Consult the Func
Need more Func in your life? FuncBot offers consulting services for beverage formula development on an hourly, monthly retainer or per project basis.
Beverages are designed with the technical details of production, sourcing, and distribution in mind. A comprehensive beverage product development process helps beverage creators understand and optimize their formulation and operations choices early on to create a strategy for long-term business success. Along the supply chain, I consult and support my clients on the following steps. (keyword optimized)
Unique Formula Development
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Product Development
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Product Formulation
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Product Scale-Up
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Unique Product Concepting
Ingredients
All ingredients are ethically and sustainably sourced. Wherever feasible, FuncBot works directly with small farmers using sustainable practices, paying premium prices for premium products.
Ingredients are NOT fungible commodities. Every ingredient is carefully evaluated and selected for its organoleptic properties. FuncBot recognizes and embraces seasonal and regional variations in our ingredients - we adapt our recipes around these rather than try to make everything regress to the mean in pursuit of industrial standardization.
Social and
enviromental impact
FuncBot works with indigenous communities to create value-add products and processes from their traditional agriculture and agroforestry. The goal is to preserve and encourage sustainable traditions such as agro polyculture while simultaneously increasing local income and employment and promoting indigenous culture and language.
The first such project is already underway in San Felipe Usila, in Oaxaca’s Chinantla Jungle. Here, FuncBot is developing high-value, stable fermented beverages from local honey, vanilla, and cacao that are produced in situ.
Who came
up with this?
I am a Bioscientist, Process Engineer, and Ethnobotanist with a decade of experience in the beverage and herbal industries, though I'm often described as a dancing/driving honky-tonk. My skill set is a synergy of biotech, gastronomy, ethnobotany, and buckdancing, interspersed with a lot of quotes from Robert Burns and Shane MacGowan.
I have designed, built, and operated distilleries, breweries, and co-packers, and innovated numerous new products and processes. I got the idea for FuncBot while I was simultaneously running a distillery, consulting on cannabis nanoemulsification and terpene enhancement, and volunteering as a Firefighter & EMT. I needed healthy, non-intoxicating beverages that paired well with food and also rivaled the flavor and complexity of the world-class booze I was used to drinking. But these simply were not on the market. That was in 2018 and I’ve been creating, tinkering, and honing products and processes for nonalcoholic beverages ever since. I’m damn good at it and want to share these products globally.
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- Matt Spinozzi
Founder
Consult the Func
Need more Func in your life? FuncBot offers consulting services on an hourly, monthly retainer or per project basis for:
Product Development
Product Formulation
Product Scale-Up
Unique Product Concepting
Nanoemulsification
Botanical Extraction
Nootropics
Shelf Stability (FDA Process Authority)
Ingredient Sourcing
Process Engineering
Process Optimization
Facility Design/Expansion
Staff Training
Technical/Professional Writing
FuncBot has expertise in using Cannabis, Psilocybin, Kava, Kratom, Entactogens, and other bioactive ingredients that are difficult to work with.
FuncBot has a strict “No Schmucks” policy. This means that if you or your company have a history of false/misleading statements or unethical practices, we cannot work with you.
That´s what she said ...
“Matt has been invaluable during the R&D of a revolutionary beverage. If you are looking to break the industry and produce high quality beverages, Matt will find a way to bring your project to life, and as an added bonus is just a lot of fun to work with!”
Amanda Chen, Founder & CEO of Tomo No Tomo Non-Alc Agave Distillate
Carlos Liverani, Co-founder & Chief Producer Officer of Verse Health-Enhancing Social Drinks
“When we set out on our journey as first-time beverage founders we were novices when it came to beverage creation. Enter Matt of FuncBot– our guide to this complex world. From the very first interaction, it became abundantly clear that Matt wasn’t just a consultant; he was a partner in the truest sense of the word. With an undeniable obsession for the science behind developing and scaling beverages, he illuminated the intricate nuances of taste, nutritional profiles, functional ingredients, safety & stability, cost-effectiveness, and most importantly scalability of our formula to meet the needs and lips of our target consumers. His technical prowess and range is SERIOUS, but his irreverent personality and work-style makes collaborating as refreshing as the liquids he’ll design.
But what truly sets Matt apart is his unwavering dedication to innovation. He’s a brand founder himself and shares our frustrations with the status quo. He didn’t simply provide us with templated solutions like many other flavor houses we interacted with attempted to do. On the contrary, he didn’t hesitate when we our requests lead to unfamiliar territories of need states, market positioning, and bleeding edge of functional ingredients. In an industry where many opt for the familiar comfort of the status quo, it is INVALUABLE to have a partner that can think differently, challenge norms and push the frontiers with you. With his assistance, we iterated our way to perfecting Verse's formula – and we’re confident that what we did together is a first in the crowded beverage industry. FuncBot, under the stewardship of Matt, is undeniably a next-generation beverage flavor house and design for manufacturing studio. For anyone looking to make a mark in the beverage world, our advice is simple: partner with Matt and prepare to be amazed by how he’ll turn your dreams into reality while making you giggle.”
Consulting requests
You have a sick idea yourself and want an engineer to develop it?
Let´s have a chat about it.