The product

One decision layer for every product you ship

Model a formulation, score it against audited data, and act on the highest-impact swaps, all in one place your scientists, buyers, and leaders can trust.

What is Journey Foods?

Journey Foods is the company. Journey AI is the product: the intelligence layer for food innovation. Teams discover ingredients, formulate products and fix recipes, source suppliers, and monitor sustainability and compliance in one platform.

Our products

Two products for the formula and the supply chain

Formulation Optimizer and Supply Chain Monitor sit on the same audited data. The rest of the lineup is how teams find ingredients, ask Journey AI, and connect the work they already run.

Hands portioning a seeded oat bar on a bakery table

Formulation Optimizer

Keep every version of a formula, and see what a swap does to cost, nutrition, and sustainability before it reaches a plant.

One shared recipe, not a spreadsheet per scientist
Cost, nutrition, and sustainability update as the formula changes
Traceable from first concept to the version you ship

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A sack of organic oats spilled across a work surface

Supply Chain Monitor

Know when a spec, a price, or a supplier moves, and which ingredient can take its place.

Alerts on price, availability, and supplier risk
An alternative when the ingredient you specified is the problem
A portfolio view, so one shortage does not surprise the rest of the line

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Other products

AI (MCP)

Journey AI's MCP server lets AI assistants and agents search Journey's product, ingredient, supplier and packaging data directly. It's read-only and signs in with an API key (OAuth coming).

Clients: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, Perplexity, Windsurf, Cline and Zed.

Claude
ChatGPT
Cursor
VS Code
Perplexity
Windsurf
Cline
Zed

Remote URL

https://mcp.journeyfoods.io/mcp

Primary setup. Point a Streamable HTTP client at this URL and send your key in the x-api-key header.

Cursor

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "journey": {
      "url": "https://mcp.journeyfoods.io/mcp",
      "headers": { "x-api-key": "YOUR_JOURNEY_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Add this to .cursor/mcp.json. Replace YOUR_JOURNEY_API_KEY with your key.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http journey https://mcp.journeyfoods.io/mcp --header "x-api-key: YOUR_JOURNEY_API_KEY"

npx

# Waits on the npm publish of @journeyfoods/mcp.
npx -y @journeyfoods/mcp

Local stdio clients. Set JOURNEY_PRICE_API_KEY, and JOURNEY_API_KEY when ingredient data uses a separate key. This command waits on the npm publish of @journeyfoods/mcp.

Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "journey": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@journeyfoods/mcp"],
      "env": { "JOURNEY_PRICE_API_KEY": "YOUR_JOURNEY_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Local Claude Desktop config. The same npx command waits on the npm publish. Hosted setup for Claude is the remote URL with the x-api-key header.

Setup docs on GitHub include the VS Code, Perplexity and generic client configs.

Tools

search_suppliers
Find food and CPG suppliers by name, ingredient, category, region or certification
get_supplier
Full supplier profile: website, country, locations, categories, certifications, verification status
compare_suppliers
Compare two to five suppliers side by side, including what they share
search_ingredients
Search the Journey ingredient database, with nutrition and sustainability scores
get_ingredient
Ingredient profile: nutrition per 100 g, scores, nutrients, allergens and attributes
get_ingredient_price
Reference price, recent history and optional forecast for a commodity such as cocoa, sugar or coffee
list_price_series
Every ingredient and commodity Journey publishes prices for (names and units only)
search_products
Search your own products and formulations (signed-in Journey accounts)
get_product
One of your products: summary, ingredients and nutrition panel
verify_lab_result
Check whether an ingredient, product or supplier has a Journey Labs verified result

Limits

Free
What you can see
10 suppliers, 200 ingredients, 200 products and 25 lab results per account (distinct records, lifetime)
Requests
10 per minute
Startup
What you can see
Higher limits (up to 4,000 ingredients)
Requests
60 per minute
Enterprise
What you can see
Contract limits
Requests
300 per minute

Plan	What you can see	Requests
Free	10 suppliers, 200 ingredients, 200 products and 25 lab results per account (distinct records, lifetime)	10 per minute
Startup	Higher limits (up to 4,000 ingredients)	60 per minute
Enterprise	Contract limits	300 per minute

Get a free trial key at price.journeyfoods.io. When you reach a limit, the tool tells you and links to upgrade options. For full data access, contact Journey about a contract.

The solutions

Responsible by default

Nutrition, sustainability, and supply-chain ethics sit at the center of every recommendation, not as an afterthought.

Infrastructure, not opinions

Ingredient, supplier, and regulatory data unified into one decision layer your scientists, buyers, and leaders can actually rely on.

Fast decisions

From first concept to commercialized SKU, we turn months of research into minutes of confident action.

Discover

Find better products, before you build them

Model a formulation once and Journey surfaces the highest-impact changes, so you commit to a recipe knowing exactly what it costs, contains, and impacts.