Who we are

The structure that
protects the town.

Two companies, one promise, on purpose. Intelligent Harvest develops the sites, engineers the loops, and writes the standards. Intelligent Farms — this company — grows the food, hires the people, and holds the community commitments. Splitting the roles means the promises don’t depend on any one deal going well.

THE FAMILYwho holds what
Intelligent Harvestdevelops · engineers · sets standards
Intelligent Farmsoperates · grows · employs · delivers
Food guaranteeheld by Farms, mission-locked
Hiringlocal, year-round, by Farms
VerificationBTU meters & third-party reads
Mission-locked means the food commitments travel with the company — they aren’t a marketing line an owner can delete.
Why two companies

The grower shouldn’t answer to the landlord.

A town deserves a counterparty whose whole job is the harvest. Farms exists so the people running the greenhouse, keeping the pantry share, and signing local paychecks are structurally the same people making the promises — and so those promises survive any single project, partner, or negotiation upstream.

The research, the physics, and the site playbooks live at intelligentharvest.org. The food lives here.

The people

Three founders, three trades.

Andrew Potter

Andrew Potter

FOUNDER · VISION, STORY, & STRATEGY

A communicator by trade and conviction. Andrew’s job is making sure the idea is told as honestly as it’s built — to councils, neighbors, and the people who’ll eat the strawberries.

Dallas Rush

Dallas Rush

PARTNER · EARTH & ENERGY

Heavy equipment and directional drilling. Dallas is why the thermal main gets from one side of the fence to the other — on schedule, in any soil.

Cole Candler

Cole Candler

BUILD PARTNER · THERMAL DESIGN & SUPPLY

Thermal design and supply. Cole is why the tanks, glass, and exchangers show up in the right order — and why the produce leaves the campus cold-chained and on time.

What we believe

Honesty is the brand.

We reuse rejected heat.

We don’t make energy, and we don’t claim to cool the servers better. We catch what was already being thrown away, at the fence line, before it leaves.

Targets wear a dagger.

Every modeled figure carries a † until a built site measures it. Constants and equipment specs stand bare. You should always know which is which.

Meters, not adjectives.

The heat handoff is metered and third-party readable. When a competitor’s tool is cheaper — a heat pump’s BTUs, say — we say so out loud.

Where we are now: pre-construction. Pod No. 1 proves the physics at household scale; the Unit and Campus programs are in active site and partner conversations across Virginia and beyond. This page will say so when that changes.

Storytime

Let Demi & Jimmy explain.

Our two favorite coworkers — a drop of water and a little unit of heat — tell the whole story better than any spec sheet. Pick one. They’re clickable, tappable, and mildly theatrical.

Come see what we’re building.