NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
AI Formulation for food & beverage product development teams
Create formulas using ingredients you can actually source, backed by food science you can trust, with compliance and production readiness built in.
THE PROBLEM
Why do simple formulation changes become complex decisions?
Food scientists are juggling ingredients, suppliers, nutrition, claims, allergens, regulations, cost, testing, and production requirements, often across disconnected systems. As a result, product development slows down when teams should be moving forward.
HOW IT WORKS
Go from product brief to production-ready formula
AI Formulation helps food scientists move through key stages of NPD while keeping formulas, data, decisions, and supporting context together.
Upload a marketing brief
Develop a draft recipe
Run a regulatory compliance analysis
Identify ingredients and suppliers
Create test protocols and document results
Create nutrition facts panels and reports
Publish and manage completed formulas
“TraceGains AI Formulation represents a fundamental shift in how food innovation happens. By embedding AI directly into the R&D process, we’re giving food scientists the ability to move faster, make smarter decisions, and bring better products to market with confidence.”
John Thorpe
Senior Director of Product Management
CAPABILITIES
A connected food product development workspace for R&D
SPEND MORE TIME FORMULATING
Put more of the formulation workflow in one place
AI Formulation brings together formula development, experimentation, analysis, lab data, and product context so scientists can spend less time switching between tools and more time solving formulation challenges.
TURN TRENDS INTO NEW PRODUCTS
Turn market signals into formulation opportunities
Explore emerging ingredients, nutrition priorities, claims, consumer preferences, and other market context to help inform new product concepts and reformulation decisions.
MAKE BETTER DECISIONS FASTER
Give AI and your R&D team the context behind every formula
Access relevant ingredient, supplier, specification, regulatory, nutritional, and product data without piecing together information from disconnected sources.
KEEP FOOD SCIENTISTS IN CONTROL
AI should accelerate formulation, not replace food-science expertise
Review, challenge, refine, and override AI recommendations while keeping your team’s decisions, rationale, and rules at the center of the process.
CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE
What’s possible when food scientists have the right tools
*Quotes are from participants in the early-access AI Formulation Alpha Program.
OUTCOMES
Develop more products without adding complexity
Increase product development capacity
Move more products through development without increasing manual work or headcount.
Preserve formula knowledge
Keep formulas, experiments, decisions, and supporting context connected so teams can build on what they already know.
Reduce rework earlier
Identify sourcing, nutrition, regulatory, and formulation considerations before they slow projects down.
Move towards commercialization faster
Connect formulation, testing, sourcing, compliance, and product workflows in one place.
DIFFERENTIATORS
TraceGains AI is built for food product development
Unlike standalone generative AI and AI assistants built into specification, compliance, or product lifecycle platforms, TraceGains AI provides:
Food-specific intelligence
Built around ingredients, formulas, suppliers, compliance, and product development.
Connected product context
Brings the data and context behind every formula together.
Native workflow integration
Embeds AI into the R&D and NPD workflows teams already use.
Purpose-built accuracy
Grounds outputs in structured food data, taxonomies, and business rules.
End-to-end NPD support
Connects formulation with sourcing, specifications, compliance, testing, and commercialization.
Compliant, rules-based nutritional calculation
Integration with TraceGains NutriCalc can reduce risk and resolve guesswork with industry-standard nutritional calculations and data sets.
SECURITY
Designed to keep your data protected and your teams in control
- Independently validated: SOC 2 data security across every solution.
- Human control: Users can review and override AI recommendations.
- Protected data: Customer, supplier, and recipe data stay secure and isolated. Your recipes and supply chain are secured with comprehensive, best-practice security protocols.
- No AI training on your data: Proprietary supplier and customer data is never used to train LLMs or other AI models.
- Humans stay in the loop: AI agents work with your teams and follow their rules.
Frequently asked questions (FAQ) on AI Formulation and TraceGains AI
What is AI Formulation?
AI Formulation is an AI-powered workspace designed specifically for food and beverage product development. It helps R&D teams develop and evaluate formulas, explore ingredients, analyze regulatory considerations, plan testing, and manage formulation work in one connected environment.
How is AI Formulation different from ChatGPT or other general-purpose AI tools?
General-purpose AI can generate ideas, but it lacks the specialized food-science context and product data needed for real-world formulation. AI Formulation is purpose-built for food and beverage R&D and works within the broader TraceGains product development ecosystem.
Can AI Formulation help with ingredient substitutions?
Yes. AI Formulation can help R&D teams explore ingredient alternatives and assess relevant formulation considerations when making a substitution, helping scientists iterate without starting from scratch.
Can AI Formulation help identify potential regulatory or food-safety issues?
AI Formulation can surface potential considerations around ingredients, allergens, claims, nutrition, specifications, suppliers, and other available product context while a formula is being developed. These insights support expert review rather than replacing formal regulatory or FSQ decisions.
Can AI Formulation use our company’s own data?
Yes. AI Formulation is designed to work with the product, ingredient, supplier, and other business context available within the TraceGains ecosystem, helping make AI outputs more relevant to your organization and products.
Who is AI Formulation designed for?
AI Formulation is built primarily for food and beverage R&D teams, including food scientists, formulators, product developers, and innovation teams. Its connected data and workflows can also support collaboration with FSQ, Regulatory, Sourcing, and other NPD stakeholders.
How does AI Formulation fit into the broader NPD process?
AI Formulation is part of a connected product development environment rather than a standalone AI tool. This allows formulation work to connect with the data and workflows surrounding ingredients, suppliers, specifications, compliance, testing, and commercialization.
What types of formulas can AI Formulation support?
AI Formulation is designed for food and beverage product development across a range of formulation needs. The specific capabilities and data available can vary based on your TraceGains environment and use case.
Can I use the solution for nutritional labeling?
Yes. AI Formulation is natively integrated with TraceGains NutriCalc, letting you create accurate, calculated nutritional calculations using recognized industry-standard calculations and compliant data sets, with support for multiple international labeling formats and standards.
Can AI Formulation compare multiple formulas?
Yes. AI Formulation can compare formulas based on criteria you specify, and can help you balance complex tradeoffs for the best achievable outcome.
Can AI Formulation support reformulation after ingredient or supplier change?
AI Formulation can adjust formulas to account for ingredient changes, and can capture and document the impact of changes for your review and approval. It can also advise on the potential impacts of changes you’re considering, and can use your feedback to help select the best approach.
How does AI Formulation protect proprietary recipes and formulas?
Formulas never leave your secure instance, are never used to train any model, and can never be accessed by anyone that you don’t explicitly authorize. TraceGains realizes that your unique recipes are valuable intellectual property, and our independently-audited data security infrastructure extends to every AI-powered solution we implement.
Turn your next product idea into a production-ready formula
See how TraceGains AI Formulation connects formulation, sourcing, compliance, testing, nutrition, and product data in one workspace built for food and beverage R&D.