In this episode of Street to Suite, Simon Zelman sits down with John Parisi and Paul Anteri, co-founders of U.S. AgriDocs, to explore how a former USDA inspector and a food processing plant owner came together to solve a major problem in food safety compliance.

John Parisi spent 10 years as a USDA Consumer Safety Inspector, visiting hundreds of facilities and seeing the same outdated system of clipboards, binders, and paper records. Paul Anteri, a USDA plant owner and operator, was experiencing those same challenges from the business side. Together, they recognized an opportunity to transform traditional food safety records into a digital, smarter, and more proactive system.

The conversation covers their journey from identifying the problem to building and testing U.S. AgriDocs, bootstrapping the company, developing technology that can digitize existing food safety programs, and taking the risk of leaving a government career to pursue entrepreneurship. They also discuss food safety, compliance, AI, proactive alerts, scaling the business, and their vision for helping food processing facilities identify potential problems before they become serious issues.

• How a former USDA inspector and plant owner identified the same problem from different perspectives
• Why outdated paper-based food safety records created an opportunity for innovation
• How U.S. AgriDocs helps facilities turn existing food safety programs into digital, smart systems
• The role of AI and technology in improving food safety compliance
• How proactive alerts can help identify potential threats of noncompliance
• What it took to build, test, and launch U.S. AgriDocs
• Why John Parisi made the decision to leave his USDA career and take the entrepreneurial leap
• How the founders bootstrapped the company while maintaining ownership
• Their plans to scale U.S. AgriDocs nationally and globally
• Why modernizing food safety records could help facilities become more proactive and audit-ready

• John Parisi – LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/parisi-john
• Paul Anteri – LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/paul-anteri-068788284
• Website: USAgriDocs.com

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Listen to this episode for the story behind U.S. AgriDocs, how two professionals from opposite sides of food safety came together to build a business, and their mission to modernize food safety compliance.