-based records from day one.
Impact Delivered
100% accurate results with Human-in-the-Loop
Validated across ISTA and NABL-certified labs.
Rapid operational scaling
100% shift from manual testing operations to digitized testing on SeedAEye.
Complete digital traceability
Every germination test digitally recorded from day one, eliminating paper-based re-entry while providing a complete image-backed audit trail.
Production-ready deployment
Production-ready from day one, integrated into your laboratory workflows.
