Fix the food, not the people.
I’m Aleksandar Boskovski, co-founder and CEO of Alchemyst, the AI assistant for the people who design food and supplements. My bet: the fastest way to make a population healthier is to improve the food people already buy, not to lecture them about it.
The AI assistant for the people who design food: cited answers from the research and the rules.
Alchemyst works alongside R&D, regulatory and research teams at food and supplement companies and universities. Ask a formulation, regulatory or literature question and get an answer grounded in millions of peer-reviewed papers and live regulatory and safety sources. Every source is one click away, and every answer is labelled: from the sources, interpreted from them, or AI reasoning. Your team decides; Alchemyst does the digging.
- Livein market, with paying customers
- Weeklyproduct updates, published in Build Notes
- 2026taking part in the Swiss Food Innovation Challenge
- EUrooted in European applied food research
LIVE TODAY
Three focuses (Product Development, Regulatory & Compliance, Papers & Labels), a Monday Briefing of the recalls, regulations and research that matter to your categories, a Library, stage-gate Projects and Word reports. In six interface languages.
WHERE IT’S GOING
An AI Workbench where a team’s own data, its projects and the science meet. Clinical-trial records, food composition data and patents are being added; our own open-weight models for food science are in development.
WHY ME
Fifteen years of turning ideas into shipped products, and a long-held conviction that better food on the shelf does more than better advice. Alchemyst is where the two meet.
Builder, operator, founder
Economics → marketing → software → companies → AI for food.Most founders point to a logo on their résumé. I’d rather point to over fifteen years of things I actually built.
I didn’t take the straight path — law, then economics and international business across Germany, the UK, and Indonesia, and somewhere in between I taught myself to make things people use. Marketing led to product, product to code, code to building the companies that ship. I co-founded two; one still runs today. None of it came with a safety net.
That whole path was an apprenticeship for Alchemyst, where I build AI for the people who design food and supplements: they make the calls, and Alchemyst does the digging through the research and the rules. I’m based in Bremen; Alchemyst, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco.
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Things I’ve built
Before Alchemyst: the B2B chapter, and the products that taught me to ship.Work that has touched serious companies
Thinking out loud
Notes on AI, data, and building in food & beverage.The quiet revolution in functional food R&D
A shift is underway in how teams build functional products, driven by AI applied to the science itself, not the marketing around it.
Read → AI · How It WorksAI for ingredient discovery, in plain English
Retrieval, fine-tuning, and the hybrid systems that actually power AI-driven ingredient discovery, without the buzzwords.
Read → AI · DataWhy nutrition data quality will make or break AI in food
Everyone talks about the models. The real bottleneck in AI-driven food innovation is the quality of the data underneath them.
Read →LET'S TALK
hello@boskovski.comIF YOU INVEST
Alchemyst is live, with paying customers and a product that ships every week. Write to me and I’ll send the short version: why food R&D, why now, and why this team.
IF YOU LEAD R&D OR INNOVATION
Tell me the problem you own and the timeline you’re fighting. I’ll tell you honestly whether AI helps — and how.
IF YOU HOST A SHOW OR EVENT
Podcasts, keynotes and panels on how food gets designed and why fixing the defaults beats lecturing people. Topics, bios and headshots →