Veribite: Offline-First Allergen & Ingredient Intelligence
Engineered an offline-first consumer mobile web platform designed to solve supermarket allergen confusion. Scans grocery barcodes and returns instant, personalised Go/No-Go verdicts against 70,000+ UK products and 14 EU-regulated allergens—even in low-signal supermarket basements.
Consumer Mobile Experience
Swipe or drag across screens to preview the core workflow: home hub, catalog filtering, and multi-tier allergen detection.
Personalised Dashboard
Weekly shopping summary, quick barcode scanner, and live allergen scan history.
Engineering Architecture
Sub-Second Barcode Scanning
Integrated browser-based video stream processing and client-side barcode detection, eliminating round-trip server latency for barcode parsing. The scanner captures EAN-13 and UPC codes instantly via camera stream with automated bounding-box stabilization.
Offline-First Indexed Product Cache
Supermarkets are notorious for dead cellular zones. Designed an offline-first storage architecture that caches frequently scanned UK grocery lines locally, enabling instant verdict lookups even when offline in supermarket aisles.
14 EU Allergen Matching & Safe Swaps
Engineered a deterministic evaluation engine that normalises raw manufacturer ingredient text against strict taxonomy rules for gluten, dairy, nuts, soy, and 10 other allergens, automatically recommending verified safe product alternatives.
User Testing & Accelerator Pitch
Interviewed and pitched at Bethnal Green Ventures' Tech for Good programme following prototype validation with UK food allergy communities and London in-store trials.