Snowball
Holsteins with their heads through the feed rail of a freestall barn, eating.

How Snowball works

Your farm's records already tell part of the story. Snowball connects them with what the crew sees, brings urgent issues forward, and keeps the evidence beside the work and decisions that follow.

One place to see the day and act on it

  1. 01

    See what changed

    Robot alarms, cow records, tank readings, crew hours, supplies, and the books sit in one view. Urgent changes carry the numbers and source that raised them.

  2. 02

    Ask what the records say

    A manager can ask about a cow, a machine, the shift, or a cost and see the supporting records. Crew members can report what they see by voice or text.

  3. 03

    Make the call and follow it

    Approve or change a plan, assign the work, and see whether it was finished. Orders and outside messages wait for a person. Snowball keeps the decision and its outcome on the record.

It also notices things before anyone asks.

Snowball watches the available records and raises urgent alerts, routine follow-ups, and reports with the supporting details attached.

A robot that stops milking
The robots' alarms reach Snowball within minutes. A robot that's down becomes an urgent alert on every screen, and a card to call the technician that goes out when you say so.
A cow that's off
Each cow's milk and feed are checked against her own recent numbers, not the herd's. One milking a third less than her normal gets a card with the numbers on it.
Follow-ups nobody wrote down
Shot and breeding lists from herd records, sorted by pen; the fresh-cow protocol; the re-check in the morning. They land on the right shift without anyone having to remember.
Weather that's coming
Heat or a storm on the way, and the prep work is on the board before the weather is in the barn.
The shed running low
Parts and supplies have minimums. Drop below one and it drafts the order for you to review and send, then tracks it to received. Nobody finds out at 5 a.m. that the teat dip never got bought.
The week, written up
A report built from what actually happened — on the board, in the parlor, in the books — not from what anyone could remember at the kitchen table.

The whole operation, ranked by what needs you

Managers don't need another dashboard to check. They need to know what is on fire, what is stuck, who is clocked in and what it is costing — computed from what the farm actually did, not typed in by somebody at the end of the week.

See one farm day unfold

Four kinds of people use it, and each sees a different thing.

The crew, on the wall
A shared tablet in the barn. A hand taps their name and sees their own work, with large type and a clear action on each job.
The crew, on their phones
The same work in their pocket, with a push when something lands on them. Notes, voice captures and photos wait for signal and send themselves.
Managers, anywhere
The whole operation ranked by what actually needs you — proposals to approve, jobs stuck, supplies to order — plus crew hours, spending and the decision log. On a laptop at the kitchen table or a phone in the truck.
Vets and technicians
A visiting vet or hoof trimmer opens one link and sees only their list for that visit. No account, no access to anything else on the farm.

Built for the barn, not the office.

Works with no signal
Every tap saves on the device and syncs when a connection returns, so a job can be recorded in the back barn.
English and Spanish
Work orders, voice capture, and the main crew screens support both languages.
Voice, for wet hands
A crew member can speak a note during a round and review it later with the work record.
Keeps your systems
The herd and robot systems stay in place. Snowball reads from them so routine work can reach the right people.

And every call it made is written down.

The agent proposes; you decide. What it checked before deciding, whether it acted or waited for you, and how the job turned out are all on the record — so the answer to "why did it do that?" is a thing you can read rather than a thing we explain.

See the decision log

Questions we get.

Do I have to replace my herd or robot software?

No. Your existing systems stay in place. One small program on the office PC sends Snowball what they already record. It only reaches out and does not change the source systems. Where a herd system needs an update, a person reviews and loads the file.

My guys won't use it. What then?

A hand taps their name on the shared barn screen and sees their own work, with one obvious action on each job. We work through the setup with the crew on the farm so we can see what actually fits their day.

Does it work when the barn has no signal?

Yes. Everything you do saves on the device first and syncs when a connection comes back. Nothing waits on the Wi-Fi.

What hardware do we need?

We plan for a shared tablet in the barn and work out its placement, mounting and power with each farm. The crew can also use their own phones. Reading local robot and herd records needs the Windows PC already beside those systems; we set up that connection. The quote covers the hardware and installation for your site.

Can the agent do things without asking?

It notices things on its own: it raises alerts, drafts jobs, and asks you questions when it isn't sure. Doing things waits for you. Out of the box, a person approves every job it hands out and every email or order it sends, and it never spends money on its own. Once its picks have matched yours for long enough, you can let it hand out work by itself; it sends some back for a second look and pulls itself back if you keep overruling it. Every call it makes is written down with the reasoning behind it.

Whose data is it?

Yours. We don't sell it, and we share it only with the services that run Snowball. The privacy policy names those services.

What it costs

See what it could do on your farm.

Tell us which parts of your farm day you want to see, and we'll walk you through them.

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