Built from the farm.
Built for the farmer.

MyAgroBuddi did not begin in a boardroom. It began with a farmer.

After years of working in agriculture, I kept seeing the same problem from different angles. Farmers were producing, selling, spending, surviving and building real businesses — but very little of that activity became a record anyone outside the farm could trust.

I knew that problem personally. I had experienced what it meant to run a real agricultural business without the kind of financial history a bank could understand. And I began to ask a different question:

“What if the everyday activity of a farmer could become their financial identity?”

That question became MyAgroBuddi.

I started building from zero — learning, experimenting, coding, breaking things, rebuilding them and figuring out the technology as I went. What began as one farmer trying to solve a problem became a three-year journey to build something much bigger: a platform that can help farmers become visible, verifiable and connected to the people and institutions that can help them grow.

MyAgroBuddi did not begin as MyAgroBuddi.

In July 2023, the idea was much smaller. I wanted to build a web application for pig farmers called Pigmetrics — something that could help farmers keep better records and understand their businesses.

I paid a developer ₦60,000 to build it. It turned out badly, and eventually the developer stopped taking my calls. It was frustrating, but the idea did not die.

In July 2024, I attended the ASBON conference, and the vision shifted. I stopped thinking only about pig farmers and began thinking about every farmer — and what could happen if farmers could access experts, suppliers, markets, finance and insurance through one connected system.

I began making inquiries and speaking with development agencies. By November, the numbers were sobering. Initial development estimates were approaching ₦100 million. And knowing how often I refine ideas, I knew the real cost could become far higher. If I woke up one morning and decided a feature needed to change, be removed or completely rebuilt, I could have been looking at something closer to ₦200 million.

So I stopped.

For more than a year, I kept thinking about the problem and searching for a way to build the vision without destroying myself financially.

Then, in December 2025, I came across a LinkedIn post about apps being essentially useless for farmers. It stopped me. I asked myself a simple question: Would I download an app just to use it for farming?

Probably not. But I already use WhatsApp. Why can't Buddi come to the farmer instead?

That was the pivot.

I explored having freelancers build the WhatsApp version, but the quotes were still significant. More importantly, I began to realize that the people I was speaking with could not see the full weight and complexity of the vision I was carrying.

Then, in March 2026, I had another thought: Claude can code. Why don't I ask Claude to help me build?

I started with MySOSAlert and built the app in about four weeks. Then, on April 12, 2026, I began building MyAgroBuddi directly on Meta.

Four and a half months later, Buddi is here. From Pigmetrics - Agroconnect - MyAgroBuddi.

And those four months have been relentless. I have kept retooling, adding, removing and reshaping the product. Almost every day, I see something that needs to be changed because the vision itself keeps becoming clearer.

And I would be ungrateful if I told this story without acknowledging God and the Holy Spirit. What could have been a nightmare of development costs and endless negotiations became something I could actually build, test and keep improving — one idea and one line of code at a time.