Uncountable’s AI Summit Wants to Rewire Food R&D

Uncountable’s Unify Summit Puts AI-Driven Product Development on the Main Stage, with Food and Beverage Giants in the Room

Uncountable, the San Francisco-based software company behind a fast-growing AI platform for product development, has wrapped its 2026 Unify Summit, a two-day gathering held May 13 and 14 in downtown Philadelphia. About 100 attendees from across the chemicals, advanced materials, food and beverage, electronics, cosmetics and personal care, agriculture, and consumer packaged goods sectors turned up to compare notes on how AI is reshaping R&D.

The food and beverage contingent was notable. Mondelez International, the snacking giant behind Oreo, Cadbury, and Ritz, and Suntory Global Spirits, the Japanese-owned spirits group whose portfolio includes Jim Beam and Maker’s Mark, were among the brands represented. They were joined by Qnity Electronics and advanced materials specialist Lubrizol, signaling how broadly Uncountable’s tools are spreading across industries that all share the same headache: messy, fragmented formulation data.

That data problem is exactly what Uncountable is tooling against. According to the company and its product pages, the platform is a modular system covering four connected pillars: Research and Development, Quality Control LIMS, a Quality Management System, and Product Lifecycle Management. It is designed to capture, structure, and connect formulation, process, and experimental data across a product’s full lifecycle, from early ideation through pilot runs and commercial production. The pitch is a unified data layer that replaces the patchwork of spreadsheets, notebooks, and disconnected point systems that still dominate most labs.

For food and ag teams in particular, Uncountable lists tooling aimed at alternative proteins, enzymes, plant engineering, and crop protection, alongside its longer standing strength in chemicals and advanced materials. Under the hood, the platform leans on machine learning driven design of experiments, integrated laboratory and workflow management, quality and lifecycle management modules, and advanced data visualization and reporting. The company also markets an Electronic Lab Notebook used, by its own account, by more than 1,000 Clariant scientists across 35 global facilities.

The Summit agenda reflected that breadth. Day 1 opened with welcome remarks from Noel Hollingsworth, Co-Founder and CEO of Uncountable, followed by client talks from engineers and R&D leaders at Rogers Corporation, Taylor Adhesives and Avery Dennison Materials Group, and Indovinya. Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer Will Tashman walked attendees through the company’s AI roadmap.

“The Summit was a valuable opportunity to hear directly from customers, gather feedback on our latest capabilities, and shape a product roadmap that continues to evolve with the needs of different industries,” Tashman said.

Customer voices ran through both days. Robert Ddamulira, Vice President R&D at Taylor Adhesives/Avery Dennison, said Uncountable’s platform “has changed how our R&D teams approach formulation and experimentation,” adding that hearing peers wrestle with the same challenges “reinforced how transformative this technology is.” Juniper Foote, a Data Scientist at Qnity Electronics, said the depth of the platform lets her team “gather and analyze data from disparate parts of our R&D stack, while providing our teams the tools needed to move faster and smarter at the same time.”

Day 2 closed with a keynote from Hollingsworth that laid out Uncountable’s vision for end-to-end product development spanning R&D, QC, and PLM tooling. “The conversations and connections that happened at the Unify Summit reflect what’s possible when the most innovative teams in the world share a platform and a purpose to accelerate the next generation of product development,” he said.

Uncountable says it now serves more than 150 customers worldwide, with offices in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. Its customer roster, drawn from public case studies, includes St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, sustainable materials developer Natural Fiber Welding, energy company Repsol, 3D printing pioneer Carbon, and automotive supplier Cooper Standard, a lineup that hints at just how far the same AI-driven formulation playbook is traveling beyond traditional chemistry labs and into the food, materials, and life science work that increasingly defines the future of food.

Sources

• Business Wire, “Uncountable Hosts Unify Summit to Advance AI-Powered Innovation,” May 20, 2026. Link
• Uncountable corporate site, platform overview and industry verticals. uncountable.com
• Uncountable case studies referenced on uncountable.com: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Natural Fiber Welding, Repsol, Carbon, and Cooper Standard.
• Uncountable customer stat: “Over 1,000 Clariant users across 35 global facilities,” as published on uncountable.com.
• Mondelez International brand portfolio (Oreo, Cadbury, Ritz) and Suntory Global Spirits brand portfolio (Jim Beam, Maker’s Mark), general industry knowledge.