AKA Studio project overview, shown with a demo project.
The system of record for R&D
Not a tool you open now and then. AKA Studio is where your R&D data lives, every day.
Your company already knows more than it can use
The answer to your next project is often sitting in an old trial, a past sensory panel, a supplier spec, or a senior scientist's notebook. It's spread across spreadsheets, shared drives, and systems that don't talk to each other.
So teams rerun trials and rebuild recipes someone already made. Sensory and lab results sit apart, so nobody can link a change in the recipe to a change in how consumers liked it.
AI is only as good as the data it reads. That's where we start.
Example answers from a demo project.
Every new project starts from everything you already know
Your company's data and the outside world are organized into one company memory. A new project starts there, the real work still happens in your lab, and every result goes back in for the next one.
From a real project: a plant-based milk went from 7 iterations to 3.
Teams that stopped starting from zero
TDC · SPECIALTY INGREDIENTS, SOUTH AFRICA
“The ability to see and use all of our knowledge in one place.”Chris Botha, R&D Director, TDC17 users across Johannesburg and Cape Town. Time savings as reported by TDC's development team. Read the TDC case study →
Built for every kind of food team
The same company memory, shaped around how your business develops products.
How Studio gets you off zero
The same flow our customers use on real projects.
1. Find
Studio brings your past trials, formulations, sensory panels, and lab results into one private place. Ask a question and get the answer from your own data, with the source attached.
2. Reason
Studio works from your brief and your limits: cost, nutrition, regulation, and the ingredients you can actually buy. It suggests candidate recipes inside those limits and recalculates cost and nutrition on every edit. You decide what to run.
3. Compound
Tasting results and lab data stay tied to the recipe that made them, including the failed trials and rejected panels. When a project changes hands, the knowledge stays. The next team starts where the last one stopped.
Where we prove it first
Start with one challenge your team faces this quarter. We prove it on your own data, then grow from there.
A regulation is changing
A new rule means reformulating fast. See every affected recipe, its ingredients and its test history in one place, and start the new version from what you already know.
An ingredient gets expensive or disappears
Find what you used before, what worked, and swaps that stay inside your cost, nutrition and label limits, with cost and nutrition recalculated on every edit.
Reading your sensory results
Several prototypes, one panel, and nobody's sure why the product wasn't amazing. Line up each prototype's tasting results with its recipe and see what changed.
A customer needs an answer by Friday
A customer sends a new brief. Start from your closest past formulation or application and its test results, so the first sample is already close.
After a quality incident
Find the recipe version, the supplier spec and the panel results behind a product in one place, so you can see what changed.
Teams and systems that don't talk
R&D, quality, procurement and sales each work in their own system. Map how data flows between them, then connect it into one record every team works from.
See AKA Omni →More ways to work with us
Get your data organized first, or work with our food technologists in our own labs.
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Sensory Lab
Analytical Lab
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Don't start every project from zero.
Tell us the project your team is stuck on. We'll show you how Studio starts it from what you already know.
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