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Or do you have any concerns with infant formulas? We would like to understand your concerns as we are creating real human milk using biotechnology. Please share your contact info [here](https://forms.gle/gy64yfLuJ1MtnfmD8) and we will connect to schedule a quick 20 mins call to understand your concerns.**\n\n### **UnReal Human Milk! 🍼 👶**\n\n> **_Why? - Lactation Issues in Women are at an all-time High!_**\n\nEvery year around 85 million women globally struggle with breast feeding in some way or the other. The existing infant formulas are largely based on cow milk which naturally lacks several essential components of human milk like lactoferrin, HMOs etc. which are critical for the nutrition of the baby. Recently there was one of the biggest recalls in history of infant formula in Dec 2025, with a similar recall in US in 2022 which led to sudden shortage of infant formulas and left parents extremely worried and vulnerable. To circumvent such incidents we need more clean-label innovation in this space to create better and more robust solutions for infant nutrition.\n\n> **_What and How? - Harnessing Biology Responsibly!_**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98944&key=user_uploads/215532/88fc5eaf-d775-43a4-86a0-104692179c41)\n\n🚀 🚀 **Huge** **Breakthrough** - **We have been able to secrete Real Human Milk in lab!!!** We have validated all proteins by independent third party testing and have also tested for fats and carbohydrates to create a basic version of real human milk. By using mammalian cell culture we have designed a system to produce human milk in lab with a macronutrient focus currently. We are a Stanford, Rice University and IIT Delhi alumni team with backgrounds across biotechnology, business and innovation, determined to make a huge impact by using technology and leveraging recent advances in understanding of biological systems. This breakthrough leverages our extensive work on cow milk ([Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/daphneewingchow/2025/02/24/first-lab-grown-whole-cows-milk-to-debut-in-the-us/)) as we add this new product to our pipeline - UnReal Human Milk.\n\n> **_More Exciting Stuff! - Why should human adults drink cow’s milk and not human milk?_**\n\nUntil now we had no way to mass produce human milk so we resorted to drinking cow milk since we could keep the poor cows in captivity to produce as much milk as needed. But now with our standardised scalable approach to creating human milk maybe we can move everyone across the planet from drinking cow milk to human milk. 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Polyester alone makes up 60% of the $2.5 trillion fashion industry and is the biggest blocker preventing brands from meeting sustainability mandates. The patent-pending ALT TEX fermentation technology creates a polyester alternative that works with the existing infrastructure to supply a sustainable, high performance and cost competitive polyester replacement to fashion brands, at scale. \r\n\r\nThe product solves key problems for fashion brands, consumers, and the environment:\r\n\r\n(1) Fashion brands: ALT TEX sells fabric to fashion brands, allowing them to differentiate via sustainable options (sustainable fashion growing 11% CAGR) and hit sustainability targets, without sacrificing performance or changing their current supply chain.\r\n\r\n(2) Consumer: The ALT TEX fabric is projected to be half the price vs. other specialized sustainable alternatives (due to low-cost input and scalability), meaning greater accessibility.\r\n\r\n(3) Environment: A single shirt produced with ALT TEX fabric can divert 1 kg of food waste from landfills, 9 kg of carbon emissions from the air, and 4 g of micro-plastics from our waterways.\r\n\r\nCo-founders Myra and Avneet have worked together managing teams and projects for six years, with backgrounds in serial entrepreneurship, corporate sales at Fortune 500 companies, textile manufacturing and biochemistry. 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Coming from a family background in textile manufacturing, I'm disrupting the $2.5 trillion fashion industry with better and more sustainable materials.\n\nPrior to ALT TEX, I held corporate roles in sales and marketing at Fortune 500 companies, before founding fluidic – a direct to consumer lifestyle brand. Prior to fluidic, I built FarmBox, a Hult Prize backed, AI micro-farming technology that enabled food sustainability in refugee camps.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/myra4/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/thealttex", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a7545ee525a8ce037e02092f3887cf6713e3ead5.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1018781, "full_name": "Avneet Ghotra", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Hi, I'm Avneet - Co-founder and CTO of ALT TEX. I left medical school to build ALT TEX. 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We’re [Myra](https://www.linkedin.com/in/myra4/) and [Avneet](https://www.linkedin.com/in/avneet-ghotra-51284728/), co-founders of [ALT TEX](http://thealttex.com). We’ve created the world’s first polyester-alternative fabric, made from food waste.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65136&key=user_uploads/578199/71da3b57-6b33-4db2-a80f-becf0dd70065)\n\n🌍 **The problem: polyester is leading fashion’s GHG emissions, but has no circular alternative.**\n\nThe fashion industry’s heavy reliance on petroleum-derived polyester textiles is a major contributor to the 10% of global GHG emissions the industry generates annually. The plastic-based material, found in 60% of the clothes we wear, creates over 50 million tons of global annual landfill waste, generates 35% of all ocean micro-plastics, and consumes 70 million barrels of oil each year.\n\nDespite 1/3 of the fashion industry committing to 0 carbon emissions by 2050, polyester, the most widely used fabric, has no fully circular, carbon-neutral alternative.\n\nAt the same time, food waste is on the rise with 1 billion tons generated annually across the world. So, we’re using one problem 🍎 to fix the other 👕. Here’s how ⬇️\n\n👕 **The Solution: Fabric created from the world’s largest waste source - food waste.**\n\nALT TEX reduces the fashion industry’s dependence on fossil fuels through its biodegradable and carbon-neutral textiles engineered from food waste. The patent-pending fermentation technology plugs into the existing polyester supply chain to provide fashion brands with a cradle-to-cradle polyester alternative without sacrificing performance.\n\nThe product solves key problems for fashion brands, consumers, and the environment:\n\n1. Fashion brands: ALT TEX sells fabric to fashion brands, allowing them to differentiate via sustainable options (sustainable fashion growing 11% CAGR) and hit sustainability targets, without sacrificing performance or changing their current supply chain.\n2. Consumer: The ALT TEX fabric is projected to be half the price vs. other specialized sustainable alternatives (due to low-cost input and scalability), meaning greater accessibility.\n3. 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Today, ALT TEX has created its fabric prototype, raised $2,300,000 USD in funding, secured $1,000,000 in pilot LOIs and has grown the team to 10.\n\n**How you can help:**\n\nAs we scale out of the lab and into the market over the next year, we’re looking for:\n\n1. fashion brands interested in sourcing a sustainable polyester alternative\n2. food manufacturers looking for a sustainable way to re-purpose their waste\n\nIf you’re curious or have help/resources for us, please feel free to reach out!\n\n📩 [myra@thealttex.com](mailto:myra@thealttex.com)\n\n🌐 [thealttex.com](http://thealttex.com) | [linkedin.com/company/alt-tex/](http://linkedin.com/company/alt-tex/)\n\n👩‍💻 [@thealttex](https://twitter.com/thealttex)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gwa-alt-tex-fabric-made-from-food-waste", "votes": 188, "created_at": "2022-08-04T17:08:53.742Z" } ] }, { "id": 26883, "name": "Hedgehog", "slug": "hedgehog-2", "former_names": [ "Hedgehog Agriculture" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cefd49e2f001817fd856853325f328d68d72bfa7.png", "website": "http://hedgehogfoods.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Hedgehog builds robotic mushroom farms. 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He previously founded Indigo Carbon, the largest agriculture carbon credit platform. He joined Indigo Agriculture pre-revenue and helped scale sales to >$250m as GM of two new business units. Before Indigo, he worked in software and food at McKinsey & Co. In June 2022, Jamie graduated from Stanford's MBA.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-balsillie/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5aa2163395da235b872c74cafa583fc7ef5b1e0b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 953786, "full_name": "Wilson Ruotolo", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Wilson Ruotolo is a co-founder of Hedgehog, where he designs robotics for mushroom production. He received his PhD from Stanford, studying the design of robotic hands. He collaborated with NASA on end-effectors for martian exploration and his prototypes have been used to retrieve artifacts off the Mediterranean seafloor. He has first author publications in multiple journals, including Science Robotics, and his work is featured in TechCrunch, Popular Science, and Spotify’s Soft Robotics podcast.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilson-ruotolo-679a6697/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/57aabf53f1d51058462c50a0b5e4664dc4cd9ebe.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65014, "title": "🍄 Hedgehog - Robotic mushroom farms", "tagline": "Growing mushrooms & fungi for 1/3rd cost.", "body": "**tl;dr** Hedgehog builds robotic farms that grow mushrooms and fungi for 1/3rd the cost. Fungi produce protein-rich foods with near-zero environmental impact. Our tech is unleashing them as our next major food source.\n\nHey everyone! We’re Jamie & Wilson, co-founders of Hedgehog.\n\n**Opportunity: Fungi - our next major food source?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65014&key=user_uploads/995535/6274e56c-e42e-41de-97aa-a0e6bc59c109)\n\nFungi are unique crops. They transform agricultural waste (corn husks, wheat straw, etc.) into protein-rich, meaty-tasting food. And they do it without arable land, irrigation, or energy intensive lighting. With 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions coming from food, this is an opportunity we must seize. Fungi are our chance to produce quality food at scale with near-zero environmental impact.\n\n**Problem: They’re labor intensive** \\\nUnfortunately, producing mushrooms and fungi is labor intensive, limiting their scale and affordability. For even the most sophisticated mushroom and fungi farms, labor is the vast majority of cost. They require delicate handling and careful monitoring – difficult jobs to automate.\n\n**Solution: Robots** \\\nOh yeah. Robots. We’re building robotics and AI to automate each step of production. Autonomous dexterous manipulation harvests, breaks down, and packages the mushrooms. Computer vision and low-cost sensors power decisions like when to harvest. AI optimizes >60 dimensions to increase yield. Eliminating labor and increasing yield will reduce costs by 70%+.\n\n \n\n\\*\\*How you can help:\\*\\*\\\nWe aim to unleash fungi as our next major food source, making these healthy, sustainable foods affordable for anyone. If you’re interested in helping out, we’d love to meet:\n\n* A+ talent in robotics and ML\n* Mushroom growers\n\nReach out at [hello@hedgehogfoods.com](mailto:hello@hedgehogfoods.com)\n\nJamie & Wilson\\\n🦔", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Guc-hedgehog-robotic-mushroom-farms", "votes": 272, "created_at": "2022-07-29T22:20:01.173Z" } ] }, { "id": 27147, "name": "FoodCourt", "slug": "foodcourt", "former_names": [ "CoKitchen" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8b310f196c9d3bbee68d94946f5184db3f66e95.png", "website": "https://www.getfoodcourt.com", "all_locations": "Lagos, LA, Nigeria; LA, Nigeria", "long_description": "FoodCourt (CoKitchen) is Africa's leading virtual restaurant company. We've served over 350,000 meals in the last 12 months & our goal is to make good food and quick convenience goods more accessible across Africa, through virtual restaurants & dark stores.\r\n\r\nUnderstanding the unique problems of the African on-demand/ food delivery market, we've taken a full-stack approach by controlling different areas of the value chain such as technology, production & delivery to give users a seamless & consistent experience while giving us unlimited flexibility for growth. \r\n\r\nLearn more at www.getfoodcourt.com or email henry@cokitchen.ng ", "one_liner": "Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa", "team_size": 80, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Food and Beverage", "launched_at": 1659104642, "tags": [ "Ghost Kitchens", "Consumer", "Delivery", "Food Tech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Food and Beverage" ], "regions": [ "Nigeria", "Africa", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/foodcourt", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/foodcourt.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Lagos", "country": "NG", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinco-kitchen/", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/foodcourt_app", "fb_url": "https://web.facebook.com/getfoodcourt/", "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8b310f196c9d3bbee68d94946f5184db3f66e95.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 741494, "full_name": "Henry Nneji", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Henry is the Co-Founder & CEO of CoKitchen. He is from a very entrepreneurial family and has always had a keen interest for solving problems with technology. Prior to CoKitchen, Henry has been able to accumulate a range of experiences cut across design, marketing, product development/ management & entrepreneurship. In 2019 he co-founded Fashion Map, a quick way for Nigerians to find tailors & fashion designers across the country, dubbed as the “Uber for Tailors” by The Economist. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/henrynneji", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a519dd5142b07a70ec6fcfaabf31a082f36d8eb6.jpg" }, { "user_id": 741516, "full_name": "Paul Adokiye Iruene", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Paul is the Co-Founder & CTO of CoKitchen. \nHe has a strong engineering background and has always been passionate about technology. \nPaul is a full-stack engineer with vast experience in back end, web, mobile development, AI, machine learning & DevOps. Prior to CoKitchen he was on the founding tech team of Prospa (YC W21), a digital bank for small businesses across Africa. As a personal project, built “for food only” an AI Vision app that identifies African food items using image classification.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-adokiye-iruene-5537a5163/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/bcb01390b60435cb0b6579e41c4c271ae501fb1e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "How Nigeria’s FoodCourt is making meals more accessible via cloud kitchen approach - Disrupt Africa", "url": "https://disrupt-africa.com/2023/06/06/how-nigerias-foodcourt-is-making-meals-more-accessible-via-cloud-kitchen-approach/", "date": "Jun 05, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 64997, "title": "CoKitchen (FoodCourt) ⚡️ - Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa", "tagline": "Good food, snacks, liquor & essentials delivered in a single order! ", "body": "Hello YC fam,\n\nThis is [Henry](https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrynneji/) & [Paul](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-adokiye-iruene-5537a5163/) from [CoKitchen](https://www.getfoodcourt.com)!\n\nWe are building the future of on-demand delivery in Africa with Virtual Restaurants & Dark Stores.\n\n**📲 FoodCourt App**\\\nThe [FoodCourt](https://onelink.to/foodcourtapp) app lets people order from a curation of virtual restaurant brands & shops focused on the most popular food & convenience categories wherever you are in Africa. With FoodCourt, you don’t have to decide between burgers, traditional Nigerian food, Chinese food or even liquor & snacks. You can order across brands & have everything delivered in a single order!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64997&key=user_uploads/741494/6447f895-8407-42e9-83a3-3888319ee070)\n\n**❎ The Problem**\\\nDespite the rise of aggregator food delivery apps across Africa, traditional restaurants still find it hard to adapt to the changes in consumer behaviour & keep up with the growing demand for on-demand delivery services. This has led to a **poor experience** for online food delivery users on the continent.\n\n**✅ Our Solution**\\\nWe’ve built a full-stack model where we control different areas of the value chain such as the technology, food production & delivery to give users a seamless & consistent experience.\n\n1. Order on the FoodCourt app - a curation of good food & convenience goods with our unique & easy to use multi-brand ordering experience.\n2. Order gets prepared in our multi-brand delivery hub - Fully optimised for delivery efficiency.\n3. Delivered quickly by our connected last-mile partners - stationed at the delivery hub.\n\n**❤️ Feedback**\\\n[150+ User Stories - Instagram highlights](https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTMxODM5NzU2MTc1MTQ2?story_media_id=2872254883829742939&igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64997&key=user_uploads/741494/aa32bd46-0a7d-4c73-aa4a-d462db4af8a1)\n\n**📈 Milestones & Fun Facts**\\\nSince our launch 11 months ago…\\\n250,000+ meals delivered\\\n$500k+ all-time sales\\\n$110k+ sales in June\\\n2,650+ monthly active users (67%+ order between 2 - 50+ times a month)\\\nEvery day in the last 150+ days, we’ve seen 35 - 45 people order 2 - 5 times daily.\\\n100% cashless (52%+ of transactions from saved cards)\n\n**🌍 The Market - Africa**\n\nPopulation: 1.37B+\\\nInternet users: 590m+ \\\nMedian age: 18yrs (wired for convenience, massive room for growth)\n\n**⚡️ Our Mission**\n\nBuilding a future where good food & convenience goods are seamlessly accessible in a few clicks for Africans.\n\n**🤝 Ask**\n\nTry us out - If you are in Lagos, Nigeria (the island), give us a try, we’d love to hear your feedback! [**» Get the app «**](https://onelink.to/foodcourtapp)\\\n\\\nTalk to us - Interested in working, learning more or partnering with us? 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", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\n_At_ [_Momentum Foods_](https://www.linkedin.com/company/momentumfoods/)_, we’re adding meat back into plant-based meat to make it more affordable, healthy, and delicious._ \n\n### **Overview**\n\nAfter five years developing and scaling textured protein (the base of every product) at Beyond Meat, I realized two things:\n\n1. Plant-based meat companies don’t have a clear path to improving product quality _and_ decreasing cost.\n2. The 96% of the population that regularly eats meat cares more about cost, health, and flavor than whether their food is vegan.\n\nBy combining plant protein with the best parts of meat, we can finally make a product that’s less expensive than the real thing, but nearly indistinguishable from it — all while being better for the planet.\n\n### **Our Retail Brand, Paul’s Table:**\n\n[Paul’s Table](https://www.paulstable.com/) delivers our vision of competitive price, flavor, and health. Everyday products for everyday people. Coming to stores in Summer 2023.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/jLpHHfZw35HrIMIF1TO2kvVP4fSVdxODZ2KlK1pjbrBV3YVSMjAkSog59f_yZSFCr9xbCAZ-l6nMkdIdGHt0ATcp5hL1oGrxjDfFKDs8ZXytZT4P8rDdgDSvP8mar01ofMSltyofn_BCIlLdG2KkBeg)\n\nA sneak peek product photo (sans BBQ sauce):\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69856&key=user_uploads/1182533/e0db13c1-8b74-46f8-b3da-f24267b53732)\n\n### **Team (more than just mustaches)**\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/0S3AbYE7CGE68wHbI297eYwiq-Ye8ljgR2v1xm_lIkpuHficvHpOn-vNdlo8QIP-ayQs3JkOKsN8cBa7cIAmLVyJ-ErnSpx2XCYtcfhPvcPj38VRXhINHdpAZ-_IcwbGxCdErThlm3I1ADzYXg3hV08)\n\nI ([Saba](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saba-fazeli-8b686067/)) spent the past five years heading up the R&D engineering department at Beyond Meat, where I helped develop and scale the textured proteins that underpin every product introduced to the market since 2017. 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We’re [Ethan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/changethan/) and [Isaac,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaackan/) and we’re building [Forge](https://www.linkedin.com/company/forgerewards)[.](https://www.forgerewards.com/) Our journey started as roommates at Stanford where we worked on ad-branded contraceptives, AI-generated Spotify playlists, and exploring new restaurants in Palo Alto. Today, we’re on a mission to enhance customer relationships through restaurant loyalty, and have 300+ partners including Chubby Group, Liuyishou Hotpot, and Daeho Dining.\n\n**The Problem**\n\nIn high school, Ethan saw firsthand, while helping manage a 3 location Korean corndog shop, that local mom-and-pop restaurants struggle with building digital presence and customer retention; since they fail to acquire and retain repeat customers; while losing 30% to third-party delivery apps and big corporations.\n\nOn the other hand, publicly-trading mega-corporations like Starbucks and Domino’s are well equipped with teams of in-house engineers that spend $MM’s every year to control their customer’s dining journey with their technology.\n\n**Our Solution: Forge, the Starbucks app for your brand.**\n\nForge brings this sophisticated technology to any restaurant brand, white-labeled at a very low-cost. 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Ripping these systems out would take **years**, cost **millions**, and probably spark a small mutiny. Meanwhile, flashy e-commerce storefronts have flopped harder than day-old soufflé.\n\nBurnt deploys AI Agents directly inside these ERPs, starting with a Sales AI Agent that completely replaces the order management job function.\n\nWe’re working with large distributors across meat, seafood, and specialty ingredients - 97% of their orders now run end-to-end without people & 90% of order-entry staff shifted into sales.\n\nWe’re building supply chain superintelligence so that independent food distributors can compete with the US Foods and Sysco. \n\n\\____________________\\_\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nFood distributors that supply restaurants rely on decades-old legacy ERPs - critical to operations but slow, inflexible, and dependent on armies of people to run.\n\nPast attempts to automate these workflows have failed:\n\n* **RPA** works only for structured PDFs, not for the messy reality of food orders coming via emails, calls, texts, WhatsApp, and fax.\n* **E-commerce storefronts** have low adoption, 12-24 month implementation cycles and come at a high cost - both financially and emotionally - for distributors, while still failing to address the nuances of the industry.\n\nThis leaves distributors buried in manual work. Customer service teams are the perfect example of this issue -  they spend most of their time re-typing orders instead of building relationships.\n\n\\____________________\\_\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nhttps://youtu.be/hRgpT2I1XAk\n\nBurnt’s AI Agents operate inside existing ERPs - no rip-and-replace required.\n\nOur first agent, **Ozai**, monitors all incoming sales channels (email, text, voicemail, WhatsApp, fax – **even phone calls**), learns each customer’s shorthand, habits, and favorite products, interprets prep notes, and enters the order directly into the ERP.\n\nIf something’s unclear, Ozai asks the customer for clarification and continues processing without breaking the workflow. 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