ChefAIQ is an AI-powered kitchen management system designed for food entrepreneurs. It helps calculate recipe costs, manage inventory, optimize pricing, and analyze profitability to help food businesses grow with confidence.

How does ChefAIQ calculate recipe costs?

ChefAIQ calculates recipe costs by tracking all ingredients, materials, labor, and packaging costs. It uses weighted averages for accurate cost per unit calculations and automatically updates costs when ingredient prices change.

What is breakeven analysis in ChefAIQ?

ChefAIQ's breakeven analysis helps you determine how many units you need to sell monthly to cover all costs. It includes capital investment depreciation, fixed costs (rent, salaries), and variable costs (ingredients, materials). The system calculates operating breakeven point and total cash needed to reach profitability.

Who should use ChefAIQ?

ChefAIQ is designed for small food entrepreneurs, home-based food businesses, catering services, bakeries, cloud kitchens, and anyone starting or growing a food business who needs to track costs and optimize profitability.

How much does ChefAIQ cost?

ChefAIQ Pro is PHP 4,997 per month, or PHP 49,970 per year. A free trial is available so you can test all features before committing to a paid plan. A Teams plan for multi-member kitchens is coming soon.

Can ChefAIQ manage inventory for a food business?

Yes. ChefAIQ tracks ingredient and material stock levels, alerts you when items are running low or expiring, manages stock batches with FIFO allocation, and logs all movements for full traceability from purchase to production.

Does ChefAIQ support team collaboration?

Yes. ChefAIQ offers team workspaces with role-based permissions (owner, leader, manager, member, viewer). Team members can collaborate on recipes, production, orders, and inventory with controlled access levels.

How does ChefAIQ help with production planning?

ChefAIQ lets you schedule production runs, automatically checks ingredient availability, allocates stock from inventory, and tracks the full lifecycle from raw materials to finished goods. It integrates with orders so confirmed orders automatically trigger production.

Can I import my existing recipes into ChefAIQ?

Yes. You can import recipes from PDF files, images, or by describing them to the AI assistant. ChefAIQ extracts ingredients, quantities, procedures, and costs automatically using AI.

Does ChefAIQ work on mobile?

Yes. ChefAIQ has a responsive web app that works on any device, plus a native iOS app with features like recipe management, pantry tracking, AI chat, production planning, and cook mode.

For food entrepreneurs who are out of hours

Get your
time back.

ChefAiQ does the kitchen math, so you don't have to.

CFO: Costs & Pricing

COO: Ops & Consistency

CGO: Sales & Growth

Food costing, pricing, production plans and shopping lists, done in one message instead of one whole night. Your AI CFO, COO and CGO handle the numbers, so you get hours back every week for your business, your family and yourself.

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What's my most profitable product this month?

CGO · Growth Intelligence

Your top earner is the Ube Ensaymada at ₱147 profit per piece and a 71% margin. Based on last month's orders, prepping 120 pcs for this Saturday's bazaar hits your ₱17,640 profit target with zero overspend risk. ↑ Recommend featuring this on your menu this weekend

Cost my Leche Flan recipe. I want to price it for ₱220.

CFO · Recipe Costing

Done. Leche Flan costed at ₱52.80 per serving.

Food Cost₱52.80

Your Price₱220

Margin76% ✓ Healthy

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8 hrs back every week

no more spreadsheet nights

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Costs in 90 seconds

vs. 3 hrs in spreadsheets

Where your week goes

You didn't start a food business
to do math at midnight.

Costing recipes, recomputing prices when ingredients go up, planning big orders, writing shopping lists. It eats your nights and weekends. ChefAiQ does all of it in seconds.

The taskDoing it yourselfWith ChefAiQ

Costing a new recipeevery ingredient, down to the gram2–3 hours90 seconds

Recosting when prices go upbutter, eggs, flour, LPGHalf a dayOne message

Planning a big orderbatches, prep schedule, timing1–2 hours2 minutes

Writing the shopping listexact quantities, no overbuying45 minutesAutomatic

Deciding what to sell this weekendwhich products, how manyGuessworkInstant answer

Time back, every week Up to 8 hrs

That's one full working day, every week, back in your hands.

What would you do with a free day every week?

The hours ChefAiQ saves don't disappear into more admin. They go back to what matters.

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Your familyDinner at the table, not at the laptop.
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Your craftTime to create new products instead of computing old ones.
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Your customersMore hours to sell, post, and take the orders that grow you.
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YourselfRest. A real day off, without the business falling apart.

How ChefAiQ Works

Three jobs you've been doing alone.
Now done for you.

Right now you're the accountant, the production manager and the sales planner, on top of being the cook. ChefAiQ gives you an AI CFO, COO and CGO that take those jobs off your plate.

Your AI CFO

Chief Financial Officer

Turns recipes into profitable products

Calculates true food cost per dish automatically, no formulas
Recommends markup and selling price based on your target margin
Flags unprofitable menu items before they drain your cash
Baker's Math, batch scaling, and pan conversion built in
Profit Forecast: see what you'll earn before you commit

⏱ Replaces your costing spreadsheets

Your AI COO

Chief Operating Officer

Ensures consistency and smooth workflow

Standardizes recipes so every batch is made the same way
Production Planner: what to make, how much, and when
Auto-generates shopping lists from your production targets
Manages pantry: ingredients, materials, equipment, suppliers
Cook Mode: guided execution view for every production run

⏱ Replaces your planning and list-making

Your AI CGO

Chief Growth Officer

Tells you what to sell, when, and how much

Identifies your bestsellers and highest-margin products
Recommends what to sell based on profitability and demand
AI-driven forecasts: how much to prep, so you don't overbuy
Menu Builder with per-dish profitability before you publish
Scale Readiness: tells you when you're ready to grow

⏱ Replaces hours of guessing what to sell

ChefAiQ Chat

One message instead of
one whole afternoon.

No formulas. Just type what you need, the way you'd ask a business partner, and it's done: a costed recipe, a production plan, a shopping list, or what to sell this weekend.

CFO

"Cost my Chicken Inasal recipe and suggest a price for an 18% margin."

ChefAiQ calculates ingredient cost down to the gram, applies your target margin, and outputs a recommended selling price, instantly.
⏱ Saves 2–3 hours of costing
COO

"I have a catering order for 80 pax on Friday. Build my production plan."

ChefAiQ calculates how many batches you need, when to start prep, and generates the shopping list automatically, no spreadsheet required.
⏱ Saves an evening of planning
CGO

"What should I sell at the bazaar this Saturday to hit ₱15,000 profit?"

ChefAiQ pulls your margin data, identifies your top performers, and tells you exactly which products to bring and how many to prepare.
⏱ No more second-guessing
COO

"Update butter price to ₱95 per 500g and recalculate all affected recipes."

One message. ChefAiQ updates the pantry and propagates the new cost across every recipe that uses butter, no manual edits needed.
⏱ Saves half a day of recosting

ChefAiQ Assistant Your kitchen's AI executive team

Live

I have a bazaar this Saturday. What should I sell to hit ₱20,000 profit?

CGO · Growth Intelligence

Based on your margin data, here's your Saturday lineup:

Ube Ensaymada × 120 pcs₱17,640

Leche Flan × 24 trays₱3,782

Total projected profit₱21,422 ✓

Want me to build your production plan and shopping list for this?

Yes, build the production plan.

COO · Production Planning

Production plan created. Start Thursday evening:

Thu 6PM: Soaking dough4 batches

Fri 8AM: Shaping + proofing120 pcs

Fri 2PM: Leche Flan steaming24 trays

Sat 6AM: Final toppings + packReady

Shopping list auto-generated. 14 ingredients, ₱8,240 total cost.

Butter price went up to ₱95 per 500g. Update it and recost everything.

CFO · Cost Recalculation

Done. Butter updated to ₱95/500g. 7 recipes were affected:

Ube Ensaymada margin71% → 68%

Leche Flan margin76%, unchanged

Butter Cake margin52% → 47% ⚠

Butter Cake is now below your 50% floor. Recommend raising the price to ₱185.

📋 Schedule production run 🔍 Check my inventory 💰 What should I sell today? ⚠ Low stock items

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The Real Problem

You're working all the time.
And still guessing.

Most food entrepreneurs either spend their nights on spreadsheets or skip the numbers and price by feel. Either way, you pay: in hours, or in money you don't know you're losing.

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Your evenings go to costing, recosting and lists, after a full day in the kitchen.
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Your recipes taste right, but you don't know if they cost right.
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Your team makes it 10 different ways. Variance is costing you silently.
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You bought more than you needed because no one planned production first.
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You don't know which products actually make money, and which ones don't.

Industry Reality

8 hrs

a week spent on manual costing and planning, before ChefAiQ. Now it's a conversation.

60%

of food businesses fail in the first year, most due to pricing and cost control failures, not food quality.

3–5%

average food business margin when costs are untracked. Operators using systematic costing see 10–15%.

After ChefAiQ

What you get back when
the math runs itself.

Your time first. Then the profit, consistency and clarity that come with real numbers.

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Hours back every week

What took hours in spreadsheets takes one message. Your time goes back to your customers, your family and yourself.

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Pricing is intentional

Every dish has a calculated cost, a recommended price, and a known margin, set by your AI CFO, not gut feeling.

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Waste drops significantly

Production plans drive shopping lists. You buy what you need, when you need it. Your AI COO handles the math.

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Consistency across every shift

Standardized recipes mean every batch is the same, regardless of who's on the line that day.

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Bestsellers are obvious

Your AI CGO surfaces which items earn the most and tells you exactly how much to produce, so you focus where it counts.

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The business stops depending on you

Standard recipes, plans and lists live in one place, so your team can run production without asking you every step. You can finally step away.

What's Included

Every tool that gives
you your hours back.

One plan. All features. Unlimited recipes, ingredients, and materials. No feature gates that force you to upgrade for basic work.

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AI Assistant (Chat)

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Recipe Management

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Recipe Costing & Pricing

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Baker's Math

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Pan Conversion

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Batch Scaling

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Pantry Management

🧂

Ingredient Tracking

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Equipment Management

🤝

Supplier Management

📚

Pre-loaded Recipes

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Profit Forecast

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Profit Goal Planner

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Production Planner

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Shopping List

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Menu Builder

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Cook Mode

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Unlimited Everything

Inventory, Customer Management, Sales Management, Advanced Analytics, and Team Management available on Pro and Teams plans. See all plans →

Why Operators Switch

Spreadsheets cost you hours.
ChefAiQ gives them back.

Capability	Manual Methods	Spreadsheets	ChefAiQ
Your time each week	✕ Nights and weekends	⚠ Hours of upkeep	✓ Minutes
Recipe costing	✕ Guesswork	⚠ Manual formulas	✓ Automatic
Pricing accuracy	✕ Inconsistent	⚠ Easy to break	✓ Reliable
Baker's Math & scaling	✕ Hard to compute	⚠ Error-prone	✓ Built-in
Production planning	✕ Intuition-based	⚠ Time-consuming	✓ Conversational
What to sell & when	✕ Pure guesswork	✕ Not possible	✓ AI-recommended
Profit visibility	✕ Unclear	⚠ Requires setup	✓ Instant
Team consistency	✕ Impossible	⚠ If they use the file	✓ Standardized

Operator Stories

What food entrepreneurs say
after their first 30 days.

★★★★★

"I didn't realize I was underpricing three of my bestsellers until ChefAiQ showed me the actual margins. Adjusted my prices in one afternoon. Revenue went up 18% the next month."

Maria L.

Restaurant Owner, Quezon City

★★★★★

"I just type what I need and ChefAiQ gives me my production plan and shopping list. My team follows it exactly. We waste almost nothing now. It changed our operations completely."

Jonas R.

Catering Business Owner, Cebu

★★★★★

"Before ChefAiQ, I had no idea which products were actually making me money. Now I ask ChefAiQ what to sell at the bazaar and I hit my target almost every week."

Andrea C.

Food Service Operator, Makati

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start this week.

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Get yourtime back.

You didn't start a food businessto do math at midnight.

Three jobs you've been doing alone.Now done for you.

One message instead ofone whole afternoon.

You're working all the time.And still guessing.

What you get back whenthe math runs itself.

Every tool that givesyou your hours back.

Spreadsheets cost you hours.ChefAiQ gives them back.

What food entrepreneurs sayafter their first 30 days.

Your first hours backstart this week.

Get your
time back.

You didn't start a food business
to do math at midnight.

Three jobs you've been doing alone.
Now done for you.

One message instead of
one whole afternoon.

You're working all the time.
And still guessing.

What you get back when
the math runs itself.

Every tool that gives
you your hours back.

Spreadsheets cost you hours.
ChefAiQ gives them back.

What food entrepreneurs say
after their first 30 days.

Your first hours back
start this week.