Decapolis: blockchain food traceability that won Del Monte’s investment

The challenge

Food exporters face tightening traceability rules in every major market — the US, the EU, China, Japan. Decapolis set out to build the reference platform for food-trade compliance: immutable records from farm to fork, for producers who need to prove exactly where every product has been.

What we built

We worked as Decapolis’s development team across four years, evolving the product with the market:

• A mobile app that captures traceability data by scanning QR codes on any production equipment — temperatures, weights, timestamps, operator sign-offs
• Dairy-industry workflows first, then farm-to-fork expansion across food categories
• Ethereum smart contracts on Amazon Managed Blockchain: tamper-proof writing, retrieval, and verification of every record
• A middleware portal bridging the mobile apps and the blockchain, multi-tenant so one platform serves many businesses
• Full knowledge transfer at the end: documentation, repositories, and training for Decapolis’s own engineers

The results

• Del Monte invested $1M on the strength of the blockchain proof of concept
• Over 1,000 products traced end to end, with 100+ compliance processes automated
• Supply-chain partners onboarded, including the General Syndicate of Olive Press and Almazraa Farms
• The platform now runs with Decapolis’s in-house team — the handover was part of the job