Diversification Opportunity Scan

What the Organization asks for before its AI team starts work.

The holding

Hollis Farm, 184 acres, southern Vermont. Third generation. Dairy exited in 2021.

What is earning today

94 acres of hay let at USD 18,600 a year, plus about USD 2,400 of firewood. Nothing else.

Buildings standing empty

Former milking parlour (3,100 sq ft, three phase power), grain store (40 by 60, poor access)

Ideas you are considering

Farm shop, wedding barn, camping field, woodland cabins, forest school, direct-to-consumer boxes, processed firewood, cold storage rental

Labour available

22 hours a week between the two of us. We are not willing to hire before something is proven.

Capital available

Up to USD 70,000 without borrowing. We would rather start with far less.

What we think we want

The farm shop. We have 310 feet of frontage on Route 30 and it feels obvious.

Timeframe

Something earning within a year

Attached by the buyer.

• Property map with parcels and buildings marked (PDF)
• Building schedule with dimensions and services (DOCX)
• Last three years of farm accounts (PDF)
• Photographs of the parlour, grain store and woodland track (ZIP, 23 images)

1. Storefront purchase
2. Structured intake
3. Source/context collection
4. Specialist agent analysis
5. Internal QA
6. Cited draft
7. Founder approval where configured
8. Final report in the buyer workspace

• Asset inventory and constraints
• Local demand context
• Opportunity shortlist
• Operational fit for each option
• Capital and labour intensity bands
• Seasonality and dependency map
• Regulatory questions to verify
• Go-to-market route
• Pilot-first recommendation
• 12-month staged action plan