Why Pearchy
Reading a label shouldn’t take a degree in chemistry.
If you read ingredient lists because something on them can hurt you or someone you feed, you already know the work. Pearchy is the second pair of eyes that does that reading with you, and gives you one honest answer.
A label can declare an allergen under thirty-plus different names. Pearchy reads past the synonyms.
Casein and whey are milk. Albumin is egg. Semolina is wheat. Most people learned these through a reaction, not a textbook. Pearchy carries the full list so you’re reading for the ingredient, not memorizing its aliases.
The label is tiny, the names are sneaky, and the aisle is cold.
The English panel and the French panel on the same carton often phrase things differently, list ingredients in a different order, and use different common names for the same substance. Pearchy reads both and checks them against the same list of allergen names and aliases.
That matters for anyone reading for a peanut allergy, for hidden gluten, or for a sulphite intolerance. It matters for the President’s Choice label in your cart that no barcode app has ever seen before. Pearchy starts from Canadian label formats, not adapted to them after the fact.
One allergen, thirty-plus names. Casein, whey, lactalbumin. All milk. All on the same Canadian label.
What the label asks of you
- 30+names a single allergen can hide behind on a Canadian package
- 2 sidesEnglish and French, often saying different things in different spots
- Fine printcurved cartons, cold fridge light, additive codes instead of words
Three answers. Never the word safe.
Point your phone at a label and Pearchy returns one of three things, based on what the package actually declares. It won’t tell you something is safe, and it won’t promise. It shows you exactly which ingredient triggered the answer.
“Safe” is a promise no label can keep and a word Pearchy will never use. What is declared on the label is something you can act on, package still in hand. How that read works is on the how-it-works section.
Nothing on your profile shows up in what the package declares.
Something on your profile is declared on this label.
The label wasn't clear enough to say either way, so Pearchy says so instead of guessing.
Reading every label is real work. A second pair of eyes helps.
Some people check every package because a reaction cost them a hospital visit. Some because a diagnosis changed how their household eats. Pearchy reads the label with you and gives you one clear answer, so the trip through the aisle takes less out of you.
Every aisle, not just the one you planned.
Allergens turn up in places that surprise you: sauces, spice blends, meal kits, store-brand substitutes. Pearchy reads Canadian food labels wherever you find them on the shelf.
Canada requires eleven. The US list covers nine.
The US Big-9 doesn’t require mustard or sulphites, and its shellfish category covers crustaceans only. Canada lists eleven categories total, with shellfish covering both crustaceans and molluscs, plus mustard and sulphites as separate entries. Pearchy reads for all eleven.
We launched as Bud and spent our first months testing the product and finding our earliest users under that name. We became Pearchy in the spring of 2026.
A small Canadian team, building in the open.
Pearchy is a small team in Ontario, Canada. We’re pre-launch and we say so plainly. The app is in beta and you can reserve your spot while we finish the foundation. We’d rather tell you exactly where things stand than dress it up.
We read labels carefully because the people who will use this read them carefully, and a wrong answer here is not a small thing. We’ll write when there is something real to show.
No one has mapped Canadian private-label allergen data. We’re building that map, label by label.
Amir Soleimanian
CEO & Founder
Amir founded Pearchy and leads the product. Most of his week goes into the map of every name an allergen hides behind on a Canadian label, the 30-plus aliases, and how Pearchy reads each one.
Alexander He Meng
CTO and Co-founder
Alexander leads engineering. He built the site you're reading and is building the scanner. His job is to take careful label-reading and make it fast enough to work while a kid is pulling at your sleeve.
No brand can pay to change a verdict.
The answer Pearchy gives you comes from what the package declares, and from nothing else. No brand, no manufacturer, no store buys its way to a kinder read. If a label declares something on your profile, you will see it, regardless of who makes the product.
Pearchy will never tell you a product is safe or guaranteed. Those are promises a label cannot keep and we won’t pretend otherwise. You get what is declared on the label, every time, with the same line underneath it.
The verdict comes from the label, and only the label.
Based on declared ingredients. Always verify the physical package. Not medical advice.
What the label declares. We read it. You decide.
Want it the day it opens?
Reserve your spot and we’ll write when the app is ready. One email per milestone, nothing else.
