What we're building at Enthropic Data
A quick introduction to who we are, why we started, and what's coming.
Enthropic Data started with a frustrating Sunday afternoon in the grocery store.
A family member has multiple food allergies — tree nuts, shellfish, a few others. Reading every label on every product takes forever, and even then you can miss something buried in “natural flavors” or a cross-contamination warning in 6pt type at the bottom of the back panel.
So I built fdsrch. A weekend project: pull the FDA food database, build a search index, add allergen filtering. It worked. We started using it. Other people started using it.
That’s the pattern we follow at Enthropic Data: automate the annoying thing, then make it work for everyone who has the same problem.
What we’re building
fdsrch is live. 739,000+ FDA-verified products, allergen screening, ingredient search. Free to use at fdsrch.com.
descriptions. Tell it what you ate. It does the math. No app required.
MonkeyDo is in beta. Task management over Telegram. Dictate tasks, get reminders, mark things done — all through a chat interface.
What’s coming
We’re building in public. The blog will cover what we’re working on, what we’re learning, and occasionally what broke and how we fixed it. Three lanes:
- Technical: homelab infrastructure, automation pipelines, self-hosted tools
- Nutrition: food safety research, allergen science, the data behind fdsrch
- AI Business: building products with AI, the GEO visibility work, lessons from shipping
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