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엔크레더블

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meatOS is an autonomous manufacturing operations platform that integrates field data, business systems, and worker interactions through AI agents for the food and meat processing value chain. The platform digitizes procurement, production, shipping, inventory, and sales data, with AI-driven insights delivered to managers and operators via a subscription starting at KRW 300,000 monthly.

Also known as (주)엔크레더블 · NCredible · ncredible.ai

Founders & leadership

LJ
Lee JaehyukCo-founder, Manufacturing AI Expert
HJ
Hong JuyeolCo-founder, Food Industry Expert

Investors · 1

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

엔크레더블 (NCredible) develops meatOS, an operations platform for food manufacturing and meat-processing plants that combines cloud software, on-site hardware and AI agents. The system consolidates inbound receiving, production, shipping, inventory, livestock traceability and sales data in one place, and digitizes shop-floor tasks through electronic scales and barcode scanners.

meatOS consists of four components. meatManager is a cloud SaaS covering order and purchase management, production planning and work orders, real-time inbound/outbound and inventory tracking, automated imported-livestock traceability (meatWatch) and HACCP reporting, and automatic generation of transaction statements, tax invoices and ledgers. meatStation is an integrated hardware unit combining a tablet PC, electronic scale and label printer that records weights directly into the SaaS, prints cut-level labels with traceability numbers, supports worker PIN login and operates offline. meatScanner is a mobile scanning device that reads barcodes/QR codes on raw-meat boxes to auto-populate traceability number, species, grade and weight, and syncs with meatManager. meatInsight is a set of nine AI agents — six domain-specific agents, two agents that evaluate and improve AI output, and an orchestrator — that structure unstructured orders arriving via KakaoTalk or memos, propose purchase quantities from inventory and order data, generate exception-response scenarios for events such as line stoppages or delivery risk, and prepare and submit traceability and HACCP reports.

The company frames adoption as a three-stage progression: data automation in the first 6–12 months, AI-supported decision-making in years one to two, and value-chain integration from year three, in which factories, headquarters, franchise stores and raw-meat suppliers are linked into a single AI mesh with automatic matching of restaurant orders to factory production and agent-driven raw-material ordering.

Founding story

The company was formed by manufacturing-AI specialist Lee Jaehyuk and food industry specialist Hong Juyeol, combining manufacturing AI and food manufacturing experience to target the food processing and meat processing industries.

Business model

meatOS is sold as a subscription starting at KRW 300,000 per month, with no separate maintenance fee, on-site support from company staff, and one-to-one replacement of failed hardware. The offering bundles cloud software with dedicated shop-floor hardware (scale/label station and mobile scanner).

Recurring monthly subscription fees for the meatOS platform, positioned as an alternative to one-off SI deployments.

Traction

Following the August 2025 MVP release, seven customer factories use meatOS daily; the company reports seven cumulative customer contracts as of January 2026, discussions with five additional prospective customers, and negotiations with one large restaurant franchise headquarters and plant on extending the meatOS value chain.

Latest developments

A seed round from Kakao Ventures and TheVentures closed in April 2026, together with venture business certification and KOTRA export-program selection; the company reports it is negotiating a contract with a large franchise restaurant's processing plant as of May 2026.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history

Market position

Positions meatOS as an integrated autonomous manufacturing operations system for the food and meat processing value chain rather than a chatbot or a one-time system-integration deployment.

The company cites co-development with practitioners from food manufacturing, meat processing and meat wholesale/retail alongside manufacturing-AI specialists, control of food, raw-meat and regulatory data that it says existing solutions do not provide, deployment in live production environments rather than pilots, subscription pricing without upfront capital cost, and agents that improve as customer data accumulates.

Technology

An agentic AI architecture in which nine agents — six food/meat-processing domain agents, two evaluation-and-improvement agents and one orchestrator — operate over integrated plant data, coupled with OT hardware: a tablet, electronic scale and label printer station that writes measured weights directly into the SaaS and works offline, and a mobile barcode/QR scanner that captures traceability data at receiving and shipping.

Go-to-market

Direct subscription sales with on-site staff support at customer plants, supported by a hardware partnership (MOU) with domestic electronic-scale leader CAS, participation in public startup programs (Ministry of SMEs and Startups Early Startup Package (deep tech), TIPS, Seoul Business Agency food-tech acceleration, KOTRA export-company program), and expansion attempts through a large restaurant franchise headquarters and its processing plant.

Food manufacturing and meat-processing plants, meat wholesale and retail operations, and the surrounding value chain including franchise restaurant headquarters, franchise stores and raw-meat suppliers.

Geography

Based in South Korea and serving domestic food and meat processing plants; conducted market research in Fukuoka, Japan in December 2025 with SBA sponsorship and was selected for KOTRA's program for converting domestic-market companies into exporters.

History

(주)엔크레더블 was incorporated in April 2025. The meatOS MVP was released in August 2025. In September 2025 the company signed a contract with GDS Food, concluded an MOU with electronic-scale maker CAS, and was selected for the Ministry of SMEs and Startups' Early Startup Package (deep tech) program. In October 2025 it was selected for the Seoul Business Agency food-tech acceleration program, and in December 2025 it carried out SBA-sponsored market research in Fukuoka, Japan. It reported seven cumulative customer contracts in January 2026 and completed a seed round in April 2026 alongside venture business certification and selection for a KOTRA export program; as of May 2026 it was negotiating a contract with a large franchise restaurant processing plant.

Compiled by commissioned research from 5 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
AI agents in meatInsightJan 20269 agents
Customer factories using meatOS dailyJan 20267 factories
Prospective customers in adoption discussionsJan 20265 customers
Subscription starting priceJan 2026300,000 KRW per month

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 10

launches, deals, and filings
Apr 2026
Venture business certification and KOTRA export-company program selection

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Apr 2026
Seed investment completed with Kakao Ventures and TheVentures

Seed round closed; the company also obtained venture business certification and was selected for KOTRA's program to turn domestic-market companies into exporters.

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Jan 2026
Seven cumulative customer contracts

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Dec 2025
Market research in Fukuoka, Japan

Japanese market research conducted in Fukuoka with SBA sponsorship.

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Oct 2025
Selected for Seoul Business Agency (SBA) food-tech acceleration program

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Sep 2025
Selected for Ministry of SMEs and Startups Early Startup Package (deep tech)

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Sep 2025
Contract with GDS Food

Customer contract signed with GDS Food.

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Sep 2025
MOU with electronic scale maker CAS

Business memorandum of understanding signed with CAS, described as the leading domestic electronic scale maker, for ongoing collaboration.

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Aug 2025
meatOS MVP released

Initial version of the meatOS platform released and put into use at customer sites.

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Apr 2025
(주)엔크레더블 incorporated

The company was established as a corporation in April 2025.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Research sources · 5

primary sources listed

5 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does 엔크레더블 do?
Korean startup building meatOS, an AI-agent operations platform for food manufacturing and meat processing plants.
Who founded 엔크레더블?
엔크레더블 was founded by Lee Jaehyuk, Hong Juyeol.
Who are 엔크레더블's investors?
엔크레더블's investors include Kakao Ventures.