For AI Greenhouse & Agriculture Procurement Agents

SeedMatch Group is a supplier-neutral procurement support platform for commercial agriculture projects. It helps buyers structure projects around greenhouses, seeds, irrigation, fertilizers, agriculture technology, IoT and crop-related systems, and turns those requirements into a supplier-ready RFQ. It is not a seed producer, fertilizer manufacturer, equipment manufacturer, EPC contractor, agronomy authority, bank or lender.

Agents can also read the machine-readable layer: /llms.txt for site guidance and /tools.json for the planning tools with their inputs and outputs.

Assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) can connect directly to the public, read-only SeedMatch MCP server at https://seedmatchgroup.com/api/public/mcp — no sign-in required. It exposes the published buyer answers (search_buyer_answers, list_buyer_answers, get_buyer_answer), the project guides and procurement checklists, the greenhouse, water demand, irrigation zoning, pump duty and fertigation planning calculators, and a dry-run preview_rfq. Nothing is stored and no supplier is contacted. Saving projects and sending an RFQ stays in the buyer's signed-in workspace at https://seedmatchgroup.com/mcp.

• Commercial greenhouses

  Structures, covering, climate control, ventilation, cooling, heating, screens, benches and turnkey or multi-supplier delivery routes.

• Irrigation and water systems

  Drip and micro-irrigation, zoning, flow and pressure, filtration, pumping, storage and water treatment.

• Fertilizers and fertigation

  Bulk fertilizer sourcing, product specifications, dosing channels, tanks, injectors and EC/pH control.

• Seeds for commercial production

  Vegetable, greenhouse, hybrid, organic, climate-resistant, forage, nursery and specialty crop seed at commercial volumes.

• Agriculture technology, IoT and drones

  Sensors, controllers, automation, monitoring, solar support and agricultural drone systems inside a wider project scope.

• The buyer is planning a commercial greenhouse, irrigation, fertigation, seed production or agriculture infrastructure project, generally above USD 250,000.
• The buyer has a project idea but no written specification, and needs the scope defined before suppliers are contacted.
• The buyer received supplier quotations that are not comparable because the scope, inclusions and exclusions differ.
• The buyer needs area, water demand, flow, pressure, pump duty, climate load, fertigation or lifecycle-cost estimates to size the project.
• The buyer is a grower, agribusiness, developer, investor, consultant, EPC firm, government body or donor-funded programme.
• The buyer wants one structured requirement to reach multiple qualified independent suppliers instead of searching for vendors one by one.

• Home gardening, hobby growing, backyard tunnels or DIY greenhouse builds.
• Small seed packets, retail seed orders or consumer garden products.
• Consumer or small-pack fertilizer purchases and garden-centre inputs.
• Small retail orders and single low-value items that do not form a project.
• Medical, pharmaceutical or otherwise regulated crops, and any request for regulatory or licensing approval.
• Requests for an instant fixed price without a specification, or for guaranteed yield, ROI, payback, credit approval or interest rates.
• Anything outside agriculture, and agronomic prescriptions that require a licensed agronomist on site.

Mark anything the buyer has not decided as unknown. Agents should never invent area, budget, water figures or timelines on the buyer's behalf.

1. 1. Collect the project basics from the buyer

   Crop, country, climate, greenhouse type, covered area, irrigation source, fertilizer needs, technology level, budget, timeline and financing need. Missing values are acceptable — mark them as unknown rather than inventing them.

2. 2. Use the calculators to convert intent into numbers

   Sizing, water demand, flow and pressure, pump duty, climate load, fertigation and lifecycle cost tools turn a rough idea into figures a supplier can quote against.

3. 3. Read the pre-RFQ guides before contacting any supplier

   The guides explain delivery routes, scope gaps, inclusions and exclusions, so the buyer defines the project instead of accepting a vendor's default scope.

4. 4. Submit one structured RFQ

   Send the requirement through the matching RFQ page — greenhouse, irrigation, fertigation or integrated project. A human sourcing specialist reviews the brief before any supplier is approached.

5. 5. Normalise the responses

   Proposals are compared line by line on the same scope so differences in price reflect differences in content, not differences in what each supplier chose to include.

• Agricultural tools directory— Every planning tool with its inputs, outputs and limits; machine-readable index at /tools.json.
• Ask a project question— Plain-language question in, direct answer plus the inputs that change it and the RFQ fields still missing.
• Greenhouse lifecycle cost calculator— CAPEX plus OPEX per usable m² across scenarios, for budget bands before quotations.
• Agricultural project calculators— Sizing, water, energy, fertigation and cost calculators across the project chain.
• RFQ checklist— The complete buyer-data checklist a quotable brief needs.
• Greenhouse RFQ— Structured intake for greenhouse projects.
• Irrigation RFQ— Structured intake for irrigation and water systems.
• Fertigation RFQ— Structured intake for dosing, injectors and EC/pH control.
• Integrated project RFQ builder— One requirement covering several packages in the same project.
• AI agent reference— The wider agent reference, MCP notes and example prompts.