Electric Plant is a frontier AI lab in San Francisco. We decode the electrical signals plants naturally produce and turn them into working intelligence for the people who grow, study, and care for them.
Bombadil is the first foundation model for plant electrophysiology. Trained on signal from more than 125 species, it reads indicators of plant state — including on species it has never seen.
Bud is a low-cost probe that attaches to a plant in minutes and streams its electrical signals continuously. It's how Bombadil listens.
Yes — plant electrophysiology has decades of peer-reviewed research behind it. Plants carry electrical signals through their vascular tissue as they sense and respond to their environment. What's new is a foundation model that can decode those signals at scale. Our white paper covers the methods and results.
Hydration state, stress, and responses to the environment — often before anything is visible. The plant reports its own condition; you decide what to do about it.
Bombadil generalizes across species, and a short on-site calibration tunes it to your plants and conditions. If you grow something unusual, that's interesting to us — get in touch.
We work with growers first — orchards and tree crops are where plant intelligence pays for itself fastest. But Bombadil is built for the whole plant kingdom: research labs, cities, forests, and places no one has thought to listen yet.
Get in touch. Deployment starts with a conversation about your site, and our team handles installation and calibration with you.
