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You have a site, a concept, and a technology direction, but the project plan is not yet lender-ready.
Controlled-environment agriculture advisory
FieldGrid Advisory
Advisory for controlled-environment agriculture and energy-integrated food infrastructure.
FieldGrid helps project sponsors, growers, operators, and technology partners move complex agtech infrastructure projects from concept to commercial execution.
What FieldGrid Helps Solve
Clearer plans for projects with many moving parts.
FieldGrid is built for moments when the opportunity is real, but the project still needs sharper assumptions, cleaner sequencing, and stakeholder-ready materials.
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You are evaluating vertical farming, greenhouse production, or hybrid CEA models and need help pressure-testing the operating assumptions.
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You are combining food production with renewable energy, waste-to-value, or campus infrastructure and need a clearer commercial story.
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You need to prepare materials for investors, lenders, vendors, public partners, or technology providers.
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You need someone who can translate between growers, operators, engineers, technology providers, and capital stakeholders.
Who We Help
Advisory for teams building real food infrastructure.
FieldGrid works with groups navigating the intersection of controlled environments, project development, technology partnerships, and capital-facing execution.
Vertical farm developers
Project framing, commercial assumptions, implementation planning, and readiness support for capital and technology conversations.
Greenhouse operators
Expansion, automation, energy, and partner decisions reviewed through the lens of practical controlled-environment production.
Agtech companies
Go-to-market, implementation, and partner ecosystem support for teams bringing infrastructure-adjacent technology to market.
Energy-backed food campus developers
Planning support for campuses that combine production, land, utilities, renewable power, waste streams, and phased execution.
Project sponsors
Independent advisory for sequencing decisions, stakeholder alignment, project risk, and execution-focused materials.
Investors, lenders, and strategic partners
Clear review of project logic, operating assumptions, partner roles, and the questions that matter before resources are committed.
Services
Practical support for commercial and project decisions.
The work is structured around the questions sponsors and partners need to answer before a project can be credibly financed, built, operated, or commercialized.
Project strategy and development support
Clarify the development path, decision sequence, stakeholder needs, and materials required to move a project forward.
Controlled-environment agriculture and vertical farming advisory
Evaluate production models, operating assumptions, technology fit, and commercialization risks across CEA formats.
IGS ecosystem navigation and implementation support
Support planning conversations around IGS-related implementation considerations while preserving independent advisory judgment.
Renewable-energy-integrated campus planning
Shape the commercial story and execution logic for food infrastructure tied to energy, utilities, and campus-scale development.
Commercial model and operating model review
Pressure-test assumptions, roles, revenue logic, cost exposure, staffing needs, and operational readiness.
Partner, vendor, investor, and lender-facing materials
Translate project complexity into practical decks, briefs, diligence responses, and partner-ready narratives.
Project risk, sequencing, and readiness review
Identify gaps, dependencies, decision gates, and the work needed before a project can credibly proceed.
Deliverables
Typical Deliverables
FieldGrid support often turns into practical documents and reviews that help teams align internally and engage outside stakeholders with more clarity.
Project readiness memo
Lender / investor deck review
Partner brief
Risk register
Operating model or commercial assumptions review
Engagement Models
Flexible ways to work together.
Engagements are scoped to the stage of the project, the decisions in front of the team, and the level of advisory support required.
Option 1
Hourly advisory
Focused calls and working sessions for targeted questions, decision support, document review, or early project orientation.
Option 2
Monthly advisory retainer
Ongoing access for sponsors, operators, or technology partners who need steady commercial, project, and ecosystem support.
Option 3
Fixed-fee project support
Defined workstreams for strategy, readiness review, partner materials, market planning, or project development support.
Engagement Readiness
A small amount of structure makes advisory time more useful.
FieldGrid can help shape early thinking, but the most productive engagements usually begin with a clear owner, a near-term decision, and a willingness to separate facts from assumptions.
A defined decision owner
The work moves faster when one person can frame the question, coordinate input, and decide what good support looks like.
A clear near-term decision
FieldGrid is most useful when there is a specific partner, capital, technology, operating, or sequencing decision to sharpen.
Current materials or assumptions
Existing decks, notes, models, vendor inputs, or site constraints help turn advisory time into practical review and next steps.
Permission to simplify
The goal is not to make the project sound bigger. It is to clarify what is credible now, what is still unknown, and what comes next.
How We Work
Start with the project stage, then move toward the next decision.
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Assess the project stage
Establish where the project sits today, what is known, what is assumed, and which decisions are blocking progress.
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Clarify the decision path
Define the next decision gates, stakeholder questions, partner dependencies, and materials needed to move with confidence.
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Support execution-ready materials and conversations
Turn the plan into practical briefs, decks, reviews, and working sessions that help sponsors engage partners and capital.
About Steve
Founder-led advisory with hands-on commercial and project experience.
FieldGrid was created to help project sponsors and operators turn complex food-infrastructure concepts into clearer plans, stronger stakeholder materials, and better execution pathways.
Founder / Advisor
Steve Gereb
Practical advisory for teams evaluating, developing, commercializing, or improving technology-enabled food infrastructure projects.
Steve brings experience across controlled-environment agriculture, agtech operations, North American market development, project commercialization, and technology-enabled food infrastructure.
FieldGrid helps sponsors and operators make complex project decisions easier to understand, easier to sequence, and easier to present to the partners who need to believe the plan can be executed.
Based in the U.S.; supporting North American controlled-environment agriculture and agtech infrastructure projects.
Independence note
FieldGrid Advisory is an independent advisory practice. References to specific technology ecosystems, including IGS-related implementation considerations, reflect market and project experience only. FieldGrid does not represent IGS and is not an official IGS channel.
Contact
Start with a focused conversation.
Share the project stage, the decision you are trying to make, and the kind of support you need. FieldGrid uses email links only and does not collect form submissions on this site.
Helpful Details
A concise note is enough to start.
Include what is known today and the decision that needs sharper support. Attachments are optional; a short project snapshot is often the best first step.
- Project stage and location
- Current decision or blocker
- Production model or technology context
- Stakeholders involved
- Target timing for the next decision
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