SOUND partners with supplement and functional snack brands on contract manufacturing, co-development, and category-exclusive licensing arrangements. Live production, protected process and composition-of-matter IP, and a small BD team that responds inside two business days.
Standard co-man commercial terms with a manufacturing platform conventional co-mans can't replicate on the actives your R&D team specified. Volume flexibility across pilot, launch, and scale.
SOUND food-science and process depth on your R&D calls. Partner owns the finished IP under a defined split; SOUND retains rights to the underlying process and composition-of-matter portfolio.
For partners with the distribution and brand equity to lock down a category. SOUND licenses the process and composition-of-matter IP under exclusive territory, category, or channel terms for a defined period.
SOUND is a manufacturing partner, not a competitor on the shelf. We never launch our own consumer brand into your category, we never build a competing SKU alongside your co-branded product, and we never share your formulation or first-party data with any other partner.
Thirty-minute BD-to-BD conversation. Category, format hypothesis, volume band, and timeline. NDA in place if the formulation is on the table.
Your R&D team meets our food-science and process leads. Ingredient list, target dose, format hypothesis, and spec walked through against the platform.
Deal structure selected — contract, co-development, or licensing. Volume commitments, pricing framework, exclusivity terms, and timeline to first production run committed on paper.
Pilot batch, third-party validation on your formula (Eurofins), MSA execution, and first commercial run scheduled on the qualified line.