A stray item on a store shelf explains the appeal of iRely: software that connects the goods, the trades and the books before small discrepancies become expensive habits.

He expected computer engineering to carry him away from North Dakota. Instead, one digitized scale ticket gave Jake Joraanstad a reason to stay - and a blueprint for rebuilding agriculture's stubbornly analog middle.

He learned agriculture at walking speed and computing at machine speed. Taranis grew from the productive friction between the two.
Farm HR still runs on paper packets and cash-back-of-the-check math. Ganaz built a phone-first onboarding, messaging and payroll stack for the 175,000+ workers who feed the rest of us.