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We're broody builders.

A better pitch is not the same as a better company. In ag tech and remote health, field-ready decisions start by taking farmers, clinicians, families, and operators seriously before a company scales.

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Practical help for the next decision.

Silicon Valley brings product practice, growth experience, and capital. The Battenkill Valley brings lived problems, local judgment, trust, and room to think. The Valley is where those assets become useful to one another.

Repeatable work has a public price. Custom work has a public starting point and a written scope. Community programs say who pays. Future Pitch Days will open only after award money, criteria, judges, and terms are in place.

Space

Room to do serious work.

A Main Street home base with fast internet, room to think, and farms, care settings, local businesses, and open country close by. Book the place on its own or use it as the base for deeper incubator work.

Workspace

$25 / day · $200 / month

Book a shared desk, private pod, or focused workday in Cambridge.

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Conference room

$100 / day · No facilitation

Space-only use for up to 30 people, with a 100-inch display, 360-degree camera, and session recording.

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Innovation

Hands-on help to build and grow.

Senior product and growth practice meets rural reality. Each engagement is tied to a customer, workflow, artifact, or decision rather than an abstract curriculum.

Facilitated Field Day

$3,000 / team day

A proctored working day around one rural question or workflow, with practical AI and the right local operators invited when the fit is clear.

Discuss a field day

Growth Advisor

From $5,000 / month · 3 months

Fractional positioning, growth marketing, and go-to-market leadership before a full-time hire makes sense.

Discuss growth

Design Sprint

$20,000 standard · Sponsored founder places available

Five focused days to turn a risky assumption into a customer conversation, useful artifact, field test, and clear next move.

Discuss a sprint

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Education

Learn by doing. Teach it forward.

Rural young people should have a hand in the future being built around them. Local adults should have a place to test new tools without being talked down to. Real work is the classroom.

Student Studio

Free through a participating school · Match required

Students take on a real brief, make decisions, and ship work for a founder, community partner, or public audience.

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Community workshops

Free or sponsored · Price posted per event

Practical sessions on AI, creative work, business, and technology, shaped around what local people can use now.

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Mentorship

Hard-earned judgment, matched well.

The work starts with free Office Hours. The Valley is building a bench of experienced people who can answer a specific question without turning the conversation into open-ended access or a sales pitch.

Office Hours

Free · 30 minutes

The open front door for a rough idea, stubborn constraint, or decision that needs another set of eyes.

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Valley Advisors

Now inviting experienced volunteers

Experienced and retired growers, clinicians, founders, operators, engineers, public servants, and craftspeople can offer one useful hour when the question and fit are real.

Offer your experience

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Investment

A pitch program for the next milestone.

Capital should unlock evidence, not reward theater. Rural Pitch Days are being built around specific ag-tech and remote-health problems, candid questions, published criteria, and a defined use of funds.

Rural Pitch Days

Planned $1,000-$10,000 awards · No round open

Future funded rounds are intended to pair a $1,000-$10,000 check with direct judge feedback and a defined milestone. No round is open yet.

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Where we focus

Ag tech and remote health

These are fields where distance, labor, trust, aging, infrastructure, and local relationships can determine whether a product works. Useful adjacent work is welcome when rural reality is central to the question.

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Ag tech

Tools for farms, food systems, land, labor, equipment, logistics, and the people keeping those systems moving.

Remote health

Tools for access, care delivery, aging, workforce capacity, trust, and the long distances between people and services.

The front door

Start with one honest conversation.

You do not need a finished pitch or a predetermined program. Bring the constraint, the people closest to it, and the decision that feels expensive to get wrong.

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