About | The Smart Coop

We're a group of bonafide chicken people who love our backyard birds just as much as you do.

So much so, we made a business out of it.

Howdy. We're coop.

How'd we hatch?

If you're Texan, you'll remember the freeze of 2021. The storm brought serious challenges for us locals -- especially ranchers and farmers.

This hatched an idea: a smart chicken coop to make backyard farming simply better. We can control every light switch, lock and doggy door with the tap of a button on our phones, what about our pet that lays an egg?

And with that, the idea of coop, a smart, automated chicken coop for backyard flocks, took flight.

Back up a bit.

Thankfully for our 26 backyard chickens, yes. We collectively have 30+ years of raising chickens.

It all started when coop co-founder and CEO AJ Forysthe rescued a chicken from Chinatown in Los Angeles, raising it in his tiny college apartment. But that's a story for another day.

Do you know anything about chickens?

So, why did we really build coop?

Glad you asked.

We're a small but mighty team of five, all with decades-plus of tech and farming backgrounds. At this point in our careers, we all share a very important trait: we want to build stuff that matters.