§ 001 · Who We Are

Built by people who've been
in the grow rooms.

Grownetics was founded on a simple frustration: the technology available to commercial CEA operators was too fragile, too fragmented, and too far removed from how cultivation actually works.

We built our products from grow room experience, not a software background. Good growers fighting bad systems. Efficient facilities getting squeezed by rising input costs. That is what Grownetics was built to solve.

§ 002 · By the Numbers
2M+
Sq ft of operating experience
Managed, consulted on, and run by the team
60+
Years combined experience
Engineering + cultivation expertise
UL
Certified controls
Industrial-grade reliability
UC
Research affiliated
University of Colorado studies
§ 003 · Proof Timeline

A decade of work in the field.
Measured by what it produced.

Grownetics started from a practical problem: commercial operators needed better visibility, better controls, and better decisions than the market was offering. The important part is not the origin story. It is what that work produced.

Over time, that meant moving from grow room frustration to measurable outcomes: higher-resolution mapping, lower energy use, better deployment consistency, and technology that could work across research, greenhouse, indoor, and multi-site operations.

These milestones matter because they show the pattern: Grownetics has been built in the field, refined in active facilities, and proven in environments where reliability, efficiency, and crop performance actually matter.

2015
Founded around a systems gap
Started with a simple premise: sensor and control data should drive plant-level insight, not just equipment monitoring.
2018
Research and genetics deployments
Custom sensing and automation deployed for hemp R&D and genetics work, supporting plant-level data correlation and faster research workflows.
2019
Large-facility smart farm operations
Grownetics systems supported next-generation smart farm deployments, including facilities operating at high precision with lean cultivation staffing.
2020
40% energy reduction milestone
In collaboration with Fleurish Farms and University of Colorado Boulder, Grownetics demonstrated major energy reduction versus sole-source LED approaches.
2022
Commercial-scale operating experience across CEA
The team brought together experience from millions of square feet of commercial cultivation environments across facilities managed, deployed, and optimized over time.
2025
Stack expansion: monitoring to operating system
CropVision, Unity, Foundation, and consulting now feed into the next layer: Grownetics OS and an integrated agent-based operating model for CEA.
§ 004 · What Drives Us

The best technology disappears
into the operation.

The standard we hold ourselves to is not "feature-rich" but "friction-free." Not "powerful" but "reliable." When the technology is doing its job well, operators stop thinking about systems and start thinking about cultivation.

The grower isn't broken. The system is.

Yield variation is almost always a systems problem: environmental, equipment, or protocol. Not genetics. Not the grower.

Evidence first. Philosophy second.

We lead with specs, data, and concrete claims, not narratives about what cultivation should be.

Vendor lock-in is a design choice, not a requirement.

Open sensor ecosystems, exportable data, and transparent pricing aren't optional. They're how we'd want to buy technology.

Precision at scale isn't a feature. It's survival.

As CEA markets mature, the gap between efficient and inefficient operations determines who's operating in five years.

Technology amplifies expertise. It doesn't replace it.

CropVision and Unity make good growers better. They don't turn untrained staff into cultivators.

If we can't explain the ROI, we don't deserve the sale.

Every Grownetics engagement starts with a clear statement of what it costs, what it returns, and how you'll know it worked.

§ 005 · The Team

60+ years of combined experience
in the rooms that matter.

The Grownetics team is a mix of licensed master growers, controls engineers, facility designers, compliance specialists, and systems architects. Not one or the other. All of the above.

Our controls engineers hold UL certifications and have designed panels for commercial agricultural, pharmaceutical, and industrial applications. Our cultivation consultants have run head grower and director roles across CO, CA, and Canadian markets.

Combined, the team brings experience from millions of square feet of commercial cultivation environments across facilities they have deployed, operated, and optimized.

Our US Consulting Lead, JR Loza, is co-authoring the Rule of 10s, the first comprehensive benchmarking framework for CEA operations. Twenty-plus years of cultivation experience across California and Israel, codified into a scoring system the whole industry can use.

Controls Engineering
UL 508A panels, predictive algorithms, industrial automation
Cultivation Science
Licensed master growers, tissue culture to harvest, Total Crop Steering™
Facility Design
Greenfield + retrofit, CAD/BIM, compliance documentation
Systems Architecture
IoT networks, sensor integration, data infrastructure
Regulatory Compliance
CO, CA, Canada: licensing, track & trace, audits
Research Partnerships
University of Colorado affiliated studies and data validation

Meet the team.

The people behind Grownetics bring decades of hands-on experience across cultivation, compliance, facility design, and plant science.

§ 006 · Deployed In

Applied in real commercial environments.

Grownetics technology runs in operating facilities where consistency, efficiency, and crop performance are measured, not assumed.

Cure Company
California

Multi-facility deployment. CropVision and Unity across rooms, replacing legacy controls with coil-temperature-aware monitoring and tighter recipe execution.

The Work
Colorado

Full CropVision + Unity deployment. 18% yield increase in first cycle.

House of Cultivars
Rhode Island

Monitoring and cultivation consulting. Consistent 3.0+ lbs per light.

Green Horizons
California

Facility design + Unity. Caught three critical airflow issues pre-build.

Fields of Light
California

Full stack deployment across multiple cultivation environments.

§ 007 · Work With Us

Want to know if we are the right fit?

Tell us where your operation is losing consistency, visibility, or performance. We will come with honest answers and a clear next step.

Ready to see what your operation is actually capable of?

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