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Avinash Sukhwani and his team looked at the food distribution industry—trillions of dollars flowing through supply chains that still run on spreadsheets, phone calls, and manual order entry that consumes 10 to 50 people's time—and said "nah, we're putting AI inside those legacy ERPs instead of ripping them out." That's the move. Burnt is the agentic operating system for food supply chain, deploying AI Agents directly into existing ERP infrastructure so distributors can automate workflows without years of migration hell or million-dollar implementation costs.

Here's the thing about food distribution—it's a massive industry that runs on ancient software, and nobody wants to replace it because the alternative is a multi-year nightmare. So Burnt didn't ask permission. They built AI agents that live inside these systems and do the work humans were burning time on. Their Sales AI Agent handles order intake across every channel. Their Procurement Agent automates purchasing decisions and supplier communications. Their Credit Control Agent chases payments and handles negotiations. They claim 99.99% accuracy, 80% less admin time, and 20% profit uplift. The founders aren't guessing here—Rhea is a third-generation food operator with roots in spice farming and trade, Chandru joined as CTO in 2023 to build AI infrastructure for food supply chains, and the broader team includes veterans from Rocket Internet and BCG. They're Madrid-based and backed by Y Combinator, which means they have the runway to go after this aggressively.

The food supply chain is a $3 trillion market in the US alone, and it's been waiting for someone to actually solve the automation problem instead of asking companies to throw away everything they've built. Burnt just deployed the AI watchtower. Welcome to the agentic future of food distribution.