The physical world is too complex to sense directly. Plants overcome this by compressing it into bioelectric signals, much as our brains do. Each bioelectric pulse from a plant transforms the noise of the world into signals weighted by relevance.

Conventional “smart-sensors” collect raw data (moisture, root density etc) and use software to speculate on what is going on (too much sun, not enough water, pest outbreak etc). Rather than infer reality, EPC directly reads the bioelectric pulses that plants produce, providing an accurate, complete and coherent map of reality for the plant kingdom. A living world intelligence model that has been refined over 500 million years and is running on three trillion nodes, in real time.

Each major wave of technology has come from making previously analog layers digital (language, printing, computers). When a form of intelligence that previously only existed in the physical world gets translated into something computable, value concentrates at the interface layer—data, model, applications, standards. Genomics built a $2T market by digitizing DNA. Electric Plant digitizes plant intelligence.

Justin is a fifth-generation horticulturist who built his first business selling flowers on the street corner and his first venture-backed business selling houseplants at Bloomscape. His obsession with the value of plants and cyborg botany led him to a two-years of independent research culminating in Electric Plant. Lee built a DARPA-funded cyborg rat for explosive detection, co-founded Halo Neuroscience, and has spent his career building interfaces between biological nervous systems and machines.

Early deployments are translating plant signals into understanding and prediction. The end state is a two-way interface with plants — giving us the ability to listen to them and communicate back in their language.