Food and Beverage Product Development

JAI Development is a food and beverage innovation lab specializing in product formulation and production operations management across a broad spectrum of food, beverage, and cosmetic product categories.

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• Helping one brand at a time

• Helping one brand at a time • Helping one brand at a time

What We Offer

For food and beverage, flavor comes first. We work with the best ingredient suppliers in the business to create your dream product ready for commercial production.
We make sure the hand off from bench top to production is smooth, controlling every step of the process maintaining product quality along the way.
Outside of our expertise, we have an extensive partner network specializing in areas that can help your brand succeed.

Formulation Services

Operations Management

Our Product Development Process

Step 1: Ideation

Whether you have a homemade recipe or need help fleshing out an idea, we are here to help start the process.

Step 2: Onboarding

Transparent work flow begins with proper onboarding. We gather all project data and setup your client cockpit to monitor our progress.

Step 3: Mise En Place

Our work is only as good as the pieces we use to put it together. Sourcing your supply chain is the first key to success.

Step 4: Formulation

We build your product with the balance of our expertise and your input, understanding the end goal is to create something we all love.

Step 5: Operations

Whether JAI takes on your production operations or you pave your own way, we are here to make sure the transition from bench top to production goes smoothly.

What our clients are saying

Brooklyn Best

“JAI is the first partner we worked with, and we haven’t looked back since. “
Curious Elixirs

“JAI is in a unique position to help navigate the choppy waters of recipe development, clean label ingredient sourcing, production management, and vendor relations.”
Drink Hummy

“Similar to our own company ethos, JAI understands that great taste should not be a nice-to-have — it should be the cornerstone of whatever you drink.”
Brooklyn Cannery

“The JAI team is composed of professionals who are reliable and responsive all the way from top down.”
bellie

“JAI Development created two delicious SKUs that helped us succeed in our university accelerator. JAI has also helped us with flavor advisory, co-packer conversations, and other bev logistics. Plus, they’re super friendly and easy to work with.”