Your team can set up the farm at its own pace, chatting with ChatGPT

At upCampo, the setup can be done with our team or, if the farm prefers, by its own team, at its own pace, by chatting with ChatGPT — and even then the upCampo team is there if you need it. UPí — the platform’s artificial intelligence — is an official ChatGPT plugin, and once connected to the farm’s account it does the setup you ask for in plain language: it reads the KML file and creates the fields with their maps, standardizes the names, builds the season’s planting, suggests activity types and brings in products from upCampo’s database. Everything is shown to you for confirmation before it is saved. Whoever takes that path has no one to wait for and no meeting to book: you can add the fields one evening, the planting the next day and the products when the invoice arrives. In the video above (in Portuguese), a farm goes from zero to an app ready for pest scouting and work orders in about 20 minutes of recording.

Why set up the farm by chatting with AI?

Because the tedious part of a setup is data entry, and data entry is exactly what AI does well. A farm management system only works once the farm is described in it: season, crops, fields, planting, activity types, products. Done screen by screen, that takes days of someone’s time in the office. Done in a chat, you say what you want (“add the fields from this file”, “put soybeans on all of them”) and check the result.

And the chat knows where you are. At any moment you can ask “how is my setup going?” and UPí answers with a checklist: what is done, what is missing and what comes next. That is why the setup moves at the farm’s pace: stop, pick it up again, and the chat continues where it left off. When a question comes up that the chat does not solve, the upCampo team answers on WhatsApp, with one fixed person for your farm.

What upCampo does first

Just open the account. The upCampo team creates the farm in the web portal (upCampo’s site, accessed on a computer with a username and password), your user with the cell phone registered and the permissions, and enables AI access. From then on, the setup can continue with our team or with yours, through the chat — or both together. The first step in the portal is creating the season — almost everything in upCampo is tied to it.

How to connect UPí in ChatGPT

In ChatGPT, open Plugins in the left menu, search for upCampo, click Install plugin and sign in with your upCampo username and password. That’s it: ChatGPT now sees the farm with the same permissions the user has in the portal. The step by step with screenshots is on the connector page of the Help Center (in Portuguese), and the full guide — including Claude — is in how to connect your farm data to ChatGPT.

The setup, step by step, in the chat

1. Ask for the setup and see the diagnosis

Just write “I want to do the setup”. UPí checks the farm and returns a diagnosis: a season with no fields, no planting, and the list of what is missing, in the right order.

2. Crops

UPí asks which crops the farm grows. With “soybeans, corn and cotton”, it adds all three with their growth stages, which scouting uses to know what phase the crop is in.

3. Fields from a KML file

This is the biggest gain. You send the farm’s KML file — the same one that opens in Google Earth, with all the fields together — and nothing else. UPí separates each field, calculates the area, shows the result for you to check and imports it: in the video, 19 fields with maps, at once.

4. Standardized names

Did the file come with mixed names (“73”, “Field 122”)? Ask “standardize the names as TH 122”. UPí renames all of them and you check in the portal. One by one would be possible; in the chat it is one sentence.

5. The season’s planting

In upCampo, a field is fixed and the planting changes every season: the same field that is soybeans this season can be corn next season. With “put soybeans on all fields, no planting date for now”, the season’s planting is ready. From here, pest scouting can already start in the app.

6. Activity types and subtypes

These are the drawers of the operation: planting, crop protection spraying, fertilizing and, inside each one, the subtypes — burndown, first fungicide, second fungicide, insecticide. UPí suggests a ready list and you adjust it. This organization is what later lets the reports separate cost and hours by type of operation.

7. Product classes and products

UPí suggests the classes (herbicide, fungicide, seed, fuel…) and, for products, offers three paths: type them one by one, send a spreadsheet or pick from the product database upCampo already maintains. In the video, the products come from the database, picked from the list. Inventory balances come later, in a step of their own.

What already works in the app

Once the app is installed (in the store, search for Pragueiro upCampo) and you sign in, it pulls everything registered in the portal and in ChatGPT. The fields, the farm map and the logo show up, and you can already:

• open a scouting survey on any field, for pest scouting in the field;
• create a work order — in the video, a disking job, which uses no product; with products registered, a spraying order can already pick products from the list.

The setup is not 100% finished at this point — varieties, rain gauges, storage locations and balances are still missing — but the farm already records what happens in the field. The rest comes in gradually, always through the same chat.

Nothing is saved without your “ok”

For every record, UPí first shows what it will save — the list of fields with their area, the new names, the chosen products — and waits for your confirmation. Only then does the data go into upCampo, where it can be checked in the portal right away. It is the same rule as everyday entries through UPí, in ChatGPT, Claude or WhatsApp.

What it is all for

To run the farm in a practical way, in real time. With the base in place, the dashboard shows recent rainfall, how much of the season is planted, open work orders, scouting surveys with the technician’s points and photos, hectares worked per day and the operations grouped by the types created during setup. And the same AI that did the setup starts answering questions about the farm: cost, inventory, rainfall, pests. Anyone who wants to see this on their own farm can ask for the free month: the month starts at setup.

Frequently asked questions

Can you set up a farm management system using ChatGPT?

Yes. At upCampo, UPí is an official ChatGPT plugin and handles the setup records through the chat: crops, fields from a KML file, standardized names, the season’s planting, activity types and subtypes, product classes and products, always with the user’s confirmation before saving.

Can the farm do the upCampo setup on its own?

Yes, if it prefers. It is an option: the setup can be done with the upCampo team or by the farm’s team, which, once upCampo opens the account — creating the farm and the main user and enabling AI access —, does the rest at its own pace, chatting with UPí in ChatGPT. If a question comes up, the upCampo team answers on WhatsApp, with one fixed person for each farm.

Can I import the farm’s fields from a KML file in ChatGPT?

Yes. Just send the farm’s KML file in the chat with UPí in ChatGPT: it separates the fields, calculates the area, shows the result for checking and imports them all with their maps, at once.

Does ChatGPT save data in upCampo without my approval?

No. Before each record, UPí shows in ChatGPT exactly what it will save and waits for the user’s confirmation. And it only does what that user’s permissions in upCampo allow.

Do I need to register products one by one during setup?

No. In the upCampo setup through ChatGPT, products can come from a spreadsheet, be picked from the product database upCampo already maintains or, if you prefer, be typed one by one.

What can I already use in the app after the setup through ChatGPT?

With season, crops, fields, the season’s planting and activity types registered, the upCampo app already handles pest scouting and work orders; with products registered, spraying orders can already pick products from the list.

Does the setup by chat also work in Claude?

Yes. UPí also connects to Claude, through the connector at https://mcp.upcampo.com.br/mcp, with the same upCampo login and the same user permissions.