What Farmers Want | Chariot Command

Описание: Can an app stop a combine fire before it starts?
Farmers don’t need another slick sales pitch.
They need tools that work when iron is hot, harvest is on, and downtime costs real money.
In this episode of What Farmers Want, host Dan Aberhart brings a live Shark Tank–style ag-tech pitch straight to the people who matter most: farmers, agronomists, and the ones who write the checks.
🎙 Founder Andrew Leaman (Chariot Command) pitches a new approach to predictive maintenance using cameras, thermal imaging, and AI to catch equipment problems before they turn into breakdowns, fires, or insurance nightmares.
No hype.
No sugarcoating.
Just real farmers, real feedback, and a lot of prairie honesty.
Brought to you by Cornerstone Credit Union, this episode wanders from burning combines and grain dryer fires to harmonicas, pickleball trash talk, and whether downtime really only costs $500 an hour (spoiler: the farmers disagree).
👨‍🌾 Who’s on the panel?
Wyatt Bolt – Bolt Seeds Farm
Darwin Kells – Lambton Agra
Riley Kushniruk – K4 Ag
Sean Moran – Live audience farmer (grain dryers, near misses, and zero patience for equipment fires)
With Lyndon Lisitza, Director of Rural Tech Activation at Cornerstone Credit Union, adding the financial and innovation perspective.
⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 – Welcome to What Farmers Want: Chariot Command Edition
01:00 – Why farmers don’t need another sales pitch
02:00 – Housekeeping + live audience interaction
03:00 – Christmas icebreaker: What farmers want under the tree
07:30 – Cornerstone Credit Union’s role in ag innovation
11:30 – Harmonicas, mergers, and the future of rural finance
13:00 – Introducing Andrew Leaman and Chariot Command
17:00 – From farm kid to ag-tech founder
19:30 – The real cost of downtime (and why $500/hour is low)
22:00 – Cameras, thermal imaging, and predictive maintenance explained
26:00 – World-first look at visual difference detection
29:00 – Thermal imaging catching problems humans miss
33:00 – Insurance, OEMs, and why data ownership matters
36:00 – Pricing, pilots, and why the app is free
38:30 – Can you move cameras between machines?
41:30 – Grain dryer fires and real-world close calls
46:00 – Final verdicts from the farmer panel
53:00 – Thumbs up, thumbs down, and what needs improvement
59:00 – Closing thoughts and how to get involved
🚜 Key takeaways
Downtime is more expensive than most people admit
Fires rarely come out of nowhere
Cameras can see things humans miss
Farmers want control of their data
Ag-tech only works if farmers actually trust it
📩 Want to learn more about Chariot Command?
Andrew Leaman
📧 [email protected]
📱 +1 (647) 496-9917
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Because the best time to stop a fire…
is before it starts.