Carbon Insights and AI Formulation recognized for advancing AI-powered sustainability and product development in food and beverage
TraceGains has earned a Bronze Stevie® Award for Technical Innovation of the Year – Information Technology in the third annual Stevie® Awards for Technology Excellence. The honor recognizes TraceGains’ continued innovation in food supply chain technology, with solutions that leverage data into actionable intelligence that helps brands accelerate sustainable product development, strengthen compliance, and bring products to market faster.
The Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence celebrate organizations and individuals shaping the future of technology across industries. TraceGains was awarded for its recent advancements in AI-powered sustainability and formulation technology, including the launch of Carbon Insights and the continued development of AI Formulation.
Launched in April 2026, Carbon Insights integrates trusted ingredient-level emissions intelligence directly into sourcing, compliance, and formulation workflows. Powered by environmental intelligence from DitchCarbon and Sustained, the capability enables manufacturers to evaluate carbon impacts alongside cost, quality, availability, and regulatory requirements without creating additional manual work for suppliers.
Working alongside Carbon Insights is TraceGains AI Formulation, an agentic formulation solution currently available through the free NextLab Alpha program in TraceGains Gather®. Built specifically for food scientists, AI Formulation enables R&D teams to formulate products around multiple objectives—including sustainability, nutrition, ingredient availability, and sensory performance—using TraceGains’ connected product and supplier knowledge infrastructure.
Together, these innovations represent a shift from traditional sustainability reporting to embedded decision intelligence. Rather than measuring environmental impact after product decisions have been made, TraceGains enables sustainability data to inform sourcing, formulation, and product development from the earliest stages of innovation.
TraceGains’ expanding integration with Esko further extends this connected approach by linking product and packaging development into a unified digital workflow, helping manufacturers accelerate innovation while improving collaboration across product development, regulatory, quality, and packaging teams.
According to McKinsey, only 30% of food and beverage companies have visibility beyond their direct suppliers, leaving many organizations reliant on estimates and disconnected reporting for carbon accounting. TraceGains addresses this challenge by connecting supplier, ingredient, compliance, and sustainability data across a shared digital network, giving brands greater confidence in the decisions that shape their products.
The Bronze Stevie Award underscores TraceGains’ long-standing commitment to replacing fragmented, manual supply chain processes with connected digital infrastructure that improves compliance, accelerates innovation, and enables more resilient, sustainable food systems.
