End-to-end product development for functional food & beverage brands — from first bench run to a co-packer-ready, commercially viable product. Specializing in RTD, powders, bars, confectionery, and baked goods.
Turn a product idea into a technically grounded concept — feasibility, ingredient direction, functional benefit, and a realistic path to market.
Hands-on bench formulation for RTD beverages, ready-to-mix powders, bars, confectionery, and baked goods — balancing taste, function, cost, and label.
Protein, fiber, prebiotics, creatine, nootropics and other actives — dosed for efficacy and claims without wrecking taste, texture, or stability.
Bridge bench to plant: emulsion stability, hot-fill / HTST / retort, pH, HLB, and the processing parameters that make a formula survive production.
Production-ready recipes and documentation a co-packer will accept and run — so you scale without rejections or expensive rework.
Stability testing strategy plus diagnosis and fixes for separation, bloom, off-notes, and texture failures.
Led by Andrew Firestone, a food scientist (B.S. Food Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison) with deep experience in functional ingredients, beverage systems, and the analytical work behind a formula that holds up at scale. The science is the differentiator.
From the first idea through formulation, scale-up, and co-packer hand-off, you work with one person who understands both the chemistry and the commercial realities — speed to market, cost targets, and what retailers and manufacturers actually require.
Free Recipe Teardown and scoping — we pin down the product, the constraints, and the biggest risks.
Bench development and iteration until the product delivers on taste, function, cost, and claims.
Manufacturability work and process design so the formula survives commercial production.
Production-ready recipes and documentation handed to your co-packer — ready to launch.
Send your current recipe or product idea and I'll flag the top 2–3 things most likely to break at scale — texture, shelf-life, dosing, or co-packer fit. Most founders find at least one risk they didn't know was there.
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