See the interactions.
Consider plants, animals, pollinators, soil, water, and labor together. A planting choice changes more than the map.
Value for you: understand tradeoffs before committing. INTELLIGENCE FOR LIVING LANDA more thoughtful
A more thoughtful
way to grow.
Plan your land. Understand the costs. Put the work in motion. Shedu is being built to connect those decisions—and turn what growers learn into better guidance for everyone.
Explore what’s possible ↗
TO THE NEXT RIGHT STEP.Illustrative landscape · AI-generated
A living system, connected.
Ecology, with economics.AI, with human judgment.Local experience. Shared intelligence.
01 / A PRACTICAL APPROACHBetter land decisions.
Better land decisions.
Grounded in reality.
What belongs here? What will it take? And what should happen first?
Shedu is being built to bring soil, water, planting choices, labor, equipment, and money into one working picture. Compare conventional, regenerative, and hybrid approaches against your goals—then develop a plan you can actually manage.
Meet the Shedu protocol ↗02 / WHY SHEDUConnect the design
Connect the design
to life on the land.
Shedu’s intended distinction is a continuous connection between ecological relationships, practical economics, approved fieldwork, and observed results. Each part should inform the next.
Choose what you can sustain.
Compare conventional, integrated, and hybrid options against capital, time, equipment, ongoing inputs, and risk.
Value for you: a plan that fits your resources.Make the next step clear.
Translate a reviewed recommendation into a work order, seasonal window, budget, and completion checklist.
Value for you: less guesswork between design and doing.Let outcomes inform the plan.
Connect what was recommended, what was actually done, and what followed. Review the evidence before updating guidance.
Value for you: advice that can improve with field experience.How this fits alongside existing planning tools
Useful tools already cover important parts of this work. Shedu’s opportunity is to connect them into a reviewed decision-and-action loop. These examples describe documented strengths, not a claim that competitors lack every other capability.
| Tool | Documented strengths | Shedu’s planned emphasis |
|---|---|---|
| Permapeople ↗ | Free garden layout, guilds and polycultures, backed by a community plant database. | Connect ecological choices to site constraints, budgets, and implementation. |
| GrowVeg ↗ | Garden planning, crop rotation guidance, and a garden journal. | Compare whole-property strategies with labor, equipment, and long-term cost assumptions. |
| farmOS ↗ | Agricultural and ecological records organized around assets, logs, plans, and quantities. | Use reviewed records to inform recommendations and coordinate the next intervention. |
EXPLORE / THE LAND, IN FOCUSSee the bigger picture.
See the bigger picture.
Work the details.
A preview of how your property could become a living plan. Explore the example below.
YOUR LAND PLAN
Concept / review requiredStart with what’s here.
01 Productive planting
02 Water & access
03 Habitat buffer
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ILLUSTRATIVE ZONES · NOT A SURVEY
READ THE LANDSoil + waterEstablish the baseline
COMPARE THE OPTIONS3 approachesConventional, integrated, hybrid
BEFORE COMMITTINGExpert reviewCheck assumptions on site
RESOURCES & BUDGET
Illustrative allocationMake the constraints visible.
Move the slider to explore a sample first-phase budget. These fixed allocations demonstrate the interface; they are not quotes, agronomic advice, or a profitability forecast.
Keep a reserve. Validate the rest.
A real plan would use site assessment, supplier quotes, labor estimates, maintenance needs, and seasonal risks before you approve work.
FIELDWORK
Example workflowA plan with a next step.
Choose a priority to see how a reviewed plan could become a sequence of work. No jobs are booked from this preview.
◎ Scope, provider, schedule, and cost stay subject to your approval.
Product concept in development. All property details and budgets shown are examples, not a live project or measured results.
03 / THE SHEDU PROTOCOLFrom observation
From observation
to action.
And back again.
One connected process, designed to get better with every season.
Understand your land
Bring together your goals, site observations, soil and water information, and the resources you can commit.
Compare the possibilities
Use AI-assisted analysis to explore land-use options, tradeoffs, costs, and the evidence behind each recommendation.
Review. Then coordinate.
Turn a plan reviewed by people into phased work orders. Approve scope and budgets before coordinating specialists and schedules.
Learn from the field
Record costs, labor, photos, plant survival, and harvests. Feed those observations into the next planning decision.
04 / THE CONTINUAL LEARNING FLYWHEELOne property’s lesson.
One property’s lesson.
Many growers’ advantage.
A plan is a starting hypothesis. The value grows when we connect it to what actually happened—and make the useful lessons available to the next grower.
Better decisions,season after season.PLANNED LEARNING NETWORK
01 / MAKE THE PLAN TESTABLE
Know what you expected.
Record the recommendation, its evidence, your starting conditions, and expected costs and effort. Keep the assumptions visible so future results have something meaningful to be compared with.
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE
A grower plans a small mulched planting area, records soil conditions, and estimates watering and maintenance time.
01 / 05
Share by choice. The intended model uses explicit permission for shared observations, keeps identifying property details private, and returns useful lessons to growers.
Learn with context. Compare similar soils, climate, water, scale, and management. Keep scientific findings, field observations, and hypotheses distinct.
Improve with evidence. Review unusual outcomes and test updates before relying on them. More records alone do not prove cause and effect or guarantee better advice.
A NATIONAL VISION, GROUNDED IN EACH PROPERTY
Shared knowledge. Locally appropriate decisions.
Over time, the goal is to help landowners and growers across the country make sustainable living more practical: growing food, caring for soil, supporting habitat, and using water and labor thoughtfully. A lesson travels only when its conditions fit. Failures and unexpected costs matter as much as successes.
Free core access can bring more people into the learning loop. Better guidance could make it easier to act, observe, and contribute again—building a shared resource for healthier landscapes and more resilient livelihoods. This national network is a development goal, not a service already available nationwide.
05 / ACCESS THAT HELPS THE NETWORK GROWThe essentials,
The essentials,
free during the pilot.
The planned pilot keeps core ecological planning and monitoring free. Growers should be able to explore a direction, understand the reasoning, and track what happens.
Plan. Observe. Learn.
Free during the pilot
- A property profile built around your goals and resources
- Core AI-assisted ecological planning and phased recommendations
- Basic cost and maintenance assumptions, with sources and uncertainty
- A field journal for photos, observations, costs, and outcomes
- Lessons from reviewed, relevant shared observations as the network develops
In development. Pilot capacity, usage limits, and access terms will be published before enrollment. Post-pilot pricing has not been set.
Discuss the pilot ↗Help to put it
into practice.
On-site assessments, specialist consultation, testing, materials, installation, and contractor labor are separate costs.
- Human expertise for decisions that need a site visit or specialist
- Implementation help with an agreed scope and budget
- Potential advanced tools and professional services, subject to pilot validation
No published subscription price or contractor fee schedule yet. Any paid work requires a separate quote and your approval.
How the business could support free access
We plan to test paid implementation support and professional tools as ways to fund the core service. The model must prove useful to growers before it scales.
START SMALL. OBSERVE CLOSELY.
Rooted in practice.
06 / GROW WITH USThe next chapter
The next chapter
starts on the land.
Shedu is an early-stage business based in North Carolina, developing a pilot program in Southwest Florida.
We’re looking to learn with landowners and growers who want a practical way to connect ecological goals with the everyday work of managing land.
Start with a conversation about your property and priorities. Core planning and monitoring are intended to be free during the pilot; any specialist support or fieldwork would be scoped and quoted separately.
Tell us about your land ↗A FEW GOOD QUESTIONSBefore we
Before we
get growing.
Is the platform available today?
Shedu is in development. The workspace above illustrates the intended experience. We’re inviting conversations about the pilot; it is not a self-service planning or booking platform yet.
What is free, and what might cost money?
The planned pilot includes free core ecological planning and monitoring. Specialist advice, site assessments, testing, materials, and fieldwork are separate. Future pricing will be informed by the pilot; no paid service is booked through this preview.
Does contributing data mean publishing my property?
No. The intended learning network will ask for explicit permission to use observations beyond your own plan and protect identifying property information. Detailed contribution terms and controls will be established before shared field data is collected.
Do I have to adopt permaculture?
No. The approach starts with your goals and constraints. Conventional methods, integrated permaculture, and hybrid agroforestry can all be considered where they fit the land and its economics.
Will AI make decisions for my property?
No. The intended role of AI is to help organize evidence, compare options, and prepare plans. Site conditions and recommendations require human review, and you approve commitments.
What would I need to get started?
A description of your property, what you want to achieve, current land use, available resources, and your main challenges. We can discuss which soil, water, or site assessments would be needed next.
Let’s grow
something considered.
Tell us what you’re working with—and what you’d like it to become.
Start a conversation ↗scott@shedu.io