Mike's Notes
I recently attended the 3-day Southern Field Days held every two years at Waimumu, near Gore, Southland, New Zealand (NZ). It's an event for farmers and is very popular.
If you have never been, go next time. Farmers are clever people, and they feed us.
This year, I visited every company at the Field Days that has a software product for farmers to discuss the integration and scaling challenges they were facing and introduce Pipi.
Pipi could be used by developers to build SaaS for farm and forestry management.
I invited them to give me feedback by testing a demo workspace for agriculture later this year. I got quite a bit of interest and was given many business cards. I found it much easier to talk in person than over Zoom. I also learned that next time to show them a live demo on a tablet.
This is a copy of the personalised email text I sent afterwards to establish contact. To be followed up on in a few months with individual invites to have a closer look, test, give me feedback, etc.
This message is being updated as I learn what works.
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Waimumu Field Days - Background to Ajabbi and Pipi
Mike is the inventor and architect of Pipi and the founder of Ajabbi.
Tractors and diggers
"Hi xxx
I may have met you in person at the SI Field Days (or one of your people gave me your card) for a chat about an enterprise AI I am the architect of, which could be used for Agritec. It has open integration.
There will be nothing much to see publicly now, but here is some background information for you. I will get in touch in a few months as beta testing proceeds.
This is some general background information about Ajabbi.
Ajabbi is a community-driven bootstrap startup with a main product, Pipi, which has a closed core and open-source applications. Optimised to build self-managing no-code enterprise platforms for critical and socially useful infrastructure (Health, agriculture, transport, nature conservation, arts & culture, built infrastructure, utilities)
There will be several parts to Ajabbi
- Ajabbi.com for SaaS operations to handle usage-based income and cloud expenses. An % of income will support R&D. Net profit will go to the Ajabbi Foundation.
- Ajabbi Research for R&D on Pipi.
- Ajabbi Foundation will fund other open-source products, Pipi user groups, industry conferences, books, and science, among other areas.
Pipi
Started in 1997 as version 1. By version 4 (2005-2007), it was a SaaS platform supporting ecological restoration projects in NZ (govt valuation: NZ$ 3 M).
Now, version 9 is a multi-agent world-model AI (not an LLM) that shares similarities with a Godel Machine, able to learn, evolve, self-organise, and reproduce. Constrained by published ontologies and laws of physics.
Currently, the community is beta-testing an open-source multi-workspace UI and generating 20,000 pages of developer documentation. Expect to be in production late 2026.
Finding out more.
- https://www.blog.ajabbi.com/ (daily engineering blog)
Contact me for a chat, slide talks, etc
The main 26 websites (developer, learn, handbook, design, pipiWiki, etc.) at ajabbi.com are currently hidden from search results and change frequently during testing.
Diving deeper with some reading
Any questions, feel free to ask"
