AgileChilli is celebrating ten years of successful collaboration with Agilebase, marking a milestone in a partnership that has shaped one of the food and drink sector’s most capable and reliable software platforms.
Built on Agilebase’s proven no-code technology, AgileChilli has established itself as a best-of-breed solution for food manufacturers, combining deep industry insight with technical innovation and robust, secure infrastructure.
The beginning
In 2014, Mark Garrett, then leading Chilli Software, was developing bespoke software solutions for food manufacturers. His clients needed systems that could evolve with their products — but the technology was not meeting his ambitions.
That’s when an acquaintance introduced him to Cliff Calcutt and Oliver Kohll, the founders of Agilebase — a modern, cloud-based platform that was pioneering no-code long before it was mainstream.
“I saw Agilebase and realised it would let me leapfrog the technology I was considering for Chilli Mark II,” Garrett recalls. “It was a chance to skip a generation of tools and build something future-proof.”
The merger combined Garrett’s deep food industry expertise with Calcutt and Kohll’s technical and business acumen — leading to the creation of NPDtech, a product developed on the Agilebase platform, designed specifically for the food industry.
Learning, adapting, and growing together
Over ten years, the businesses have evolved steadily rather than explosively — a deliberate approach that’s prioritised sustainability over speed.
Kohll points to a key milestone:
“The professionalisation of the business — introducing mature processes for billing, procurement, and project delivery has meant we can comfortably handle a rapid increase in customers on both the Agilebase and AgileChilli sides of the business.”
This year, the company has seen a step change, onboarding a record number of new clients — far beyond the usual — and seamlessly handled the increased demand. “AI probably tipped us over the edge,” Calcutt observes. “It’s driven customers to modernise faster, and our systems have scaled right along with them.”
Driving transformation across the food and drink sector
Over the past ten years, AgileChilli has helped food and drink businesses move away from complex spreadsheets and disconnected systems, replacing them with integrated workflows that support compliance, efficiency, and rapid decision-making.
“Now with AI integrated into the platform, customers are developing new recipes faster than ever before and making huge time savings on manual processes” Garrett explains.
“Simplicity and capability don’t often run hand in hand, but with AgileChilli they do. That’s because of its flexibility. Undoubtedly, I’d recommend AgileChilli.” Taste Connection’s IT & Technical Support Manager, Geoff White affirms.
Looking Ahead
As AgileChilli and Agilebase enter their second decade of collaboration, further innovation in AI-assisted modelling, workflow automation, and platform performance is already underway.
What remains unchanged is the partnership’s core strength: combining deep food-industry expertise with advanced no-code technology and commercially grounded product leadership.
AgileChilli’s first ten years have demonstrated the power of that formula. The next decade promises even more transformation for the food and drink sector.