Investor deck — HUMEUS

Investor deck · September 2026

Fossil carbon for living soil

A humic soil conditioner with a content declaration that can be verified — and the measurement system that proves what it did.

HUMEUS™ · INNO, s. r. o. · Slovakia

01 · The problem

Soil is losing carbon and the farm pays for it

Falling soil organic matter shows up on the balance sheet long before it shows up in the field: more fertiliser for the same yield, less water held through a dry spell, and harvests that swing from year to year.

More input Depleted soil holds nutrients badly — a larger share of applied fertiliser leaches away instead of feeding the crop.

Less water Water retention falls with organic matter, so dry seasons cost more yield than they used to.

More volatility Thin soils amplify a bad year. Volatility is what makes a farm business hard to finance.

Humic conditioners act on the carrier of that loss. The category exists; what it lacks is a supplier whose numbers can be checked.

02 · Why now

Regulation just changed who can compete

Reg. (EU) 2019/1009 Names leonardite explicitly as an admissible input. CE marking replaces country-by-country registration — one assessment, 27 markets.

Reg. (EU) 2021/1165, Annex II Leonardite is allowed in organic farming only as a by-product of mining activity. Suppliers sourcing outside the EU cannot document it. We can.

The same framework tightens what may be claimed about a product. That is an advantage — but only for a supplier who measures.

03 · The product

HUMEUS Agro

A carbon-type soil conditioner from activated leonardite. No chemical additives, no synthetic carriers.

Humic acids in dry matter	min. 60 %
Free humic acids — the fraction that acts	min. 50 %
Form and packaging	granulate or 8 mm pellet · 25 kg bag, 500 and 1,000 kg big bag
Application	200 – 500 kg/ha by crop, incorporated autumn to early spring
Repeat interval	3 – 4 years, following a control analysis

Declaration per batch by the method of Lamar et al., J. AOAC Int. 97(3)/2014 (HPTA). CE marking under 2019/1009 is being implemented.

04 · Why it is defensible

One method, one number, a certificate per batch

The category is sold on assertion. Content is quoted once in dry matter, once in the goods as delivered, once as humic substances and elsewhere as humic acids — and bulk prices are not published at all.

One validated method AOAC/HPTA, stated on every certificate. Total and free humic acids in dry matter.

Certificate per batch Leonardite is a natural rock; content varies within a deposit. The document follows the batch, not the brochure.

Right to independent check Any batch, any laboratory the buyer chooses. If it deviates beyond the method's uncertainty, we pay for the analysis and replace the delivery.

This is not a feature. It is the position — and a competitor cannot copy it by changing a price list.

05 · The data layer

HUMEUS Probe turns a sale into a relationship

A humic conditioner acts over years and is reapplied after three to four. The buyer pays now for a result that is not visible at harvest. Probe closes that gap.

Continuous — field probe	moisture by depth, temperature, electrical conductivity, pH
Periodic — laboratory	organic carbon, humic acids, cation exchange capacity, nutrients, contaminants

Recurring revenue Installation plus an annual operating fee between product purchases.

Evidence the category lacks Measured trends per plot, not testimonials.

Switching cost Plot history, applications and batch traceability accumulate with us.

A probe does not replace the laboratory — it is calibrated against it. Anyone claiming otherwise is selling something else.

06 · Market

Where the hectares are

The relevant market is not the global humic category — it is the arable and horticultural area we can serve from 600 km of the raw material.

Arable land in the first-phase markets — approx. 19 million hectares. At 250 kg/ha, one percent of that area is 47,500 tonnes of product. Source: Eurostat, arable land, rounded.