AI POWERED NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

We envisage a future of sustainable, delicious, healthy and affordable food. AKA’s AI-enabled NPD technology and services are empowering food companies to rapidly design and prototype innovative sustainable food products.

THE AI
PLATFORM FOR NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Using commercially available ingredients, we optimize costs, ensure clean label and regulatory compliance, and advance sustainability goals. By standardizing customer data into structured formats that capture deep domain knowledge in industrial food engineering, our AI-powered expert systems provide intelligent decision support throughout the process. Our approach streamlines product development, enhances texture and taste performance, and keeps pace with evolving market demands while leveraging customer-specific knowledge bases to deliver tailored solutions.
Cost
Optimization
Leverage advanced analytics to reformulate recipes and streamline ingredient selection, driving cost efficiency and enhancing overall profitability.
Clean Label Compliance
Transform products to meet clean label standards, improving nutritional profiles and aligning with consumer demand for transparency and health-focused offerings.
Regulatory Compliance
Ensure seamless alignment with dynamic regulatory landscapes through advanced compliance monitoring and adaptive reformulation strategies.  
Plant-Based Transformation
Enable the seamless transition of best-selling products into high-performing plant-based alternatives, capturing market share in the rapidly expanding vegan and flexitarian sectors.
Advancing
Sustainability
Goals
Drive measurable progress toward sustainability objectives by optimizing ingredient sourcing, reducing waste, and supporting environmentally conscious production processes.  
Streamlining
Product
Development
Leverage an integrated platform with modular capabilities and AI agents to accelerate decision-making, reduce development risks, and bring innovative products to market efficiently.
Optimizing
Texture
Performance
Enable dynamic adjustments to product formulations with AI-powered tools, ensuring consistent and superior texture tailored to specific market demands.
Addressing Taste
Performance
Gaps
Employ specialized AI modules to refine flavor profiles, delivering superior taste experiences that build consumer loyalty and drive repeat purchases.
Keeping Pace
with Shifting
Trends
Convert insights from emerging trends into actionable product innovations, enabling your business to stay ahead by transforming monitoring into tangible, market-ready solutions.

data curation at scale

Millions of data points
AKA’s dynamic and secure expert AI algorithms are trained with millions of data points in our food labs and utilize proprietary food syntax and data structures.

Overcoming the
food Industry’s Biggest Challenges

As an industry focused on health and sustainability, we face numerous challenges that erode consumer trust and satisfaction.

Foods with lower nutritional value and less preferred ingredients lead to skepticism about health benefits.

High price points limit accessibility, and many ingredients aren’t scalable, hindering large-scale production. Lengthy and expensive development cycles slow down innovation, resulting in gaps in taste, texture, and nutritional performance.
Optimal Nutrition
Unlocked
Elevated
Plant-Based
Texture
Next Level Taste
Unleashed
Cost
Optimisation

Ai-enabled
Npd technology And services

NPD technologists prepare food prototypes, which are assessed sensorially against the gold standard
The algorithmic process commences with the integration of sensory and analytical data of food prototypes
AKA’s algorithm is used to map the data into a high-dimensional embedding space, effectively creating a detailed sensory profile for each prototype
Every aspect of a food prototype — taste, texture, cost, and nutritional value — is represented in the embedding space
The model generates new food prototypes that converge on the taste and texture targets, optimized for cost and nutrition

AI rapid prototyping with human & sensory
in-the-loop

AKA’s virtual food prototyping platform understands and incorporates specific targets and constraints in each development cycle, significantly reducing the number of trials. The platform anticipates consumer response to formulation changes to improve the likelihood of success.
Client specific AI models and recipe generation
Pre-trained AI algorithms
using formulations, analytical, and sensory data generated in AKA's laboratories
Collaborative and secure project management
Securely curates client NPD knowledge
Facilitates efficient deployment of in-house expertise
Fully managed sensory experiments
Dynamic Predictive Model
utilizing cutting-edge sensory evaluation techniques
Unique food language for formula & process
Agile curation
of ingredients, processes, and
products to simplify the formulation process
Human expert in-the-loop
Human sensory feedback
seamlessly and objectively informs the optimization and predictive algorithms.

CPG ENGAGEMENT

A global food CPG’s plant-based cheese development plateaued after 12 months of conventional NPD. AKA’s STIR algorithm outperformed customer prototypes in preference and similarity, revitalizing NPD efforts and significantly accelerating product launch.
STIR Generated Recipe
Recipe optimization target (vs. Customer Prototypes)
Results
GEN 1
Higher preference
Outperformed
GEN 2
Higher taste-similarity
Outperformed
GEN 3
Optimize both preference & similarity
Outperformed

THE DREAM TEAM FOR SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION

We have assembled a multi-disciplinary team of AI entrepreneurs, data scientists, and food technologists from all walks of life to create the ultimate in data-driven plant-based food development. We’re using our expertise and passion for extraordinary plant-based foods combined with next-generation technology to accelerate plant-based innovation.
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Be a part of our mission to accelerate sustainable food development.
Delicious,
Nutritious,
Affordable,

ABOUT US

At AKA, we envision a future where sustainable food is delicious, nutritious, and affordable for everyone. Powered by our advanced Food AI platform, which utilizes a proprietary food syntax linking ingredients, processes, and sensory evaluation, we streamline the entire food development process.

Under one roof, AKA brings together a diverse, multidisciplinary team of vegan entrepreneurs, data scientists, and experienced food technologists. Our state-of-the-art Food Innovation & Sensory Hub integrates modern labs for food prototyping, data collection, and sensory evaluation.

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