Built on a working farm,
not about one.

Tidalyst started the way most farm software doesn’t: on a boat. It was built hand in hand with Big Moon Sea Farm, a working clam farm in Cedar Key, Florida — every screen shaped by an actual season, recorded by an actual crew, on phones with wet hands and thin signal.

Most farms keep the season in a notebook, a spreadsheet, and someone’s memory. That works until the question matters: what’s in the water right now, what did that seed actually yield, and what is it worth? Tidalyst is the system of record that answers those questions from the same entries the crew makes on the water — plantings, splits, harvests — with nothing summarized by guesswork.

None of this is trying to replace what a grower already knows. The crew reads the water; the software remembers the numbers. Those are two different jobs, and we only do the second one.

Why we build it

Our mission is to give aquaculture businesses the clarity and the tools to steward their operations wisely, strengthen the towns they work in, and build for the generation that takes the boat over next.

What we want to see is an aquaculture economy where farms, working waters and coastal towns are all still here in fifty years, and better off than they are now. Software is a small part of that. We intend for our part to count.

What we believe

• Steward what is entrusted

  A farm’s trust, its records, its water, its time and its money are in our care, not our possession. We build for something still useful in ten years rather than for whatever extracts the most this year.

• Tell the truth clearly

  We show the numbers as they are, say plainly what the product cannot do yet, and write the price, the terms and the privacy policy to be read. Our privacy policy states out loud that an administrator holding the database key can read any row, because that is true and you should know it.

• Serve the operator

  Technology should serve the people doing the work. We listen before we build, and a feature earns its place by taking work off the water — not by looking good in a demo.

• Build with excellence

  Ordinary work has dignity: a bag counted right, a screen that loads on one bar. We hold our own craft — software, support, design, the way we answer the phone — to the standard we would want from anyone we hired.

• Pursue shared flourishing

  We define success broadly. Tidalyst should make its customers stronger: healthier farms, a working waterfront that still works, and an industry that is here for the people who come after us.

The record belongs to the farm

Your yields, costs, and buyers are yours. We don’t sell data, we don’t show one farm another’s numbers, and the ledger itself is append-only — corrections are recorded alongside the original, never over it. The only thing that ever leaves the record is an entry a farm deletes itself. That’s why the record is trustworthy enough to show a buyer, a lender, or a regulator.

Who we are

Tidalyst is Jared Oberg, a software engineer, and Ian Stone, the farmer behind Big Moon Sea Farm. One of us builds it, one of us runs a farm on it every day — and when the farm and the software disagree, the software changes.

What shapes our work

Our Christian faith shapes how we understand work, leadership and service. We believe creation is worth caring for, that people should be treated with dignity, and that a business ought to leave its customers and its community better off than it found them. That is where the values above come from — why the ledger cannot be quietly rewritten, why the price is on the front page, and why we would rather lose a sale than oversell what the software does today.

We welcome customers, partners and crew from every background, and intend to serve each one with honesty, respect and excellence.

Where we’re headed

Clams first, because that’s the water we know. The model underneath — seed in, crop in the water, harvest out, money after — carries to oysters and the rest of shellfish farming, and that’s the road we’re on. If you want your farm to help steer it, we’d rather hear from you early.