I wrote my own bio. Then I cut three claims from it.
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Three claims came out of mine
I put a founder page on agrivisionai.org last week. Writing your own bio turns out to be an efficient way to find out what you have been quietly overstating.
I had described soil intelligence and farm planning as things we ship. Those are FieldSense and FieldOps. Neither is built, and our own product pages said so, on the same site, in plain language.
I had described working with engineers, researchers and designers. AGRIVISION AI is me and two colleagues. Our About page has always said that.
And I claimed a research function the company does not have. Our agronomy comes from ICAR, FAO and state agriculture department sources. Naming the actual sources is a better answer than implying a lab.
An identifier that does not resolve makes everything next to it worth less
I also pulled two Wikidata identifiers off the site, one on me and one on the company. Both returned 404. An identifier that does not resolve makes every identity claim sitting next to it worth less, which is the exact opposite of why you add one.
The same week I added a subscribe card for this newsletter, and left the subscriber count off it on purpose. Counts like that convert well and then quietly go stale, and stale copy is what I had just spent the week deleting.
Easier to correct a bio than to keep living up to one.
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