Real-time detection · live on the line

Vision AI that sorts poultry in real time.

Sortant builds camera-and-AI machines that detect, sex, and count chicks as they fall — at line speed, with audit-ready accuracy.

The machine

Engineered for the hatchery, built in food-grade stainless.

A compact, wash-down-ready sorting cell — vision, on-device compute, and pneumatic sorting integrated into one stainless-steel frame that drops onto your line.

Food-grade stainless

Sanitary, corrosion-resistant, wash-down construction.

Integrated vision + AI

Camera, lighting, and on-device compute in one enclosure.

Drop-in footprint

Compact cell that fits existing hatchery flow.

What we do

Automated poultry inspection, built for the hatchery floor.

One vision system replaces manual sexing and counting — running continuously, logging every bird, and sorting in milliseconds.

Real-time detection

On-device AI identifies every chick the instant it enters frame — no cloud round-trip, no line slow-down.

Sexing & sorting

Classifies and routes each bird with precision air valves, hitting throughput a manual team can't sustain.

Counting & traceability

Every bird is tallied and logged with confidence scores, giving you an audit-ready record of the whole run.

How it works

From camera to sort in milliseconds.

01

Capture

A high-speed camera images each bird as it falls past the inspection window.

02

Detect

On-device AI locates and classifies the bird, with a confidence score per detection.

03

Sort

Precision air valves divert each bird to the correct lane in a few milliseconds.

04

Count

A running tally and full event log are written for every bird in the run.

Inside the AI

Watch it read the feather pattern.

Day-old chicks are sexed by the length pattern of their wing feathers. The AI zooms into each wing and fades everything except the detail it uses to make the call — shown here on three real birds, including a tricky reverse-feathering male.

Female — uneven pattern, secondary feathers longer.
Male — even pattern, feather rows the same length.
Male — reverse feathering — looks uneven, but flipped. The hard call.
24/7
Continuous line operation
ms
Detect-to-sort latency
100%
Birds logged & traceable

Get in touch

See Sortant run on your line.

Tell us about your operation and we'll set up a demo of the sorting system in action.

hello@sortant.com