AKA Studio is the end-to-end platform for food R&D. It includes three core modules: Knowledge, Workbench, Sensory, and the AKA AI Assistant, which helps you find, reason, and act across them.
AKA Studio unifies data, insights, and creativity into a single environment built for the food and ingredient industry. It connects your knowledge, formulations, and sensory data into one intelligent system that understands your R&D workflow and accelerates every stage of innovation; from concept to commercialisation.
Whether you’re refining a classic recipe or scaling a new formulation, AKA Studio helps your teams design smarter, faster, and with complete confidence.
AKA Studio is the end-to-end platform for food R&D. It includes three core modules… Knowledge, Workbench, and Sensory… plus the AKA AI Assistant, which helps users find information, reason over data, and take action across all modules.
At the core of AKA Studio is a proprietary food syntax, a structured data framework that organizes formulations, ingredients, processes, sensory results, and analytical measurements into one interpretable model. This lets the AI recognize patterns, understand relationships, and reason about food with expert precision.
Built on this foundation, the reasoning engine interprets context, applies the appropriate analytical tools, and delivers precise, data-driven insights.
It adapts its reasoning to the objectives at hand, whether optimising cost, taste, nutrition, or compliance, and produces outputs that are practical, traceable, and reproducible.
Sensory data and analytical measurements are integrated directly into the system, creating a continuous feedback loop between human testing and machine intelligence.
Each cycle refines the model with real-world results, ensuring that every recommendation remains accurate, validated, and aligned with consumer experience.
Each client environment operates in a fully siloed and protected workspace. Proprietary data is never shared, transferred, or used to train external models.
For organizations requiring enhanced control, AKA Studio supports on-premise, air-gapped, and private LLM deployments to ensure full data ownership and compliance with enterprise standards.
AKA Studio is an integrated environment built on modular tools that adapt to every organization’s workflow. Each module can work independently or as part of a connected ecosystem, where data and insights flow seamlessly across the product lifecycle.
Whether you’re managing formulation data, analysing sensory performance, or tracking formulation progress, every module accelerates development, improves consistency, and unlocks creative potential.
An intelligent, food focused co-pilot, contextual, data driven, and built for real product development.
The Food Specific AI Assistant acts as an embedded member of your R&D environment, combining deep food science expertise with real time data intelligence. It interprets formulations, processes, and sensory data in context, helping teams design, test, and refine products with greater speed, accuracy, and confidence.
Plan and execute efficient experiments using design of experiments (DOE) intelligence that automatically selects and optimizes sampling and testing parameters. The result is fewer wasted trials, faster iterations, and more predictable outcomes.
Ask questions in natural language and receive precise, food specific answers in seconds. The Assistant understands context, retrieving and analyzing information across formulations, experiments, sensory results, and documentation without manual filtering or coding.
Trained in food engineering, formulation logic, and sensory science, the Assistant providing evidence-based guidance for formulation, process, and sensory design decisions.
Every recommendation draws from your organization’s verified internal data and project history, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and traceability across teams and product lines.
The Assistant recognizes patterns across current and historical projects, automatically surfacing relevant experiments, insights, and formulations. This eliminates duplication, accelerates learning, and reveals new directions for innovation.
The result: smarter experiments, faster development cycles, and better products, all driven by an AI that truly understands food.
Organizational knowledge lives everywhere: spreadsheets, databases, PDFs, lab reports, emails, and even daily conversations. It can be structured or completely unstructured, from detailed ingredient specifications to scanned formulation notes. The AKA Studio Knowledge Module reads, understands, and organizes it all into one reliable, up-to-date knowledge base that becomes smarter with every use.
Add relevant outside data such as publications, regulations, and ingredient databases.
The system recognizes relationships between formulations, sensory data, processes, and results so every insight is linked, searchable, and actionable.
The built-in AI Assistant searches semantically across all data, interpreting natural-language queries and surfacing precise, food-specific answers with full context. No coding. No manual filtering.
Define which knowledge is most valuable, curate it for accuracy, and guide how the AI Assistant applies it.
Connect existing databases, upload unstructured files or scanned documents, and capture day-to-day work in one place.
The Result
Every piece of information, from historical R&D notes to the latest sensory data, becomes usable, searchable, and connected. The AI Assistant makes this knowledge instantly accessible, learns from every interaction, and enables teams to move faster, innovate smarter, and make better decisions.
From the first idea to ready-to-scale product, the Workbench keeps your development process interactive and precise.
Design, compare, and refine formulations with real-time visibility across teams and disciplines.
Vizualise and document workflows to create consistency across experiments, equipment, and product lines.
Access ingredient catalogues, datasheets, process and equipment parameters directly within the interface. Upload ingredient datasheets and lab reports directly; the system automatically extracts key fields, even from PDFs, and links them to formulations.
Perform advanced calculations, compare versions, and generate automated reports to accelerate validation and reduce errors.
The Result
Shorter R&D cycles, improved reproducibility, and products that move from lab to market with confidence.
The Sensory Module transforms data from internal evaluations and taste panels into actionable insight.
Plan, execute, and analyze sensory workflows with streamlined data capture and automatic result aggregation.
Monitor tests live, track preferences and outliers, and vizualise data instantly.
Every sensory result feeds directly into the Knowledge Module and Workbench, informing reformulation, validation, and continuous improvement.
The Result
A complete sensory-to-formulation feedback system that continuously learns and improves product performance.
AKA Studio is an AI platform built specifically for food and beverage R&D, rather than a general-purpose chatbot. It combines formulation and reformulation, sensory analysis and R&D knowledge capture in one system, and runs on a fully isolated, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 secure cloud so your formulations stay private.
AKA Studio has three core modules. Knowledge captures and connects your R&D data and tacit know-how, Workbench supports AI-assisted formulation, reformulation and optimization, and Sensory brings consumer and descriptive sensory data into the same workflow.
General AI tools answer from public data and can hallucinate on food-specific problems. AKA Studio is grounded in your own formulation, sensory and analytical data, is built and validated inside real food labs, and can be deployed on a fully isolated or on-premise environment so your intellectual property is never exposed.
