Who we are: The Story Behind Mojow

Most autonomy companies start with an engineer who thinks farming looks like a solvable robotics problem, but Mojow started differently. Before Mojow existed, our co-founder Owen Kinch spent 17 years operating a 3,000-acre grain farm in Saskatchewan. He knew, from the seat of the cab, exactly where automation would help and exactly where it would fall apart the first time it met real field conditions. That perspective is still the standard every Mojow feature has to pass through today.

What we're building toward

Our mission is simple to say and hard to build: farming from your phone. Not a narrow assist feature, but complete operational autonomy that a farmer can trust and control from wherever they are. We hold ourselves to three commitments on the way there.

SAFETY

There is nothing more important than the safety of personnel and property. Every feature we build is measured against that standard first.

EASE OF USE

Streamlined mobile app controls designed to require minimal setup, because autonomy shouldn't demand a manual.

FULL AUTONOMY

We're working toward complete operational autonomy: farming from your phone, from wherever you are.

Leadership

Mojow is led by a small team that pairs deep agricultural experience with deep technical expertise. Autonomy built by engineers alone tends to miss what actually matters in the field; autonomy built by farmers alone never gets built. We've tried to make sure neither gap exists here.

Owen Kinch

CO-FOUNDER & PRESIDENT

Owen brings 15+ years leading product development in Western Canadian ag-tech, and 9+ years of experience with AI and robotic software. Before co-founding Mojow, he spent five years as Director of Product Innovation at DOT Technology Corp, managing a 15-person team. Earlier still, he operated a 3,000-acre grain farm in Saskatchewan for 17 years — the experience that still shapes how Mojow thinks about what farmers actually need.

Mojtaba Hedayatpour

CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER

Mojtaba (Moji) is an autonomous systems architect and software developer with 7+ years designing and developing autonomous unmanned aerial and ground vehicles. He leads the engineering behind EYEBOX™ and Mojow's perception technology, translating field-level problems into the custom AI models that power the platform.

Doug Schmuland

VP OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Doug brings more than 50 years of agricultural experience as both a farmer and a precision agriculture leader, along with 25+ years collaborating with OEMs around the world on technology development. He leads Mojow's OEM partnerships, bringing decades of relationships and hands-on field credibility to every collaboration.

Where we work

Mojow's home base is Edmonton, Alberta, where our engineering team designs, builds, and refines EYEBOX. On the outskirts of the city, we rent roughly 100 acres of working farmland as our own dedicated field testing and validation site.

Having that land minutes from our engineering desks, rather than hours away, is a deliberate choice. It shortens the distance between a field observation and a fix. A model that needs adjusting after a morning of trials can be back in testing again the same day, which is a tighter loop than most of the industry gets to work with.

Why it matters

Autonomy in agriculture doesn't fail in the lab. It fails in the field, in the edge case nobody accounted for, in the terrain nobody trained for, or in the moment that a system has to make a judgment call instead of following a script. Mojow exists because our founders have stood on both sides of that problem: the farmer who needed a system that actually worked, and the

engineers who could build one that does.

That's still the standard everything we ship is measured against, the technology that is built on real farms and with real farmers, so that when we say "farming from your phone", we mean it's actually ready for the field.

To learn more about the team behind Mojow, visit mojow.ai/about.