AI PLATFORM DESIGNED FOR R&D

Food and beverage product development project management dashboard. Capture all your development initiatives, data and learnings - whether they are consumer test results, expert panels, or internal tests done in the bench top.

DecreasE time to market AND increasE consumer liking while saving costs

FOOD & BEVERAGE MANUFACTURING IS IN TRANSITION

R&D faces rapid changes in consumer demand, new regulations and ingredient supply. These challenges drive the need to accelerate time-to-market, expand the search for alternative ingredients and reduce costs in manufacturing.

LATEST RESULTS FROM CUSTOMERS

  • The key objective for R&D remains to be decreasing time-to-revenue and recent studies have shown it often takes over a year to get a product from ideation to market.

    Exhive is proven to drastically cut down iteration rounds as the generative AI platform eliminates best bets and replaces them with data-driven decisions.

  • Accelerated time-to-market goals and fluctuating ingredient prices & supply add pressure on cost management.

    Exhive cuts down product developers’ time, empowering them to complete a greater amount of projects, with higher success rates.

  • Consumers are increasingly expecting affordable, healthy, yet delicious products while compromising on consumer liking remains non-negotiable.

    Exhive operates with multiple product requirements at once while increasing consumer liking. Building better products, faster.

  • Traditional product development methods typically aim to solve one product improvement at a time, and initiatives around the same product are handled sequentially in separate projects.

    With the Exhive Platform, you can tackle multiple product objectives, from cost reduction to quality improvements, within the same projects enabling faster results with fewer prototypes produced.


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one platform for all r&d tasks

Exhive’s AI-platform generates better recipes, faster and cheaper. The tool’s single data hub combined with a human feedback loop produces product formulations that consumers love. The platform ensures data security and provides a simple, user-friendly interface made for product developers.

✔️ Unlimited recipe generation

✔️ One view for project results and learnings

✔️ Multiple product targets simultaneously

✔️ Reusable data stored in one place

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With Exhive, product developers can achieve better results IN LESS TIME.

The platform seamlessly fits into the industry's standard ways of working and tackles common challenges in product development.

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Improve consumer liking, sensory and physical characteristics of the product simultaneously in one go with the Exhive platform.

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COST REDUCTION
Reduce the cost of formulation with the Exhive platform while improving or retaining consumer liking metrics.

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PROCESS MODELING
Model manufacturing processes and identify optimal parameter configurations, improve quality and reduce defects on the production line - together or separately with formulation improvements.

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INGREDIENT REPLACEMENT
Find the optimal formulation while ingredient specifications change or replace them all together. Explore new ingredients and produce the best compound with the Exhive platform.

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NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Exhive allows you to experiment across wide ranges of ingredients and flavours, finding surprising and unexpected combinations.

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CASE STUDIES

Exhive’s platform adapts to numerous products categories varying from baked goods to beverages, flavour development and much more. The tool achieves tangible results such as increasing consumer liking while reducing cost.



The platform optimizes project targets across multiple ingredients and processes, leverages the sensory attributes and other metrics, all simultaneously in one reformulation project, to reach the product objectives.

  • A leading spice manufacturer revamped their high-volume spice mix with Exhive’s platform, achieving higher consumer liking, a 10% cost reduction, and 50% fewer prototypes.

    The result? Superior recipes surpassing market standards in quality and efficiency.

    Read the full client story here.

  • Facing strict new regulations, a renowned beverage brand used the platform to replace artificial sweeteners while maintaining flavor and consumer satisfaction.

    The result? The AI-driven approach delivered faster market-ready products, fewer prototypes, and even improved consumer liking across the entire product line.

    Read the full client story here.

  • A leading cookie manufacturer used the Exhive platform to reduce unwanted sensory characteristics by optimizing both recipe formulation and production processes. Product developers tested 48 recipe variations, while five key factory configurations were trialed to minimize costs.

    The result? 38% reduction in negative attributes and a 15% increase in overall consumer liking. With faster problem-solving and streamlined adjustments, the client improved product quality and reduced time to market, gaining a competitive edge.

    Read the full client story here.


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“As a product developer, it is always a challenge to balance the scientific desire to explore all possible variables with the business need to move quickly. The Exhive platform helps me achieve both by creating a thorough and efficient experimental design.

While I have previously only been able to explore 2-5 variables over a handful of levels for any given experimental design, this platform allows me to evaluate as many variables as the project requires over a very small number of samples, allowing me to achieve my goals quickly and efficiently while still keeping cost and nutrition in mind.”

Madeline Starr
Director of Research & Development
SmartSweets