— Phase 0 · Discovery
Culinary Operations Intelligence
Field analytics for superintendents who own the P&L. Snap a photo, scan an RFI, watch margin shift instantly. No rip-and-replace software needed.
— Try the math
Real-time margin tracking for every project
Cut food cost and menu price instantly to verify profitability.
72.9%
Gross margin
Healthy margins. Industry benchmark sits at 65–70%.
What it will do
- Plate-level P&LSnap photos to size portions and find recipes, revealing real dish margins instead of theoretical menu estimates.
- Invoice OCRSnap a Sysco or US Foods invoice to instantly update recipe costs across your menu.
- Prep waste detectionEnd-of-shift rail photo: vision model flags portion drift before it hits the P&L.
- Menu engineeringPlot every dish on the Star, Plowhorse, Puzzle, and Dog matrix automatically—then get your exact next step.
- No POS replacementBuilt to work with Toast, Square, and Aloha, not replace them. Import and export CSVs, use your phone.
- Owner-operator firstBuilt for chefs running one to three concepts, not chains with corporate analytics teams.
Roadmap
- Phase 0 — Now (Apr 2026) Domain interviews with 12 chef partners confirmed the margin formula; this calculator is the seed.
- Phase 1 — Jun 2026 Web prototype · invoice OCR · recipe builder · 5 paying pilots.
- Phase 2 — Sept 2026 iOS app · plate vision · weekly P&L digest · TestFlight access.
- Phase 3 — Q1 2027 Multi-concept dashboard with Toast and Square integrations, ready for public launch.
Tech
- Static web (now)
- SwiftUI (planned)
- Vision Framework
- Claude API
- Cloudflare D1
- CSV in/out