Beacon
Beacon is a cloud-based food safety management platform for food manufacturers, restaurants, and co-packers.
What Beacon is
Beacon is a cloud-based food safety management platform for food manufacturers, restaurants, and co-packers. Its modules cover food safety, quality and improvement, operations, document control, supply chain, production and inventory, label compliance, and audits. It supports lot and batch tracking, product genealogy, recall management, supply-chain events, and end-to-end traceability. Digital forms, checklists, and monitoring tasks are designed for tablets and phones on the plant floor, and multi-facility management is available.
Beacon AI searches facility documents, cites SQF requirements, drafts SOPs, and can create tasks and follow-ups through conversation. Changes AI makes to tenant records are captured in an append-only evidence trail, including the model, sources, actions, and human review. People must sign off on hazard classifications, product releases, and supplier approvals. SystemPath says data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with role-based access and tenant isolation; it also says tenant data is not used to train shared models. Pricing is by custom proposal, and there is no free plan or trial.
Good
- Tracks lots, batches, genealogy, and recalls.
- Supports end-to-end supply-chain traceability.
- Mobile forms and monitoring for plant-floor use.
- AI actions have an append-only evidence trail.
- Multi-facility management is available.
Watch out
- No free plan or free trial.
- Pricing requires a custom proposal.
- API access and webhooks are listed for 10+ sites.
Who it suits
Beacon suits food manufacturers, restaurants, and co-packers managing food safety programs, especially those coordinating multiple facilities. It may also fit teams that need traceability, audits, and digital plant-floor checklists.
Verdict
Beacon combines food safety workflows and traceability with multi-facility tools and mobile plant-floor tasks. Its AI can assist with documents and follow-ups, while specified approvals remain human decisions; pricing is custom and no free access is listed.
Plans and prices
From Beacon's own pricing page, checked 4 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | Priced on request | 10+ sites · Multi-Facility features plus custom integrations, API access and webhooks, SAML SSO, executive compliance reporting, on-site audit support, on-site training and support engineer, dedicated implementation team · Custom proposal after a 20-minute discovery call; software, consulting, and training bundled into one price. |
| Multi-Facility | Priced on request | 2 to 10 sites · Multi-Facility features plus dashboards and reporting, cross-facility benchmarking, dedicated food safety consultant, custom workflows, priority support and account manager, quarterly business reviews · Custom proposal after a 20-minute discovery call; software, consulting, and training bundled into one price. |
| Single Facility | Priced on request | 1 site · HACCP plan development assistance · digital forms, checklists and monitoring · one-click recall and lot trace · HACCP training · email and chat support · Custom proposal after a 20-minute discovery call; software, consulting, and training bundled into one price. |
The facts
Each one read from Beacon's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI assistant
- Beacon AI searches facility documents, cites SQF requirements, drafts SOPs, and can create tasks and follow-ups through conversation.checked 4 Oct 2026
- AI data use
- SystemPath says tenant data is not used to train shared models and AI queries are scoped to each tenant.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Audit trail
- AI writes to tenant records persist in an append-only evidence trail that records the model, sources read, actions taken, and human review.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Core modules
- The platform includes food safety, quality and improvement, operations, document control, supply chain, production and inventory, label compliance, audits, and Audit-Ready AI.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Data protection
- SystemPath says Beacon encrypts data in transit and at rest, uses role-based access controls and tenant-level isolation, and conducts regular security assessments.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The platform page lists QuickBooks Online import, webhooks, a REST API, read-only MCP, and SAML SSO as connection options.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Mobile use
- Digital forms, checklists, and monitoring tasks are designed for tablets and phones on the plant floor.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Notable limit
- Enterprise package API access and webhooks are listed under the 10+ site package.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Beacon is a cloud-based food safety management platform for organizations to manage food safety programs.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Support
- The Single Facility package includes email and chat support; Multi-Facility adds priority support and an account manager.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Target customers
- SystemPath describes Beacon as fitting food manufacturers, restaurants, and co-packers, with multi-facility management available.checked 4 Oct 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Canton, Michigan, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Human approval
- Beacon AI drafts, while human signatures are required for hazard classifications, product releases, and supplier approvals.checked 4 Oct 2026
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