back forty/bak ˈfôr·dē/noun— the far, hardest-worked corner of a property; the ground you have to run from a distance. We named the platform after it.
The operating system for working land

Run every acre like you run the numbers.

Back40 OS unifies your operations, entities, leases, and maps into one platform — then puts a bench of AI analysts to work reading your markets, watching the regulators, and writing your reports before you ask.

🌾 Forged on multi-generational, 100+ year-old ranches that sit among the top 100 landowners.
Built on complex operations
Multiple Business Lines
Multiple Legal Entities
100K-acre Operations
100+ years of Records
The problem

Your business is on the land. Your data is everywhere else.

  • A separate QuickBooks file per entity, and no consolidated view without a week of spreadsheet surgery.
  • Operations, leases, and maps scattered across Dropbox, email, and three people's heads.
  • Market and weather intelligence that arrives too late to act on.
  • Board and owner reporting assembled by hand, every single time.
What Back40 OS does

One platform that actually connects the dots

Off-the-shelf ag software tracks one thing well. Back40 OS is built around the connections between everything — the part no single tool can do.

01 — Cross-domain intelligence

Ask once. Get an answer drawn from everything.

Back40's analysts read your books, the markets, the weather, the leases, and the regulators — then hand you one answer with every claim cited to its source. No more stitching five reports together to see the obvious.

Cited to sourcePlain languageOne answer, many domains
You asked
How does the lamb market change our cash-flow picture this fall?

Lamb is up 6.2% this week, which runs against the $1.90/lb assumption in your budget. Because ~78% of sheep revenue lands in one September sale, that swings the line item materially — and a dry spring is tracking toward a weaker crop. I'd revisit the September concentration before the next board cycle.

USDA AMS · MarketsBudget baseline · FinanceNOAA · Weather
02 — One map, every acre

Your whole footprint on a single live map.

Satellite imagery layered with live county tax-lot data, filtered to your entities. Parcels, leases, energy siting, easements, water — every layer in one place, owned by the platform instead of a binder from 2018.

Aerial imageryLive tax-lot dataMulti-entity
Energy lease
Timber
Grazing entity
Transmission ROW
03 — Reporting that writes itself

Board and owner packets, pre-assembled.

Financials, operations updates, and committee reports compiled into a finished, branded package — published to a clean archive that never gets overwritten. Show up to the meeting; don't spend the week before it building the deck.

Consolidated + entity-levelBranded outputVersioned archive
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Q2 Consolidated Financials8 entities · P&L + balance sheet
Ready
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Operations BriefingAll six business lines
Ready
Energy & Lease UpdateMilestones + redline flags
Ready
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Board Packet — Q2Assembled & published
Sent
Your bench

A team of analysts that never sleeps

Each one owns a domain and runs around the clock. One talks to you in plain language; the rest feed it the data. Configure the bench to your business.

F

The Analyst

Finance · synthesis

Your front-stage briefer. Connects every domain into one answer and writes your reporting.

S

Markets

Commodities

Cattle, lamb, wool, timber, energy pricing. Alerts when a threshold you care about breaks.

H

Policy

Regulatory

Bills, rules, permits. Catches what moves your business before it lands on you.

S

Environment

Weather · range

Drought, rainfall, fire risk — correlated to your stocking, planting, and harvest decisions.

D

Governance

Records

Minutes, charters, action items, the corporate calendar. Knows what's decided and what's open.

Add a business line, add an analyst. The bench grows with your operation.

Who it's for

For operations where land is the business

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Family ranches

Multi-entity cattle, sheep, and mixed operations that have outgrown spreadsheets and need a single source of truth.

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Timber companies

Harvest planning, log pricing, and acreage management across ownership structures and decades of stand data.

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Family offices

Single-family offices holding working land who need institutional reporting on assets that don't fit a brokerage statement.

Land & energy holders

Owners juggling wind, solar, and transmission leases who need to track milestones, redlines, and revenue in one place.

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Conservation orgs

Land trusts and NGOs managing easements, acquisitions, and stewardship across complex portfolios.

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Land brokers & advisors

Professionals who live in parcel data, valuation, and deal modeling — and need it organized, not buried.

How it works

Live in weeks, not quarters

01

Connect

Point Back40 at your accounting, your file storage, and your maps. Exports, APIs, or both — we meet your systems where they are.

02

Organize

The platform consolidates entities, files, and parcels into one structured source of truth — no more duplicate folders.

03

Analyze

Your analyst bench goes to work — reading markets, weather, and policy, and flagging the exceptions you'd otherwise miss.

04

Decide

Open to a briefing every morning. Generate a board packet in minutes. Run the operation from one screen.

Stop assembling reports. Start running the land.

See Back40 OS on your own operation. A 30-minute walkthrough, built around your entities and your acres.