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The State of CPG Innovation & AI

We spoke to 290 senior CPG leaders across the U.S. and Europe, and an alarming pattern emerged: 70% of them are beaten to shelf before they even realize it. By the time products launch, the advantage is already gone, and “almost ready” has become the default state of innovation.

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Blogs

  1. Why CPG R&D Needs a New Operating Model for the AI Era
    Date: Jul 10, 2026
    Read Time: 7 min
    The CPG industry is entering a new phase of pressure and opportunity. Product innovation, product development, and R&D are being asked to deliver more.

  2. Food Giants Have The Science, But They're Missing Everything Else
    Date: Jun 30, 2026
    Read Time: 6 min
    For decades, large players won through distribution muscle and brand dominance. That model is broken.

  3. Rewiring R&D in Brazil & Europe: Lessons from 2 weeks of industry dialogues
    Date: Jun 9, 2026
    Read Time: 6 min
    Europe's R&D expertise and Brazil's biodiversity represent enormous untapped value. Yet in both regions, organizations that understand the value of AI are struggling to make it work where it matters most.

  4. AI Is Everywhere In CPG R&D—So Why Are Results Not?
    Date: Apr 6, 2026
    Read Time: 6 min
    Consumers and regulators are raising the bar. Many CPG companies lack the speed and technical capacity to keep up.

  5. Escaping The Compliance Trap: Why 'Good Enough' Reformulation Will Sink CPG Leaders By 2028
    Date: Nov 10, 2025
    Read Time: 6 min
    Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are facing the largest recipe rewrite in decades. From the FDA’s ban on brominated vegetable oil (BVO), which began enforcement in August 2025, to upcoming bans on additives, dyes and other substances in states such as California, Illinois and Virginia, the regulatory tsunami is only beginning.

  6. The silent killer of CPG digital transformation: Data & knowledge decay
    Date: Nov 5, 2025
    Read Time: 5 min
    Most CPG digital transformation efforts are not failing because of technology; they’re failing because the foundation beneath the technology is rotting. When data is thin, knowledge is scattered and vital experience walks out the door, your transformation becomes an expensive illusion.

  7. The privacy-performance spectrum: Building learning-enabled genAI systems for the enterprise
    Date: Aug 22, 2025
    Read Time: 9 min
    If your AI can’t learn from its mistakes, it’s not intelligent — it’s obsolete. Logging isn’t a risk. It's the price of staying in the game.

Accelerating CPG Reformulations: AI Strategies from the Field

Regulations are multiplying, but the real story is how R&D teams are adapting. Across the CPG industry, reformulation timelines now vary dramatically—despite similar pressures, team structures, and budgets. Some teams maintain productivity. Others struggle with backlogs and manual bottlenecks.

Join us to learn how CPG R&D teams are navigating regulatory reformulations with assisted workflows.

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