Can the assistant see another farm's records?

No. It is handed a read-only database connection bound to your account, and the account filter is applied at the database rather than requested in the prompt. Another farm's records cannot be asked for, because they cannot be addressed. Every row it reads is re-checked for ownership before it is used.

Is my farm data used to train an AI model?

No. Your question and the records read to answer it are sent to our model provider to generate that answer and nothing else. Under our agreement with them, your inputs and the outputs are not used to train their models. If you never use the assistant, none of your records are sent anywhere.

Can the assistant change my records?

No. It is read-only by design. It cannot create, edit, or delete a record, cannot record a sale, and cannot take any action on your behalf. An assistant that cannot act cannot act wrongly, and that constraint is deliberate.

How much does it cost?

Every account gets 10 questions a month at no charge, including the 7-day card-on-file trial. If you need more, the add-on is $20 a month for 500 questions, billed separately from your plan and cancellable without touching it.

Can I try it in the live demo?

Not the assistant. The public demo needs no signup and is strictly read-only, so it has no account behind it to meter questions against. You can page through real screens and real records there. To ask the assistant something, start a trial or use a paid account — the monthly questions are included.

A farmer entering records on a phone in the field, cattle grazing behind

Built in · 10 questions a month, free

Ask your own records a question.

Every farm management tool has AI now. That is not a claim. The claim is the boundary: Farm40’s assistant reads the records you already logged and nobody else’s, quotes figures it did not invent, and says so when it doesn’t know.

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READ ONLYSCOPED AT THE DATABASENEVER TRAINS ON YOUR DATA

What makes it trustworthy

The pitch is not that we have AI. It is where we put the walls.

SCOPED AT THE DATABASE

It sees your farm and no other.

Your data is scoped at the database, not asked nicely in a prompt. The assistant is handed a read-only connection bound to your account. Another farm's records cannot be requested, because they cannot be addressed — and every row that comes back is checked again for ownership before it is used.

NEVER INVENTS A NUMBER

It never makes a number up.

It does no arithmetic of its own. Every figure it quotes was calculated by the same code that draws your dashboard, and it tells you which of its read-only tools it consulted to find it. A language model that adds numbers will eventually add them wrong, confidently — and a wrong margin looks exactly like a right one.

SAYS WHEN IT DOESN'T KNOW

It says when it doesn't know.

If your records don't contain the answer, it tells you which screen to record it on rather than producing a plausible date. This matters most where it matters most: a guessed withdrawal date is worse than no answer at all, because it will be believed.

What it actually does

Three questions, three answers.

Note the third one. An assistant that will not guess is worth more than one that always answers.

Is any livestock group under a withdrawal window right now?

Yes — group B-12 is inside a withdrawal window until March 4, from a treatment logged on February 18. Farm40 will not record a sale for that group until the window closes.

read: livestock groups · animal events

Which enterprise cost the most to run last season?

The cow-calf enterprise, at the highest total expense of the four. Feed was the largest line within it. I read your financial transactions and enterprise records to answer.

read: financial transactions · enterprises

What did we spray on the north block before the July harvest?

I don't have an input application recorded against that planting after May 12. If a pass happened since, it hasn't been entered — you can add it on the Crops screen.

read: plantings · input applications

Privacy

Your records are the most valuable thing you own. We treat them that way.

A farm’s records are its history, its defence in an audit, and its negotiating position with a buyer. Handing them to a system you don’t understand is a real risk, and you should be sceptical. So here is exactly what happens.

What leaves, and only when you ask.: When you ask a question, that question and the specific records needed to answer it go to our model provider, which returns the answer. If you never use the assistant, none of your records are ever sent.
Nobody trains a model on your farm.: Your inputs and the answers are not used to train anyone’s model, ours or our provider’s. Your yields, your costs, and your treatment log do not become someone else’s product.
Isolation that a mistake can’t undo.: The rule that you only see your own farm is enforced by the database, not by an instruction we wrote in a prompt. Prompts can be talked around. A connection bound to your account cannot be, because the other farm’s records are not merely forbidden — they are unaddressable.
It cannot do anything.: It reads. It cannot create, edit, or delete a record, and it cannot record a sale. The worst outcome from a bad answer is a bad answer.

The full detail lives in our privacy policy, and we write about the subject at length in our AI guides.

Farm40's livestock screen showing a group flagged with an active withdrawal window

The assistant reads the same records this screen draws — nothing more.

The honest part

What it will not do for you.

Anyone selling you AI should be able to answer this without flinching.

It will not decide a regulated interval.
Never take a withdrawal period, a re-entry interval, or a certification requirement from an AI — ours included. The label, your veterinarian, your certifier, and your regulator are the authorities.
It will not do your arithmetic.
It quotes figures the application already computed. It does not add, average, or forecast.
It will not cite individual records.
It names which read-only tools it consulted. It does not produce a footnote to a specific row, and we won't pretend it does.
It will not fix a farm that isn't recording.
An assistant is a window onto records that exist. A window onto nothing shows nothing.

Why it is worth having

The records were always there. Now you can ask them things.

No export, no spreadsheet.

The question you would have answered by exporting a CSV and building a pivot table takes a sentence instead.

Answers at the chute.

The question that matters is usually asked standing up, in bad light, with a buyer on the phone. That is when a spreadsheet is least available.

It finds the gap.

When the answer isn't in your records, it tells you where the record belongs. That is a recordkeeping audit you didn't have to schedule.

Nobody has to learn a report.

A person who joined last week can ask the same question as the person who built the system.

The compliance answer, fast.

“Is anything in a withdrawal window?” is a question with a real deadline attached to it.

It refuses, which is the point.

An assistant that will say “I don't know” is one whose other answers mean something.

Pricing

Included, then affordable.

10 questions a month are free on every account, including during the trial — no add-on needed. If you use it enough to run out, the add-on is $20 a month for 500 questions, billed separately from your plan, and you can cancel it without touching the plan.

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The live demo is read-only and can’t ask questions · your own account can, from the first day of the trial

Frequently asked questions

Can the assistant see another farm's records?: No. It is handed a read-only database connection bound to your account, and the account filter is applied at the database rather than requested in the prompt. Another farm's records cannot be asked for, because they cannot be addressed. Every row it reads is re-checked for ownership before it is used.
Is my farm data used to train an AI model?: No. Your question and the records read to answer it are sent to our model provider to generate that answer and nothing else. Under our agreement with them, your inputs and the outputs are not used to train their models. If you never use the assistant, none of your records are sent anywhere.
Can the assistant change my records?: No. It is read-only by design. It cannot create, edit, or delete a record, cannot record a sale, and cannot take any action on your behalf. An assistant that cannot act cannot act wrongly, and that constraint is deliberate.
How much does it cost?: Every account gets 10 questions a month at no charge, including the 7-day card-on-file trial. If you need more, the add-on is $20 a month for 500 questions, billed separately from your plan and cancellable without touching it.
Can I try it in the live demo?: Not the assistant. The public demo needs no signup and is strictly read-only, so it has no account behind it to meter questions against. You can page through real screens and real records there. To ask the assistant something, start a trial or use a paid account — the monthly questions are included.