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agID · Industry briefing

Common
ground.

How agID fits into the agricultural industry: one permanent identity layer beneath every farm, business and paddock.

The landscape

Agriculture runs on relationships.

A farm business sits at the centre of a busy network: advisers, contractors, agents, buyers, processors, certifiers, lenders, regulators, and the software each of them runs.

Every one of them needs to know who they're dealing with, and where.

…and each one keeps its own copy.

The problem

The same farm, typed in a dozen times.

Every processor, agronomist, certifier, bank and software provider keeps its own record of who you are and where you farm. Names drift, boundaries go stale, and nobody can be sure two systems mean the same place.

agID fixes the identity layer once, for everyone: one identifier every system can use, with the details behind it kept up to date in one place.

portal.processor.example
Processor portal · Supplier name
Riverbend Past.
Agronomy app · Paddocks
North blk – Riverbend
Certifier spreadsheet · Audits 2026
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Supplier
Status
13
RIVERBEND PASTORAL
Passed
14
RIVERBEND P/L #2
Due
15
Riverbend Past. Co
?
Bank loan file · Security
Property:
Lot 4 DP 71233
"the north place"
Contractor's GPS · Boundaries
north.kml
north_final.kml
north_final_v2.kml
same business?
same paddock?
one place, one identifier
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The idea

Cattle carry one tag for life.
Now the whole farm can.

agID gives every person, business, property and paddock in agriculture a permanent identifier: one common thread that every system can hold onto, whoever records the details.

Never changed Never reused Never deleted

archive a property and its agID still resolves

What gets an agID

Four kinds of thing. One permanent identifier each.

agID registryKind P
AGP
People

Growers, managers, agronomists and contractors. Your agID goes with you, whichever businesses you work with.

ExampleAGP-4R8T-2MWK-6DYV
agID registryKind E
AGE
Entities

The legal entities behind a farm business: individuals, sole traders, partnerships, companies, trusts and co-operatives.

ExampleAGE-7K3M-9Q2X-H4M9
agID registryKind L
AGL
Locations

Properties, blocks, sheds and sites, linked to the PICs, GLNs, land titles and water licences they already hold.

ExampleAGL-N6QB-3WZ8-FAY4
agID registryKind G
AGG
Geo layers

Mapped features of a location: paddock boundaries, fences and water points. Versioned, so every system knows which map it has.

ExampleAGG-9HXR-2KDP-5T1S
Designed for the paddock

An identifier you can read over the phone.

AGNamespaceRecognisable wherever it turns up: on an invoice, a label or an NVDEKindP person · E entity · L location · G geo layer-9Check characterCatches every single-character typo, and most swapped pairs
Where agID sits

Beneath every app. Above every register.

Above ground

The apps and services the industry already runs on

Topsoil

agID: one shared identity layer every app can draw on

shared up, only with consent ↑

Bedrock

The registers that issue official numbers

checked against the issuer ↓

The identity layer for agriculture
AGPIdentity registryAGE AGL AGGData registry
Official identifiers

Connects the numbers you already have.

agID doesn't replace ABNs, PICs or land titles. It links each business and property to the identifiers others have issued it, so any system can find them by a number it already holds.

Claimed until checked

Anyone can record an identifier, but it shows as claimed until agID checks it against the issuer's register.

Nobody can squat

Several entities may claim a number. Only one can hold it verified, so the real holder is never blocked.

Found by what they hold

Look up an ABN, PIC or GLN and find the business or property behind it, verified holders first.

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Paddock boundaries · North Block · 1 area
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Geo layers

Paddock maps every system agrees on.

  • Drawn on satellite imagery or imported as GeoJSON, the open mapping standard
  • Versioned: an edit never silently overwrites someone else's work
  • Stable feature IDs, so a paddock stays the same paddock
  • Shared as a layer in its own right, with its own agID

agronomist, contractor and auditor: same map

every agID has a short link and a QR code, for gates, labels and documents →

Sharing with consent

The farm gate stays yours.

The app asks

A grain marketer, livestock agent or compliance portal sends the person to agID.

The person chooses

Only what they're allowed to share for their business, picked from a list.

agID hands it over

Server to server, so the app knows the data came from agID, not a typed-in form.

Every share is recorded

People can see which app received what, and when.

OAuth 2.0 with PKCE Single-use, 2-minute codes Access re-checked at hand-over
Across the supply chain

One identifier, carried from paddock to plate.

no re-keying at any gate

Who it's for

A better season for every part of the chain.

Producers

Stop re-entering the same details for every buyer, adviser and auditor.

  • Records kept in one place
  • Properties and maps shared in a few clicks
  • A record of who received what

Advisers & contractors

Work from the boundary everyone agreed on, not last season's KML.

  • Versioned paddock maps
  • The right client and property, confirmed
  • Shared straight from agID, with consent

Certifiers & industry bodies

Know exactly which business and property you're dealing with, every time.

  • Records linked to a real entity
  • Look up a business by ABN, a property by PIC
  • One identifier across programs

Agtech & software

Onboard customers in seconds with data they've already recorded.

  • Standard OAuth 2.0 sharing
  • Accurate boundaries in GeoJSON
  • No bespoke identity scheme to maintain

Processors, buyers & agents

Match suppliers across every system you run.

  • Verified ABNs and PICs
  • Cleaner data for traceability and reporting
  • Fewer onboarding forms

Finance & government

Lend, insure and run programs against records that line up.

  • Entities linked to official numbers
  • IDs that stay stable for decades
  • Data shared only with consent
Principles

Common ground needs good fences.

What agID will always be, whoever builds on it.

Your data stays yours

Nothing is shared without the consent of someone entitled to share it, and every share is recorded.

Neutral

agID doesn't compete with the apps that use it. No provider gets preferential access.

Open

Open standards such as OAuth 2.0 and GeoJSON, and a documented API, so any provider can integrate.

Permanent

An agID is never deleted or reissued. Records that use it today will still make sense in twenty years.

Accurate

ABNs, ACNs and GLNs are checked as they're entered, so a mistyped number never spreads.

Honest about trust

An identifier shows as claimed until agID has checked it against the issuer's register.

Where it's heading

Rooted today. Growing every season.

agID gets more useful with every organisation that adopts it

Rooted

In the ground today

  • Permanent agIDs for people, entities, locations and geo layers
  • Official identifiers, claimed then verified
  • Versioned geo layers and a map editor
  • Consent-based sharing, with a record of every share
  • Short links and QR codes for every agID
Shooting

Coming through next

  • Sign in with agID, using OpenID Connect
  • Ongoing access that people can revoke
  • Updates when a shared record changes
  • Production hardening: PostgreSQL and rate limiting
Harvest

What the industry reaps

  • agIDs on forms, certificates and NVDs, beside ABNs and PICs
  • Every connected system speaking the same language
  • Records that still make sense in twenty years
agID

Common ground for the whole supply chain.

Record it once. Share it everywhere you choose.

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thank you

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