Logistics supply chain

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Food Supply Chain companies have been using legacy ERPs for decades. Everyone knows these are necessary evils that essentially run the business but take up a lot of operational capacity. They are not about to just rip and replace their existing system that runs their whole business with a system that takes years to implement. Imagine if they could

Founded 2023Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Food Supply Chain companies have been using legacy ERPs for decades. Everyone knows these are necessary evils that essentially run the business but take up a lot of operational capacity. They are not about to just rip and replace their existing system that runs their whole business with a system that takes years to implement. Imagine if they could implement AI that runs the ERP for them, in weeks?

Burnt’s building an agentic OS for the Food Supply Chain with AI Agents for each department.

Our AI Agent, Ozai, has started by replacing the whole order management job function at food distribution companies, so that sales and customer service teams can focus on what matters - the customer. Ozai monitors all incoming messages (emails, phone calls, voicemails, whatsapp, fax etc.), figures out if it's an order, learns each customer's habits, shorthand, and favorite products, picks up on any prep notes, and enters it straight into the existing ERP. It'll even go back to the customers on your behalf when it's not sure about something, clarify things and carry on working.

The more it sees, the smarter it gets.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Logistics supply chainIndustry softwareBusinessesMid marketSubscription

Product & workflow

Monitor every workflow, from sales and procurement to credit, in one unified system.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-10-26

Founders & team

Previously burnt AI

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Joseph Jacob

Founder/CEO

Spent my whole career in food supply chain, intimately understanding the pain points at each step of the supply chain. Now we're reinventing the fundamental technical infrastructure that the industry is run on.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Rhea Karimpanal

Founder/CPO

Product at burnt! Creativity is my jam, details matter to me, and I’m all about understanding how people in food relate to technology.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Chandru Shanumugasundaram

Founder/CTO

Built backed systems for Legal tech, Dev tools, Banking, Restaurant applications. Currently building agents for food distributors and suppliers.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
3team members reported
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Founded 2023 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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