HUNGRY ECOCITIES : Paths to progress Experiments
+ PROJECT
TOMATO BRAIN
Jo Kroese & Axia Seeds
SUMMARY
Tomato Brain helps teams think together. Three privacy-preserving agents on Axia’s cloud—Sales Sage, Seed Sommelier, Cultivation Coach—turn serial meeting updates into a Parallelise → Synthesise → Decide workflow. Pre-briefs highlight patterns and tensions, meetings become live interrogations of sales, varieties and cultivation knowledge, and decisions (with rationale) are captured for follow-through. The approach reduces “variety overload” without pooling proprietary data and has been demonstrated with industry, students and public audiences.
DEVELOPED PROTOTYPES:
A multi-agent AI system to support human collective intelligence
+ ARTIST
Jo Kroese
Netherlands
Jo is an English-Dutch mathematician, artist and
technologist. Their work uses data and technology to
create tools for liberation and real utopias.
+ SME
AXIA SEEDS
Vegetable seeds
Naaldwijk, NETHERLANDS
Axia is an innovative breeding company, specialized in creating vegetable seeds for protected crops. They run a dedicated program for heated greenhouses, with or without artificial light. Their breeding program is characterized by a strong focus at taste and healthy ingredients, with a very high yield.
“Tomato Brain has made our meetings much more focused and productive. It helps us bring together ideas and insights quickly, so we can make better decisions in less time.”
William van der Riet, Axia Seeds
The HungryEcoCities project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement 101069990.