Simple, transparent pricing

Yes. All paid plans include a free trial — 14 days for Essential and Professional, and 30 days for Academic. No credit card required to start. The trial gives hands-on access to the AI assistants and core features so you can assess fit before committing to a subscription.

AlchemystONE offers three paid plans tailored to different user needs:

• Essential — Core AI chat capabilities for individual food product developers getting started with AI-assisted R&D.
• Academic — Expanded features including the Briefing and deeper document analysis, designed for researchers and food scientists with a strong literature review workflow.
• Professional — The full platform: Spaces & Projects, Batch Notes, Company Documents Library, Stage-Gate tracking, advanced analytics, and priority support. Designed for R&D teams and product development organisations.

Yes. The Academic plan is specifically designed for researchers and students in food science and related disciplines. When you sign up with a university email, your domain is automatically verified against a global university whitelist — no manual approval needed for registered institutions. If your institution is not yet listed, contact contact@alchemyst.one and we will add it. Verified academic users receive a 30-day free trial, no credit card required. Lab groups and departments can buy seats directly: one Academic licence covers up to 50 seats, with 10% off every seat from five seats up, billed as a single invoice. Every member needs a verified university email address. Purchase order and invoice billing are available on request.

Team licences are available on Professional and Academic. You choose how many seats you need and invite colleagues by email — every person takes one seat, including you, and gets the full plan through that seat. Everything is billed to the team owner as a single invoice.

From five seats up, every seat is 10% cheaper, and that stacks with the 20% annual discount. You can buy up to 25 seats self-serve on Professional and up to 50 on Academic; above that we set up an Enterprise agreement. Mixed plans are not possible — a team is either Professional or Academic.

Yes. On Professional or Academic — including while you are still in your free trial — you can create a team and invite up to four colleagues. Each of them receives their own 14-day trial with full access and no payment details required. When you are ready, buy seats and everyone keeps working in the same Spaces without losing anything.

Yes, at any time under Settings → Team. When you add seats you pay only for the remainder of the current billing period straight away, then the full seat price from your next renewal. Removing a seat frees it immediately and lowers your next invoice; there is no refund for the period already paid. Because seats are not tied to a person, you can reassign a seat to a new colleague when someone leaves.

Essential provides the core AI chat capabilities — all three focuses: Product Development, Regulatory & Compliance and Papers & Labels — for individual professionals who need AI-powered food science guidance. Professional unlocks the full platform: Spaces & Projects for multi-project organisation, Batch Notes for structured bench-testing documentation, the Company Documents Library for uploading proprietary formulation guides and SOPs, Stage-Gate progress tracking, and priority support. Professional is designed for teams running active product development pipelines, not just individual query-and-answer use.

AlchemystONE is a powerful accelerator for regulatory research and preliminary guidance, but it is not a replacement for a licensed regulatory affairs professional in high-stakes submission contexts. Think of it as the tool your regulatory team uses to answer routine compliance questions instantly, pre-screen formulations before formal review, and prepare structured briefs — saving your experts for the complex, high-judgment decisions where human experience is essential. It directly reduces the billable hours your team requires from external consultants.

The ROI case rests on four pillars:

• Time savings: Food R&D scientists typically spend 4–8 hours per project phase on literature review alone. AlchemystONE compresses this to minutes via Paper Analysis and instant regulatory lookups.
• Error reduction: Catching regulatory non-compliance issues before formulation is finalised avoids costly reformulation late in the development cycle.
• Knowledge retention: Batch Notes and the Company Documents Library capture institutional R&D knowledge in a searchable system that survives staff turnover.
• Speed-to-market: Compressing development cycles so products reach shelves faster, capturing market windows and seasonal opportunities ahead of competitors.

Yes. AlchemystONE is built on enterprise-grade infrastructure with data encryption at rest and in transit. Your uploaded documents and formulation data are stored in your organisation's isolated environment — they are not used to train shared AI models or shared with other customers. For food companies with proprietary recipes and trade secrets, data confidentiality is treated as a non-negotiable architectural requirement. A Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is available for Professional-tier clients.

AlchemystONE currently operates as a standalone AI workspace optimised for food R&D workflows. It is designed to complement — rather than replace — existing ERP, PLM, or laboratory information management systems (LIMS). Teams typically use AlchemystONE at the front end of the development process for research, formulation guidance, and compliance checks, then transfer validated decisions into their operational systems. Native integrations with common food industry platforms are on the product roadmap.

AlchemystONE is a cloud-based SaaS platform with no software installation required. Teams can be up and running within minutes of creating an account. Onboarding is designed to be intuitive for food scientists — not IT specialists. For Professional teams, the Company Documents Library can be populated with existing internal documents immediately, so the platform starts returning value with your institutional knowledge from day one.

AlchemystONE serves a wide spectrum of food industry organisations, from large CPG manufacturers running complex product portfolios to specialist ingredient suppliers, contract research organisations (CROs), academic food science departments, and early-stage food tech start-ups. Primary users are food product developers, R&D scientists, regulatory affairs specialists, and product managers overseeing multi-stage innovation pipelines. Any team that develops, tests, validates, or commercialises food products can benefit from the platform.