Hassan Faid
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and being able to charge them once they've seen the value.
So a lot of the conversations that we have are not us trying to pitch our solution versus other existing solutions in the market.
It's really us selling the idea of bringing software into the farm.
Uh, so we've spent about, uh, $250,000 so far to build the software and it includes, uh, four different products, basically that, uh, one is for the worker.
One is for the supervisor.
Uh, one is for the management itself and one is for our internal, uh, tools and, and, and, and management.
No, I'm not rich.
We raised from investors, essentially.
That was in February and March of this year.
We raised close to $2 million.
Okay.
Yeah, we've already, so previously I had built a few companies in the UAE, in Dubai, and we've scaled these to become quite healthy businesses that are standing on their own two feet.
I think that what enabled us to raise this amount
at an early stage is A, the validation for the value that this product can bring from leading industry players in the market.
So the main thing is number of acres engaged and the numbers of workers that we onboard as well.
So currently in the pilot, we have over 1,200 acres that are engaged on a daily basis.
And we have close to 5,000 workers that are also engaged on a daily basis.
So the main thing is really to make sure that our software and our products are able to deliver the right kind of value to these farms.
And it's something that we're planning on doing.
I mean, the first customers that are going to start paying is next month in December.