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QC ONE Wrapped 2025

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Jeroen Bol

One Year. One Platform. A Global Impact on Quality. 2025 was a year of scale, innovation, and trust. Here’s what we achieved together.

🌍 2025 at a Glance — Our Biggest Achievements

  • ~1 million inspections conducted worldwide
  • Millions of reports shared across the value chain
  • > 99.9% platform uptime
  • Active users in 130+ countries worldwide
  • Specification Manager launched!
  • New future-proof data warehouse live
  • 38 product & app releases shipped

This is what modern quality management looks like.

🍮 Specification Manager — A Gamechanger

2025 marked the launch of the Specification Manager — a major milestone.

  • Do-It-Yourself specification building
  • Structured, uniform inspection data
  • Custom sections & parameters
  • Real-time collaboration & rich text
  • Integrate/use specifications as inspection template.

The Specification Manager is the foundation for

Better decisions

Better inspections

Better data

👉 Discover the Specification Manager

📈 Quality at Global Scale.

Thousands of active users Used daily by growers, exporters, importers, retailers, and QC teams

In 2025, was QC ONE an essential quality backbone for global supply chains. Supporting inspections across continents, climates, and commodities

This year, around one million inspections were carried out using QC ONE.

Each inspection generated insights.
Each report connected stakeholders.
Each decision helped raise standards across the supply chain.

We’re proud — and grateful — that by using QC ONE, you help us improve food safety and quality worldwide.

Top 3 How goods moved in 2025

  • 🚛 Road transport trailers: 61%
  • 🚢 Containerized shipments: 16%
  • 🚚 Conventional shipments: 8%

If you lined all containers up, they’d stretch from Amsterdam to Paris
(That’s ~502 km — or roughly 6 million bananas long 🍌)

📸 Inspections in Pictures

Over 18 million photos where taken and remain a crucial part of inspections:

  • 95.5% landscape photos
  • 4.5% portrait photos

Looks like inspectors worldwide silently agreed:
👉 Landscape mode is the way.

🏆 Most Inspected Products of 2025

After consolidating overlapping product names, these were the most inspected products worldwide:

  1. Grapes
  2. Avocados
  3. Oranges

📊 From Inspections to Insights: Data in 2025

Quality is becoming increasingly data-driven — and customer expectations are rising fast.

In 2025, we:

  • Launched a new, future-proof data warehouse
  • Enabled seamless BI integration with Power BI, Looker Studio, and Tableau
  • Introduced structured data collection via the Specification Manager

This combination transforms inspections into consistent, comparable, and actionable insights.

👉 Ready to explore your data?
Connect your BI tooling to QC ONE and unlock deeper insights.

🤖 AI at QC ONE — Carefully, Confidently, Responsibly

AI isn’t a buzzword for us — it’s a tool.

In our Our vision: AI is a QC ONE co-pilot, not a replacement.

What we’re building toward:

  • AI-supported image recognition
  • Smarter inspection consistency
  • Insight generation across large datasets

We’re pushing boundaries — without compromising integrity, reliability, or trust.

2026 will bring the next steps in this journey.

💬 Customer Support & Community

Behind every great platform is great support.

In 2025:

  • Continuous improvements driven by your feedback
  • An ever-expanding Help Center with practical guidance

Top support topics

  • Notifications
  • QC Inspector App
  • Inspections
👉 Visit the QC ONE Help Center anytime you need support.

🚀 What We Shipped in 2025

Major features

  • Specification Manager
  • Workspace Switcher
  • Improved user management (“Seats”)
  • Modernized UX & smarter filters
  • Faster syncing & performance upgrades

Reliability & infrastructure

  • Autoscaling, CPU & memory upgrades
  • ArgoCD, Redis & Elasticsearch improvements
  • Google BigQuery & advanced security

Release volume

  • Portal: 21 releases
  • Inspector App: 17 releases

Quality never stands still — and neither do we.

🔮 Looking Ahead: 2026 & Beyond

Next year, expect:

  • Smarter workflows & self-service tools
  • Enhanced Do-It-Yourself specification building
  • Personalized notifications & cleaner UX
  • Even stronger infrastructure & security
  • Workflow automation & actionable insights
  • Continued migration toward structured, spec-driven quality

Keep an eye out on our roadmap for 2026. We will share updates about this on our newspage and though our e-mail newsletter.

❤️ Thank You

QC ONE is a multidisciplinary team of Food & quality experts, Agricultural specialists and Product, data, and tech professionals. We’re proud to be part of Normec Foodcare — combining deep domain knowledge with technology at scale.

Building world-class quality solutions takes teamwork, curiosity, and a lot of conversations — and we’re just getting started.