Engineering
Two people, one ledger.
Agrivia is built by a small team that answers the phone. One writes the code that moves the money; the other spends his weeks with the farmers whose money it is.
Product & delivery
Mike Manabat
Project Manager, Senior Business Analyst, Life Coach, Mentor, idol
Turns the reality of Philippine agriculture into requirements an engineer can build against. He has sat in enough cooperative meetings in Benguet to know why a listing needs a harvest window, and why a payout that lands on Friday is worth more than one that lands on Monday.
A decade spanning agri-cooperative operations and enterprise business analysis. He ran the field research that produced the four subscription tiers, discovering the break-even points where a smallholder is genuinely better off staying on the free plan — and then insisted the product say so out loud rather than upsell. He owns the roadmap, the verification workflow, and the relationships with the farms and logistics partners the platform depends on.
Interviewed 60+ farmers, consolidators, and institutional buyers across seven provinces. The finding that a farmer sells at a roadside price set by whoever arrives first is what the entire platform is built to fix.
Requirements analysisStakeholder managementAgile deliveryProcess designField research
How we work
Three rules we do not bend.
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Show the maths
Every fee, commission, and take rate is visible to the person paying it. If a number embarrasses us, that is a reason to change the number, not to hide it.
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The farm comes first
When a decision helps the platform and hurts the grower, it does not ship. The subscription only earns its keep by lowering what we take per sale.
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Build from the field
Requirements come from cooperative meetings and loading bays, not from a whiteboard. Two people can move quickly precisely because nobody is guessing.
Want to know how it actually works?
The documentation walks through the fee engine, the escrow lifecycle, and every workflow on the platform — with the calculators wired to the real code.