Put yourself in the shoes of a foreman standing at the edge of a gravel yard, wind kicking up dust, trucks idling, radio chatter in the background, and asking, “How much rock is actually here?” Just know that the answer is rarely a number; it’s a guess. The foreman guesses, someone rounds up, and when the spreadsheet gets updated, it’s often 30–50% wrong — setting off a chain reaction of bad logistics, bad accounting, and bad decisions.
Warren Wang lived this reality up close while leading product at Milk Moovement, a Series A ag supply chain startup powering a meaningful share of dairy transport across the U.S. He watched how often operators made high-stakes decisions without real inventory truth, because the tools to measure stockpiles simply didn’t exist. So he teamed up with Cole Robertson, an engineer who helped scale Tropic from seed to Series B and later led engineering at an AI startup, to build the system they wished they had: a way to measure the physical world with software-like precision.
dScribe AI is building autonomous drones and 3D computer vision to track bulk inventory. Warren and Cole have already built an integrated hardware + software platform and signed one of the largest agricultural companies in North America. As industries demand real-time visibility into the physical world, and the cost of not knowing keeps rising, dScribe is positioned to become the system of record for everything that doesn’t fit into boxes and barcodes.
The Opportunity
A $2.8B market already exists in drone-based mapping & surveying, and it’s growing ~14% annually
Bulk inventory is still tracked with estimates, and the cost of being wrong compounds fast
Manual surveys are expensive, slow, and often off by 30–50%, leaving operators blind between audits
Autonomy and computer vision are finally cheap and reliable enough to make real-time physical measurement inevitable
What dScribe Actually Builds
Think of dScribe as an autonomous inventory auditor that scans, reconstructs, and reports stockpiles with precision
Autonomous drone scans: drones capture inventory yards without disrupting operations.
3D vision reconstruction: converts messy piles into accurate 3D models
Volume + inventory truth: turns models into trustworthy measurements operators can plan around
System of record: continuous tracking that replaces spreadsheets, estimates, and one-off survey reports
When Warren first saw how much value was lost in the gap between “what’s on the ground” and “what’s in the books,” he imagined a world where bulk inventory is as measurable as software, always known, always current, and always defensible. We believe that world starts with one drone scan of one grain pile and ends with entire industries running on real-time physical visibility, because guesswork is no longer acceptable.
If you’re building infrastructure for the real economy, we’d love to hear from you. Welcome, dScribe AI, to the Redbud family. We’re excited to back the team bringing real truth to real operations.
