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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. 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
Active Founders
Diva Avaya Sharma
Diva Avaya Sharma
Founder
Diva is the founder of Cognitio Labs (former Flair telehealth) and inventor of a patented remote patient monitoring device. Previous companies & projects at Ancestry.com, Facebook, Johnson & Johnson, and the Stanford School of Medicine. Alum: Stanford University (Bachelors)
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Cognitio Labs: The AI back office for Food & Product Quality
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Cognitio Labs is building CoAsync, the AI back office for product quality teams. We started with one of food's most document-intensive workflows: the Certificate of Analysis.

85% less QA admin time. 4× more COAs per shift. New products onboarded in under a day.

Every day, millions of dollars of food sit waiting to ship because the paperwork isn't ready.

Before food can leave a facility, quality teams manually review supplier documents, lab reports, product specifications, and regulatory requirements to produce a Certificate of Analysis (COA). It's just one of dozens of document-heavy workflows quality teams manage every day.

Today, that work still happens across PDFs, emails, spreadsheets, and disconnected ERP systems. A single COA can take hours.

Over a six-week deployment, the manufacturer reduced COA processing time from 8 hours per week to under 1 hour, centralized supplier documentation, and dramatically improved audit readiness. The result was an 85% reduction in QA administrative work.

CoAsync ingests supplier documents, extracts lab data, validates specifications, applies country-specific compliance requirements, drafts compliant COAs, and prepares audit-ready documentation while keeping quality teams in control at every step.

We're starting with food because it's one of the most document-intensive, highly regulated supply chains in the world. Our vision is to build the AI back office for product quality and compliance across every regulated industry.

This summer, our founder Diva Avaya Sharma is presenting 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 AI for Good Global Summit, organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in partnership with the United Nations. These examples explore how AI can reduce repetitive documentation, strengthen compliance, and support the next generation of quality, manufacturing, and supply chain professionals.

Are you a food quality manufacturer or processor ready to see CoAsync on your own products? Upload a supplier document, a sample lab report, and a historical COA, and watch your quality workflow automate in minutes on https://cognitioiq.com

Previous Launches
Automating real-time food traceability for FDA compliance
Cognitio Labs
Founded:2025
Batch:Summer 2023
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco