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AKA’s AI-enabled NPD technology and services are empowering food companies to rapidly design and prototype innovative sustainable food products.For 35 years, food product developers have relied on spreadsheets for product design, while generative AI’s potential remains untapped in food R&D labs.

The challenge lies in the multi-dimensional nature of new product development (NPD) and the multi-modal data it generates, such as formula, process, ingredient, nutrition, analytical, and sensory data.

This complexity creates a mismatch between the high-dimensional NPD data and the structured data needed by data scientists to build effective models for product optimization and innovation.AKA’s NPD Enablement Platform (SaaS Software) addresses this challenge by providing a central digital hub for food R&D teams to design and evaluate food prototypes.

The platform’s innovation lies in its proprietary food data syntax, which curates complex NPD data into a structured format, aligning all data within the same latent space.

This resolves the typical challenges faced by data science teams when addressing noisy multi-modal data, particularly in food product development.The platform empowers food scientists to integrate all aspects of prototype recipe development, including seamless sensory panel management, while ensuring organizations have a robustly curated, and actionable NPD data layer.

This data can be deployed in product optimization algorithms, such as AKA’s AI recipe optimization model for plant-based products.AKA’s platform directly supports the F&B industry by providing essential tools for food development professionals, enabling them to incorporate expert AI algorithms into their workflows and future-proof their NPD data for AI advancements.