Cognitio Labs (YC S23) — AI back office for food product quality teams
CoAsync by Cognitio Labs is the AI back office for product quality compliance teams. We help mission-critical food manufacturers automate repetitive, document-intensive workflows.
Cognitio Labs is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2023 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI back office for food product quality teams. The founder listed is Diva Avaya Sharma (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, July 26, 2023).
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CoAsync by Cognitio Labs is the AI back office for product quality compliance teams.
We help mission-critical food manufacturers automate repetitive, document-intensive workflows.
We started with Certificates of Analysis (COAs), one of the many workflows quality teams manage before products can ship. Today, this work is still performed manually across PDFs, emails, spreadsheets, and disconnected ERP systems.
Other documents we help quality teams respond to 24x7 include supplier audit questionnaires, production schedules, lab reports & changes in product specifications and quality records.
CoAsync automates the workflow by:
Reading supplier documents
Extracting laboratory data
Validating product specifications
Applying compliance requirements
Drafting compliant COAs
Organizing audit-ready documentation
Results from one of our initial deployments with a mid-market food processor:
85% less QA administrative work
4× more COAs processed per shift
1-2 hours saved per document
New product onboarding in under one day
COAs are just the beginning. Our vision is to build the AI back office for product quality and compliance across regulated industries by automating the many document-intensive workflows manufacturers manage every day.
Backed by Y Combinator and leading investors. Founder Diva Avaya Sharma has presented example AI workflows for product quality and compliance through the World Economic Forum Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains' SmartStart initiative and at the International Telecommunication Union's AI for Good Global Summit, organized in partnership with the United Nations.
Know a company shipping food & product urgently? Help them get started with their own document workflows at https://cognitioiq.com
Diva Avaya Sharma
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