Ajinomatrix makes history and releases MP6.app — a free universal converter for sensory data

Ajinomatrix has reached an important milestone in the development of the MP6 sensory data standard.

We are pleased to announce the first public release of MP6.app, a free online converter designed to help food, beverage, sensory science, product development, and consumer research professionals transform existing sensory datasets into the emerging MP6 format.

MP6 — short for Multi-Perception 6 — is Ajinomatrix’s evolving framework for structuring sensory information across the full human experience: taste, smell, sight, touch, sound, and a sixth psychosensory/intuitive layer. The ambition behind MP6 is simple but far-reaching: to make sensory data more portable, comparable, reusable, and interoperable across laboratories, product teams, recipe systems, consumer panels, and AI-assisted innovation platforms.

With this first release, MP6.app allows users to take existing sensory data — including Excel-based panel files, CSV exports, and heterogeneous “sheet piles” — and begin translating them into a structured .mp6 file. This is a first practical step toward a wider sensory data standardization ecosystem.

The tool is currently offered for free so that professionals, researchers, developers, and early adopters can experiment with the format, test conversion workflows, and help shape the next stage of the standard.

👉 Try it now: mp6.app

Why this matters

Sensory data is often trapped in spreadsheets, proprietary lab formats, fragmented reports, internal templates, or isolated consumer feedback systems. This makes it difficult to compare products, reuse panel results, connect recipe data with evaluation data, or train AI systems on consistent sensory structures.

MP6 aims to solve this by offering a common container for sensory information.

The first public converter is intentionally simple and practical: upload existing data, map it into the MP6 logic, and generate an interoperable MP6-compatible file. From there, the format can be used by future tools for visualization, validation, recipe management, consumer evaluation, product comparison, quality control, and AI-based sensory intelligence.

A first historical step

This first MP6.app release is not the final standard. It is the first living implementation.

It marks the transition from concept and white paper to public tooling.

The next planned steps include:

• MP6 viewer and validator tools;

• recipe-based MP6 import/export;

• integration with Chef Paradous and TTP-style public evaluation flows;

• MP6 recipe graph and process graph rendering;

• public developer documentation;

• compatibility profiles for labs, artisans, recipe creators, industrial users, distributors, and consumers;

• future open-source components for the developer community.

MP6.app will soon be connected to our broader public tools ecosystem.

Call for contributors

We are now inviting open-source developers, sensory scientists, food technologists, data engineers, AI researchers, chefs, formulators, and industry partners to contribute to the expansion of MP6.

The immediate needs include:

• improving Excel and CSV parsing;

• expanding descriptor mapping dictionaries;

• building MP6 viewers and validators;

• supporting more sensory data layouts;

• developing recipe graph export tools;

• creating open examples and synthetic datasets;

• helping define compatibility profiles for industry use.

MP6 is designed to become a practical bridge between sensory science, food innovation, consumer insight, recipe intelligence, and AI-ready product data.

The first converter is live.

Come and test it.

👉 Visit: mp6.app

Stay tuned — this is only the beginning.