Estimate greenhouse project — live MCP tool
Runs the public SeedMatchGroup commercial greenhouse planning model: indicative CAPEX range and breakdown, water and energy demand, production, OPEX and ROI scenarios for a market, crop, technology level, growing system and area.
What does the estimate_greenhouse_project MCP tool return?
estimate_greenhouse_project is a read-only MCP tool that runs SeedMatchGroup's public greenhouse planning model and returns indicative CAPEX, water, energy, production, OPEX and ROI ranges — planning figures, never a quotation.
- MCP endpoint: https://seedmatchgroup.com/mcp
- Read-only
- Indicative planning content, never a quotation
Run it here
The same read-only logic an AI agent receives over MCP, executed in your browser.
Saudi Arabia · Extreme summer heat (45–50 °C), very low humidity inland, high solar radiation, mild winters, scarce and often brackish groundwater. · 50,000 m²
$5,175,000 – $9,200,000
- Greenhouse structure$1,552,500 – $2,760,000
- Covering / cladding$414,000 – $736,000
- Climate systems (cooling / heating)$828,000 – $1,472,000
- Irrigation & fertigation$517,500 – $920,000
- Pumps, storage & water treatment$414,000 – $736,000
- Automation & controls$310,500 – $552,000
- Growing system$414,000 – $736,000
- Electrical$258,750 – $460,000
- Installation, engineering & commissioning$465,750 – $828,000
- Water per day195 m³
- Water per year64,350 m³
- Peak day293 m³
- Electrical energy11,750,000 kWh/yr
- Heating energy255,000 kWh/yr
- Production2,581,875 – 3,341,250 kg
- Energy$720,300/yr
- Water$57,915/yr
- Labour$275,000/yr
- Total OPEX$1,491,299/yr
| Scenario | Revenue | Margin | Payback | ROI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | $2,084,864 | $593,565 (28.5%) | 15.5 yr | 6.5% |
| Base | $2,885,625 | $1,394,326 (48.3%) | 5.2 yr | 19.4% |
| Strong | $3,650,316 | $2,159,017 (59.1%) | 2.4 yr | 41.7% |
- Forced ventilation
- Evaporative pad-and-fan
- High-pressure fogging
- Reflective / shade screens
- No significant heating expected — verify winter night minima on site
- Buffer storage sized on peak day
- Sand / disc filtration
- EC/pH controlled fertigation
- Drain recovery and recycling
- RO polishing / desalinated or treated water blending
Indicative planning figures only, from SeedMatchGroup's published model. Confirm through a normalised RFQ before committing budget.
Parameters
marketstringrequiredMarket key, for example saudi-arabia, kenya, morocco or other.
hectaresnumberrequiredCovered greenhouse area in hectares (up to 500).
cropenumoptionaltomato | cucumber | pepper | strawberry | leafy. Default tomato.
techLevelenumoptionalbasic | mid | high | full. Default high.
systemenumoptionalsoil | substrate | hydroponic. Default substrate.
modeenumoptionalnew | expansion | modernization. Default new.
solarbooleanoptionalInclude solar PV and storage in the CAPEX estimate. Default false.
Returned fields
- CAPEX low / mid / high with a package-level breakdown
- water demand per day, per year and on peak days
- electrical and heating energy demand per year
- indicative production range in kg
- annual OPEX by category
- revenue, margin, payback and ROI scenarios
- climate-driven recommended systems
Example call
{
"tool": "estimate_greenhouse_project",
"arguments": {
"market": "saudi-arabia",
"hectares": 5,
"crop": "tomato",
"techLevel": "high",
"system": "hydroponic",
"solar": true
}
}All outputs are indicative planning ranges. Confirm through a normalised RFQ before committing budget.
Boundaries
- All four tools are read-only. They never create an RFQ, reveal supplier identities or return supplier quotations.
- Every figure returned is an indicative planning range from published models — not an offer, guarantee or engineering design.
- Access is via OAuth sign-in; unauthenticated automated access is rate-limited and may be declined.
- SeedMatchGroup does not manufacture, build, install, finance or provide site-specific engineering or agronomy.