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About us

Freeform in every kitchen, and a fully harvested field on every farm.

That is the whole idea. Everything we build works towards it.

The problem

A third of the harvest never leaves the farm.

Buyers grade fruit and vegetables on appearance. Anything too small, too large, bent, split, rain-marked or scarred is rejected before it is ever tasted — around 30% of a farmer’s harvest, left in the field because there is nobody to sell it to.

None of it is spoiled. It is ordinary food that failed a cosmetic standard. We call it freeform produce, and buying it is the entire business.

A farmer holding freshly picked green peppers

What we do

We buy the whole field, and take it straight to the kitchen.

Conventional produce moves from the farmer to an agent, then a trader, then the mandi, then a wholesaler, and finally to a business. Each stop takes a margin and a day of freshness, and none of them will take the freeform grades. We replaced that chain with two steps of our own.

Farm-level collection

We buy direct at collection centres near the farm, taking the full harvest rather than only the grades that look the part.

Our distribution centre

Sorted, graded, weighed and packed in-house, with inventory and wastage tracked at every step.

Straight to the business

Delivered on our own fleet in under 20 hours, with no wholesaler in between.

Who we serve

Kitchens that cook at volume.

Freeform works best where produce gets prepped rather than plated whole — which covers most of a professional kitchen’s volume.

Restaurants & HoReCa

Single sites and multi-outlet chains, with every location on one account.

Cloud kitchens

High-volume, delivery-first operations where food cost decides the margin.

Food processing

Purées, sauces, dehydrated and ready-to-cook lines, where shape never survives the process.

Catering & food service

Institutional kitchens and contract caterers buying to a fixed cost per head.

Impact

Three things happen at once.

The farmer sells more of what they grew. The kitchen pays less for it. And food that was going to rot gets eaten instead.

~20% more

Farmer income

Earned on produce that previously had no buyer at any price.

25–30%

Customer savings

Off what our food business partners were paying to source before.

200,000 kg

Food waste saved monthly

Redirected from the field into working kitchens across the city.

3,000+

Farmer livelihoods

Supplying us across multiple Indian states, with more added each season.

Sourcing produce, or growing it?

We would like to hear from you either way — kitchens looking to cut food cost, and farmers with a harvest that needs a buyer.

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