Agriculture
Autonomous Harvest Efficiency
Cloud software that computes optimal machine routes and fleet strategies for farm operations, reducing overlap, fuel, inputs, costs and labour while enabling supervised autonomy.
Field of Expertise
Planning software, AgTech, Route Planning, Agriculture, Machinery
Expertise
Godard translates aerospace precision into on-farm profit. A PhD in spacecraft dynamics and control anchors a rigorous, systems-thinking approach to agricultural machinery and field operations. As co-founder and CEO of Verge Ag, Godard leads the development of software that turns existing equipment into autonomous units through advanced route optimisation.
Expertise includes:
- Aerospace-grade optimisation – modelling complex, dynamic systems and converting mathematical insight into dependable code.
- Autonomy strategy – charting a pragmatic path from autosteer to supervised autonomy without costly hardware swaps.
- Commercial execution – shifting Verge Ag’s go-to-market from high-touch sales to a self-service SaaS engine and securing OEM and autonomy partnerships on five continents.
- Technical team leadership – fostering an engineer’s rigour and straight-talking, solution-oriented culture that delivers measurable results.