* Potatoes are a historically volatile market with recurring dislocation events. One or two times per year, the standalone market value of our starch inventory will likely exceed the value of the plastic wrap we can make from it.
Using a mix of market news, AI analysis, accounting data, and defined market triggers (which are available upon request), we continuously monitor and analyze the state of the potato market and output clear behavioral signals that determine our operational state.
This system is highly automated and 90% hands off for human operators. AI interprets and advises. Human beings decide when and how to act.
We quantify potato crop uncertainty using a bespoke usable crop uncertainty index (UCUI). Most of the time, this upstream indicator is normal. And when this is the case, we operate as monastic wrap makers focused on low variance, ritualized discipline, ego detachment, and steady accumulation.
When the UCUI begins signaling an elevated or high state of uncertainty, our ops state begins changing. We begin monitoring the market more closely and, as market conditions warrant, we become pirates focused on high variance, nimble improvisation, opportunistic self interest, and rapid extraction. As pirates, we throttle down wrap production and sell starch directly into industrial markets.
As volatility events ebb, we return to our default state: monastic wrap makers.
† Volatility Enabled = 1,000-1,500 Tons Banked + Standby Broker Relationship In Place