Lifetime identities, DNA-verified pedigrees and honest breeding values for every animal — from the ministry to the herd gate, even offline.
Ihembe gives each country a single source of truth for its herd — lifetime identities, DNA-verified pedigrees and honest breeding values, from the ministry dashboard down to a scan at the herd gate. Built to work offline, owned by the nation.
Ankole
AnkoleOne registry underneath, four experiences on top — for the ministry, the breed society, the vet in the field and the breeder at home.
Solid lines are DNA-verified, dotted are declared. Tap any ancestor to re-root.
Tap any ancestor to re-root the tree. Line style tells the truth: solid means DNA-verified parentage, dotted means declared. ET-born animals show their genetic parents, recipients and foster dams — never confused.
Every EBV carries its accuracy and evaluation run — never a bare number.
Every EBV ships with its accuracy, its contemporary group size and its evaluation run — never a bare number. Genetic trends per herd and per breed show whether the national programme is actually working.
Weeks of work with no signal. It syncs when the signal returns, with an SMS receipt for the farmer.
Vets and AI technicians scan, record births, weights and inseminations with no signal at all — for weeks if needed. Farmers only need a feature phone: registrations and confirmations arrive by SMS, in their language.
Every record is checked before a registrar sees it, and every decision is audited.
Every submission is pre-validated — duplicate detection, birth-window checks, grading-up rules — before a registrar ever sees it. Every decision is an append-only, audited event. Certificates carry QR codes anyone can verify.
Ihembe is built as a true hierarchy: country, region, district, herd, animal — with breed as a lens across all of it. Roll-ups at every level are live, not spreadsheets: herd sizes, birth rates, genetic trends, tag coverage. Drill from the minister's dashboard to a single cow in four taps.
One registry, many audiences. Permissions follow the hierarchy — a district officer sees their district, a society sees its breed, a breeder sees their herd. Every read and write is scoped, logged and auditable.
National dashboards, district roll-ups, breed statistics, tag coverage, export-readiness reports. Sets policy: breed standards, grading-up rules, fees.
Signal dies at the herd gate. Ihembe doesn't. The agent app stores weeks of work locally, resolves conflicts on sync, and pre-fills the paperwork — the birth form already knows which bull served the dam and whether the dates are plausible.
Drag to compare the same cow, recorded twice.
Ihembe starts delivering value on day one of tagging — and each layer makes the next one possible.
Every animal gets a lifetime identity and a cheap visual + EID tag. Tags are replaceable; the identity never is.
Births, parentage, weights, milk, AI and embryo transfer — captured in the field, append-only, with full provenance.
DNA parentage verification, herdbook sections and grading-up, QR-verified certificates that buyers can trust.
Once recorded data supports it: honest EBVs with accuracies, genetic trends by herd, district and breed — and better matings.
No pitch deck marathon. A working platform, a pilot herd, and a conversation with the people who built it.
