Abu Dhabi · AI-to-machine automation infrastructure
A20Core builds the infrastructure that lets AI operate real-world systems — sovereign-grade, AI-agnostic, from the edge device to the national control layer.
Agritech & Food — Our flagship vertical — irrigation, controlled-environment growing, food manufacturing.
A model can reason about a pump, a line, or a field. It cannot reach one. Everything between the reasoning and the machine — the sensing, the protocols, the permission to act — is infrastructure that mostly does not exist yet.
That layer is our whole business. We are not a model vendor and not a point-solution app: we build the ground AI stands on when it operates something real, and we build it so a nation can own it.
How we work
Most infrastructure was never designed for a machine to operate. We connect AI to the plants, lines, and controllers already running, so it can read from them and act on them safely — without a rip-and-replace.
Where the existing infrastructure cannot be made AI-ready, we build infrastructure that is — designed from the ground up to be operated by a model rather than retrofitted to tolerate one.
The system
Sense is where AI meets hardware. Platform is where AI meets operations. One Sense node governs one site; the Platform governs every node, across one sector or many.
The fleet
All sites · all sectors
The monitor-and-control layer: one operating picture across every site and sector, with AI-optimised ERP, CRM, and finance modules built in — so business logic and operational logic live in the same governed system the AI acts through.
The node
One site · one asset cluster
The edge node: an optimised MCP server — Model Context Protocol, the open standard that lets AI models call real tools and systems — sitting where AI meets machinery. It speaks the machines' protocols, translates between real hardware and the models above it, and executes automations locally, so a lost link does not mean a lost site.
Orchestration · unified ops · embedded ERP / CRM / Finance
A20Core Sense
MCP edge · site 1
A20Core Sense
MCP edge · site 2
A20Core Sense
MCP edge · site 3
The difference
A signal rises from the hardware. The model reasons about it. The action goes back down as an MCP tool call with limits attached — and the loop closes only when the node confirms what actually changed. Shown here on a growing block, our flagship vertical; the shape is the same on a pump station or a production line.
Nutrient accumulation on the lettuce block — EC and nitrate above band. The node reads the controllers directly and raises the signal to the model, rather than paging a person to go look.
Illustrative walkthrough · not live data
What we own
Any one of these can be bought somewhere. Holding all three — and making them answer to each other — is the part that is hard to assemble after the fact.
Purpose-built for sensing and control in real operating environments — heat, dust, distance, and bad power included.
Our own servers for MCP — the open Model Context Protocol that connects AI to real tools — let models create and run automations against real systems, not merely observe them.
The validation, safety limits, and data-residency controls that make autonomous action acceptable to a sovereign operator.
Where it runs
A vertical is a packaged application of the same Platform and Sense system — not a separate product, and not a change of company. Agritech and food security is where we are deepest and where our government-facing work concentrates today.
Flagship vertical
Agritech & food security
Water
Power
Industry & production
Who we serve
National and sub-national institutions running critical infrastructure at scale. Typically proof-of-concept first, moving to multi-year licenses against agreed success metrics. Data sovereignty and residency are non-negotiable.
Operators that own significant physical assets — vertically integrated producers, industrial operators — and want unified monitoring, control, and AI-driven optimisation across them.
Where our infrastructure sits underneath a partner's own offering to their downstream customers.
What holds
Ministries, authorities, and operators: tell us what you run today and what you want it to do on its own. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right layer for it.
hello@a20core.comAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates
