A Brackish & Co example build · Salish Sea

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Brackish

A living example of what Brackish & Co builds — ops software for farmers of every stripe: petal pushers, kelp keepers, mushroom growers, vintners, and everyone bobbing between. Your team walks away with your own branded workstation — only the modules you actually run, named and themed for your farm.

Beta seats are free for real — all 100 of them. Run your farm on it, no card, no trial clock. Want your own? Driftline rates, trade, or scholarship →

Running a full multi-trophic stack? Sugar kelp up top, mussels and oysters below, sablefish in the pens, hydroponic greens sipping the nutrient-rich return water onshore, mushroom fruiting rooms in the pack shed — it all lives in the same ledger.

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Where the river meets the sea.

Origin & why

"Brackish" is the water where fresh meets salt — where land and sea negotiate a shared chemistry. Project Brackish started where most tools stop: the working co-ops spanning hatcheries and row crops, kelp lines and vineyards, with almost nothing built for them. Mixed-modality is the whole point, not an edge case.

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[ Origin & why ]

Where the river meets the sea.

Project Brackish started where most tools stop. The aquaculture and agriculture co-ops doing the most vital work — spanning hatcheries and row crops, kelp lines and vineyards, land and sea on the same lease — have almost nothing built for them. Software, financial planning, permitting, compliance: the market serves deep-pocketed enterprises or weekend hobbyists, leaving a wide canyon in between for the working farms that need it most.

"Brackish" is the water where fresh meets salt — where land and sea negotiate a shared chemistry. It's the right word for ops that span kelp lines and row crops, hatcheries and fermentation rooms, a vineyard and a mussel raft on the same lease. Mixed-modality is the whole point, not an edge case.

The work is collaboratively built and open at the seams — high-touch, enterprise-grade care priced for the folks who need it most. Costs in this industry are opaque, training is expensive, and the tools that do exist assume budgets small farms don't have. We're changing the default. If you grow something and you've felt that gap, this software is being built with you in mind.

Integrity over scale · Camano Island, WA · est. 2026

[ What's inside ]

One ledger for land and sea.

Multi-trophic? We've got you.

Picture a real IMTA stack: sugar kelp on the top lines, mussels and oysters below, sablefish in the pens, and hydroponic greens onshore fed by the nutrient-rich return water. Kelp pulls nitrogen, shellfish filter, fish feed the greens, greens close the loop — one company, one schema, every trophic level.

Harvest & farm sites

Log wild and farmed harvests with GPS pins, AOA zones, block numbers, and per-site maps — ocean leases and upland acreage in the same view.

Inventory & lots

Track lots through stocking, growth, and sale. Movements, conditions, and traceability built in — from spat to shellfish to sea-vegetable salad mix.

Orders & fulfillment

Customer orders, line items, lot picks, and exports for accounting and audits.

Projections & planning

Forward-look at harvest, inventory burn-down, and order coverage — not just last week's numbers.

Mushroom room

Batch-by-batch tracking for sawdust, straw, and grain blocks, flush-by-flush harvest logs, and a fruiting-room crop planner that projects weekly yield, labor, and net revenue.

Formulations & value-add

Recipes, ingredient library, vendor reorder links, and live batch COGS — for tinctures, broths, wine finings, cannabis extracts, ferments, and seasoning blends.

Land + sea, one ledger

Run a kelp line, a mushroom fruiting room, and a row of leafy greens from the same dashboard. Mixed-modality co-ops are a first-class citizen, not a workaround.

Currently in private beta — capped at 100 co-ops. See the full tour →

[ What it costs ]

Free to use, for real, while we're in beta.

This platform

$0 — no catch

If you're one of the 100 beta co-ops, run your actual operation on Project Brackish for free for as long as it's in beta testing. No card, no trial clock, no feature gates. Your feedback is the price — it's what shapes the roadmap.

Your own build

Driftline rates

Want your own branded workstation — your name, your modules, your crew? That's a Brackish & Co engagement at standard Driftline rates for all services.

And if the rates don't fit your farm right now — say so. We work out trade (product, labor, land time, skills) and keep a scholarship slot open for co-ops and small growers who need it most. Nobody gets turned away over budget.

Chip in, if you can

Project Brackish is built and run for free, and the scholarship slots here come out of the same pocket. If this work is useful to you and you have room, a donation keeps the lights on and keeps a seat free for someone who can't pay. Entirely optional — nothing here is behind it.

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