BuddieProbe
Set it. Forget it.
Goes into your soil once. No battery inside. No wiring. No electronics exposed to moisture or roots. Plant it and forget it exists. Works for years without you touching it.
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Your plants have been trying to tell you something.
BuddieProbe goes into your soil once. No batteries. No charging. No replacing. Just tells you exactly what your plant needs — before it shows signs of stress.
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The Problem
You're not a bad plant parent.
You're not a bad plant parent.
You just can't see underground.
The number one way people kill houseplants is overwatering. The number two way is forgetting to water. Both problems share the same cause — you cannot see what is happening at the root level until something goes wrong.
"By the time something looks wrong, it usually already is."
Analog meters give you a vague number with no context. Bluetooth sensors give you an app and a battery that dies in three weeks. Neither one tells you what to actually do for your specific plant. You're left guessing — and your plants pay for it.
#1
Overwatering kills more houseplants than neglect
The System
Three parts.
Three parts.
Zero maintenance.
Everything works together so you never have to think about it.
BuddieHub
One hub. Every plant.
Sits on your shelf. Reads every probe in your home continuously. Connects to your Wi-Fi. One hub covers your entire plant collection. You set it up once.
Buddie IQ App
What to do. Not just numbers.
Not a percentage. Not a chart. "Your Monstera is getting dry — time to water." Specific to your plant. Delivered before the problem shows.
"The less you have to think about it, the better it works."
Amaete Umanah
Founder and CEO, Buddie IQ
From the Founder
I have nine plants. I've killed more than I'd like to admit.
Not because I didn't care — but because I couldn't see what was happening underground until it was too late. The soil looked fine. The leaves looked fine. And then one morning, they didn't.
I've spent years building wireless sensing systems for environments where failure wasn't an option. That work was featured by CNN and selected for TechCrunch Battlefield. I know what it takes to build a sensor that actually works in the real world.
Buddie IQ is the product I wished existed for my own plants. I'm building it because the tools available today were not built for people who genuinely care.
— Amaete Umanah
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Questions we'd ask too.
It reserves your spot in the early access program and locks in your early backer price. It is fully refundable at any time, for any reason, no questions asked. You will not be charged anything else until we are ready to ship and you confirm you still want your order.
We are currently in development and validation. We will share honest timeline updates with everyone on the list. We would rather give you an accurate date than a fast one.
BuddieProbe uses a proprietary sensing technology that draws energy wirelessly from the BuddieHub when it takes a reading. There is nothing in the soil that needs power, charging, or replacing. It is designed to work indefinitely.
We are validating performance across common potting mixes, soil types, and pot sizes as part of our development. We will publish accuracy and compatibility data before we ship. If your specific setup is not supported at launch, you receive a full refund.
The app is being built with a species database covering the most common houseplants. At launch it will support the top fifty most popular varieties. Support expands based on community feedback after that.
One BuddieHub is designed to monitor ten to fifty probes — enough to cover a full home collection for most plant owners.
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