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Recipe Card Abuela's Mole 3 dried chiles
chocolate — the dark kind
"a little bit of everything"
cook it low and slow
tastes like Sunday
Digitized & Saved Abuela's Mole 3 dried guajillo chiles — 45 cal
1 oz dark chocolate (70%) — 170 cal
½ tsp cumin, ½ tsp cinnamon
Chicken broth, low sodium — 40 cal
Servings: 6 | Est. 285 cal/serving ✓ USDA Nutritional Data

The problem

Every family has a recipe that
dies with someone.

We're trying to make that stop.

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recipes per family
exist only in someone's head
0
of family recipes
are never written down
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generation
is all it takes to lose them

The opportunity

Your customers are already trying
to cook your food at home.

Every attempt sends them back to you.

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How it works

It's this easy!
1
You remember a dish
Type what you know — the name, who makes it, even just a feeling.
2
We help you rebuild it
Answer a few questions. We generate a starting recipe from your memory.
3
Give it to the cook
Print a worksheet. They fill it in by hand. Photograph it. You get the real recipe back.
4
Saved forever
Digitized, with USDA nutritional data, shareable with your whole family.
1
Customer eats your food
They fall in love with a dish at your restaurant.
2
They scan the QR
A code at the register or table logs which dish they loved.
3
They try at home
They attempt to recreate it. They document the process. They share it.
4
They come back
"Good but not like yours." Free marketing, repeat visits, zero cost.

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285 cal/serving
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Not just a recipe.
The whole story.

What you get. For free.

This is the good stuff

The details nobody writes down

What grandma's "pinch" actually looks like. How long "until it looks right" really is. The things you can only learn by watching.

The voice and the context

Audio of dad explaining why he sears it that way. A photo of the handwritten card with coffee stains. The story behind the dish, not just the ingredients.

A reason to call

"Hey, my broth was too thin — what am I missing?" The recipe becomes a conversation. The platform becomes a reason to connect.

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Menu intelligence

See which dishes people obsess over enough to recreate. That's data no survey can give you.

Repeat visits on autopilot

Failed home attempts aren't failures — they're return visits. The harder a dish is to recreate, the faster they come back.

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Families are already saving recipes.

"I called my mom for the first time in months just to ask about her pozole. Best conversation we've had in years."
Maria R., Phoenix
"My grandmother is 87. We got her mole recipe saved last week. I cried."
James T., Brooklyn
"We did a family cook-off over Zoom. Everyone made dad's chili. Nobody's was the same. It was perfect."
Sarah K., Austin

Early partners

Restaurants are already seeing results.

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Pitmaster Dave, St. Pete BBQ
"I used to worry people would steal my recipes. Turns out the whole point is they CAN'T recreate it. That's what brings them back."
Chef Rosa, Taqueria Luna
"It's the only 'marketing tool' I've ever used that required zero work from my staff. QR code on the counter. Done."
Mike T., Downtown Coffee Co

It goes every direction

Everyone makes it.
Same week. Own kitchen.

Grandma in Phoenix. Cousin in Brooklyn. You in Austin.

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Grandkid to Grandma

"Teach me your mole."

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Grandma to Grandkid

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Cousin to Cousin

"Yours is different — what do you add?"

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Parent to Future

"My kids don't cook yet. But someday."

What we ask

Almost nothing.
Seriously.

Here's the entire commitment.

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A QR code at the register

We provide it. Takes 30 seconds to set up.

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That's literally it

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You pay nothing, ever

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A notebook. A phone.
That's the whole setup.

Paper:Print the free templates. Fill in by hand. Grandma-friendly.
Phone:Use the free app. Tap, type, record audio, snap a photo.
Both:They sync. Use whatever feels natural.

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Even if all you remember is the smell.

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For families

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Before the recipe is gone.

"The goal is to not need us."

Every failed home attempt is a return visit.

"Your recipes are your moat. We just help your customers prove it."

Every time you cook this dish, you'll know a little more. We'll ask fewer questions. Eventually you'll just cook it from memory — the way it was always meant to be passed down.

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