Spain · reservoirs at 41% · cold chain margins compressing

Supply, without
the rain.

Spanish reservoirs are collapsing. We install sealed, water recycling produce units in your car park and contract the output. Three closed loops. Zero municipal water draw. Zero food kilometres.

01
Resilient supply
Sealed water loop, no drought exposure. Your shelves stocked when neighbouring farms fail.
02
Predictable cost
One monthly number per unit, fixed for the contract term. No scarcity premium, no logistics surcharge.
03
Verifiable ESG
Zero kilometre, on site, fully metered. Auditable carbon and water numbers your sustainability team can sign.
The basins are draining faster than the boardrooms can reprice them.
The next supermarket supply chain has to generate its own water, cool itself, and stand where the customer already is.
AgriLoop España · Founders' note, 2026

00 · Context

When the basins run dry,
shelves run empty.

68.3%

of Spain's agricultural production value sits in regions facing the most severe water shortages.

18.2%

reservoir capacity in Andalusia, the country's largest agricultural producer.

€14.5B

annual production value at risk in the Andalusia basin alone.

Today's fresh produce supply chain. A linear flow from basin to buyer with four labelled points of failure: water source, field harvest, cold chain transport, and shelf turnover. Each node carries a drought year repricing risk. TODAY · LINEAR SUPPLY CHAIN RESERVOIR 18.2% FULL IRRIGATION FARM DROUGHT EXPOSED REFRIGERATED HAUL 1,400 KM DC SHELF EMPTY AGRILOOP · COLLAPSED DISTANCE FOOD KILOMETRES 1,400 km 0 km UNIT 0 KM SHELF
Today's chain has four points of failure between the basin and the buyer. Each one reprices in a drought year.

The crisis is concentrated where the produce is grown. When the basins run dry, supermarket shelves run empty.

The cost today

These herbs cost you the most.
Here is what we charge instead.

The line items where the cold chain hurts the worst. Imported, perishable, scarce when reservoirs drop. The price your store pays today against the contracted price AgriLoop delivers from a unit in your car park.

01 Basil
Today €51/kg €35 wholesale + 35% shrink + cold chain
AgriLoop €30/kg contracted lease, all in
€48,600 saved per year · two units · 42% lower
02 Tarragon
Today €102/kg €70 wholesale + 40% shrink + cold chain
AgriLoop €47/kg contracted lease, all in
€76,600 saved per year · two units · 53% lower
03 Microgreens
Today €184/kg €120 wholesale + 50% shrink + cold chain
AgriLoop €15/kg contracted lease, all in
€758k saved per year · two units · 92% lower
Run the numbers on your store

02 · The unit

One sealed unit.
Three exposures eliminated.

Reservoir collapse, cold chain fragility, and Spanish summer heat all stop at the container wall. The unit generates its own water, recycles its own humidity, and cools itself without mechanical refrigeration. The engineering sits behind the technical tab below for buyers who need to verify it.

Cross section of the AgriLoop unit. A 40 foot shipping container with a solar PV array on the roof, a passive thermal chimney rising at the top, four levels of LED grown produce inside, a hydrophilic film ceiling that condenses transpiration, a reed bed under the floor for water filtration, and three numbered callouts: 01 water, 02 air, 03 cool. SOLAR PV · 3.2 KWP CHIMNEY ↑ GREYWATER 01 WATER 02 AIR 03 COOL ×2 12.2 M · 40 FT HC UNIT 01 · ES
Long section · 40 ft high cube unit
  • 01External water supplySealed water cycle, EU compliant. No mains dependency, no irrigation cuts.
  • 02Cold chain logisticsProduction sits where the customer already is. Zero kilometre, no refrigerated transport.
  • 03Mechanical refrigerationPassive thermal chimney and evaporative cooling replace HVAC. Solar PV runs the rest.
Verify the engineering

01 · Value proposition

Two equations.
One fixed monthly number.

Traditional fresh produce pricing is built on three variables you cannot control. Ours is built on two you can.

Traditional model
Price = Market context + Logistics + Scarcity premium

Three exposures, none of them yours, all of them rising.

AgriLoop absorbs the three pricing inputs into one fixed lease. Three risk inputs on the left labelled market context, logistics, and scarcity premium feed into an AgriLoop block in the middle. One output arrow on the right exits as a fixed monthly lease. MARKET CONTEXT LOGISTICS SCARCITY PREMIUM AgriLoop ABSORBS RISK FIXED LEASE € / month
Three exposures collapse into one contracted line item.
AgriLoop model
Price = Monthly lease ÷ Units produced

One number, contracted, indexed only to inflation.

Traditional supplyAgriLoop contract

Risk profile

  • Drought exposed yields
  • Insurance repricing live
  • 1,200 km cold chain logistics
  • Seasonal price spikes
  • Variable quality, variable shrink

Predictable infrastructure

  • Zero weather exposure
  • Fixed monthly cost, indexed
  • 0 km, produce on site
  • 365 days, identical price
  • Specified yield, specified grade

02 · Investor

Recurring revenue,
backed by supermarket counterparties.

Each unit deployed is a contracted, indexed monthly cashflow stream from an investment grade procurement partner. The product the supermarket buys is supply chain certainty; the asset we operate is the unit.

Revenue model
Per unit, per month, contracted lease
Contract term
5 years, CPI indexed
Counterparty
Tier one supermarket procurement
Capex per unit
62k all in
Payback
2.4 years
Gross margin
61% per unit
Addressable units
3,800 car parks · ES + PT
Exit framing
Strategic to grocer, infra to fund

Detailed cohort economics in the live calculator below. Run your own numbers →

Single unit cashflow profile 5 year contract · CPI indexed · €62k capex
Single unit cashflow over a five year contract. A bar chart with one capex draw of negative sixty two thousand euros at year zero, followed by sixty contracted monthly lease payments rising slightly each year as the lease indexes to CPI. A payback marker sits at year 2.4. At year five the contract renews or the unit redeploys. €0 €2.5k/mo €3.0k/mo −€62k CAPEX Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 +€82k CUMULATIVE PAYBACK · 2.4Y RENEW OR REDEPLOY
One unit, one capex line, sixty contracted monthly payments. The bar height ticks up each year as the lease indexes to CPI.

03 · Technical

How it works.
Three closed loops, one sealed unit.

For buyers and ESG teams who need to verify the engineering. Skip if you only need the numbers.

Loop 01 · Water

Greywater becomes irrigation.

Every supermarket already generates greywater, from floor cleaning, produce misting, and staff facilities. We capture it and pass it through a sand and gravel reed bed whose roots digest impurities biologically. A solar powered UV pass brings the water to EU food grade compliance before it reaches the plants. External water supply, eliminated.

Throughput
2,400 L/day
Compliance
EU 2020/741
Loop 02 · Air

Transpiration becomes rain.

Plants transpire moisture as they grow. In a standard greenhouse this humidity is lost to ventilation. A hydrophilic film on the container ceiling captures that vapour, condenses it into droplets, and returns it directly to the plants below. The result is a self sustaining microclimate that recycles its own humidity without a single mechanical part.

Recovery
87%
Pumps
Zero
Loop 03 · Cool

Hot air becomes cool air.

Damp palm fibre Persiana mats cool incoming air by up to 10 °C through evaporation. The same principle has cooled Spanish water for centuries in the traditional Botijo clay vessel. A passive thermal chimney uses solar heat to draw the hot air up and out, pulling the cool breeze through the plant racks without an electric fan.

Cooling Δ
−10 °C
Energy
Solar PV
Loop 01 · Water
Throughput2,400 L/day
The three closed loops inside one sealed unit. A cutaway of the container with three layered loops. Water loop: greywater enters, passes through a reed bed and a UV pass, irrigates the plants. Air loop: plants transpire, a hydrophilic ceiling film condenses the moisture, the condensate returns to the roots. Cool loop: incoming air passes through damp palm fibre mats, a thermal chimney draws hot air out through the roof. SOLAR PV · 3.2 KWP GREYWATER IN UV REED BED + UV VAPOUR FILM ↑ HOT OUT +38°C DRY −10 °C PERSIANAS

04 · Supermarket savings

Specialty herbs, by the kilo.

The six herbs your store loses the most margin on. Basil, cilantro, mint, chives, tarragon, microgreens. Pick one. The calculator shows your current cost (wholesale plus shrink plus cold chain) against AgriLoop's contracted price per kilo. Indicative only, full assumptions in the data room.

05 · Go to market

Three entry points.
One unified strategy.

Every segment shares the same physical product. Different counterparties, different sales motions, identical underlying unit economics.

01 · Anchor

National supermarket chains

ESG conscious procurement directors replacing variable, water dependent supply with a fixed, predictable infrastructure lease. The pitch: convert physical risk into contracted certainty.

€2.4kmonthly lease / unit
02 · Premium

Hospitality & resorts

Luxury hotels and resorts in water stressed tourist destinations already pay a premium for quality and provenance. Zero KM, locally grown produce is a natural fit for their positioning.

price uplift vs anchor
03 · Proof

Bio & independent retailers

Bio and organic focused retailers in Madrid and Barcelona already command a premium for Zero KM produce, serving as proof of concept partners before scaling through national chains.

2026first deployment

06 · Timing

The window opens once.
It is open right now.

Three forces converged in 2024 and create the opening for a defensible, water resilient produce platform. Build infrastructure ahead of the repricing, and the platform becomes a category before competitors can respond.

2024 → 2027 · EU funding

NextGeneration alignment

Billions in EU funding earmarked for water digitalisation and urban green transitions in Spain map directly onto AgriLoop unit economics.

Live · Andalusia

Repricing in motion

Andalusian agricultural land and crop insurance are repricing live as drought becomes the new baseline. First mover infrastructure wins the deal flow.

2025 → 2030 · Mandates

Supermarket ESG mandates

National retailers are under contractual pressure to decarbonise their supply chains. AgriLoop is shovel ready infrastructure that ticks every box.

07 · The ask

Circular economy.
EU capital. Contracted cashflow.

We're raising to deploy two flagship units, validate sell through with national procurement, and lock in EU NextGeneration co funding before the next allocation cycle closes.

Every unit deployed is a recurring, contracted cashflow stream backed by a supermarket grade counterparty. The water crisis is already repricing agricultural land and insurance across Andalusia and the Segura basin. The window to build infrastructure ahead of that repricing is open now.

Two flagship units in design. EU NextGeneration co funding application underway. Anchor counterparty introductions in motion. Pilots shipping 2026.

All figures pre money, indicative, subject to definitive documentation. Full pack on request.

07 · Team

Built by two founders
in Spain.

AgriLoop España is the work of Esben Lomholt and Enzo Kekligian. Bios and advisor board to follow.

EL

Esben Lomholt

Founder
EK

Enzo Kekligian

Founder

Future proofing the
Spanish food economy.

Whether you are a supermarket chain, a hospitality partner, or an investor, we are shipping pilots in 2026. Let us talk about what that looks like for you.