generated: '2026-08-22'
method: searched
source: https://agfundernews.com/breaking-ag-insights-platform-gro-intelligence-is-closing-down
status: defunct
summary: >-
  Gro Intelligence is out of business. The company shut down in spring 2024
  after failing to raise, entered liquidation, and its intellectual property and
  AI models were acquired by Almanac (formerly Semios) in November 2024. The Gro
  API was never sunset with a policy, a Sunset header or a migration path — the
  hosts were simply switched off and the primary domain was parked.
versioning:
  scheme: uri-path
  current: v2
  also_seen: v2prime
  docs: https://gro.readthedocs.io/
  note: >-
    Every endpoint in the official client is under /v2/ (with a single
    /v2prime/data experimental path). No version-negotiation header, no dated
    version train, no documented v1->v2 migration guide survives.
deprecation:
  policy_url: null
  sunset_header: false
  note: >-
    No deprecation policy was ever published and no RFC 8594 Sunset/Deprecation
    header support is documented or implemented in the client. The one
    deprecation mechanism that did exist was in-band and undocumented as policy:
    a 301 response carrying a replacement ontology id, which the client silently
    re-mapped (see errors/gro-intelligence-problem-types.yml).
sla:
  url: null
  uptime_target: null
status_page: null
status_page_note: >-
  No status page was found. status.gro-intelligence.com does not resolve, and
  the primary domain is a parked catch-all that answers 200 to every path, so no
  status URL can be asserted from it.
end_of_life:
  ceased_operations: '2024-06'
  api_host_dns: NXDOMAIN
  docs_host_dns: NXDOMAIN
  app_host_dns: NXDOMAIN
  primary_domain: parked
  last_sdk_release: '2024-01-31'
  last_repo_activity: '2024-04-01'
  successor:
    company: Almanac (formerly Semios)
    url: https://agfundernews.com/almanac-acquires-gro-intelligence-ip-to-deliver-actionable-insights-across-the-global-agricultural-sector
    date: '2024-11-19'
    note: >-
      Almanac acquired Gro Intelligence's IP and assets out of liquidation. This
      is an ASSET purchase, not a continuation of the Gro API — Almanac serves
      its own platform on its own domain and publishes no Gro-branded endpoint.
      No API surface transferred to a callable successor.
evidence:
- {url: 'https://api.gro-intelligence.com/', status: 0, note: DNS NXDOMAIN — host does not resolve}
- {url: 'https://developers.gro-intelligence.com/', status: 0, note: DNS NXDOMAIN — the documented developer portal}
- {url: 'https://app.gro-intelligence.com/', status: 0, note: DNS NXDOMAIN — the web app that issued API tokens}
- {url: 'https://gro-intelligence.com/', status: 200, note: parked GoDaddy lander, 114 bytes, redirects to /lander; answers 200 for every path}
- {url: 'https://github.com/gro-intelligence/api-client', status: 200, note: source repo still public, last push 2024-04-01}
- {url: 'https://pypi.org/project/groclient/', status: 200, note: SDK still installable, last release 2024-01-31}
- {url: 'https://gro.readthedocs.io/', status: 200, note: surviving docs mirror}
deprecated_operations: []