Openrange

I co-founded Openrange and lead product, technical, and market research for Waddie, our cattle-monitoring platform in development. The starting problem is practical: ranchers need to know how many animals are in a pasture and what needs attention without spending the day looking for it.

I conducted discovery calls with 41 ranchers representing 41,500 cattle, helped build an eight-person team, and secured a Waggoner Ranch partnership. We also partner with Buendea, SkySenderos, and Hextronics to support development.

We have trained initial vision models. The first service we’re preparing uses on-site drone operators to collect footage for cattle counting and evidence of conditions on the ranch. Autonomous mission planning is the next engineering step; we are still developing the sensing architecture and the system that connects perception to action.