huzex87/agritrace

AI-Powered Agricultural Supply Chain Traceability & Market Intelligence Platform for Northwest Nigeria | WhatsApp-native | Hausa/English | iDICE Startup Bridge 2026 # AgriTrace **AI-Powered Agricultural Supply Chain Traceability & Market Intelligence Platform** > Digitising Nigeria's agricultural supply chain — from farmgate to export — with AI-powered traceability and fair market intelligence. Built for the Northwest Nigeria commodity belt (Katsina · Kano · Zamfara). Founded by Huzaifa Yakubu Musa (Huzex) at Kirkira Innovation Hub, Katsina State. --- ## Overview AgriTrace is a WhatsApp-native SaaS platform that solves three interconnected problems in Nigeria's agricultural commodity sector: 1. **Invisible supply chain** — 70%+ of commodity movements have zero digital traceability, blocking access to premium export markets 2. **Smallholder exploitation** — farmers receive 30–50% below market rates due to no price data access 3. **Export documentation bottleneck** — compliance document collection takes weeks, locking SME exporters out of EU and GCC markets ## Architecture ``` ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CLIENT SURFACES │ │ [WhatsApp Bot] [Aggregator Dashboard] [Verify] │ └──────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘ │ ┌──────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────┐ │ NEXT.JS API LAYER │ │ /api/whatsapp/webhook /api/documents/generate │ │ /api/batches /api/market-prices │ │ /api/cron/price-alerts /api/paystack/webhook │ └──────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘ │ ┌──────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────┐ │ SUPABASE BACKEND │ │ PostgreSQL (RLS) Auth Storage Edge Functions │ └──────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘ │ ┌──────────┴──────────┐ ▼ ▼ WhatsApp Cloud API Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Paystack (Price intelligence) ``` ## Tech Stack | Layer | Technology | |-------|-----------| | Frontend | Next.js 15 + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS | | Backend | Supabase …