The Austrian Haill Insurance covers crop failures. Droaught is increasing the number of claims and due to internationalization, the company is facing severe competition. For claim management, fields need to be sampled two weeks before harvest, which is a very tight window of opportunity. All these factors make this task almost unmanageable for surveyors. Samples need to be taken by hand and brought into a laboratory. This procedure damages the plants.

The ÖHV challenged craftworks and other companies to come up with a concept for swift and easy prediction of the yield of wheat fields at a point in time in the future. Particularly challenging was that not only the yield per plant varied, but also the yield per m² within a field varied greatly. Plants cluttered, were not distinguishable, and up to 40% of the plants were not ripe enough to count towards yield. craftworks won the challenge and was invited to build an MVP, which included hardware scouting.

To predict the yield of a full field two weeks before harvesting, through geo-referenced pictures of samples taken by the surveyors on the ground, with a portable device, without needing to damage the plants for laboratory samples. A further goal of maximum 1 minute testing time needed per plant was set.