A recipe is worthless if nobody can make it. We check labs, pilot kitchens, factories and ingredient suppliers on what they can actually do.
Most brands find these one at a time, over years, by asking around. The network means your Buildfile™ has somewhere to go the day it is done.
Testing for nutrition, microbiology, safety, shelf-life and taste. Where a test needs an NABL-accredited lab, it goes to one. We pick the tests rather than ordering everything, and we read the results against your spec instead of forwarding them. Invoiced at lab cost.
Kitchens and pilot plants that can make the first real version at a sensible size, and write down what actually happened — trial records, deviation logs, process parameters observed rather than assumed.
Factories matched on four things: what they can make, how much, what they are certified for, and their minimum order. Those four decide whether a factory is real or a wasted month.
Suppliers for the ingredients a recipe needs, with allowed levels, paperwork and current price visible while you are still designing it. Substitutes qualified in advance, cost impact modelled before commitment.
A partner is approved for a specific category and a specific job, not in general. The same factory can be right for a sauce and wrong for a gummy.
Can this facility make this kind of product? Equipment, process, format and the technical range it can genuinely hold — established by specification, not by a capability deck.
Can it make your volume, at your batch size, when you need it? A facility that can technically make your product but only at ten times your MOQ is not an option.
Licences, category-specific certifications and audit status verified against documents, and re-verified rather than assumed to still be current.
Whether they can hit the same spec batch after batch. Incoming checks, in-process control, records, and what they do when something is off.
Terms, MOQ, lead time and how they behave when something goes wrong. The last one is the hardest to check and the most expensive to get wrong.
Qualification is per category and per capability, and it is re-checked when a partner takes on your work. A facility that cleared the gates for a beverage two years ago is not automatically cleared for your nutraceutical today.
Capability is a fact, not a claim. Equipment, throughput, certification and the categories a facility can genuinely hold — checked before your specification ever reaches it.
Your specification tested against capability, capacity, certification and MOQ across the network, returning a shortlist that survives a technical conversation.
The right panel selected, samples routed, results interpreted against your specification and out-of-spec results flagged rather than forwarded.
Specification transferred, process parameters aligned, QC agreed and the factory taken through to a validated first batch.
Each of these is a service you can buy on its own — scope, deliverables and price are listed on Pricing — or run as part of a Build.
We are not trying to lock you into our suppliers. If you already have a lab or a factory you trust, we work through it.
We choose the panel, so you do not over-test
Samples routed and chased on your behalf
Results read against your specification
Charges approved by you, invoiced at cost
We write the protocol and brief your team
Your existing relationships stay intact
Results interpreted the same way
No Bettrlabs charge on your own facility
Lab, pilot and factory charges are approved by you before they are committed and invoiced at what they cost. External charges are passed to you as they are invoiced to us.
A count of partners and a wall of logos tells you nothing about whether a factory can make your product. These three things do, and you can check them.
Under a Co-Build or Enterprise agreement, the specific facilities qualified for your categories are named in your SKU Build Plan — before you commit to anything. Run a lab, a plant or supply ingredients? Apply to the network.
Start with the formulation. The manufacturing route is a question we answer once the product is worth building.
