About Livestock Technologies
“Never Lose an Animal” Is Our North Star
Livestock Technologies is built around a simple north star: never lose an animal from view when reliable information can help the people responsible for its care.
We build camera-based livestock intelligence for producers and researchers who carry that responsibility every day. Our work is designed to create a clearer picture of each operation and provide actionable evidence for care, management, and research decisions.
Our Mission
Our mission is stewardship through useful technology. We help the people responsible for animals build a clearer picture of what is happening and bring actionable evidence to care decisions.
Our Vision
A future where producers and researchers can understand animals more clearly, respond thoughtfully, and manage time, land, feed, and knowledge with better information.
Why We Serve
Faith gives our work its foundation.
Livestock Technologies is a Christian company. We seek to serve the Lord by serving producers, researchers, caretakers, and partners with grace, mercy, honesty, and faithful stewardship over His creation.
For us, attentive livestock care is more than an operating goal. It is a responsibility to know what has been entrusted to us, use knowledge wisely, and help the people closest to the animals act with better information.
“Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?”
The passage joins diligent attention with humility: animals, land, time, knowledge, and material success are gifts to steward, not things to take for granted.
Three Commitments That Guide the Work
Grace in How We Serve
We listen first, speak honestly, and treat every producer, researcher, and partner with patience and respect.
Stewardship of Creation
We build a clearer picture of animals, land, feed, data, and time so responsible teams can act on useful evidence.
Mercy in How We Care
We build tools that help people notice when an animal or pen needs attention and bring better evidence to the response.
Our Culture in One Line
Grace in how we serve. Mercy in how we care. Stewardship over God's creation.
Our Commitment
We measure these values by how we work: honest claims, respectful partnerships, useful technology, and care for the animals and people it serves.
What “Never Lose an Animal” Means
We build for continuous animal awareness: connecting observations to the people who can use them and turning field data into actionable evidence.
Continuous Awareness
Designed for day-and-night observation
Actionable Evidence
Reviewable observations, not data dumps
Field-Built Infrastructure
Designed for dependable field deployment
Identity Continuity
Connect visual evidence with known records
Research Partnership
Define and test the system under study protocols
Responsible Partnership
Producers and researchers help define the question, evidence, and success criteria
Why We're Different
We build the full field system: camera geometry, RGB and thermal imaging, solar power, connectivity, on-site compute, livestock-specific models, and review workflows. We then evaluate those systems with producers and university partners.
Producer and University Evaluation
Systems are evaluated with the people and research partners closest to the work.
Field Systems Engineering
Camera geometry, RGB and thermal imaging, solar power, connectivity, and on-site compute work together.
Livestock-Specific Models
Models and review workflows are designed around livestock operations and the questions teams need to answer.
Built for Decisions
Reviewable observations help teams turn field information into action.
Our Leadership Team
A hands-on team building and operating livestock monitoring infrastructure
Zechariah Myrick
Zechariah Myrick is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Livestock Technologies. He leads computer vision, AI model development, and agricultural data systems, including synthetic data generation and precision-agriculture workflows.
Synthetic Data & Computer Vision Development
Works on synthetic dataset generation for computer vision, including object detection, segmentation, and oriented bounding box applications, as well as livestock reference capture workflows used in Nose ID research.
Data Extraction & Connectivity
Develops methods for extracting structured observations from video and multimodal sensor networks, including video and LiDAR, with attention to agricultural connectivity constraints.
Serial Technology Entrepreneurship
Founded and leads multiple technology companies including Point of Sail Security Inc, AI Dream Builders LLC, SocialEdge AI LLC, and Livestock Technologies.
Steve Myrick
Steve Myrick is Chief Operating Officer of Livestock Technologies. His work spans construction, commercial contracting, technology deployment, and business-to-business sales; he coordinates field execution and operating relationships.
Construction & Project Management
His background includes construction trades, project leadership, and operating construction and commercial bidding businesses.
Digital Marketing & E-commerce
Founded Web Wealth Innovators, an early web-based marketing company that captured the momentum of emerging e-commerce. Developed extensive networks through speaking engagements at business expansion events.
Technology Integration & Operations
Work has included B2B technology sales and deployment, warehouse inventory systems, wireless networks, point-to-point bridges, and commercial camera systems.
Built in the field. Evaluated with university partners.
Producer collaboration and university evaluation inform how we build.
Tuskegee University
Sponsored Research Program
Livestock Technologies has a Sponsored Research Agreement with Tuskegee University. The field deployment supports the research team's evaluation of defined livestock-monitoring workflows.
The program brings university review and defined protocols to the evaluation of field workflows.
Proprietary Vision Models
Technology Foundation
Our system combines field-built camera geometry, RGB and thermal imaging, solar power, connectivity, on-site compute, and livestock-specific models with review workflows.
- Camera geometry and field calibration
- RGB and thermal imaging
- Solar power, connectivity, and on-site compute
- Livestock-specific models and review workflows
Why Partnerships Matter
University Evaluation
Defined protocols and research partnership
Field-Built Systems
Camera geometry, imaging, power, connectivity, and compute
Livestock-Specific Models
Models and review workflows built for livestock operations
Producer Partnership
Field systems shaped with producer input
Ready to Talk About Your Operation?
Bring us the animals, workflow, or research question that matters most. We'll listen first.