Founded in April 2024 by Dan Bull with cofounders Paul Sealock (founding engineer), Daniel Stuart-Jones (CTO) and Ursula Haywood (CCO), Scanabull builds a computer-vision platform that estimates live cattle weight using the LiDAR sensor on an iPhone. Its first product, WeighApp, enables farmers, stock agents and veterinarians to scan animals in yards, pens or near gates and deliver a weight estimate in seconds. The model has been trained on over 100,000 animal data points and is designed to improve as more scans are captured. Scanabull is conducting trials and demonstrations across New Zealand and is piloting with industry partners including Silver Fern Farms, with plans to expand to Australia and other major beef-producing regions by year-end. The company says the technology aims to reduce supply-chain inefficiencies caused by visual weight estimates and to provide earlier weight visibility for processors and traders.

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Mar 2026