Cultivation intelligence
your business deploys.
SteerMind delivers structured crop steering guidance — VPD, EC, irrigation, diagnosis — via a clean REST API and embeddable white-label widget. Built from peer-reviewed science. Deployed under your brand.
Deployed by grow businesses
to serve their customers better.
SteerMind isn't a consumer app. It's a B2B intelligence layer that grow shops, advisory teams and hardware manufacturers embed into their existing customer touchpoints.
Grow Shops & Retailers
Embed a branded cultivation advisor in your shop chat, helpdesk or website. Customers get precise answers — EC targets, VPD corrections, deficiency diagnosis — under your logo, around the clock.
Support & Advisory Teams
Give every agent the same structured cultivation reference — inside the ticket, no tab switching. Consistent answers across every shift, from day one. Senior advisor quality at queue speed.
Hardware & Tech Partners
Integrate via REST API into grow room controllers, dosing systems, or cultivation platforms. Pass sensor data in — receive structured crop steering guidance out. Your hardware becomes the advisor.
Crop Steering Intelligence
The core differentiator: VWC-based irrigation timing, dryback targets, generative vs vegetative signal control, phase-specific EC ranges. Crop steering is the primary intent domain — not an afterthought.
Visual Plant Diagnosis
Customers upload up to 4 plant images. SteerMind combines visual signals with grow context — stage, substrate, EC, VPD — and returns a structured differential diagnosis with ranked hypotheses.
Scientific Knowledge Base
Built from peer-reviewed journals, university extension, and government research — not forums or blogs. A 3-tier trust system with quality scores governs every document. No unverified AI content admitted.
Built from science,
not from forum posts.
Most grow AI products use the same generic web content. SteerMind's knowledge base is curated, sourced, and continuously updated from verifiable scientific literature.
3-Tier Peer-Reviewed Knowledge Base
Every document is classified by trust tier: Tier 1 — peer-reviewed journals and government research. Tier 2 — conference proceedings and technical reports. Tier 3 — verified industry sources. Forums and anonymous blogs are excluded entirely.
7-Domain Intent Routing + RAG Retrieval
Questions are automatically routed to one of 7 specialist domains: irrigation/crop steering, nutrients, environment/VPD, pests, visual diagnosis, definitions, or harvest. Domain-specific retrieval then pulls the most relevant evidence from Pinecone vector search.
Structured JSON — Not a Chat Bubble
Responses return as structured JSON: step_sequence, parameter_targets, monitoring_plan, citations. Your product parses and renders it. The answer is concrete — specific numbers, triggers, and time windows — not prose to interpret.
This is the intelligence in action.
The panel below rotates through real scenarios — VPD analysis, image diagnosis, crop steering plan. No screenshots — real API responses.
See a live SteerMind session
Book a 30-minute pilot call and we'll walk through real crop steering, diagnosis and VPD scenarios calibrated to your product use case.
Book a demo →Three ways to deploy.
From a single script tag to a fully customised backend integration — the path depends on your product and team, not on a feature tier.
REST API — Direct Integration
POST /v1/chat with grow context and optional plant images. JWT authentication per client. Structured JSON response with citations. Rate limiting: 120 RPM per client, configurable daily and monthly quotas. Base URL: https://www.steer-mind.com
White-Label Widget — Zero Dependencies
SteermindCopilotWeb is a vanilla JavaScript template (no npm, no build step). Drop it on any static host. Override CSS variables for your brand colors, replace the logo files, customize prompt templates at runtime. Deploys in a day.
Backend Proxy — API Key Protected
Your backend holds the API key; the widget or app calls your proxy endpoint. Recommended for production. Example Node.js/Express proxy included in the integration guide. Full control over rate limiting and session management.
Good to know
before you integrate.
What types of businesses use SteerMind?
Grow shops and retailers embed SteerMind in their customer support channels as a branded advisory widget. Support and advisory teams use it as a copilot inside their helpdesk workflows. Hardware manufacturers and technology platforms integrate via REST API to add cultivation intelligence to their products.
How is this different from a general AI assistant like ChatGPT?
General AI returns plausible text. SteerMind returns structured JSON grounded in a curated peer-reviewed knowledge base. Responses include specific numeric targets (EC 1.8–2.0, VPD 1.0–1.2 kPa, dryback 25–35%), ordered action steps, and monitoring windows. It is designed for cultivation workflows, not general conversation.
What does the knowledge base contain?
Peer-reviewed journals (Frontiers, Springer, Nature), university extension publications, government agricultural research, and verified technical reports. Each source carries a trust tier and quality score. Forums, Reddit, and anonymous blogs are excluded. High-risk topics like crop steering and root-zone EC enforce strict source requirements.
Can the widget be deployed under our brand?
Yes. SteermindCopilotWeb is a vanilla JS template with 150+ CSS custom properties for full theming. Replace logo files, override colors and fonts. Your customers never see SteerMind branding. The template runs on any static host — Nginx, S3+CloudFront, Netlify — with no build step required.
What are the API rate limits?
The default configuration is 120 requests per minute per client. Daily and monthly limits are configurable per integration. All responses include rate limit headers. 429 errors return Retry-After. Traffic anomaly detection automatically blocks abusive clients.
Is SteerMind GDPR-compliant?
Yes. Infrastructure runs on EU servers (Frankfurt). No customer data is used for model training. Conversation content is not stored by default. Full GDPR data deletion is available via DELETE /v1/privacy/delete-conversation/:id. A Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is available for enterprise integrations.
Judge it on real questions,
not on a product tour.
We configure a working setup around your use case in the onboarding call. API credentials, widget instance, or both — live before the session ends.