About
Built by people who worked in the industry.
Not consultants who studied it. People who ran operations, managed audits, and felt every friction point that Littoral™ is designed to eliminate.
The Team
54 years of combined industry experience.
The two people who built this platform between them span production floor operations and ingredient industry commercial roles. That combination is not an accident.
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Brian Dixon
Commercial Lead
Started coding in COBOL and Unix — and never really stopped. Rolled out Salesforce at Univar and Brenntag, designed the RFQ platform at Prinova, and built two portals for The International Companies, all while spending 22 years on the commercial side of food and pharma. He knew what enterprise software costs to implement and why it so often fails the people who have to use it every day. Littoral™ is the platform he kept wishing existed.
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Ricardo Lopez
Quality & Operations Architect
32 years in food and pharma manufacturing. Started on the production floor. Built operational systems, ran audits, managed quality programs, and eventually built and sold a company. Every workflow in Littoral™ reflects decisions Ricardo made in production, including the ones he wished he could make faster.
Why We Built This
The QMS market had a gap the size of most manufacturers.
18mo
average enterprise QMS implementation
$50K+
annual cost before implementation fees
4-8wk
Littoral™ Maiden Voyage: start to live
Enterprise QMS platforms (MasterControl, Veeva, ETQ) were built for large pharma. They are correct for that market. They are not built for the food and supplement manufacturer with 50-500 people who needs full regulatory compliance without a dedicated implementation team.
That gap was the spreadsheets. The binders. The shared drives full of SOPs that may or may not be current. The manual lot traceability that takes 3 days when a customer calls with a problem.
Littoral™ was built to close that gap. Not by simplifying the QMS, but by removing the implementation friction that kept manufacturers from adopting one.
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