The cold supply chain is an outdated tax on fresh food.
Canopii removes it by making autonomous farming small, local, and profitable.
Grow where you sell. Keep the margin.
This isn’t just local food.
Its local economics.
The Old Way is Withered
Fresh produce economics are broken, not because farming is inefficient, but because everything after harvest is.
The cold supply chain:
~30% of the retail price of produce is taken by transportation, refrigeration, distribution, and shrink.
Nearly half of leafy greens are lost before reaching consumers.
Growers do the hardest work and still don’t control pricing or margin.
It isn’t fragile.
It’s extractive.
The cold supply chain taxes freshness, margin, and speed — and forces scale before profitability.
Automation used to require massive scale, which hands control to distributors.
That constraint is gone.
When autonomous farming becomes small, local, and affordable, the cold supply chain stops making sense.
What Makes Canopii Different
1. Supply Chain Independence
Not resilience. Independence.
Canopii customers are no longer hostage to distributors, trucking schedules, or cold storage failures.
2. Automation Without Scale
Traditional automation demands massive centralized operations.
Canopii breaks that rule.
By combining autonomy, modular design, and remote fleet management, Canopii delivers industrial-grade automation on a local footprint.
Small sites. Real margins. Repeatable deployment.
3. Margin Stays On-Site
When you remove transport, refrigeration, and shrink, margin doesn’t disappear — it stays with the operator.
Growers, retailers, and foodservice operators keep the value that used to evaporate in transit.
Proof, Not Platitudes
Food security, sustainability, and resilience aren’t just positioning statements. They’re outcomes.
They happen because:
Waste shrinks
Supply chains shorten
Production decentralizes
Economics finally work at the regional level
Canopii doesn’t promise a better future.
It builds the infrastructure that makes it inevitable.
Who This Is For
Retailers tired of shrink and supply volatility
Foodservice operators squeezed by rising input costs
Regional growers locked out of automation economics
Institutions that need predictable, local fresh supply
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