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A Proposal Experience · Cinematic POC
One season on the land
Prepare the land
Plant the crop
Grow & understand
Time has passed. The crop is standing.
Collective value
Fuel is one of the biggest recurring costs on the farm.
Financial Passport
You have been building it all season.
Harvest
The season's work becomes a product.
Storage
The product moves into the silo.
Market
Your choice: keep it private, or take it to market.
Fulfilment
The digital record still points at real grain.
Stage 8
One farm becomes many
Thabo's farm is not the system. It is one permissioned participant in it.
Stage 9
The ecosystem · your season
Every service you met is one connected environment — and it remembered your choices.
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Farmer viewT
Thabo · My Farm
Start the 2026 season record
FarmMy Farm
FieldHome field
CropMaize
Season2026
Grain SA viewPermissioned
What Grain SA can see — with your permission
No access — not shared
The season status remains private to the farm.
Individual farm information remains private unless the farmer has granted permission to share it.
Farmer viewT
Thabo · My Farm
Confirm the field record
FieldHome field
ActivityLand preparation
ImplementDisc harrow
Grain SA viewPermissioned
What Grain SA can see — with your permission
Field activityNot shared
Machinery activityNot shared
Fuel usageNot shared
Only what you selected is visible. Everything else remains private.
Farmer viewT
Thabo · My Farm
Planting activity record
FieldHome field
ActivityPlanting
RowsRecorded
Grain SA viewPermissioned
What Grain SA can see — with your permission
Planting recordNot shared
No access — the planting record remains private to the farm.
Farmer viewT
Thabo · My Farm
Equipment available nearby
Johan van der Merwe has a disc harrow available for farmer-to-farmer access. Terms are agreed between farmers.
EquipmentDisc harrow
OwnerJohan v.d. Merwe
Period3 days · illustrative
Johan accepts
✓ Future commodityCTN✓ Diesel value✓ ZARX
We need a little more information to prepare this request.
Participation — no CTN reward
Grain SA viewPermissioned
What Grain SA can see — with your permission
No coordination requested
Nothing to see — no request was made. The opportunity remains open.
Farmer viewT
Thabo · My Farm
Farm Intelligence
Home field
A new season signal is ready to review.
Built from the information already in your own season record, together with the current field observation.
Grain SA viewPermissioned
What Grain SA can see — with your permission
No access — observation not shared
No new crop information is visible to Grain SA.
Farmer viewT
Thabo · My Farm
Your estimated fuel requirement
≈3,000 litres
Field142 ha
Illustrative usage21.4 L/ha
Approximate requirement≈3,000 L
Your historical fuel information remains private — your own records still work for you.
Illustrative — estimated from your own season record
Grain SA viewPermissioned
What Grain SA can see — with your permission
No participation — nothing new received
Nothing new is visible to Grain SA. The opportunity remains open.
Land Bank viewPermissioned for assessment
Collective Fuel ProgrammeShared directly by the farmer
Applicant informationAvailable
Current seasonAvailable
Current cropMaize
Production history3 years availableIllustrative demo profile
Fuel requirement≈3,000 L
Programme amount≈R66,000
Funding routeLand Bank finance
Illustrative finance rate10.5% p.a.
Assessment statusReady for review
Permissioned directly by the farmer — separate from Grain SA, not received from Grain SA. Assessment, eligibility, underwriting, approval, pricing, terms, security and any final settlement structure remain with Land Bank — neither Grain SA nor the platform makes the credit decision.
Grain SA viewPermissioned
Finance-request status
Funding routeLand Bank finance
Funding requestReady for review
Programme amount≈R66,000
Programme-coordination metadata only — no underwriting, production evidence, financial documents, Land Bank reasoning, credit information or approval outcome. R0.00 · 0 CTN.
Farmer viewT
Thabo · My Farm
Farmer Financial Passport
You have been building it all season.
Every record, permission and piece of evidence you created this season already forms one thing: your Financial Passport. Nothing new is collected here — it simply assembles what is already yours.
IdentityVerified
Records assembled2 categories
Production history3 years availableIllustrative demo profile
Assembled evidence — not an automated credit score. You remain the source of every permission.
Illustrative R0.00 · 0 CTN — reviewing your Passport is not a rewarded action
Grain SA viewPermissioned
One Passport · what Grain SA may see
Only what you permitted
You permissioned nothing to Grain SA — the Passport stays private to you. Grain SA does not become a lender because the Passport exists.
Grain SA sees only what you permitted for Grain SA purposes. Production history and anything permissioned to Land Bank for assessment are not visible here. Grain SA supports the programme. Land Bank or the relevant approved institution remains responsible for assessment, eligibility, underwriting where applicable, pricing, financing or settlement terms, and any final decision. Grain SA does not make those decisions. The platform does not make those decisions.
Farmer viewT
Thabo · My Farm
Harvest · Digital Product Passport
Your maize is coming off the field.
The season's evidence can now connect to the physical commodity. A Digital Product Passport travels with the harvest — through storage, market and delivery — as one persistent product record.
CommodityMaize
Quantity≈250 t
Product / Lot IDGSA-L-001
GradeTBD
An evidence / provenance record for the physical commodity — not legal title or a warehouse receipt. Recording is separate from sharing.
Creating it publishes nothing — sharing to a market is a later, separate decision.
Ping ExchangeMarket · no lot
No lot listed
Your Digital Product Passport is private to you. Recording is not sharing — nothing is available to any market until you choose to make it available.
Grain SA has received nothing. Creating the Passport shared no product information with Grain SA, a buyer or the market.
Ping Exchange is the digital-commodities market / discovery / RFQ layer. When you make a lot available, an appropriately authorised buyer could see the commodity, quantity, origin and product evidence — never your private financial or assessment data. Grain SA is not the buyer, seller, broker or settlement counterparty.
Farmer viewT
Thabo · My Farm
Storage · Product evidence
Your maize arrives at the silo.
The physical harvest moves into storage. The storage operator generates the intake, weight and storage evidence — you allow it onto your Digital Product Passport. You do not create the silo measurement, and neither does Grain SA.
Product / Lot IDGSA-L-001
CommodityMaize · ≈250 t
Silo intakePendingNot yet received into storage
Storage / pickup locationPendingNot yet known
The evidence stays attributed to the storage operator. Grain SA does not perform or verify the silo measurement.
Adding it puts the operator's evidence on your Passport — it does not list the lot or share it with a buyer.
Ping ExchangeMarket · no lot
Still no lot listed
Your commodity is now in storage and the Passport is stronger — but storage does not list it. Nothing is available to the market until you choose to make it available.
The market has received nothing. The storage evidence lives on your private Passport. The storage operator holds its own intake record; the market and Grain SA do not.
When you list the lot, an authorised buyer will want to know the commodity, quantity, quality and where it is stored — the same storage evidence, then shared on purpose. Grain SA is not the buyer, seller, broker or settlement counterparty; physical delivery would be handled by a logistics provider later.
Farmer viewT
Thabo · My Farm
Market · Your decision
Take this to market — or keep it private?
Your lot is stored and the Passport carries harvest and storage evidence. Nothing has been shared with any market yet. Only this choice makes market-relevant information available.
Product / Lot IDGSA-L-001
CommodityMaize · ≈250 t
Grade / qualityPendingUses the current evidence state
Neither is preselected. Keeping it private is completely valid — you keep everything and the story continues.
Ping ExchangeMarket · no lot
No lot listed
You kept the commodity private. Nothing was made available and no buyer gained any access.
Your Passport, storage evidence and pickup reference stay yours. You can make the lot available later — the market only ever sees what you choose to share.
Farmer viewT
Thabo · My Farm
Physical fulfilment · DP World
Your maize still has to move.
A buyer never receives an abstract token. Your Passport already knows what the product is, its lot, quality evidence, where it is stored and where it can be collected — so a DP World freight request can be prepared from the same information. Record once, reuse.
CommodityMaize
Product / Lot IDGSA-L-001
Class · gradePending
PickupRecorded silo / storage reference
Deliverable quantityEligible balancePending valuation / release
DP World is the connected freight / physical-fulfilment capability. Preparing a request readies logistics from your Passport — it does not move grain by itself.
Prepared locally from your Passport — it shares nothing with DP World and books no freight. You decide whether to share.
DP WorldFreight / logistics
Freight / logistics
DP World can prepare physical fulfilment from the Passport once the farmer readies and shares it.
Farmer viewSeason opened
Grain SA · PermissionedNo access
Farmer viewField record saved
Grain SA · PermissionedNo access
Farmer viewPlanting record saved
Grain SA · PermissionedNo access
Farmer viewOpportunity not taken
Farmer viewFarm Intelligence · Reviewed
Grain SA · PermissionedCrop observation · Private
Farmer viewCollective Value · Not now
Grain SA · PermissionedOpportunity remains available
Farmer viewFinancial Passport · Reviewed
Evidence assembled0 categories available
RecipientsNo lender access
Farmer viewDigital Product Passport created
LotGSA-L-001 · Maize · ≈250 t
MarketNot listed · private
Farmer viewSilo intake added to Passport
PassportGSA-L-001 · in storage
Storage / pickupReference recorded · private
MarketNot listed · market-ready
Farmer viewKept private
Ping ExchangeNo lot · no buyer access
You still holdCommodity · Passport · storage
Farmer viewFreight request ready
DP WorldNo access · prepared locally
BookingNot booked · not in transit
Grain SA · National network viewIllustrative future-state
The same connected infrastructure Thabo used can operate across the whole sector — without Grain SA owning any farmer's information.
12,482
participating farmers
1.84M
hectares
Illustrative
scenario only
Illustrative scenario figures — not current Grain SA platform users or connected hectares.
Permissioned + aggregated signals
Production / season activity
Aggregated · permissioned
Collective demand (fuel + inputs)
Aggregated · permissioned
Support + finance readiness
Aggregated · permissioned
Market readiness · RFQ
Aggregated · permissioned
Storage + logistics readiness
Aggregated · permissioned
Agricultural intelligence
Aggregated · permissioned
What your season contributed
Season / production activityPrivate · not shared
Collective fuel / input demandPrivate · not shared
Support / finance readinessPrivate · not shared
Market readiness (Ping RFQ)Private · not shared
Storage / logistics readinessPrivate · not shared
Agricultural intelligencePrivate · not shared
Only what you permitted joins the network as an aggregated signal. What you kept private stays private — it does not appear here. Your Digital Product Passport, Financial Passport and private records are never centrally collected.
A national network without a national database
Grain SA coordinates from permissioned and appropriately aggregated signals — it does not own farmer data, has no universal visibility into farms, and gains no automatic access to Financial Passports, Digital Product Passports, Land Bank or DP World information. Permissions are never inherited across recipients. Individual ownership and collective intelligence coexist.
Grain SA supports coordination, programme facilitation, aggregated demand visibility, industry intelligence, market readiness and connecting farmers with the right service providers. It is not a bank, lender, insurer, buyer, seller, commodity owner, broker, settlement counterparty or freight provider — the specialised parties remain responsible for their own decisions and services.
One farmer-controlled record can support many authorised services — Grain SA, Land Bank, DP World, authorised buyers — each a separate purpose-specific permission, without being surrendered to one central owner. Your personalised economics appear later in Your Digital Season. Illustrative future-state demonstration.
Grain SA digital ecosystem · 10 pillarsIllustrative · phased
The services you met are not separate apps — they connect into one agricultural operating environment. You, the farmer, are the reason it exists.
1Farmer Identity & Data OwnershipMVP
2Digital Farm Twin & Product PassportMVP
3Agricultural Intelligence & AIMVP
4Inputs, Diesel & Collective ProcurementMVP · P2
5FinancePhase 2
6InsurancePhase 2
7Crop Tokenisation & Alt. FundingPhase 3
8Global Commodity MarketplacePhase 3
9Banking, Payments & Farmer CardPhase 2
10Grain SA Rewards & IncentivesPhase 2
Connected specialists: Land Bank (finance) · Ping Exchange (market) · CorePort (settlement / routing) · CorePass (self-custodial wallet + identity) · Wall Money / Land Bank white-label (banking) · DP World (logistics).
Grain SA is the facilitator, coordinator and ecosystem enabler — not the farmer's bank, lender, insurer, buyer, seller, broker, commodity owner, settlement counterparty, freight provider or the custodian of the farmer's digital assets. The specialist parties remain responsible for their own services and decisions.
Start focused · build in phases
MVP
Identity, Farm Twin, data capture, dashboards, AI, diesel foundation
Phase 2
Procurement, finance, insurance, Farmer Card, payments, rewards
Phase 3
Approval-gated tokenisation, marketplace, expanded settlement
Illustrative future-state ecosystem — implemented in approval-gated phases, beginning with a ring-fenced MVP. Programme Definition and the documents follow.
Your digital seasonBuilt from your choices
You chose every permission. Your season changed because of those choices — here is what it became. Nothing below appears unless you actually did it.
Your permissions
Season statusPrivate
Field activityPrivate
Machinery activityPrivate
Fuel usagePrivate
Planting / production evidencePrivate
Crop observationPrivate
Land Bank assessment permissionPrivate
Grain SA finance-request statusPrivate
Market availability (Ping)Private
DP World freight dataPrivate
Privacy is a valid choice, not a failure. What you kept private stayed private — it worked for you without becoming visible to recipients you did not permission.
Data-access value · by recipient
Grain SA data rewardsR0.00 · 0 CTN
Land Bank data-access rewardsR0.00 · 0 CTN
DP World data-access rewardsR0.00 · 0 CTN
Separate recipient-specific events — deliberately not added into one number. Reviewing a Passport, navigation and sensitive / permission-only information earn nothing. Demo CTN reference rate · 1 CTN = R0.0961.
Other economic events · kept separate
Programme benefit / savings (fuel)Not taken
Financial obligation (funding)None
Commodity-market proceedsNone · no sale executed
Freight chargesNone · not booked
Data value, programme savings, financial obligations, commodity proceeds and freight charges are different economic events — never combined into a single “you earned R___”.
What your season produced
Fuel programme
Not taken
Equipment (Johan)
Not taken
Financial Passport
0 evidence categories available · not shared with any lender · available ≠ shared · no score, no approval
Harvest / DPP
GSA-L-001 · Maize · grade pending · DPP = evidence, not title
Market
Not listed / private · no market order
Token destination
Not yet chosen
DP World / freight
Freight not prepared
Your butterfly effect
You kept most things private — and the season still worked end to end. Nothing appeared anywhere you did not permit it. That is the point.
An early choice changed something much later. Every consequence above is your actual state — none is invented.
This was one farmer's season. At scale, thousands of independently controlled seasons create permissioned collective intelligence — without anyone surrendering their records to a central owner. Your personalised economics stay yours; the Programme Definition and documents come next.
Illustrative demonstration values throughout — not approved pricing, credit decisions, executed sales or physical deliveries.
Your season, your choices
One connected ecosystem · every permission was yours · scroll back to travel in reverse
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