Questions, answered.

Percy is a voice-first garden companion that tracks your garden for you. You hold a button, say what you planted, harvested, noticed, or need to deal with, and Percy organizes it, remembers it, and builds a searchable, visual history of your garden across seasons. Ask Percy a question three weeks later and it just knows.

It also does something no garden tool has ever done: it captures the full texture of your season. Not just the plantings and the harvests, but the first bloom, the pest you’re battling, the afternoon light, the thing your kid said about the strawberries. The moments that make a season feel like a season, and that every other tool has missed entirely. Over time, all of it adds up to a complete picture of your garden that you can ask questions, find patterns in, and actually use.

You talk. Percy does the rest. The more you share, the more extraordinary it becomes. See how it works in four steps.

ChatGPT can tell you general gardening advice. So can Google. Percy does both of those things, and something neither of them can: it remembers your garden specifically, across seasons.

Every garden has its own microclimate, its own soil, its own successes and frustrations.

ChatGPT doesn’t know that your tomatoes did better in the west side of the bed, that the aphids show up on your roses every May, or that the milk spray worked on the powdery mildew after two applications. Percy knows all of that, because you told it. When you ask a question, whether it’s general gardening knowledge or something specific to your beds, Percy draws on what it knows about your situation and labels the answer “From your garden.” Which is accurate, because even the general advice has been shaped by what you’ve told it.

Generic gardening advice is everywhere. Advice that knows your garden doesn’t exist anywhere else.

Yes. Percy uses AI in a few ways. First, to understand what you say, parsing natural speech into organized observations without requiring you to use the right terminology or fill out a form. Second, to answer your questions and surface patterns. That’s how Percy turns a season of voice notes into something you can actually have a conversation with.

The AI behind parsing and answering is Claude, built by Anthropic. It works entirely on what you’ve told Percy about your garden, not generic gardening databases, not what tomatoes do “in general.” Your history, your beds, your seasons. Claude is what makes it possible for Percy to answer “what did I do about the squash bugs last year” with something more useful than a list of results to scroll through.

For speech recognition, Percy uses OpenAI’s Whisper to convert your voice to text. Your audio is transcribed and discarded. It’s not stored or used to train models. Percy only hears you when you’re holding the button.

It’s a fair question, and we’d rather answer it honestly than pretend it doesn’t exist.

Percy uses a small, efficient AI model for parsing your observations. Not the large reasoning models that generate most of the concern around AI energy use. A full growing season of Percy, roughly 150 API calls including observations, weather checks, and the occasional question you ask about your tomatoes, consumes somewhere around 15 watt-hours of electricity. That’s less than leaving a single LED bulb on for two hours.

For context: one round trip to the garden center in an average car produces roughly 450 times more carbon than Percy uses in an entire season. We’re not leading with that to be glib about it. We mention it because the criticism of AI energy use is usually aimed at the right target, large-scale deployments running billions of queries around the clock, and Percy is genuinely not that. It’s a quiet thing that does a small amount of careful work when you ask it to, then stops.

A few things we’ve done deliberately to keep that number low: we use the smallest model appropriate for each task, and we batch scheduled jobs instead of running them in real time.

If you want to see the methodology behind the energy estimates above, email us at hello@percy.garden. We’ll send it over.

Most garden tools ask you to maintain them. Dashboards to configure. Plant profiles to fill out. Logs to update in a system that wanted structured data from someone standing in the dirt with their hands full of cucumbers. They took something you love and quietly infused it with all the richness and joy of timesheets.

Percy handles the same information, tracking plantings, harvests, pest issues, plans, varieties, locations, and does it from a sentence instead of a form. You talk. Percy organizes, remembers, and connects the dots. No dashboards, no plant profiles, no data entry. You’re the gardener. Percy is the one taking notes.

And then Percy goes further. It captures the things you notice along the way, the moments that make a season feel like a season, that no spreadsheet column has ever had a place for. It tracks the actual weather conditions every time you make an observation. And it builds all of this into a living, visual portrait of your garden that gets richer every week.

The result is something no garden tool has ever produced: a complete picture of your garden across seasons, one you can ask questions, spot patterns in, and actually use to grow better next year.

Not at all. Percy works whether you’ve been gardening for twenty years or just planted your first tomato (congrats! Don’t stress too much about pruning the suckers, just make sure to feed it when it starts to flower).

You don’t have to know any special terminology or hard-to-pronounce Latin names. “Something’s eating my basil” works just as well as “flea beetles on the Genovese basil.” Percy figures out what you meant either way.

The less experience you have, the more valuable Percy becomes over time. Percy is building a knowledge base about your specific garden that you haven’t had time to develop yet. It starts catching up fast.

If you can send a text message, you can use Percy. Hold a button, talk, tap “That’s right.” That is genuinely the whole thing. No setup, no configurations, no tutorial required. Percy does all the work for you.

If you get stuck, email hello@percy.garden. We’re happy to help.

Nope. Use Percy when something notable happens: when you plant something, notice a problem, or harvest something that made you unreasonably happy. Even twenty or thirty observations across a season gives you more to work with next year than most gardeners have ever had. No streak to maintain. No guilt if you miss a week. Percy just picks up where you left off, without comment or guilt trip.

Anything you’d notice. Just talk the way you’d talk to a friend who asked what’s going on in the garden.

• “I planted the Roma tomatoes in the west bed.”
• “The roses are going bonkers.”
• “Something’s eating the kale.”
• “First zucchini harvest. It’s massive.”
• “Tried neem oil on the aphids today. Fingers crossed this works.”
• “Zinnias are stunning this year. I’ve been cutting bouquets like every week.”

There’s no wrong way to say it. The more you share, the more Percy can help. But even occasional, casual observations add up to something useful over time.

Yes. And this is one of the things that makes Percy different from anything else. You can ask Percy questions about your garden and get real answers.

“When did I sow the marigold seeds?” “Which tomatoes were worth growing again?” “What did I do about the squash bugs?” “How did the onions do in the raised bed?”

Not searching through entries. Not scrolling a timeline. Asking a question and getting an answer, based on what you’ve actually told Percy. Three weeks into your first season, you’ll ask something you’ve already forgotten. Percy will know.

Yes. Just say it the same way you’d say anything else. “Remind me to fertilize the grow bags in two weeks.” “I should start the next round of lettuce seeds before this batch bolts.”

Percy surfaces a reminder card when the time is right. Not a push notification at 7am, but a card that says “You wanted to do this. Ready?” You tap it, do the thing, tell Percy. This is how succession planting becomes something you actually do rather than something you keep meaning to do.

After every voice note, Percy plays back what it understood and asks you to confirm. If something’s wrong, you correct it right there. Nothing saves until you say it’s right. If it’s noisy outside and voice isn’t working well, you can type instead.

No. Percy only records when you’re holding the button, that’s the entire recording window. There’s no background listening, no always-on microphone, no passive data collection of any kind. Percy has no idea what you’re saying unless you’re actively holding the button and saying it to Percy.

The one nuance worth knowing: when you release the button, there’s a half-second grace window before recording stops. This is intentional, it exists so your last word doesn’t get clipped if you release the button a beat early. If you press again within that half-second, recording continues seamlessly. If you don’t, it stops, and what you said gets sent for processing.

That’s the whole thing. No creepy social media platform behavior. Just a microphone that’s only on when you tell it to be, with a 500ms cushion so you don’t have to be precise about it.

Yes. Voice is faster when you’re in the garden with dirty hands, but typing works exactly the same way. Use whichever suits the moment.

Yes, automatically. Every time you tell Percy something, it captures the actual weather conditions at that moment: temperature, humidity, wind speed, precipitation, cloud cover. You don’t do anything to make this happen. Percy looks up the conditions based on your location and attaches them to the observation.

Over time, this builds a weather-correlated history of your garden that no gardener has ever had access to before. Percy can connect your best harvests to the conditions that produced them. It knows what the temperature was the week your tomatoes dropped their blossoms. It knows whether your garlic did better in a wet spring or a dry one. By your second season, this becomes genuinely powerful.

Percy also watches the forecast and gives you a heads-up when something that matters is coming: frost, hard freezes, heat waves, heavy rain, extended dry stretches. Not a generic weather alert. A note from something that knows what you have growing.

Percy can also track how sunlight moves across your specific garden through the seasons. If you share your garden layout and optionally your garden address, Percy calculates estimated sun hours for each growing area based on the time of year. This is how Percy knows that your east bed gets five hours of direct sun in March but eight in June, and adjusts its advice accordingly.

Yes. Photograph the pages, upload them, and Percy will transcribe your handwriting and turn it into structured observations — plant names, dates, locations, and categories pulled out automatically. It works with neat dated entries and messy margin notes alike, which is most gardeners’ actual situation.

This also works with screenshots from other garden apps — Seedtime, Gardenize, Planta, or anything else. If it has plant names and dates on the screen, Percy can read it.

Percy shows you everything it found and flags anything it wasn’t sure about before a single thing imports. Five seasons of a spiral notebook become searchable garden history in a few minutes. Every plant Percy finds in your notes is a plant Percy already knows about when you start talking to it.

Percy can read them. Upload a spreadsheet, paste text from your notes app, or photograph your handwritten journal pages. Percy reads through everything, extracts the observations, and shows you what it found before anything saves. You review, remove anything that looks off, and import the rest.

This matters more than it sounds. A gardener who imports even one previous season gives Percy something to work with immediately — not just a head start, but an actual history. When your first Migration Report arrives, Percy can compare your imported seasons against your current one: what improved, what patterns are emerging, what the weather did differently. That’s the kind of year-over-year picture that no notebook ever assembled on its own, because it couldn’t.

You can import from your account settings anytime. Everything Percy imports is removable if you change your mind.

Your first season, Percy captures your observations, remembers your plans, answers your questions, and gives you a garden memory you can actually have a conversation with. At the end of the season, you get your first Migration Report: a visual year-in-review of everything that happened in your garden.

Percy is useful from day one. It becomes irreplaceable over time.

Percy can answer questions about your garden in year one. But starting in year two, once Percy has a full season of observations, it can really start connecting dots. Percy reminds you when seasonal patterns line up with last year, flags recurring issues, and suggests what worked before. It can also correlate your outcomes with the actual weather conditions that shaped them. By year three, with multiple seasons of data, the pattern recognition gets genuinely powerful.

At the end of each growing season, Percy creates a visual year-in-review of your garden: your most-mentioned plants, your seasonal timeline, the challenges, the wins, the varieties worth growing again and the ones we shall never speak of again. The Migration Report is your garden’s story, written automatically, from a season of voice notes.

Starting in year two, Migration Reports include year-over-year comparisons: what improved, what patterns are emerging, what the data suggests you do differently.

First Migration Report available Winter 2026.

Percy surfaces two kinds of timely information. First, reminders based on your garden’s patterns: “Last year cabbage worms showed up the first week of June. Might be worth adding row cover this week.” Second, weather alerts when something that affects your garden is in the forecast: frost warnings, heat waves, heavy rain. Both appear as quiet cards in the app. Gentle suggestions, not demands. Easy to dismiss. Helpful, not nagging.

Yes. Your observations are yours. No ads, no selling your data. Percy is a private tool for you and your garden. Read the full privacy policy.

Securely in the cloud, so it syncs across devices. You can export or delete everything anytime.

No. Your observations are used only to help you: to understand what you said, surface patterns in your garden, and generate your Migration Report. We don’t use your observations to train models or share them with third parties.

Percy captures weather conditions (temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation) based on your general location to enrich your garden’s history. It does not track your precise location or collect personal data beyond what’s needed to look up local weather. The weather data is part of your garden’s record and is subject to the same privacy protections as everything else. If you choose to share your garden address, Percy also uses it to calculate sun positions and estimate daylight hours for your growing areas through the seasons. The address is geocoded through OpenStreetMap and is never shared with anyone else.

Your data is always exportable. If we ever had to shut down (we don’t plan to), we’d give you plenty of notice and make sure you can take everything with you. Percy is being built as a sustainable business, not a venture-backed startup racing toward an exit. The goal is to be around for decades.

Yes. After Percy plays back what it heard, you’ll see a prompt to attach a photo before you confirm the note. One photo per observation, the garlic you just pulled, the hole in the basil leaf, the dahlia that came back against all reasonable expectations. It takes a few extra seconds and adds something a voice note alone can’t.

The photos don’t just sit in a folder somewhere. They appear in the Nest alongside the observation they belong to, building a visual timeline of your garden as the season progresses. A single photo feels modest in the moment. Twelve tomato entries with photos and you’re watching fruit go from green to gold. That’s the kind of thing you’ll open in November when the garden’s asleep, just to remember what it looked like.

Yes. Once you’ve told Percy about a few different spots in your garden, it’ll invite you to show it the lay of the land. Upload a rough sketch, photos of your space, or both. Percy figures out which beds get sun, what’s near what, and how the whole thing is oriented. After that, when you mention a location, Percy knows the conditions there and can give you more specific advice than it could from a description alone.

You can also optionally share your garden address so Percy can track actual sunlight for each area through the seasons: how many hours of direct sun each bed gets at different points in the year, accounting for trees, fences, and anything else casting shade. Both the layout and the address live in your account settings and can be updated or removed anytime.

The Nest is Percy’s visual view, a living, scrollable portrait of your garden as it’s happening. It has three layers.

At the top, a narrative header that Percy writes automatically: a title for the current month (“March, Everything at Once”), a featured photo from your recent observations, and a written summary of what’s been going on. Below that, your Highlights, every observation worth featuring, with photos and botanical illustrations woven through. Below that, your full plant roster: every plant Percy has heard you mention, with its most recent note, its entry count, and its full photo timeline when you expand it.

You don’t build the Nest. You just talk about your garden, and the Nest appears. By mid-season, it becomes the kind of thing you open for no reason in particular, just to see what’s there.

Percy is currently a web app that works in your mobile browser. For the best experience on iPhone, you can add it to your home screen: open percy.garden in Safari, tap the share icon, tap “Add to Home Screen.” It behaves like a native app.

A native iOS app is on the roadmap. When it’s ready, everything from your account will transfer automatically when you log in.

Not yet. Multi-garden support is on the roadmap. In the meantime, if you have multiple spaces, raised beds, containers on the deck, a community plot, just mention the location when you talk: “south bed,” “pots on the patio,” “the community garden.” Percy organizes by location automatically.

Not yet. Percy is currently designed for one gardener. If you garden with a partner, you can share an account for now. Collaborative access may come later, depending on what people actually want.

Voice input needs an internet connection because Percy uses OpenAI’s Whisper API for transcription. If your signal is spotty, you can type observations and they’ll sync automatically when you’re back online. Percy will always respond to your notes so you can tell if it was understood and give you a chance to confirm it or correct it.

• Migration Report, Winter 2026
• Garden planner (building on layout data), 2027
• Native iOS app, when it’s ready
• Multi-garden support, coming soon

Yes please. Founding members have real influence. Feedback gets read, and the product gets built around what real gardeners actually need rather than what seemed good in a meeting. (That’s the benefit of being a solo founder, there are no meetings. Unless…everything is a meeting. Oh god, that’s depressing. I think I need to sit down.)

Have ideas? hello@percy.garden.

Free for your first growing season. Full access, nothing locked, no credit card required. Sign up anytime in 2026 and you’re free through December 31st.

After that, it’s $39/year, locked in for Founding Members for as long as you stay subscribed. The price will rise as Percy grows. Yours won’t. No credit card required. Your data is yours regardless.

That’s about what you’d spend at the garden center before you’ve made it past the annuals. See full pricing details.

Percy delivers your first Migration Report and invites you to subscribe as a Founding Member. If you’re not ready, your observations don’t disappear, you’ll have read-only access to everything you captured and can export it anytime. Come back when you start planting in the spring and pick up exactly where you left off.

Then the honest answer is that a handful of observations isn’t enough to show you what Percy can do. We’d rather invite you to try again next spring than ask you to subscribe based on an incomplete picture. Still free.

Yes. No contracts, no cancellation fees. Export your data and go.

Yes. Email hello@percy.garden within 30 days of your first payment for a full refund, no questions asked.

Email us at hello@percy.garden. We’ll work something out.

Percy was built by Brian, a home gardener who wanted a better way to hold onto what happens in the garden, and it remains, for now, a one-person operation. No venture capital. No board of directors. No streaks or scores. No pressure to add a notification that says you haven’t logged in for eleven days in a tone that implies disappointment.

Just an attempt to build something genuinely meaningful for people who would rather be outside than in front of a screen. Which is, of course, the particular irony of building an app.

Percy isn’t venture-backed. Your subscription supports one person doing careful, deliberate work to support his family (and his seed catalog habit). No ads, no data mining, no pressure to add features that serve retention metrics over gardeners. When you pay for Percy, you’re voting for the kind of gardening tools you want to exist.

If you have ideas, feedback, or something growing that you want to tell someone about, we’d genuinely like to hear it. Especially if you know what to do about the slugs.
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