About Index Bio
Building the AI Platform for Food.
We invented the BioTag, built the Trailhead AI platform, and have been working with tier-1 food manufacturers to transform how the industry approaches safety, quality, and operations.
Our Story
Index Bio was founded in Toronto, Canada by Mike Borg and David Singer with a simple thesis: the food industry has a data problem, and that problem is solvable.
We started by inventing the BioTag — a microscopic, food-safe barcode made from inactive baker's yeast that lets food safety professionals simulate contamination without disrupting production. BioTags generate 100,000x more detectable data per gram than traditional methods, creating the kind of consistent, high-volume data that AI can actually work with.
From there, we built Trailhead — an agentic AI platform purpose-built for the food industry. Trailhead takes the data BioTags generate (along with data from any other source) and puts AI agents to work: monitoring, analyzing, predicting, and automating the tasks that slow food operations down.
Today, we work with tier-1 food manufacturers across North America, deploying AI agents that transform how organizations manage safety, quality, supply chain, and compliance. Whether customers self-serve on Trailhead, use BioTags to supercharge their agents, or outsource everything to our managed services team — we meet them where they are.
Founded
Toronto, Canada
What We Built
- BioTag — the contamination simulation technology
- Trailhead — the agentic AI platform for food
Customers
Tier-1 food manufacturers across North America
What Industry Experts Say
“BioTags® represent a powerful tool for food safety professionals. With ongoing challenges in clean break validation for low-moisture RTE foods—especially under recent FDA guidance—they offer a promising solution to meet requirements and strengthen risk management.”
Dr. Jeffrey Farber
Scientific Advisor, Food Safety
“BioTags® present the opportunity to reduce the scope of recalls and absolve unaffected products from allegations of contamination. This could open entirely new product categories to recall and contamination insurance.”
Dr. David Acheson
Senior Advisor, Food Safety
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Whether you want to self-serve on Trailhead, add BioTags, or let our managed services team handle everything — we'll find the right fit.
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