Singapore's Aiteaic Launches AI Tongue-Scanning TCM Wellness Platform

Singapore-based healthtech company Aiteaic has launched an integrated TCM wellness platform that combines AI-powered tongue diagnosis with a patented high-pressure nanobubble extraction system, delivering personalised herbal tea in under two minutes. The platform, which marks one of the most complete commercial integrations of AI into traditional wellness in Singapore, debuts at CHI Innovate 2026 this week before rolling out to the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel from mid-July.

The system works in three steps: users capture a tongue image through a web app, the AI identifies their TCM constitution—choosing from nine classifications including Qi Deficiency, Damp-Heat, and Yin Deficiency—with 83.7% accuracy validated against a peer-reviewed Springer Nature benchmark trained on over 6,000 tagged tongue images. The diagnosis then triggers a specific herbal tea capsule from 11 proprietary blends, which is brewed using Aiteaic's nanobubble extraction machine that preserves up to 97% of active compounds. The full scan-to-cup journey takes under two minutes.

Aiteaic and its consumer brand Luli have already built meaningful traction: a pilot with Meta served over 3,000 people with a 92% user satisfaction rate, and Luli's Marina Square store earned Best Tea 2025 from The Straits Times and the SBR Technology Excellence Award 2026 for AI in Food & Beverage. CEO Jovalene Teo emphasised that Aiteaic sees itself as a TCM wellness company that happens to use AI, not the other way around. The company plans to open API licensing later this year at an indicative price of US$0.01 per scan, targeting wellness brands, healthcare providers, and hospitality partners across Asia.

The launch arrives as Singapore's healthtech and wellness-adjacent AI sector gains momentum, with a growing number of startups applying computer vision and machine learning to non-clinical diagnostics. Aiteaic's approach—pairing validated AI with proprietary hardware and traditional herbal knowledge—distinguishes it from pure-play software health AI startups by controlling the full physical experience from scan to cup.

Why it matters for Singapore: Aiteaic represents a homegrown example of AI being applied to an everyday consumer experience rooted in Asian tradition, rather than the enterprise or policy use cases that dominate SG AI coverage. If its API licensing model gains traction, it could create a new category of AI-powered personalised wellness services that start in Singapore and scale across the region.