Ai-powered formulation platform for food and beverage products and ingredients
Our platform, innov8 NXT, is a next-gen Product Lifecycle Management platform with AI-powered formulation at its core to accelerate food and ingredient formulation.
The platform has:
- A very easy to use Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN):
- Data Management with enterprise search capabilities
- AI-powered formulations for reduced time to market
- Inbuilt integrations with your existing platform such as SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.
- Enterprise-grade security to protect your precious IP
Core purpose Accelerate food and beverage product development by cutting down the number of physical experiments needed at bench and pilot scale. Support R&D teams building things like flavor formulations, plant-based products, protein-enriched items, and other novel F&B formats with multi-constraint formulation tools.
How it works Uses AI-driven Design of Experiments (DOE) to explore formulation space digitally, then suggests a small set of high-probability winning recipes to test in the lab. Centralizes R&D data into a single knowledge hub so teams can reuse past experiments, avoid duplicate work, and collaborate in real time across projects.
Key capabilities Optimizes formulations simultaneously for nutrition, taste, texture, functionality, regulatory fit so R&D teams can hit complex targets like taste, texture, nutrition, and claims, while controlling costs and compliance Provides end-to-end support across the R&D lifecycle, from early experimentation through to scaling towards production processes for food and ingredient companies.
Business impact Increases “Product Velocity” by shortening development cycles and improving first-pass success rates on new and reformulated products. Enables more responsive innovation to market trends and customer briefs, while lowering overall R&D cost per project for CPG and ingredient manufacturers.
About BCDiLabs
BCDiLabs (also known as Innovate Nxt) provides an AI-powered software platform called Innov8 OS, designed specifically for the food and beverage industry. The platform integrates AI-driven experimentation into the product development and R&D lifecycle, allowing teams to optimize workflows, refine formulations, and balance complex variables such as taste, texture, nutritional profiles, regulatory requirements, cost, and supply chain constraints. By shifting from traditional, manual, and trial-and-error methods to an AI-accelerated approach, the company aims to reduce development times and improve product velocity for formulators.
The platform addresses common industry challenges like slow time-to-market and fragmented R&D systems by offering end-to-end coverage from bench-scale testing through pilot and production certification. Its ability to enable data-driven, personalized product development helps CPG and ingredient companies remain competitive. BCDiLabs has demonstrated its capabilities through successes such as accelerating the formulation of high-protein dairy beverages, gluten-free baked goods, and plant-based alternatives, and it continues to engage with industry professionals to showcase the impact of AI on the future of food science.
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