The team.
AI engineering, soil-mapping research from NC State and Iowa State, and commercial work on Fieldhand AI.
Leadership.
Ben Booth
Ben Booth is CEO. He built Uber's corporate software engineering function and led teams across data engineering, internal tooling, and enterprise automation. He has done software and AI engineering research at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran with twenty years of experience shipping data-intensive products at scale, and he writes code daily on the Aiterra platform.
Luke Robinson
Luke builds the machine learning pipelines and Google Cloud services behind Aiterra's virtual soil sampling. He specializes in spatial data and ecosystem modeling, and his systems turn satellite imagery into soil nutrient predictions and high-resolution management zones in near real time. He is completing a Master's in Data Science focused on machine learning, probability and statistics.
Scott Gooden
Scott Gooden works on business development and sales at Aiterra. He has more than 20 years in agricultural sales and agronomy, including District Sales Manager at Monsanto, Area Agronomy Specialist at Land O'Lakes, and Sales Manager at The Stoller Group. He is President of Demeter Agriculture and holds a B.S. in Plant and Soil Science from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Advisors.
Julie Bielski
Previously CTO of SoilMetrix, where she designed the machine learning models for soil properties and management zones; co-inventor on our management-zone patents. Software Architect and Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM for 18 years, with IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement awards, and Senior Software Engineer at Google. B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from UNC Chapel Hill.
Michael Ott
Michael Ott is Strategic Advisor at Aiterra. He is co-founder and former CEO of Rantizo, the first company approved by the Federal Aviation Administration for autonomous drone swarming in agriculture. He is also a winner of the PrecisionAg Entrepreneur Award. In his work as Strategic Advisor, he advises Aiterra on agricultural market strategy and on Aiterra's go-to-market.
Backed by university soil science.
Faculty partners at NC State and Iowa State created the zone science behind the patents. Both universities are co-owners.
A small team builds the product.
Releases
We release improvements as they're ready.
One company
Soil-mapping research from NC State and Iowa State, machine learning, and product work sit together.
AI-native
AI agents do much of our engineering, analysis, and operations.
Want to build with us?
We hire people who care about growers and great engineering.