Data, APIs & Integrations
Data & Integrations: For Farmers
What Data & Integrations changes for the person actually doing the work.
For the person running the business, the test of any farm software is whether it removes work or adds it. The platform's strategy is to orchestrate rather than replace. This module manages every inbound and outbound integration, documents the licensing and cost of each data source honestly, and provides the public API and developer programme that lets other systems build on the platform rather than around it.
In their words
What the job actually looks like
These are not marketing personas. Each one is a distinct job with a distinct constraint, and the module is designed so that solving one does not create work for the others.
Platform engineer
Building connectors
Needs documented schemas, sandboxes and honest licensing terms.
- Catalogue the required data sources
- Establish licensing and commercial terms
- Build and test the connector
- Map schemas and transform
Third-party developer
Building on the platform
Needs a stable, versioned public API.
- Establish licensing and commercial terms
- Build and test the connector
- Map schemas and transform
- Monitor health and cost in production
Farm business
Connecting existing software
Needs their accounting and machinery systems to connect without re-keying.
- Build and test the connector
- Map schemas and transform
- Monitor health and cost in production
- Publish outbound APIs and webhooks
End to end
How Data & Integrations runs, start to finish
The module is modelled as a state machine, so at any point the business knows exactly which stage every record is at and what has to happen next.
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Catalogue the required data sources
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Establish licensing and commercial terms
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Build and test the connector
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Map schemas and transform
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Monitor health and cost in production
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Publish outbound APIs and webhooks
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Support third-party developers
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Review licensing and cost annually
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
Capabilities
What Data & Integrations does
Every capability below is built on the same underlying record, so entering something once is enough for it to appear wherever it is needed.
Record and plan
- Integration catalogue with status, licensing model and cost for every source
- Inbound connectors to government, commercial and hardware data sources
- Outbound connectors to accounting, assurance, supply chain and scheme destinations
Operate and monitor
- Public REST API with versioning, documentation and sandbox
- Developer programme with keys, quotas and terms
- Webhook subscriptions for event-driven partner integration
Comply and evidence
- Data mapping and transformation between source and platform schemas
- Integration health monitoring with failure alerting
- Rate limiting, caching and cost control on metered sources
Analyse and improve
- Fallback strategies where no production API exists, including user-mediated upload
- Open data publication of aggregate, anonymised platform statistics
- Data licensing register documenting what may and may not be redistributed
Working view
Data & Integrations, at a glance
The numbers you would check before doing anything else in data & integrations. Each one is live against your own record, and each one tells you where it came from.
Choose a view
Integrations live and healthy
12
+6.0%
API uptime
41 days
−2 days
target under 37
Third-party developers active
13
+5.0%
Data licensing compliance
82 %
+4 pts
target 95%
Cost per thousand API calls
£13,987
+6.4%
What needs attention
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Action needed
No guaranteed public production API for some government services
mitigated by partnership routes and user-mediated upload fallbacks
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For information
Ordnance Survey licensing cost as a private platform
modelled explicitly as a critical-path commercial dependency
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For information
Data redistribution breaching licence terms
mitigated by a licensing register enforced in code
Worked example
How a business like yours would use Data & Integrations
The problem: Needs documented schemas, sandboxes and honest licensing terms.
What they do
- Catalogue the required data sources
- Establish licensing and commercial terms
- Build and test the connector
- Map schemas and transform
What changes
- Integrations live and healthy
- API uptime
- Third-party developers active
This is an illustrative worked example built from the module design, not a customer reference. Named case studies are published only with the business's written consent.
What we are hearing
The problems people describe to us
These are composite statements drawn from user research conversations, not attributed customer quotes. We publish named references only with written consent.
I am not short of software. I am short of one place where the same field means the same thing in all of it.
The scheme closed on a Tuesday evening. I had the application half built. Nobody told me the budget was nearly gone.
We farm on both sides of the border. Everything takes twice as long and I still cannot see the whole position on one screen.
Audit week costs me three days. Every single record they ask for is already written down somewhere on this farm.
Measurement
How you will know it is working
The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- 01Integrations live and healthy
- 02API uptime
- 03Third-party developers active
- 04Data licensing compliance
- 05Cost per thousand API calls
See it working
Book a demonstration on your own holding data
Thirty minutes, using your parcels and your schemes rather than a sample farm, so you can judge it on your own numbers.