Provision Honored With 2024 AgTech Breakthrough Award
AgTech Breakthrough has recognized Provision as the Data Analytics Solution of 2024.
For years, AgTech Breakthrough has served as a leader in market intelligence, recognizing the best technology solutions in the global food supply chain. The AgTech Breakthrough Awards are judged on six main criteria: innovation, performance, ease of use, functionality, value, and impact. Selected winners represent genuine advancements that serve a true need, solving a critical challenge for both food companies and their consumers.
The 2024 competition saw a total of 1,900 entries over a range of award categories that included both software and hardware solutions.
Provision was chosen for the AgTech Breakthrough Award because of its impact on smart food safety. As compliance requirements continuously grow, a large number of food safety programs - over 80% by some estimates - are still operating on paper. Vital insight and analytics are hidden in back room binders, limiting traceability and ultimately contributing to more than 48 million foodborne illnesses in the U.S. each year. Provision solves this issue by lowering the barrier to digital records for non-technical operators.
Under the guidance of industry-leading food safety advisors such as Dr. Jennifer McEntire, Provision has developed a flexible platform that can be configured to manage any audited documentation for a food operation. Clients evolve their record-keeping using intuitive task reminders, live work instructions, translation, inspection images, deviation alerts, and more. The average Provision client now reports they are audit-ready in 59% less time than their prior method. This efficiency frees operations to prioritize high-value uses of their data. Armed with customizable trend reports, managers unlock clear insight for process control, limiting the risk of recall, non-compliance, and rejected loads.
With these benefits to productivity, quality, and risk, Provision has seen its adoption more than double in the past year. Hundreds of operations rely on the platform today, including many in the fresh produce sector, where outbreaks have historically been prevalent.
“Food safety records capture everything that’s seen and done in a facility, and this data can transform how operations are managed. But too often, it’s clunky to capture, so it stays on paper, and goes unused after an audit. By making it easy to capture data in the field and on the floor, we put accessible insight at managers’ fingertips. This AgTech Breakthrough Award recognizes all the growers, packers, and processors who’ve charted the path to work smarter, not harder.”
CEO & Co-Founder, Provision Analytics
