Every table deserves a meal they can enjoy.

It started on holidays. A restaurant where everything on the menu sounded delicious, but nothing was labelled. Between Karim's gluten, lactose, lamb, and corn allergies, and the rest of the table's different dietary needs, every order became a negotiation. A kind waiter. A chef called over. Everyone trying to help. Everyone exhausted. Back home, the problem didn't disappear. Hundreds of restaurants. New cuisines every week. The same impossible question at every table: What can we actually eat? Then we realised something. The information already existed, scattered across ingredients, recipes, languages and kitchen knowledge. With the right technology, finding an answer didn't have to take ten minutes or a conversation with the chef. Today, AlignEat helps people understand any menu around the world based on their allergies, intolerances, dietary preferences and religious requirements. In seconds, you'll know what's a yes, what needs a question, and what to avoid. We built the app we wished we'd had in Bali, and every update since has been driven by the same goal: helping people spend less time worrying about the menu and more time enjoying the people around the table.

“There has to be a better way. So we built it.”