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FOOD R&D PLM · REAL SCREENS

See the whole app, screen by screen.

Every screenshot below is the real product: a reduced-sugar granola line moving through the stage-gate pipeline, failing a pilot test, and getting fixed.

Four minutes, narrated: every section of the app, following one granola line from the dashboard to Millie AI's fix.

THE WALKTHROUGH

Click through it, step by step.

STEP 1 · THE MORNING VIEW

Your whole pipeline, one screen.

  • Products, formulas, tests, and sensory panels: live counts
  • “Needs attention” surfaces what stalled, so nothing slips
  • Every number links straight to the record behind it
LoopNPD dashboard: a “Needs attention” item for a failed pilot-batch test, an Ask Millie box, and counts of active products, formulas, ingredients and sensory studies.
One R&D pipeline at a glance: active products, open gates, sensory panels, and what needs attention.

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ONE COLLEAGUE WHO HAS READ EVERYTHING

One click. Millie reads it all.

A reduced-sugar granola failed its pilot: water activity 0.63 against a 0.60 ceiling, moisture 4.7% against 2–4%. You click Analyze. You type nothing. Millie AI pulls in the formula, the failed test, and the brief on its own, then writes the fix.

Real footage: one click on Analyze, and Millie AI reads the granola formula and its failed pilot without being told, then names the fix and who sells it.
Millie AI's analysis report for a reduced-sugar granola: the formula and its pilot tests on the left, one failed on moisture and water activity, and a Priority 1 suggestion on the right, trehalose as a humectant, with the mechanism, a high-confidence rating, cited sources, and a supplier.
Millie AI's suggestion: the ingredient type, the mechanism, a confidence rating, cited literature, and a supplier, ready to request a sample.

Every suggestion carries its confidence and its source. You bring the science, LoopNPD brings the recall.

What's next

When the Ingredient Marketplace opens, a suggestion can point to a specific, orderable supplier ingredient, cited to that supplier's TDS, never influenced by what a supplier pays.

EVERY DECISION ON RECORD

Every gate is a visible decision with the approver and timestamp attached, from product charter to post-launch review.

Walk the pipeline with your own product.

Free to start, with founding rates for early customers. No card required.

Coming soon · The Ingredient Marketplace

Your customers are asking AI to find ingredients. Make sure it finds yours.

Talk to us about joining

Formulators now type questions like “a clean-label emulsifier that holds up through baking” into an AI assistant, where they used to search supplier websites. That assistant can only work with what it finds on the public web: a scraped PDF, an outdated spec, or someone else's product page.

We're building the Ingredient Database for AI to use: a database of ingredient technical data that suppliers provide and control. Formulators reach it through Millie AI inside LoopNPD and through an Ingredient API that people build into their own AI apps and the formulation software they already use. You decide which details are public and which are shared only when someone asks.

  • Found in the new search format: AI assistants and apps, not only websites
  • Your data, attested by you, shown only the way you set it
  • Every request tells you who is asking and what they need it for

Be in it from the start.

Founding suppliers are joining now. Tell us what you supply and talk to us about getting your ingredients into the database before it opens.

Talk to us about joining

Or get email updates

We'll email you when the database opens. No call needed.

No card needed. Free listing tier at launch.

FOR INGREDIENT MANUFACTURERS & DISTRIBUTORS

The right ingredient is buried under a mountain of technical data. We surface yours.

Our team spent years in ingredient technical sales and saw the same gap everywhere: excellent ingredients, thorough application guides, and too few specialists to put them in front of the formulator who needs them. Millie AI, LoopNPD's AI co-pilot, does that work, inside the formulation itself, with your documentation as the cited source.

Or talk to us about the supplier side

Reach small CPG formulators at the moment their formula needs your ingredient.

ONBOARDING

List your ingredients. Millie AI does the application work.

You provide your ingredient list with the technical documentation you already have: TDS, specs, application guides, usage ranges. We structure it so Millie AI can reason with it.

From then on, when a formulator's product has a matching gap, Millie AI recommends your ingredient using their live formulation work, at the moment the gap appears, with your data cited as the source and a confidence score attached. A conventional lead is a name and an email address; a LoopNPD lead already has your ingredient slotted into a specific formula, at a specific usage range.

When that formulator requests a sample, the technical conversation is already half over. What's left is the part you're good at.

Millie AI · suggestion87% confidence
Example output

Suggested replacement for mono- & diglycerides: sunflower lecithin at 0.4–0.6% to keep the clean-label claim while holding emulsion stability through baking.


Source

Emulsifier Inc., Clean-Label Emulsifiers application guide, p.12

Supplier name is fictional, used for advertising purposes only.

Heuristic starting point. Requires lab validation before use in a production formula.

That's the actual suggestion card from the app. The source line is your name, your document, your page number, and the button is how a formulator reaches you.

You can't dedicate a technical rep to a $2M brand that might buy four pallets a year. That math has never worked, so those formulators default to whatever they can find and validate alone. Millie AI reaches every one of them at once, at the moment the gap appears, so your ingredient loses on discoverability, not on performance. The lead arrives in-context (inside real formulation work, not a banner ad), intent-rich (they saw your ingredient proposed for their actual gap), and attributed (your technical documentation is the citation, so the trust transfers to you).

You onboardA gap appearsMillie AI cites youThe lead reaches you

Coming soon · Supplier Portal & Ingredient Marketplace

Get your ingredients recommended to the formulators who actually need them.

LoopNPD is building a supplier side: list your catalog once, control exactly who can see each ingredient, and have Millie AI surface it inside real formulation work, cited to your own spec sheet, only to customers whose formula genuinely fits. Founding suppliers are being onboarded by hand now.

  • List your catalog once; it's visible to every fitting formula
  • Suggestions cite your TDS, not a black box
  • Every request that reaches you already understands the fit
See the tiered visibility model & full marketplace pitch

Your data, on your terms.

Your data, attested by you.
You author your ingredient data from your own systems via a validated Excel template. The AI never authors it: allergen, certification, nutrition, and safety specs carry legal weight, so correctness stays yours and attributable to you.
Used only within its rules.
Supplier data serves in-platform search and suggestions within its visibility rules, never used to train models, never disclosed beyond what its tier permits. That promise is written down before you upload a single spec.

Verified suppliers only. No listing publishes before your business is verified: domain-verified business email at minimum, with a manual-review path behind the Verified Supplier badge. It's how a customer knows a listing that carries a major ingredient maker's name really comes from that company.

Supplier FAQ

Free listing tier to start (a small public-listing cap). Paid tiers add more listings, analytics, seats, proprietary grants, and the Verified badge. Final figures are being set; founding suppliers get founder pricing.

Yes, that's the copilot-eligible tier. It never appears in search or browsing, but Millie AI can suggest it against a matching formula, turning each suggestion into a vetting step before you release full data.

No. You author your ingredient data from your own systems via a validated Excel template. The AI never authors allergen, certification, nutrition, or safety data. A future “draft-assist” (if built) would only pre-fill a form you confirm field by field before anything publishes.

The customer's copy freezes with a “discontinued/revoked” badge (existing formulations keep working) and the ingredient is immediately removed from search and copilot eligibility, its embeddings purged from the index.

The supplier catalog, public library, and vetted-request loop come first (Phase 1). Millie AI surfacing supplier ingredients follows in Phase 2. Join the founding-supplier waitlist to be onboarded first.

THE CONVERSATION STARTS WARM

By the time a formulator reaches out, the technical conversation is already half over. Millie AI did the application engineering before you ever heard about it.

Become a founding supplier.

We're curating the first catalogs by hand. Founding suppliers get founder pricing in exchange for complete, high-quality listings that make the library credible on day one, and first position when the Millie AI integration goes live.

Free listing tier at launch. No card to join the waitlist.

Talk to us about the supplier side

Request early access
Coming soon · Supplier Portal & Ingredient Marketplace

INGREDIENT MARKETPLACE

Leads that arrive with your ingredient already in the formula.

Millie AI, LoopNPD's AI co-pilot, recommends your ingredient inside a formulator's real product work, at the moment their formula has a gap your ingredient fills, with your technical documentation cited as the source. So every lead comes with the application already established: the product, the gap it solves, and a usage range.

You also decide, per ingredient, who can see it: proprietary, copilot-eligible, or public.

WHAT IT IS

A tiered ingredient marketplace, not another flat catalog.

An ingredient marketplace is a catalog where suppliers list products and technical documentation for formulators to search and request samples from. LoopNPD's version adds one thing others don't have: a supplier-set visibility level on every ingredient, controlling not just whether it's listed, but whether Millie AI may recommend it before it's ever publicly visible.

Proprietary

Visible only to the specific customers you name. No one else can find it, see it, learn it exists, or have Millie AI mention it. For ingredients developed for, or committed to, one customer's formula.

The vetting gate

Copilot-eligible

Invisible to search and browsing, but Millie AI may use its data and suggest it against a matching formula gap. This is the vetting gate: your ingredient gets recommended, the customer requests documents, and you learn who's genuinely interested before you release full information.

Public

Full information and documents, brochures included, visible to any customer. They self-assess fit and request samples directly.

On bulk import, a blank or invalid visibility cell defaults to the most restrictive level: hidden, never public.

HOW A SUGGESTION WORKS

Cited to your data, not a black-box ranking.

When Millie AI recommends a supplier's ingredient, it cites specific, versioned, supplier-attested data, never a bare “AI-powered” claim. The formulator sees exactly why the ingredient fits, and exactly whose document backs the claim.

Millie AI · suggestion87% confidence
Example output

For the heat-stable emulsifier gap in this bake, consider Emulsifier Inc.'s sunflower lecithin at 0.4–0.6%: holds emulsion stability through a 90 °C process and keeps the clean-label claim.


Source

Emulsifier Inc. TDS v3 · HLB 4 · heat-stable to 90 °C internal · supplier-verified 2026-05.

Supplier name is fictional, used for advertising purposes only.

Heuristic starting point. Requires lab validation before use in a production formula.

HOW IT'S DIFFERENT

Other directories wait to be searched. This one comes to you.

What suppliers get from each kind of platform.

LoopNPD compared with other ingredient platforms, by feature
Feature LoopNPD coming soon Other ingredient directories Supplier document-exchange platforms
Your ingredient recommended inside a formulator's live formula gap ✓ — —
Your spec sheet cited as the source of the recommendation ✓ — —
Leads arrive with the product, the gap and a usage range ✓ — —
Visibility set per ingredient: proprietary, copilot-eligible or public ✓ — ◐
Formulators can search and browse listings ✓ ✓ ◐
Spec and compliance document exchange — ◐ ✓

✓ Included   ◐ Varies by product   — Not included   Soon In build

FOR INGREDIENT SUPPLIERS · YOUR CATALOG, YOUR CALL

Suppliers: you decide who sees each ingredient you list (proprietary, copilot-eligible, or public) before any of it goes live.

Become a founding supplier.

We're curating the first catalogs by hand. Founding suppliers get founder pricing in exchange for complete, high-quality listings that make the library credible on day one, and first position when the Millie AI integration goes live.

Free listing tier at launch. No card to join the waitlist.

Talk to us about the supplier side

Request early access

See how formulators use LoopNPD Read the full supplier pitch

PRICING · FREE TO START

How much LoopNPD costs, in full.

Compare plans

Features included in each LoopNPD plan
Features Free $0/mo Free forever Get started Solo $29/mo Founding rate Get started Professional $179/mo Founding rate Get started Team $399/mo Founding rate Get started Enterprise from $1,500/mo Sales-led Talk to us
Formulations & version history Up to 10 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Unlimited formulas & versions — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
8-stage stage-gate tracking ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Sensory + analytical test records ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
CSV / Excel export of all your data ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Nutrition calculation (FDA rounding) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Multiple users / seats — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Advanced roles & permissions — — — ✓ ✓
Publish a formulation as a shareable PDF — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Batch scaling & yield math — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Supplier records — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Bulk ingredient import (CSV / Excel) — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Version compare across formulas — — ✓ ✓ ✓
Nutrition Facts label PDF — — ✓ ✓ ✓
Millie AI Product Co-Pilot with your own AI key — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
AI sensory analysis — — ✓ ✓ ✓
AI ingredient document extraction — — ✓ ✓ ✓
AI cutting (bench-tasting) notes — — ✓ ✓ ✓
Millie AI Product Co-Pilot, hosted by LoopNPD — — — ✓ ✓
Ingredient finder (Find with Millie) — — — ✓ ✓
Project-brief co-pilot — — — ✓ ✓
Reverse-engineer a formula from a label — — — ✓ ✓
Cross-module AI recall (formulas, sensory, gates, suppliers) — — — ✓ ✓
School & institutional meal-pattern crediting — — — ✓ ✓
CN label / signed-PFS crediting docs — — — ✓ ✓
Priority email support — — ✓ ✓ ✓
Onboarding assistance — — — ✓ ✓
SSO / SAML + audit exports — — — — ✓
Custom data migration — — — — ✓
Dedicated onboarding & training — — — — ✓

✓ Included   — Not included

Founding pricing. Early customers start on founding rates, shown below next to standard pricing (about 20% higher). Prices may change over time.

Free

Get version chaos under control on your first product.

Free

Free forever on your first product

1 seat · 1 active product at a time


  • 1 active product at a time
  • Up to 10 active formulas
  • Up to 100 ingredients
  • Sensory + analytical test records
  • Full stage-gate tracking
  • CSV export of all your data, always

14-day full-feature trial, then free forever (read-only past 1 active product; export any time).

Archive a finished product to free a slot. Export any time.

Free to start

Solo

For a solo formulator or a two-person bench running real projects.

$35/month

$29/month

Founding member price

Up to 2 seats · 50 active products per seat


  • Everything in Free
  • 50 active products per seat
  • Up to 200 ingredients
  • Batch scaling & yield math
  • Supplier & ingredient library
  • Bulk ingredient import (CSV / Excel)
  • Bring your own AI key to use the Millie AI Product Co-Pilot
Most teams start here

Professional

For a small NPD team shipping 3–15 products a year.

$219/month

$179/month

Founding member price

3 seats included · +$25/seat to 5


  • Everything in Solo
  • 50 active products per seat
  • Up to 500 ingredients
  • 750 AI credits a month on LoopNPD's key (+100 per extra seat), and the Millie AI Product Co-Pilot with your own AI key (included on Team). Hosted AI in the trial ends with the trial
  • Version compare across formulas
  • Priority email support

Team

For teams that want Millie AI reasoning across everything, at scale.

$479/month

$399/month

Founding member price

5 seats included · +$45/seat to 20


  • Everything in Professional
  • Unlimited ingredients
  • Millie AI co-pilot and reverse-engineer, hosted by LoopNPD
  • 2,000 AI credits a month on LoopNPD's key (+200 per extra seat), or bring your own AI key for more
  • Cross-module recall (formulas + sensory + gates + suppliers)
  • Advanced roles & permissions
  • Priority support
  • Onboarding assistance

Enterprise

from $1,500/mo

More than 20 seats, SSO, custom product counts, security & procurement review, dedicated onboarding, an SLA, and AI credits set per contract.

PRICING QUESTIONS

What the price includes.

No card is required to start. Every plan begins with a 14-day full-feature trial; after it, the Free tier stays free forever. It becomes read-only once you have more than 1 active product, but your data stays viewable and exportable. Pick a paid plan any time to keep creating and editing. Cancel whenever you like: no long-term contracts, no cancellation fees. Sign up now to start on founding rates, below standard pricing.

Enterprise food PLM platforms are typically sold through custom, multi-department enterprise contracts, and pricing usually isn't published. LoopNPD publishes flat, self-serve pricing (a free tier, then founding rates from $29 to $399 per month, with Enterprise from $1,500), built for teams of one to five, with self-serve plans from a solo formulator up to 20 seats, no per-department licensing and no sales call required to see a price.

Yes to both. There's a Free tier (1 active product at a time, no card, free forever), and every paid plan starts with a 14-day full-feature trial including the AI co-pilot, with no credit card required to start. The trial includes 150 hosted AI credits, and hosted AI ends when the trial does. After that, the Millie AI Product Co-Pilot is included on Team (on LoopNPD's key, or Team can connect its own AI key), and Solo and Professional use it with their own AI key; reverse-engineer is Team only; and once Professional's 750 monthly credits are used, its AI features pause until the next month unless an admin connects your own AI key.

Yes. Change plans or cancel from your account at any time; there's no long-term contract and no cancellation fee. If you cancel, your data stays exportable.

That's who it's for. The Free tier lets one person start at no cost, and Solo is built for a solo scientist or a two-person bench. Many food scientists work alone and invite someone else only when they need a second signature on a gate. No per-department licensing, no hidden minimums.

COMPARE FOOD R&D PLM SOFTWARE

How LoopNPD compares.

What each kind of tool typically covers for a small food R&D team.

LoopNPD compared with other kinds of food R&D tools, by feature
Feature LoopNPD AI formulation assistants Enterprise food PLM Spreadsheets
Formulations with automatic version history ✓ — ✓ —
Sensory evaluations in the same workspace ✓ — ◐ —
Analytical and lab results linked to each formula ✓ — ✓ —
Stage-gate pipeline with every approval on record ✓ — ✓ —
AI co-pilot that reads your own formulas and test results ✓ ◐ ◐ —
Every AI suggestion cites a source and a confidence score ✓ ◐ ◐ —
Supplier ingredients recommended in context Soon — — —
Published, self-serve pricing ✓ ◐ — ✓
Built for teams of one to five ✓ ◐ — ✓
Full CSV and Excel export ✓ ◐ ◐ ✓

✓ Included   ◐ Varies by product   — Not included   Soon In build

Columns describe what each category of tool typically offers; individual products vary.

GLOSSARY

Food R&D and stage-gate terms, defined plainly.

Short, direct-answer definitions for the vocabulary that comes up in formulation, sensory evaluation, stage-gate development, and ingredient sourcing, including terms LoopNPD originates, like tiered ingredient visibility.

Glossary / Bench-top trial

What is a bench-top trial in food product development?

A bench-top trial is a small-batch test of a food formula made in a development kitchen or lab, at a scale of grams to a few kilograms, before any investment in pilot-plant or factory-scale production. It is where a formula first exists as a physical product rather than a spreadsheet of percentages: the stage where texture, flavor, and process behavior get tested against the target.

In a stage-gate model, bench-top trials sit early in the pipeline: First Bench-Top Trials, then Bench Top Sample Sign Off. A formula that passes bench trials still has to survive scale-up and factory handover; batch behavior, mixing shear, and heat transfer all change at larger scale, which is why cook loss and batch yield get re-measured at each stage rather than assumed constant.

LoopNPD versions every bench-top save automatically (a formula tagged, for example, FML-2174 v3), so a formula's bench-trial history (what changed between versions and why) stays attached to the formula instead of scattered across dated spreadsheet filenames.

Glossary / Cook loss / batch yield

What are cook loss and batch yield?

Cook loss is the weight a food product loses during cooking or processing, mostly moisture and rendered fat, expressed as a percentage of the raw batch weight. Batch yield is the inverse view: the percentage of raw ingredient weight that survives as finished, sellable product. A batch yield of 92.4% means 92.4% of what went into the mixer came out as product; the rest left as cook loss.

Both numbers directly drive cost per kilogram: a formula with high cook loss needs more raw ingredient to hit the same finished weight, which raises true ingredient cost even if the formula percentages look identical to a lower-loss formula. Yield also tends to shift between bench-top and factory scale, which is one reason formulas get re-verified at each stage-gate rather than assumed to scale linearly.

LoopNPD calculates yield and cost-per-kilogram automatically as a formula's ingredients and process parameters are entered, and keeps the calculation attached to the specific formula version it describes.

Glossary / Copilot-eligible visibility

What is copilot-eligible visibility?

Copilot-eligible is one of three ingredient-visibility levels in LoopNPD's planned supplier marketplace (coming soon): an ingredient set to copilot-eligible never appears in search or public browsing, but Millie AI may still cite its data and suggest it to a formulator whose formula has a genuinely matching gap. The formulator then requests documentation directly from the supplier, which is the point: the supplier learns who's seriously interested before releasing full technical data to the open web.

The other two tiers are proprietary (visible only to specific named customers; nobody else can find it, see it, or have Millie AI mention it) and public (full documentation visible to anyone). Copilot-eligible sits deliberately between them: hidden from browsing, but reachable through a real, matching use case.

This tier is why LoopNPD's marketplace is described as tiered, not flat, in contrast to other ingredient directories. See tiered ingredient visibility for the umbrella concept.

Glossary / Data provenance

What is data provenance in a formulation system?

Data provenance is a record of where a specific value in a formulation came from (a government database like USDA FoodData Central, a value the formulator entered directly, or an AI-generated estimate) attached to the value itself, not just implied by context. It matters because deterministic data (a measured nutrient value) and probabilistic data (an AI estimate) carry very different weight in a regulatory or quality decision, and they should never look identical on screen.

LoopNPD tags every nutrient and cost value with its provenance (USDA FDC, user-defined, or AI-estimated) visibly, so a formulator (or an auditor) can see at a glance which numbers are sourced fact and which are a starting estimate that still needs verification.

This is also why every Millie AI suggestion on LoopNPD carries a confidence score, a cited source, and an explicit "requires lab validation before production use" caveat: provenance isn't a footnote, it is a required field on every AI claim the system makes.

Glossary / Formulation management software

What is formulation management software?

Formulation management software replaces spreadsheet-per-formula workflows with a system that tracks every ingredient, percentage, version, and calculated value (nutrition, cost per kilogram, batch yield) for a food or beverage product in one place. Instead of reconstructing a diff between two spreadsheet files by hand, a formulator opens two versions side by side and sees exactly what changed: the ingredient, the percentage, the cost.

The category includes enterprise platforms built for large CPG teams and smaller tools aimed at solo formulators and small NPD teams. The core job is the same: hold the formulation as structured data, not a static spreadsheet, so nutrition, allergens, cost, and yield recalculate automatically as the formula changes, and every save becomes a permanent, comparable version.

LoopNPD is built specifically for the small end of that market: a team of one to five shipping 3–15 products a year, using Excel and shared drives today. Automatic versioning (e.g. a formula tagged FML-2174 v3), nutrition-panel calculation, and batch-yield math run alongside sensory evaluations and the stage-gate pipeline in one workspace.

Glossary / Hedonic scale

What is a hedonic scale in sensory evaluation?

A hedonic scale is a rating scale, typically 9 points, from "dislike extremely" to "like extremely", used to measure how much a panelist likes a food sample, as opposed to whether they can tell two samples apart (a triangle test). It is the standard instrument for consumer-preference and acceptance testing in food sensory work.

Hedonic data is most useful compared across versions of the same formula: did liking go up or down between v2 and v3, and which attribute (texture, flavor, appearance) tracks the change. A single hedonic score in isolation says little; the trend across versions and the correlation with a formula change (e.g., total fat moving from 26.5% to 24.0%) is where the signal is.

LoopNPD stores hedonic results linked to the exact formula version tested, so a liking drop between versions can be traced back to the specific ingredient or percentage change that likely caused it: the kind of cross-version reasoning Millie AI is built to surface, always with the sensory study cited as its source.

Glossary / Ingredient marketplace

What is an ingredient marketplace?

An ingredient marketplace is an online catalog where ingredient suppliers list products, specifications, and technical documentation for formulators to search and request samples from. Other ingredient directories use a flat listing model: an ingredient is either published or it isn't. LoopNPD's planned marketplace (coming soon) is tiered instead: a supplier sets one of three visibility levels per ingredient (proprietary, copilot-eligible, or public) controlling not just whether it's listed, but whether Millie AI may recommend it before it's ever publicly visible.

The tiered model exists because not every ingredient a supplier makes should be broadcast to every formulator. A copilot-eligible ingredient is invisible to search and browsing, but Millie AI can still suggest it against a matching formula gap, turning each suggestion into a vetting step before the supplier releases full documentation to a stranger.

See tiered ingredient visibility for the full explanation, and the ingredient marketplace page for how the coming-soon supplier catalog, the vetted-lead loop, and the founding-supplier waitlist fit together.

Glossary / Stage-gate process

What is a stage-gate process in food product development?

A stage-gate process breaks new product development into a fixed sequence of stages (project charter and design, first bench-top trials, bench-top sign-off, scale-up and pilot tests, factory handover and trial, product submissions, launch, and post-launch review) each ending in a gate where a named person approves, holds, or fails the project before it moves on. In food R&D this replaces ad-hoc, tribal-knowledge decision-making with a visible record of who approved what, and when.

The model traces back to Robert Cooper's work on new-product-development discipline, later adapted by large CPG companies for food-specific stages: business-concept approval, bench-top trials, pilot-scale tests, factory trial, and post-launch review. LoopNPD runs a food-specific stage-gate pipeline covering that full arc, from product charter to post-launch review, sized for a team of one to five rather than an enterprise NPD department.

Each gate carries a Pass, Hold, or Fail decision with an approver and a timestamp, not a verbal agreement in a hallway or a decision buried three replies deep in an email thread. That record is what lets a small team answer "why did we approve this formula in March?" six months later without guessing.

Glossary / Technical data sheet (TDS)

What is a TDS (technical data sheet)?

A technical data sheet (TDS) is the document an ingredient supplier publishes describing a specific ingredient's functional properties (usage range, heat stability, allergen status, certifications, typical application data) so a formulator can evaluate fit without running a trial first. It is the primary source a food scientist cites when justifying an ingredient choice in a formula or a regulatory submission.

A good TDS states concrete, versioned facts: pH range, heat tolerance, recommended usage percentage, allergen declarations, kosher/halal/organic certifications, and application notes ("holds emulsion stability through a 90°C bake"). A thin one is marketing copy with a product name on it.

On LoopNPD, every AI co-pilot (Millie AI) suggestion that recommends a specific ingredient cites the TDS (or equivalent application guide) it drew from, by document and page, alongside a confidence score, never a bare "AI-powered" claim with no traceable source.

Glossary / Tiered ingredient visibility

What is tiered ingredient visibility?

Tiered ingredient visibility is LoopNPD's term for a three-level control a supplier sets on each ingredient in its catalog: proprietary (visible only to named customers), copilot-eligible (hidden from browsing, but usable by Millie AI for a matching suggestion), or public (fully visible to any formulator), instead of the flat listed-or-not model other ingredient directories use. The supplier decides, per ingredient, exactly who can see it and whether an AI may recommend it before it's public.

Other ingredient databases don't offer this: they are flat, an ingredient is listed or it isn't. Tiered visibility exists because a real supplier catalog isn't uniformly shareable. Some ingredients are committed to one customer's formula and must never surface elsewhere. Some are ready for broad discovery. Most sit in between: the supplier wants qualified interest, not a public listing, and copilot-eligible is built for exactly that gap.

On a bulk import, a blank or invalid visibility value defaults to the most restrictive tier (hidden, never public) so a data-entry mistake can never accidentally expose a proprietary formula relationship.

Glossary / Triangle test

What is a triangle test in sensory evaluation?

A triangle test is a sensory-evaluation method where a panelist is given three coded samples (two identical, one different) and asked to identify the odd one out, without being told which attribute changed. It is a discrimination test: it answers "can people tell these two formulas apart at all," not "which one do they prefer," which is a separate question answered by a hedonic scale.

Triangle tests are the standard tool for reformulation work, confirming a cost-down ingredient swap, a clean-label reformulation, or a supplier-substitution didn't create a perceptible difference, because the statistics (a 1-in-3 chance of a correct guess by luck alone) make the required panel size and significance threshold well understood and defensible.

LoopNPD's sensory module supports structured test setups like this: samples, attributes, scale, and panel are configured once, invitations go out, and responses land linked to the exact formula version being tested, not "the batch from Tuesday."

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Where we offer the Service. The Service is built for, and offered to, customers in the United States and Canada. We do not market it to, or knowingly accept customers located in, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland. If you are located outside the United States and Canada, you may use the Service only if we agree in writing.

Order of precedence. If documents conflict, this order applies: (1) a signed order form or enterprise agreement; (2) the plan terms shown at purchase; (3) these Terms; (4) policies we publish and incorporate by reference, such as our Privacy Policy (loopnpd.com/privacy), which forms part of these Terms.

2. Definitions

  • "Customer Data" means all data and content you or your Users submit to the Service, including formulations, ingredient lists and quantities, specifications, test and sensory results, documents, supplier relationships, project records, and AI prompts and outputs generated for you. Customer Data does not include Aggregated Data, Usage Data, or Account Contact Information.
  • "Account Contact Information" means the name, email address, company name, and job title or role of you and your Users, as provided when creating or managing an account.
  • "Usage Data" means technical and operational data about how the Service is used, such as feature usage, performance, and error logs.
  • "Aggregated Data" means statistical information derived from the activity of many organizations, combined and de-identified under Section 8 so that it does not identify, and cannot reasonably be used to identify, any customer, User, formula, brand, product, or supplier.
  • "Trend Reports" means industry-wide reports and data products built only from Aggregated Data and public sources, as described in Section 8.
  • "User" means an individual you authorize to use the Service under your account.
  • "AI Output" means content generated by the Service's AI features, including Millie.

3. The Service

LoopNPD is a software platform for food and consumer-goods product development, including formulation management, stage-gate project tracking, ingredient libraries, nutrition and labeling tools, a supplier directory, and an AI R&D co-pilot ("Millie"). Available features depend on your plan. We may improve, change, or retire features, but we will not materially reduce the core functionality of a paid plan during its current billing period.

Trial and free features are provided "as is," without any service commitment, and may be changed or withdrawn at any time. Our total liability for them is limited to US$1,000.

4. Accounts, Users, and seats

  • Provide accurate registration details and keep them current.
  • You are responsible for your Users, their credentials, and all activity under your account. Each seat is for one named User, and logins may not be shared.
  • Users must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where they live.
  • Your organization's owners and admins control membership, roles, and access. Pending invitations count toward your seat total. Removing a User detaches them from your organization; it does not delete the records they created.
  • Tell us promptly at support@loopnpd.com if you suspect unauthorized access to your account.

5. Plans, fees, and billing

  • Free plan. The Free plan has usage limits shown in the Service. If your organization is over those limits after a trial or paid plan ends, we may make the account read-only. You can still view and export your data, but you cannot add new records until you are back within the limits or upgrade.
  • Trials. Every new organization starts with a free 14-day trial of the Team plan — our highest self-serve plan — regardless of which plan you selected at sign-up. The trial begins when your organization is created and does not require a payment card. When the trial ends, your organization automatically moves to the Free plan (1 active product, 100 ingredients and 1 seat) unless you have added a payment method and chosen a paid plan. We will not charge you unless you add a payment method and choose a paid plan.
  • Paid plans are billed in advance for each billing period through our payment processor, Stripe, and renew automatically for the same period until you cancel. By choosing a paid plan, you agree to automatic renewal.
  • Seats. Seats are priced as shown at purchase. Seats you add are charged pro rata, and seats you remove are credited pro rata, from the day of the change. Both appear on your next invoice; a credit is not paid out as a refund.
  • Founding rate. Founding-rate pricing is an introductory price for early customers. It is not locked: it can change like any other price, with at least 30 days' notice under "Price changes" below. A founding rate ends if the subscription lapses or is cancelled, or if you change plans.
  • Price changes. We will give at least 30 days' notice of any price increase. The new price applies from your next billing period after that notice.
  • Cancellation. You can cancel at any time from your account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep access until then.
  • Refunds. Fees are non-refundable, except where the law requires otherwise or these Terms say so.
  • Failed payments. If a payment fails, we will notify you and retry. If payment is still outstanding 14 days after that notice, we may downgrade or suspend the account.
  • Taxes. Fees do not include taxes. You are responsible for sales tax, VAT, GST, and similar taxes, other than taxes on our net income.

6. Your data

  • You own your Customer Data. We claim no ownership of your formulations, formula versions, test results, documents, or other content.
  • Our license to it. You grant us a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive license to host, copy, process, transmit, and display Customer Data only to provide, secure, and support the Service for you; to keep and review AI request records for the purposes in Section 9.8; to create Aggregated Data under Section 8; and as the law requires.
  • What we never do with Customer Data: we do not sell or license it. We do not share it, in any form that identifies you, with any other customer, supplier, or third party, except the service providers we need to run the Service. We do not use it to train, fine-tune, or develop any artificial-intelligence model, and neither does our AI provider (see Section 9).
  • Account Contact Information and marketing. Account Contact Information is not Customer Data. We may use it to send you service messages and to market LoopNPD's own products, including by sharing it, in hashed form where the platform supports it, with advertising platforms such as Meta, Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft to show LoopNPD ads to you and similar audiences, to exclude existing users, and to measure ad performance. We never share the contents of your Customer Data for advertising. Each User can opt out of advertising use at any time, as explained in our Privacy Policy, and we obtain consent first where the law requires it.
  • Isolation. Customer Data is logically separated by organization, and every query in the Service is scoped to your organization.
  • Security. We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards. Data is encrypted in transit and hosted on Google Cloud in the United States. If we become aware of a security breach affecting your Customer Data, we will notify you without undue delay.
  • Export and deletion. You can export your data at any time, including while your account is read-only. After your account closes, you have 30 days to export it. After that we may delete it. Copies in routine backups are overwritten on their normal cycle, and we keep data the law requires us to keep. You can ask us to delete your data sooner by writing to support@loopnpd.com.

7. Usage Data

We may collect and use Usage Data to operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Service. Usage Data does not include the content of your formulations, formula versions, or documents.

8. Aggregated Data and industry Trend Reports

We may publish industry-wide Trend Reports, similar to the trend reports grocery retailers publish about their overall sales. These reports show what the product-development industry as a whole is working on, for example which flavor profiles, ingredient categories, claims, or product formats are being developed more or less often over time. They never describe any single company.

8.1 What we may do. We may combine and de-identify activity across the organizations that use the Service to create Aggregated Data. We may use Aggregated Data to create Trend Reports, and we may publish, distribute, license, and sell those reports, including to (a) customers on paid plans, as part of their subscription, and (b) third parties who buy a Trend Report on its own. We own Aggregated Data and Trend Reports. Aggregated Data is not Customer Data and is not your Confidential Information. Creating and distributing it under this Section is not a sale or disclosure of your Customer Data.

8.2 What is never included. A Trend Report will never contain or reveal:

  • your organization's name, brand names, product names, or Users;
  • your supplier names, supplier relationships, or pricing;
  • any individual formula or formula version, ingredient quantity or percentage, specification, process, or test or sensory result;
  • your documents, notes, free text, or AI prompts and outputs;
  • any ingredient cost, price, or commercial term.

8.3 Safeguards. Every Trend Report follows these rules:

  • Minimum group size. Every published figure draws on at least 5 separate organizations. We suppress any category, region, or segment below that threshold, along with any related figure that would let it be worked out.
  • No dominant contributor. No single organization accounts for more than 25% of any published figure.
  • Trends only. Reports show directional and category-level trends, never formula-level detail.
  • Time lag. Reports cover periods that ended at least one calendar quarter before publication.
  • Broad segments. Geography and company size are reported only in broad bands.
  • Human review. A person reviews each report against these rules before release, and we keep a written re-identification risk assessment that we review at least once a year.
  • No raw extracts. We do not sell or share row-level or organization-level data. We release only finished aggregate reports and summary statistics.

8.4 No re-identification and no AI training. We commit to keeping Aggregated Data in de-identified form and not attempting to re-identify any organization or person from it. We do not use Aggregated Data to train AI models. Every Trend Report recipient is bound by the restrictions in Section 8.6.

8.5 Applies to every account. This Section applies to every organization that uses the Service, on every plan, from the date it accepts these Terms. Participation is part of the Service and is not optional. We may start, pause, or stop producing Trend Reports at any time, and this Section applies whether or not we are publishing them yet.

8.6 Terms for Trend Report recipients. Anyone who receives a Trend Report, whether a subscriber or a buyer of the report alone, gets a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use it for their own internal business purposes. Recipients may quote short excerpts with attribution ("Source: LoopNPD Trend Report"). Recipients may not resell, republish, or redistribute a report beyond that. They may not attempt to re-identify any organization, or combine a report with other data to do so. They may not use a report to coordinate prices, output, or other competitive conduct, or to train AI models. Trend Reports are provided "as is" and are not investment, legal, regulatory, or professional advice. Our liability for a Trend Report is limited to the amount paid for it.

9. AI features, credits, and your own API key

  • AI Output is never binding, and it is not advice. AI Output, including anything Millie says, is generated automatically. It is never binding on you, on us, or on anyone else, and it is not legal, regulatory, or food-safety advice. It can be inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date, and may cite sources that do not support it. Do not rely on any factual statement in AI Output without checking it independently, and validate every suggestion in your own lab before using it in a production formula.
  • Never rely on AI Output for a regulatory or legal conclusion. This includes whether a nutrient or ingredient meets a regulatory threshold, what the Code of Federal Regulations or any other regulation requires, which allergens a product contains or must declare, whether a claim is permitted, and whether a label complies with the law. If AI Output states a conclusion like this, treat it as a question to check, not an answer. Always check it against the regulation itself or with a qualified professional before you act on it. Section 10 also applies.
  • Ownership. As between you and us, you own your AI prompts and AI Output, which are part of your Customer Data. AI Output may not be unique, and other customers may receive similar output.
  • Provider. Millie is powered by Anthropic's Claude models. We send the relevant parts of your Customer Data to Anthropic, as our service provider, only to generate your response. Under Anthropic's commercial terms, it does not train its models on that data. If your organization connects its own Anthropic API key, those requests are also governed by your own agreement with Anthropic.
  • Usage rules. You must comply with Anthropic's Usage Policy (anthropic.com/legal/aup), which forms part of these Terms. Do not submit data you are not allowed to share with an AI service provider.
  • Limits. AI features are metered in credits or counted as actions, as described below, may be rate-limited, and may change as the underlying models change.

9.1 AI credits. Some plans include AI credits, which pay for AI features that run on LoopNPD's AI. Each AI action, such as a co-pilot analysis or a chat message, uses a set number of credits that depends on the kind of action, not on the length of the answer. An action that fails uses no credits. The billing page in the Service shows your allowance, what your organization has used, and what each kind of action costs. The Free plan includes no AI. On the Solo plan, AI features run only on your own API key (Section 9.5) and no credits are included.

9.2 Allowance and reset. A paid plan's credits are a monthly allowance for your whole organization. The allowance depends on your plan and the number of paid seats at the start of the period, and seats added during a period add credits from the next period. It resets at the start of each billing period, or at the start of each calendar month (UTC) when there is no monthly billing period to follow. Unused credits do not roll over. The free trial includes a single allowance for the whole trial, which does not reset. Credits left when the trial ends expire.

9.3 When credits run out. When your organization has used its allowance for the period and has no top-up credits left, we may pause the AI features that run on LoopNPD's AI until the allowance resets or you buy a top-up, or, during a trial, until you choose a paid plan. An action that has already started is allowed to finish. The rest of the Service keeps working, and your data is not affected.

9.4 Top-ups. On paid plans that include LoopNPD's AI, and during a trial with a payment card on file, an owner or admin can buy extra credits as a one-time top-up from the billing page, at the price shown on the billing page. Top-up credits are used only after the period's allowance is used up, the soonest to expire first, and they expire 12 months after purchase. Top-ups are not a subscription and do not renew. They are non-refundable, except where the law requires otherwise. If a top-up payment is refunded or disputed, we remove or hold the credits it added.

9.5 Your own API key. On plans that offer it, an owner or admin of your organization may connect an API key from Anthropic ("your AI provider"). While the key works, every AI feature your plan allows runs on your AI provider account, including any web searches those features make, and uses none of your LoopNPD credits. A key does not add features that your plan does not offer with a key. Some plans limit how many AI actions can run on your own key in each billing period. The billing page shows that limit and your usage. Your agreement with your AI provider governs that use and its charges. We are not responsible for your provider's bills, limits, or outages. You are responsible for keeping the key valid and using it within your provider's terms.

9.6 How we handle your key. We check the key with one small request to your AI provider before we save it. We store it encrypted and use it only for your organization's requests. After you save it, we never show it again, only its last four characters, and only to owners and admins. We delete it when an owner or admin removes it, which they can do at any time, and when your organization moves to the Free plan after its subscription ends. Removing it here does not revoke it at your provider.

9.7 If your key stops working. If your AI provider rejects your key, rate-limits it, or reports that your account is out of credit, then on the Professional and Team plans the AI features your plan includes run on LoopNPD's AI instead and use your organization's credits, and the Service shows a notice until the key works again or is removed. AI features that your plan offers only with your own key, and every AI feature on the Solo plan, stop with a message saying why until the key is fixed.

9.8 Usage records and AI request records. To count credits and own-key limits, we keep a record of each AI action: which feature ran, who ran it, when, whether it succeeded, the credits it used, the AI model that answered, and how many tokens and web searches it used. From December 1, 2026, for each AI action that succeeds, including one that runs on your own API key, we also keep an AI request record: the question or instruction that was sent, the answer that came back, the sources the answer drew on (such as the records, regulations, or web pages it cited), and where it falls in the conversation. AI request records are Customer Data. We use them only to support you, to check the accuracy, safety, and cost of our AI features, and to improve those features, for example by fixing prompts that give wrong or unhelpful answers. They are never included in Trend Reports (Section 8.2), never used to train AI models, and never shared with anyone outside LoopNPD except the service providers that host the Service. Only LoopNPD personnel who need them for those purposes can read them. They are deleted with the rest of your Customer Data under Section 6, and you can ask us to delete them sooner by writing to support@loopnpd.com.

10. Regulatory, nutrition, and food-safety outputs

The Service includes tools for nutrition facts, labels, allergens, claims, meal-pattern crediting, costing, and regulatory reference. These tools help you do the work. They are not regulatory, legal, or food-safety advice, and they do not replace a qualified professional. Their results depend on ingredient data, including USDA FoodData Central, supplier data, and data you enter, which may be incomplete or wrong.

You alone are responsible for your products, formulas, labels, allergen declarations, claims, and food safety. You are also responsible for compliance with all applicable laws (including FDA, USDA, CFIA and Health Canada, and UK and EU rules) and for laboratory verification before sale. Never rely on the Service alone for allergen safety.

11. Reverse-engineer feature

The reverse-engineer feature estimates a possible formulation from a product's publicly available label and ingredient information. Its results are estimates, not the product's actual formula. When you use it, you agree that you will:

  • use only lawfully obtained, publicly available information;
  • not use the feature, or any product developed with it, to infringe patents, trademarks, trade dress, or copyright, or to breach any contract or confidentiality obligation;
  • not present any product as another company's product, or suggest an affiliation with another company.

This feature is excluded from our indemnity in Section 19, and you will indemnify us for any misuse of it.

12. Supplier directory

Supplier and ingredient listings are provided for information only. We do not endorse, verify, or guarantee any supplier, listing, or ingredient. Any dealings between you and a supplier are solely between you and that supplier. Suppliers never see your formulas unless you choose to share them.

13. Acceptable use

You will not, and will not allow anyone else to:

  • upload content you do not have the rights to, or that infringes any right or breaks any law;
  • reverse engineer, decompile, or copy the Service's software, or try to obtain its source code, except where the law allows it;
  • get around usage limits, rate limits, seat limits, or security controls, or test the Service for vulnerabilities without our written permission;
  • scrape the Service, bulk-extract data that is not your own Customer Data, or use the Service to build a competing product;
  • resell or sublicense the Service;
  • upload regulated sensitive data, such as protected health information or payment card numbers, or export-controlled technical data;
  • misuse AI features in breach of Section 9;
  • interfere with or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure.

14. Third-party services

The Service relies on third-party services and data sources, including Google Cloud, Clerk, Stripe, Mailgun, Anthropic, USDA FoodData Central, Europe PMC, and Open Food Facts. Your use of them may also be subject to their own terms. We are not responsible for third-party services or the accuracy of their data.

15. Our intellectual property and feedback

We and our licensors own the Service, including its software and design, Aggregated Data, Trend Reports, and the LoopNPD and Millie names and logos. During your subscription we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service under these Terms. If you send us feedback, we may use it freely, with no obligation to you. We will not use your name or logo publicly without your permission.

16. Confidentiality

Each party will protect the other's non-public information with reasonable care and use it only to perform under these Terms. Your Customer Data is your Confidential Information. Aggregated Data and Trend Reports created under Section 8 are not. Either party may seek an injunction to stop a breach of this Section.

17. Suspension and termination

  • Suspension. We may suspend access for non-payment, a breach of Section 13, or a security or legal risk. We will give notice where practical, limit the suspension to what is necessary, and restore access promptly once the issue is resolved.
  • Termination. You may cancel at any time (Section 5). Either party may terminate for a material breach that is not fixed within 30 days of notice. We may discontinue the Free plan with 60 days' notice.
  • Effect. When these Terms end, your right to use the Service ends, and Section 6 governs export and deletion. Sections 2, 6, 8, 15, 16, and 18 to 23, and any unpaid fees, survive.

18. Warranties and disclaimers

We warrant that paid plans will perform materially as described in our documentation. If they do not, your remedy is for us to fix the problem. If we cannot, you may terminate and receive a refund of prepaid fees for the unused period.

EXCEPT AS STATED ABOVE, THE SERVICE, AI OUTPUT, TREND REPORTS, AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." WE DISCLAIM ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY OF ACCURACY OR UNINTERRUPTED SERVICE. WE DO NOT OFFER AN UPTIME COMMITMENT UNLESS ONE IS AGREED IN AN ORDER FORM.

19. Indemnities

  • By us. We will defend you against third-party claims that the Service, as we provide it, infringes their intellectual property, and pay any resulting damages awarded or any settlement we agree to. This does not cover Customer Data, AI Output, the reverse-engineer feature, changes or combinations we did not make, or use in breach of these Terms. If a claim arises, we may obtain a license, modify the Service, or terminate and refund prepaid fees for the unused period.
  • By you. You will defend us against third-party claims arising from your Customer Data; your products, labels, or claims; your misuse of the reverse-engineer or AI features; or your breach of Section 13, and pay any resulting damages.
  • The party seeking protection must give prompt notice, let the other party control the defense, and cooperate reasonably.

20. Limitation of liability

NEITHER PARTY IS LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL. EACH PARTY'S TOTAL LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE FEES YOU PAID IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE AND (B) US$100. FOR A BREACH OF SECTION 6 (SECURITY) OR SECTION 16 (CONFIDENTIALITY), THE LIMIT IS TWO TIMES THAT AMOUNT. THESE LIMITS DO NOT APPLY TO INDEMNITY OBLIGATIONS, YOUR PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS, FRAUD OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT, OR LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED BY LAW.

21. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. We will give at least 30 days' notice of material changes, by email or in the Service, before they take effect. We will not apply a material expansion of how we use Customer Data to data collected before that change without your consent. If you continue to use the Service after a change takes effect, you accept the updated Terms. If you do not accept a change, you may cancel before it takes effect.

22. Disputes and governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Before filing any claim, the parties will try in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for 30 days. After that, any dispute will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in New Castle County, Delaware, and both parties waive trial by jury. Either party may seek urgent injunctive relief in any competent court to protect its intellectual property or Confidential Information.

23. General

  • Export and sanctions. You confirm that you are not a sanctioned or restricted party and that you will not use the Service in breach of export or sanctions laws.
  • U.S. Government users. The Service is "commercial computer software" and is provided only under these Terms.
  • Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delays caused by events beyond its reasonable control. This does not excuse payment obligations.
  • Electronic communications. You agree that we may provide agreements, notices, and disclosures to you electronically.
  • Copyright complaints. Send copyright notices to support@loopnpd.com.
  • Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. Either party may assign them to a successor in a merger or sale of its business.
  • Subcontractors. We may use subcontractors and service providers, and we remain responsible for them.
  • Entire agreement, severability, and waiver. These Terms and the documents in Section 1 are the entire agreement. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Failing to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
  • Notices. Legal notices to us must be sent to support@loopnpd.com. We send notices to the email address of your account's owner.

LEGAL

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains what personal information LoopNPD collects, how we use it, who we share it with, and the choices you have. Section 5 explains how we use contact details for advertising, and how to opt out. Last updated October 22, 2026.

1. Who we are

LoopNPD ("LoopNPD," "we," "us") operates the LoopNPD product-development platform at app.loopnpd.com and the website at loopnpd.com. This Policy applies to both. Questions and requests go to support@loopnpd.com. Words defined in our Terms of Service, such as "Customer Data," have the same meaning here.

2. What we collect

  • Account and contact information: your name, email address, company name, job title or role, account type, team role, and sign-in details. Sign-in is handled by our authentication provider, Clerk, and we never see your password.
  • Demo bookings and enquiries: the name, email, company, role, and message you give us when you book a demo or contact us.
  • Billing information: plan, seats, and billing status. Card details are collected and stored by Stripe, not by us.
  • Customer Data: the formulations, ingredients, documents, test results, and other content you put into the Service. How we handle it is set out in our Terms of Service, Sections 6 to 9.
  • AI usage records: for each AI action, which feature ran, who ran it, when, whether it succeeded, how many credits it used, the AI model that answered, and how many tokens and web searches it used. We use them to count AI credits and own-key limits and to show your organization its usage. They contain no text of your prompts, your data, or the AI's answers.
  • AI request records: from December 1, 2026, for each AI action that succeeds, the question or instruction that was sent, the answer that came back, the sources the answer drew on, and where it falls in the conversation, linked to the AI usage record above. These are Customer Data and are handled as described in Section 9.8 of our Terms of Service.
  • Your AI provider key: if your organization connects its own AI provider API key, it is encrypted before it is stored, with a master key kept outside our database. It is never shown again, except its last four characters, which only owners and admins can see. It is deleted when it is removed, as described in Section 9 of our Terms of Service.
  • Usage and device information: pages and features used, approximate location derived from IP address, browser and device type, and error logs.
  • Communications: emails and support messages you exchange with us.

3. How we use it

  • To provide the Service: creating and securing accounts, running features, including the AI co-pilot, and giving support.
  • AI features: when you use an AI feature, we send your request and the parts of your organization's Customer Data it needs to Anthropic, or to the AI provider your organization connected, to generate the response.
  • Billing through Stripe.
  • Security and abuse prevention.
  • Checking and improving our AI features, using AI request records, to support you and to check the accuracy, safety, and cost of AI answers, as described in Section 9.8 of our Terms of Service. We never use them to train AI models.
  • Improving the Service, using usage information and de-identified, aggregated data, as described in Section 8 of our Terms of Service.
  • Service communications, such as account, security, and billing emails. You cannot opt out of these while you have an account.
  • Marketing and advertising of LoopNPD's own products, as described in Section 5.
  • Legal compliance and enforcing our Terms.

For people in the UK and EU, our legal bases are: performing our contract with you; our legitimate interests in running, securing, and promoting our business; your consent, where the law requires it; and complying with the law.

4. What we never do

  • We never share the contents of your Customer Data (formulas and formula versions, test results, documents, supplier relationships) with advertisers or ad platforms.
  • We never use Customer Data, or your AI prompts and outputs, to train artificial-intelligence models.
  • We never sell Customer Data.

5. Advertising and ad audiences

We use account and contact information, meaning name, email address, company name, and job title, to market LoopNPD. This includes uploading that information to advertising platforms such as Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft Advertising to:

  • show LoopNPD ads to you and to people similar to our users ("custom," "matched," or "lookalike" audiences);
  • avoid showing sign-up ads to people who already have an account;
  • measure whether our ads work.

Email addresses are hashed (converted to a scrambled code) on our side or by the platform before matching. The platforms use the hashes only to match them against their own users, and delete unmatched hashes under their own terms. Our website and app may also use advertising pixels or tags from these platforms to measure visits and conversions. These tags load only on our public website and our sign-up, sign-in, onboarding, and demo-booking pages, never inside your workspace.

Under some US state laws, including California's, this counts as "sharing" personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, and may count as a "sale." We do not receive money for it.

Your choice. You can opt out at any time by emailing support@loopnpd.com with the subject "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information." We will stop including your information in audiences we build or refresh after we process your request, which we will do within 15 business days. You can also control ads through each platform's ad settings. Opting out does not affect your account or the Service. You can also opt out in these ways:

  • "Do Not Sell or Share" link. Use the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link on our website or app. It turns off our advertising tags in that browser, on both loopnpd.com and app.loopnpd.com, for one year, by setting a cookie (lnpd_ads_optout). If you clear your cookies or switch browsers, use the link again.
  • Global Privacy Control. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, we treat it as a request to opt out of sale and sharing, and our advertising tags do not load.
  • Email. The email request above also removes you from the audience lists we upload, which a browser setting cannot do on its own.

Where the law requires consent for this use, as it does for people in the UK and EU, we will ask for it first and will not use your information for advertising without it. On our public website, visitors in the UK and EU see a cookie banner, and our advertising tags and Microsoft Clarity load only after they choose "Accept all". Global Privacy Control and the "Do Not Sell or Share" link still turn them off. On our sign-up, sign-in, onboarding and demo-booking pages, these tags do not load for visitors in the UK or EU.

6. Who we share information with

We share personal information only with:

  • Service providers that run the Service for us, under contracts that limit their use of it: Google Cloud (hosting and database), Clerk (sign-in), Stripe (payments), Mailgun (email), Anthropic (the AI co-pilot), and Cloudflare (our website).
  • The AI provider you connect, if your organization uses its own AI provider key (Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google). The AI co-pilot's prompts and responses for your workspace then go to that provider under your organization's own agreement with it. That provider is your choice, not one of our service providers.
  • Advertising platforms, as described in Section 5, limited to contact information.
  • Your organization: its owners and admins can see members' names, emails, and roles.
  • Legal and safety disclosures, when required by law or to protect rights and safety.
  • A buyer or successor, if our business is merged or sold. They remain bound by this Policy.

7. Cookies and similar technologies

We use cookies that are necessary for sign-in and security. We use analytics tools to understand how the Service is used, and may use the advertising pixels described in Section 5. You can block cookies in your browser, but sign-in requires the necessary ones. The opt-out cookie and Global Privacy Control are described in Section 5.

On our public website we use Microsoft Clarity to understand how visitors use it, through heatmaps and session recordings of clicks, scrolling and mouse movement. Clarity collects this data using first- and third-party cookies, and masks sensitive content by default. Microsoft processes this data as described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement (privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement). The "Do Not Sell or Share" link and Global Privacy Control turn Clarity off along with our advertising tags. For visitors in the UK or the European Union, we load Clarity only after they accept cookies in our cookie banner, and the "Cookie settings" link at the bottom of our website lets them change that choice at any time.

We also use Clarity on the sign-up and onboarding pages of our app, to see where people get stuck signing up, under the same opt-out choices. It does not record our sign-in page. It masks what you type into those forms, stops recording when you enter your workspace, and never records inside it. Visitors in the UK or the European Union do not get Clarity on those pages at all.

8. How long we keep information

We keep account information while your account is open. After it closes, we delete or de-identify it within a reasonable period, except where we must keep it for legal, tax, or security reasons. Customer Data, including AI request records, is kept as described in Section 6 of our Terms of Service. Demo-booking information is kept for up to 24 months after your last contact with us.

9. Security

We use reasonable safeguards, including encryption in transit, access controls, and scoping every data query to your organization. AI provider keys are also encrypted at rest (Section 2). No system is perfectly secure. If a breach affects your personal information, we will notify you as the law requires.

10. Where information is processed

We are based in, and host data in, the United States. If you use the Service from another country, your information is transferred to the United States. Where the law requires it, we rely on appropriate safeguards, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

11. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of your personal information, and to object to or restrict certain uses, including advertising. In addition:

  • California and other US states: you can know what we collect, delete or correct it, and opt out of "sale" or "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising (see Section 5). We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.
  • UK and EU: you can withdraw consent at any time, and complain to your data protection authority.
  • Canada: you can access and correct your information and withdraw consent, subject to legal limits.

To make a request, email support@loopnpd.com. We may need to verify your identity. You can use an authorized agent where the law allows it. If we deny your request, you may appeal by replying to our decision.

12. Children

The Service is for business use by adults. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly sell or share their information.

13. Changes and contact

We may update this Policy. If we make material changes, we will notify you by email or in the Service before they take effect. Contact: support@loopnpd.com.

BENEFITS

What LoopNPD is worth to the business.

Your team will tell you it's easier. Here is what it means for risk, time and money.

BREAK-EVEN CALCULATOR

Does it pay for itself? Use your own numbers.

We don't quote "hours saved" figures, because nobody has measured them honestly for food R&D. Instead, this shows how little time LoopNPD has to give back to cover its cost.

Your plan

$179/mo

$2,148 a year, 3 people


Breaks even if it saves

50 min

per person, per week

Email these numbers to whoever signs off

Founding-rate prices for early customers. Professional adds people at $25/mo each (up to 5); Team at $45/mo each (up to 20). Year = 48 working weeks.

  • Risk

    Fewer label mistakes reach the shelf.

    The allergen line is built from the formula, not retyped.

  • Visibility

    Every product's stage on one screen.

    No status meeting needed to know what's stuck.

  • Continuity

    Formulas stay when people leave.

    Every version, test and approval stays on the record.

  • Cost

    A price you can see.

    From $29/mo. No sales call, no annual contract.

MISTAKES YOU WON'T SHIP

71%

of FDA allergen recalls with a known cause came from labeling errors.1

That is a records problem, not a science problem. It happens when the label is typed up separately from the formula and the two drift apart.

  1. 1Someone swaps an ingredient.
  2. 2The "Contains" line is rebuilt from the ingredients' allergens.
  3. 3A hand-edited statement that no longer matches is flagged on screen and on the printed document.
  4. 4The Nutrition Facts panel recalculates, rounded to FDA rules (21 CFR 101.9).

Regulatory sign-off is still yours. LoopNPD makes sure the person signing off is looking at the current formula.

Nutrition Facts panel in LoopNPD with a warning listing ingredients that are missing allergen information.
Missing allergen data is called out before the panel is trusted, not after.

THE 60-SECOND ANSWER

"How many products are in development, and where is each one?"

Open the dashboard. Active products, gates due this week, overdue results, and anything that hasn't moved, on one screen. Every gate decision is recorded with who made it and when.

LoopNPD dashboard showing active products, gates due this week, open sensory panels, and a Needs attention list of stalled stages and overdue test results.

KNOWLEDGE THAT STAYS

When someone leaves, the formula doesn't.

1 in 3

food professionals has considered leaving the field.2

  • Every formula version is kept and numbered, never overwritten.
  • Sensory and lab results are tied to the exact version tested.
  • Gate decisions record who decided, when, and on what evidence.
  • Nothing lives in one person's spreadsheet or inbox.

TIME TO VALUE

Running in an afternoon, not a quarter.

  1. 1

    Bring your spreadsheet.

    Import your ingredients from a spreadsheet template (Solo and up, and in your trial). USDA reference data is already loaded.

  2. 2

    Build one real formula.

    See its nutrition panel, allergen line and cost on the same screen.

  3. 3

    Invite the team.

    Owners and admins control who's in. Removing someone never deletes their work.

Every account starts with a 14-day trial of the Team plan. No card. Not for you? Export everything as CSV and walk away.

Your formulas are trade secrets. Here's how we keep them private.

Security & your formulas

THE SHORT VERSION

One record per product, so the label matches the formula and the work outlives the person who did it.

  1. Sharma, Ma & Luccioli, "Root cause analysis of FDA food allergen recalls," Journal of Food Protection 86(4), 2023. FY2013–2019; share of major-allergen recalls with a known root cause. PubMed
  2. Institute of Food Technologists, food science workforce report, January 2026 (5,148 responses).

SECURITY & YOUR FORMULAS

Your formulas are trade secrets. We treat them that way.

  • Your formulas stay private to your company's own workspace.
  • Your data is never used to train AI models, ours or our AI provider's.
  • Encrypted in transit and at rest.
  • Backed up automatically every day.
  • You own your data and can export it any time.

CSA STAR Registry · Level 1

LoopNPD is listed on the Cloud Security Alliance STAR Registry. Our CAIQ v4.1 self-assessment against the Cloud Controls Matrix is public, listed since October 20, 2026.

Level 1 is a self-assessment, not a third-party audit or certification. View our listing and download the CAIQ

Need more for your QA lead or legal team? Detailed security documentation and answers to your security questionnaire are available on request: security@loopnpd.com

The full data-use policy is in the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Build your formulas, get your nutrition label, and find out why a batch failed. All in one place.

For small food and beverage teams, from first bench trial to launch.

Free to start. No card needed.

Built by food scientists who know the bench.

See how Millie AI works3-min demo, recorded in the app
Bench-trial sponge cakes cut in half to compare crumb structure A food scientist adding liquid to a stand mixer during a bench-top trial Three test loaves lined up in front of a texture analyser for a bread trial Cooked patty samples laid out on a cutting board, each labelled with its crumb variant for comparison A test pizza split into labelled sections, each topped with a different pepperoni variant Two developers in lab coats and hard hats reviewing trial sheets on the factory floor Four marinated chicken breast samples on a cooling rack after a cook test Formed patties on a spiral freezer belt during a factory trial

THE PROBLEM

Your R&D data lives in disjointed places. None of them talk.

Scattered data. One spreadsheet per formula, sensory results on one desktop, approvals three replies deep in an inbox.

Weeks of ingredient hunting. Catalogs, 40-page application guides, and supplier email chains just to fill one formula gap.

Lean team, no in-house bench. And AI can't help while the data is scattered. Connecting it is the whole point.

The science isn't the slow part. The retrieval is.

HOW IT WORKS

Walk through the app, step by step.

Real screenshots from the product: a reduced-sugar granola line failing a pilot test and getting fixed. Click a tab, or swipe.

App walkthrough, 8 screens

STEP 1 · THE MORNING VIEW

Your whole pipeline, one screen.

  • Products, formulas, tests, and sensory panels: live counts
  • “Needs attention” surfaces what stalled, so nothing slips
  • Every number links straight to the record behind it
LoopNPD dashboard: a “Needs attention” item for a failed pilot-batch test, an Ask Millie box, and counts of active products, formulas, ingredients and sensory studies.
One R&D pipeline at a glance: active products, open gates, sensory panels, and what needs attention.

1 / 8

CORE ENGINE

The engine: a real ingredient library and the math on top of it.

The ingredient library and Millie suggestions

Years of sourcing experience, built in

A real ingredient library.

This isn't a generic ingredient list. It's pre-populated specs, molecular weights, and GRAS documentation drawn from real sourcing work, so Millie AI starts from vetted data instead of a blank spreadsheet and a cold call.

Millie AI draws on this library for every suggestion.

Sunflower lecithinCAS 8002-43-5
Regulatory statusGRAS · per supplier spec
Usage range0.4–0.6% · HLB 4

Precision Formulation

Auto-calculates cost, nutrition, and allergens as you tweak ingredients.

Cost / kg$3.18 (target $3.40)
Allergens declaredMilk, egg, soy, wheat
Nutrition panelRecalculated v3 · 21 CFR 101.9

MILLIE AI · YOUR AI CO-PILOT

Millie AI uses all of your data to find real ingredient solutions, and connects you to the suppliers who make them.

Your formula, a failed test and taste results go into Millie AI; out come a specific ingredient and a new formula. Formula Test Taste Millie AI Ingredient New formula

A specific ingredient, use level and supplier, with its source and confidence. If it can't find grounds, it says so.

Claude-powered. On LoopNPD's AI your data never trains models (with your own AI key, your provider's terms apply), and the AI can be turned off entirely.

Millie AI · suggestion87% confidence
Example output

Suggested replacement for mono- & diglycerides: sunflower lecithin at 0.4–0.6% to keep the clean-label claim while holding emulsion stability through baking.


Source

Emulsifier Inc., Clean-Label Emulsifiers application guide, p.12

Supplier name is fictional, used for advertising purposes only.

Heuristic starting point. Requires lab validation before use in a production formula.

ONE WORKSPACE

The whole formula on one table, doing the math for you.

Every ingredient with its percentage, scaled batch amount, cost, and nutrition. Summing to 100%, rolling up live. Every value knows where it came from:

The formula table, with live costs
USDA FDCUser-definedAI-estimated
The Harvest Granola v2 formula table: every ingredient with its test quantity, batch percentage, scaled amount, cost per pound, batch cost, percent cost, and protein per serving. Totaling 1,000 g, 100%, and $3.67 a batch.
The formula table: every ingredient with its percentage, scaled batch amount, cost, and nutrition. Live, and always summing to 100%.

Active formulas

24

▲ +3 this week

Total fat

24.0%

Cost / kg

$3.18

Batch yield

92.4%

Choc chip cookie · FML-2174 · v3 · pH 6.8 · aw 0.61 · moisture 8.3%

BEFORE / AFTER

The ingredient search, before and after.

The old way · 2–4 weeks

  • Search supplier catalogs and trade-show notes for candidate emulsifiers.
  • Download the application guides. Read 40 pages to find one usage table.
  • Email three distributors. Wait. Follow up. Wait.
  • Trade a few rounds of email before you reach the right technical expert.
  • Start bench trials a month after you found the gap.

With LoopNPD · minutes

  • Ask Millie AI about the gap in the formula you already have open.
  • Get named candidates with usage ranges, rationale, a confidence score, and the cited source, like sunflower lecithin at 0.4–0.6%, 87% confidence.
  • Judge the suggestion, pick your candidate, and take it straight to the bench.
  • Lab validation still happens: that's your science. The searching doesn't.

THE POINT

The weeks were never spent on chemistry. They were spent on retrieval. LoopNPD does retrieval.

DATA TRUST

The part your QA lead will ask about

Straight answers for the person who clears procurement and security.

Your own private workspace.
Your formulas, ingredients, and test results live in your organization's private workspace, in a managed PostgreSQL database on Google Cloud (US) with encrypted (TLS) connections end to end. The public ingredient reference data (USDA) is shared; your data never is.
Org-scoped, always.
Every query is scoped to your organization. Your team sees your data and nobody else's, enforced on every read and write.
On LoopNPD's AI, your data never trains the model.
Millie AI's requests go to Anthropic's API only when you use an AI feature (ask it something or click Analyze), and are not used for model training. If you connect your own AI key, your provider's terms apply to those requests.
Export anytime.
Formulations, ingredients, sensory results, stage gates: all exportable as CSV (opens in Excel), any day, no request ticket.
AI is optional, and it's never a second AI bill.
Turn Millie AI off entirely and the platform still does everything else. Or bring your own AI key on Solo and above (Anthropic first, more providers coming): you pay your provider directly, at cost, with no LoopNPD markup, so you're never paying for AI twice. The Free plan has no AI.

Read the full Terms of Service for the complete data-use policy.

PRICING · FREE TO START

Founding rates for early customers

Sign up to start on founding rates, below standard pricing. Every plan starts with a 14-day full-feature trial, no card required.

Founding pricing. Early customers start on founding rates, shown below next to standard pricing (about 20% higher). Prices may change over time.

Free

Get version chaos under control on your first product.

Free

Free forever on your first product

1 seat · 1 active product at a time


  • 1 active product at a time
  • Up to 10 active formulas
  • Up to 100 ingredients
  • Sensory + analytical test records
  • Full stage-gate tracking
  • CSV export of all your data, always

14-day full-feature trial, then free forever (read-only past 1 active product; export any time).

Archive a finished product to free a slot. Export any time.

Free to start

Solo

For a solo formulator or a two-person bench running real projects.

$35/month

$29/month

Founding member price

Up to 2 seats · 50 active products per seat


  • Everything in Free
  • 50 active products per seat
  • Up to 200 ingredients
  • Batch scaling & yield math
  • Supplier & ingredient library
  • Bulk ingredient import (CSV / Excel)
  • Bring your own AI key to use the Millie AI Product Co-Pilot
Most teams start here

Professional

For a small NPD team shipping 3–15 products a year.

$219/month

$179/month

Founding member price

3 seats included · +$25/seat to 5


  • Everything in Solo
  • 50 active products per seat
  • Up to 500 ingredients
  • 750 AI credits a month on LoopNPD's key (+100 per extra seat), and the Millie AI Product Co-Pilot with your own AI key (included on Team). Hosted AI in the trial ends with the trial
  • Version compare across formulas
  • Priority email support

Team

For teams that want Millie AI reasoning across everything, at scale.

$479/month

$399/month

Founding member price

5 seats included · +$45/seat to 20


  • Everything in Professional
  • Unlimited ingredients
  • Millie AI co-pilot and reverse-engineer, hosted by LoopNPD
  • 2,000 AI credits a month on LoopNPD's key (+200 per extra seat), or bring your own AI key for more
  • Cross-module recall (formulas + sensory + gates + suppliers)
  • Advanced roles & permissions
  • Priority support
  • Onboarding assistance

Enterprise

from $1,500/mo

More than 20 seats, SSO, custom product counts, security & procurement review, dedicated onboarding, an SLA, and AI credits set per contract.

Every plan starts with a 14-day full-feature trial, no card required. Invite your team, build formulations, run a sensory evaluation, log stage-gate approvals. Change your mind? Export your data and go; no harm done.

Full pricing details and plan questions

Frequently asked questions

All questions

Your formulations, ingredients, and sensory data are stored in a private workspace for your organization, in a managed PostgreSQL database on Google Cloud (US) with encrypted (TLS) connections. Every query in LoopNPD is scoped to your organization, so your team sees only your own data and no other customer can see it. The public ingredient reference data (USDA FoodData Central) is shared by everyone; your formulas and results never are. We don't manually access or review your content, and we never share it, identified to you, with any other customer or third party. Your team's IP stays yours.

Yes. Every table (formulations, ingredients, sensory results, stage gates) exports as CSV or Excel at any time. You own your data. There is no lock-in and no export fee.

That's who it's for. The Free tier lets one person start at no cost, and Solo is built for a solo scientist or a two-person bench. Many food scientists work alone and invite someone else only when they need a second signature on a gate. No per-department licensing, no hidden minimums.

No. LoopNPD is built for food product developers, not programmers. Formulas are built by clicking and typing percentages, sensory evaluations are created through a form, and the stage-gate pipeline is visual. Most people are comfortable in an afternoon.

Millie AI (Claude, made by Anthropic) reads your formulations, sensory results, stage-gate status, and supplier data, only within your organization, to answer questions like “which formulas passed sensory but haven't moved to stage 3?” Every suggestion it makes shows a confidence score and cites its source, and is flagged as a heuristic starting point that requires lab validation before production use. On LoopNPD's AI, your data is sent to Anthropic's API only when you use an AI feature (ask Millie AI something or click Analyze), and it is never used to train models. If you connect your own AI key, your provider's terms apply to those requests. You can disable AI features entirely.

No card is required to start. Every plan begins with a 14-day full-feature trial; after it, the Free tier stays free forever. It becomes read-only once you have more than 1 active product, but your data stays viewable and exportable. Pick a paid plan any time to keep creating and editing. Cancel whenever you like: no long-term contracts, no cancellation fees. Sign up now to start on founding rates, below standard pricing.

Yes. It's a lightweight food R&D PLM (product lifecycle management): formulas and their versions, sensory and analytical test results, and an 8-stage stage-gate pipeline in one workspace, so Millie AI can read across all of it. It's self-serve, starts free, and doesn't need an implementation project. It is not an ERP.

Yes. Each client project lives as its own product with versioned formulas, nutrition calculation, test records and stage-gate decisions, so you can pick a project back up months later and see exactly what changed. On Solo and above you can publish a formulation as a shareable PDF for your client, and every table exports to CSV or Excel. Solo ($29/mo, up to 2 seats) fits an independent consultant; Professional adds version compare and the printable nutrition label PDF.

Not directly today. LoopNPD focuses on the formulation, sensory, and stage-gate workflow itself, and every table exports as CSV or Excel so you can bridge to whatever ERP or PLM system you already run. It is not an ERP/PLM integration platform.

Yes, on Solo and up (and during the 14-day trial). Upload an Excel or CSV file and LoopNPD parses it into a structured formulation (ingredients, percentages, and all) instead of asking you to retype years of spreadsheet history by hand. The Free plan is export only.

Not yet. CSV/Excel export (every plan) and import (Solo and up) cover most integration needs today, and a public API is on the roadmap rather than shipped.

Yes, it can be wrong. Every suggestion is a heuristic starting point, not a verified fact. The confidence score tells you how strongly the underlying data supports the suggestion, so you know how much weight to give it before treating it as a lead for your own lab validation, never as a substitute for it.

No. Every Millie AI suggestion requires a confidence score and a cited source before it can render: the component that displays an AI recommendation has no way to show one without both attached.

It says so. Millie AI is built to state when it doesn't have grounds for a confident suggestion rather than guessing and presenting a low-quality answer as if it were solid.

LoopNPD calculates a Nutrition Facts panel using FDA rounding rules (21 CFR 101.9) and tracks allergen declarations on every formula. It supports your compliance work; it doesn't replace your regulatory sign-off or submit anything to the FDA or USDA on your behalf.

Yes. The formula builder's nutrition panel renders a standard FDA Nutrition Facts panel with % Daily Value, and it recalculates automatically as the formula's ingredients or percentages change. Nutrition calculation is on every plan; the printable nutrition label PDF is on Professional and above.

Not yet: SOC 2 is on the roadmap, not completed today. LoopNPD is listed on the CSA STAR Registry at Level 1 (a public CAIQ v4.1 self-assessment, not an audit). Data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and every database query is scoped to your organization. If a completed SOC 2 report is a hard requirement for your procurement process right now, ask us for current status before committing.

On Google Cloud, in a managed PostgreSQL database (Cloud SQL, US) with encrypted (TLS) connections end to end, and uploaded files in Google Cloud Storage. Customer data is logically separated by organization: every query is scoped to your organization, so no other customer can read your data.

It depends on the plan: Free is 1 seat, Solo is up to 2, Professional includes 3 seats (add up to 5 at $25 each), and Team includes 5 (add up to 20 at $45 each). Past 20 seats is Enterprise. There's no per-seat fee within your plan's included seats.

Every paid plan holds 50 active products per seat, across as many product lines as you're developing, with no per-product-line limit: Solo holds up to 100, Professional 150 to 250, and Team 250 to 1,000. Free holds 1 active product at a time. Archiving a finished product always frees a slot.

Yes, it's coming soon, not live today. Suppliers will list ingredients under one of three visibility tiers (proprietary, copilot-eligible, or public), and Millie AI will be able to surface copilot-eligible and public ingredients inside real formulation work, cited to the supplier's own technical data sheet.

Once the marketplace opens, a supplier's ingredient surfaces automatically inside a formulator's live work, at the moment a matching formula gap appears, not through a search a supplier has to win. Suppliers can join the founding-supplier waitlist now on the for-suppliers page.

The plan is a free listing tier at launch, with paid tiers adding more listings, analytics, and the Verified Supplier badge. Final pricing is still being set; founding suppliers get founder pricing.

Other ingredient marketplaces are browse/search catalogs: the formulator goes looking. LoopNPD's planned marketplace is in-workflow: Millie AI surfaces a matching ingredient automatically inside real formulation work, cited to the supplier's own spec sheet, with no search required on either side.

Your next formula deserves a memory.

Start free. Import a formula, run a sensory evaluation, and try Millie AI on one hard question during your 14-day trial.

No card required · export anytime · AI optional

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