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.
MacroMate is in beta. A Telegram bot that tracks your macros from plain-language 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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