CASE STUDY · PLATFORM
AGCONN
Modern, bilingual workforce infrastructure for agriculture — an industry the software world mostly skips.
THE PROBLEM
Agriculture runs on people. The software doesn't serve them.
Agriculture runs on people, but the systems connecting workers, employers, and training organizations are decades behind — and rarely built for the people who actually work the fields. AGCONN is a California Public Benefit Corporation building that missing infrastructure for the Central Valley: connecting agricultural labor, employers, and workforce-training programs on modern, governed rails.
WHAT I BUILT
Built for the reality of the workforce
SMS-only worker registration
Workers register and stay connected entirely over SMS — no app, no smartphone assumed. Meet people where they actually are.
FLC license verification
Farm Labor Contractor licensing is verified in the platform — building trust and compliance into the connection between labor and employers.
WIOA-aligned reporting
Reporting is aligned with federal workforce-funding requirements, so training partners can actually use the data where it counts.
Bilingual by default
English and Spanish are first-class, not an afterthought — because the workforce is, and the tool has to speak its language.
WHY A PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION
Infrastructure, not extraction
AGCONN is structured as a Public Benefit Corporation on purpose: the goal is durable infrastructure that connects labor and opportunity in a sector traditional tech ignores. The hard constraints — SMS-first, bilingual, compliance-aligned — aren't limitations to design around; they're the whole point. Build for the reality of the workforce, not the convenience of the software.