data curation at scale
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.
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
Texture
Next Level Taste
Unleashed
Cost
Optimisation
Ai-enabled
Npd technology And services
1
NPD technologists prepare food prototypes, which are assessed sensorially against the gold standard
2
The algorithmic process commences with the integration of sensory and analytical data of food prototypes
3
AKA’s algorithm is used to map the data into a high-dimensional embedding space, effectively creating a detailed sensory profile for each prototype
4
Every aspect of a food prototype — taste, texture, cost, and nutritional value — is represented in the embedding space
5
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
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