Mumbai, India: Findability Sciences, in strategic partnership with Pantaleon, one of the world’s leading sugar producers with deep operational heritage across multiple countries, today announced the launch of Stomata Labs, a dedicated artificial intelligence (AI) innovation division designed to tackle the perennial challenges in the sugar industry. With advanced AI solutions purpose-built for agro-industrial decision making, Stomata Labs empowers producers to unify siloed data, make faster and smarter decisions, improve yields and optimize mill performance at scale.
“Stomata Labs is poised to redefine what’s possible in agricultural and industrial intelligence,” said Anand Mahurkar, Founder & CEO of Findability Sciences. “Stomata Labs solves the real problems of disconnected data, late decisions and unpredictable outputs enabling producers to transform raw signals into actionable decisions. Customers are already seeing measurable impact, including 15–25% efficiency gains, prevention of latent production losses, stronger yield performance and potential value creation in the tens of millions of dollars annually for large-scale operations. This is real ROI tied to operational performance, sustainability and profitability.
“For too long, the sugar value chain has operated without the timely, predictive clarity that modern AI can deliver,” said Guillermo Medina, Chief Digital & Analytics Officer at Pantaleon and a strategic leader for Stomata Labs” “By embedding AI at the heart of sugar production ,from early crop signals to factory throughput , we are converting fragmented information into actionable intelligence that drives higher yields, smoother plant operations, and stronger commercial performance. This is practical AI delivering measurable value today across field, factory and enterprise decisions.”
Addressing Core Industry Challenges with AI
The global sugar sector contends with persistent issues: weather-driven yield variability, disparate data silos across farms and mills, late decision cycles that escalate costs, and hidden inefficiencies in production processes. Stomata Labs directly addresses these challenges by integrating agronomic, operational, and commercial data into a governed AI-ready foundation — enabling teams to detect patterns early, anticipate performance drift, and prescribe actions that improve outcomes across field and factory operations.
This unified solution suite — collectively branded the Stoma Suite — combines advanced AI modules that:
- Transform field signals into harvest and agronomy decisions with early variability detection and recommended actions.
- Detect and correct process drift in mills before quality and recovery suffer.
- Provide real-time, mobile-ready insights that connect field performance with mill outcomes.
- Support data foundation services that make analytics and optimization deploy faster and run reliably across the value chain.
Across a typical 2 million-ton facility, Stomata Labs solutions can help unlock approximately $66 million in annual value by reducing inefficiencies, optimizing throughput and minimizing losses.
Part of a Broader Agri AI RevolutionStomata Labs exemplifies the broader shift toward Agricultural AI — where data, machine learning and predictive models elevate decision making from reactive to predictive and prescriptive. As generative and analytic AI adoption accelerates, agricultural and industrial systems gain tools that enable smarter, evidence-based decisions at every level of the value chain, from weather volatility to crop growth and plant operations.
