Grow anything, anywhere.
Consistently.
Light Engine is the operating system for your growing space — an Indoor custom build, a Box Farm container, or Traditional Ag in the open field. It listens to every sensor, tunes every light, valve, and fan, and coaches your team through seeding, transplant, and harvest — so each growing space can deliver multiple crops with repeatable quality.
Efficient. Consistent. Flexible.
Every element of your grow — climate, light, water, nutrients, labour — managed against the plant, not the clock. More pounds per kilowatt. Fewer surprises.
Greater growing efficiency
Real-time VPD, PPFD, and DLI targeting dims lights, trims irrigation, and stages HVAC so you hit yield targets on less energy and less water — measured, not estimated.
Improved consistency
Every seeding follows a versioned recipe. Every deviation is logged. Every harvest lands within a tight quality band — so buyers can count on what shows up each week.
Dynamic environment management
Zone-by-zone control lets one grow room run leafy greens, herbs, and microgreens at the same time — each crop on its own light, climate, and irrigation profile.
One platform. Three growing environments.
"Anywhere" means the kind of place you grow, not just where the software lives. Light Engine treats indoor builds, container farms, and open field the same way: crops on a recipe, telemetry you can trust, and a weekly rhythm that fits how you work.
Indoor
Custom CEA rooms — racks, towers, and ponds in a sealed, climate-controlled envelope. Zone-by-zone light, VPD, and irrigation for repeatable, multi-crop harvests.
Box Farm
Modular container farms drop in anywhere you have power and a footprint. The same recipe-driven control and crop scheduling, packaged for a self-contained grow.
Traditional Ag
Open-field and soil growers get the same crop plans, traceability, and harvest workflows — with weather-aware forecasting tuned to the field, not a sealed room.
One room. Many crops. No compromises.
Traditional rooms are locked to a single recipe. Light Engine splits a room into independent zones — lettuce next to basil next to microgreens — each with its own spectrum, photoperiod, VPD target, and irrigation schedule.
- Per-zone light, climate, and irrigation profiles
- Crop-aware scheduling: seed, transplant, and harvest dates computed from targets
- Switch a zone from basil to microgreens in a single click
Feeds your neighbourhood, not a warehouse.
Light Engine is tuned for small farms, school gardens, restaurant rooftops, and community grows — the farms that feed their own town. A 10-ft rack is a first-class citizen; you don't need acres of warehouse to run a real operation.
- Runs on a single edge server or on the cloud — same software, either way
- Built-in POS, online store, and wholesale for direct-to-community sales
- Delivery and CSA coordination tools so harvest day doesn't become chaos
- Community Builder Hub — free for community boards, non-profits & municipalities to run farmers markets, CSA pre-orders, and food hubs
Find a market or CSA near you → · Start a community market — free →
What actually happened, down to the minute.
Every reading, every actuation, every alert is logged and queryable. Your grow doesn't just produce plants — it produces a defensible record: for buyers, for auditors, for insurance, and for the research you want to do next season.
- Per-room timelines for light, climate, water, and labour
- Exportable CSV/JSON — your data belongs to your farm
- Optional Research tier for trial design and ELN-grade workflows
Twin sisters, two paths, one mission.
Light Engine ships with two built-in assistants — twin sisters who grew up in the same greenhouse and went in opposite directions. Evie stayed with the plants. Gwen went to the lab. Both are on your side.
Evie
Evie is the grower assistant every farmer wishes they had. She watches your rooms around the clock, nudges your environment before stress shows up in the plants, and turns your crop plan into a clear weekly rhythm: what to seed, what to transplant, what to harvest — and when.
- Tunes VPD, light, and irrigation against live plant targets
- Generates seeding, transplant, and harvest schedules automatically
- Sends plain-English alerts to the team before yield is at risk
- Hands off cleanly to humans — no black boxes, every action is logged
Gwen
Gwen is pure R&D. She collaborates with a global network of researchers, universities, and institutions to push the boundary of sustainable food production — then quietly pulls those findings back into your rooms as better recipes, better crop templates, and better defaults.
- Designs multi-site trials and compares outcomes across farms
- Curates crop templates fed by peer research and your own telemetry
- Publishes findings back to the global network with proper attribution
- Keeps your farm aligned with the state of the art, not the state of 2015
Faye watches the whole network.
Where Evie runs your farm and Gwen pushes the science, Faye is the network-level intelligence that keeps every farm on Light Engine honest — cross-farm diagnostics, fleet yield, and the wholesale marketplace all answer to her.
Faye
Faye is the command-center AI. She sits above the fleet, correlates signals across every Light Engine on the network, and keeps an eye on the wholesale market so your buyers, your sub-orders, and your prices stay in line with the real world — not someone's spreadsheet from 2019.
- Diagnoses issues across farms, not just inside one room
- Runs the wholesale marketplace: 50 km service radius, proximity-aware allocation, honest retail price watch
- Surfaces network-wide outages, yield drift, and pricing drift before they spread
- Hands actionable summaries to admins — no dashboards to hunt through
Light Engine is free. You only pay for what you use.
The Light Engine software — the operating system for your grow — costs you nothing. We charge a small, metered fee for the AI conversations you have and the cloud data you store. Your first 30 days carry no usage charges.
The full platform — free, every farm
- All core farm management — rooms, zones, crops, schedules
- Inventory, POS, online store, and wholesale marketplace
- Unlimited fixtures, sensors, and team members
- EVIE, F.A.Y.E. and G.W.E.N. agents included
- Automatic backups, access from any device
- 30 days free — no AI or data charges until day 31
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Pay only for what you use
A credit card is required at signup so usage can bill automatically after your free month. Every farm is metered separately — small farms stay light, heavy users scale transparently. The software keeps running even if a card fails.
AI usage
Every conversation with EVIE, F.A.Y.E., or G.W.E.N. is metered by tokens used. First 30 days free. Itemized in your monthly invoice; set per-farm budget caps.
Data usage
Long-term storage of sensor history, harvest records, and snapshots — per GB-month, only beyond 90 days. Live operational data is always free.
Research workspace
Study design, datasets, ELN workflows, exports, compliance, and collaboration.
View Research tierFrom signup to first harvest.
Sign up
Subscribe to Light Engine Cloud — your rooms, crops, POS, and wholesale are ready in minutes.
Complete purchase
Pay securely through Square. Your Farm ID and credentials are emailed instantly.
Set up & activate
Run the onboarding wizard. Evie helps you add rooms, sensors, and your first crop recipe.
Start growing
Your room is live. Evie schedules the rhythm, Gwen keeps you current, you focus on the plants.
Same software. Your choice of home.
Start on the cloud. Add a Farm Server on-site when you want full offline automation and a touchscreen in the grow room. Your data stays continuous either way.
| Feature | Cloud | Farm Server |
|---|---|---|
| Rooms, zones & crop recipes | Yes | Yes |
| Inventory management | Yes | Yes |
| Point of sale (POS) | Yes | Yes |
| Online store | Yes | Yes |
| Wholesale marketplace | Yes | Yes |
| Evie — grower assistant | Yes | Yes |
| Gwen — research partner | Yes | Yes |
| Sensor monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Automated lighting (DMX512) | No | Yes |
| Climate automation | No | Yes |
| Offline operation | No | Yes |
| In-room touchscreen interface | No | Yes |