Plantd built a fully electric production line that turns fast-growing grass into carbon-negative structural panels. The largest homebuilder in America signed for 10 million of them. There was no service manual or industry baseline for normal. Every production run had to become part of the record. Once Plantd shifted from testing to manufacturing, engineers were manually reconciling machine telemetry, operator notes, and panel quality across separate systems. Now the whole loop lives on one timeline in Sift. Each run is compared automatically against the baseline built during commissioning, linking product quality back to machine behavior. Plantd spent late 2025 learning its new machine. That record made 2026 a production ramp year. Full story in the comments.
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