About us
We know the struggle firsthand. Our team brings over 20 years of experience in R&D, innovation, and global supply chain roles at food and beverage companies - direct operating experience with the procurement and R&D qualification problem, not an outside view of it. We've sat on the buyer side of the table, waiting months for a supplier's documentation to materialize, and on the supply side, watching a genuinely good ingredient stall out because nobody had structured its compliance story.
Sceletium tortuosum - kanna - is where we started, and it's a near-perfect case study for the problem: real clinical evidence, real market demand, and a supply chain gated almost entirely by South Africa's ABS/Nagoya compliance requirements rather than by anything wrong with the botanical itself. We built the qualification framework to solve that gap for kanna first, then designed it to extend to any functional botanical facing the same pattern: real opportunity, blocked by documentation and compliance complexity rather than science.
We don't sell functional botanicals. We sell certainty about functional botanicals.
We bring together deep ingredient and supply chain knowledge with a human-centered, solutions-driven approach. We are delivering the qualification layer that unlocks adoption of high-potential functional botanical ingredients inside a large, fast-growing market - one standardized rating framework, applied consistently, so a buyer's decision doesn't depend on which supplier tells the best story.
How We Work
A simple three-step process, the same one behind every Botanical Scorecard, Supplier Database listing, and Qualification Report on this site
