Today’s launch introduces Passionfruit as the AI quality colleague for food & ingredients. Not a smarter questionnaire tool. A colleague.
Maikel Fontein
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Passionfruit is the AI quality colleague for food & ingredient suppliers. Working from a team's own SharePoint, QMS and inbox, it takes on the recurring quality work (questionnaires, spec checks, CoAs, certificate renewals) sourced and signed off so it holds up when an auditor asks. Built for quality teams of 3–8 people whose work has outgrown them, at a fraction of the cost of a new hire.
Today’s launch introduces Passionfruit as the AI quality colleague for food & ingredients. Not a smarter questionnaire tool. A colleague.
It already knows food-ingredient compliance walking in; it learns how your team works, not just how quality teams work in general. And it keeps track of what's been promised, the way you'd expect from someone you hired, not software you configured.
Built for the team whose work has outgrown them, at a fraction of the cost of the next hire.
Quality has become the clean-up crew
A quality team of 3 to 8 people is running quality for a company that grew past them. Food companies are being asked to share more data than ever on quality, packaging, safety, sustainability, and the requests keep climbing: 30% more year on year, driven by more formats and portals, more regulations, more detailed audits, customers asking for more than they used to. Questionnaires stacking up behind spec comparisons behind CoAs. Certificates that need renewing before anyone checks the date.
The instinct is to hire. But hiring adds a person who still has to learn the systems, learn the specs, learn what the team has already promised to which customer. What the team actually needs isn't another set of hands filling out forms. It's a colleague who does the quality work: runs the recurring jobs, keeps information current, catches what's about to lapse before it becomes a Friday afternoon scramble.
That's the opening for a colleague, not another tool, and it's exactly what this is.
Imagine a day where Quality gets your full attention
Your colleague connects to your SharePoint, your QMS, and your inbox, and gets to work there, nothing copied into a separate system to manage on the side. It already knows food & ingredients compliance when it walks in, so you're not teaching it from scratch.
Hand it a task and it answers the questionnaire, compares the specs, fills the CoA, the way you'd hand a new colleague their first assignment. Leave it the recurring jobs, the cert renewals, the CoA-to-customer runs, and it handles them on its own, the way a colleague you trust doesn't wait to be asked twice. And it still checks in before anything goes out: it shows you its source and its reasoning, so you're signing off on your colleague's work, not rubber-stamping a black box.
A generic AI tool like Co-Pilot will draft you an answer. Passionfruit gives you one you can actually defend: tied to its source, signed off by your team, and still holding up when an auditor asks where it came from six months later.
Callout headline
Supercharge the capacity of your quality team.
Delegate the tasks, automate the recurring work, keep the sign-off and your team does more without adding headcount.
How to get started
Getting started doesn't take a months-long implementation. Connect your systems and your colleague is on its first workflow that same week. A quality engineer and a quality success manager work alongside you from day one, so you're never figuring it out alone. Start with one questionnaire and one weekly workflow, and most teams see the hours coming back within four to six weeks.
