MarcusThe handover is where kitchens leak.
Every night something is learned and most of it is gone by the next service. Marcus keeps it.
The problem
Small restaurants and cafés run on a whiteboard, a group chat and whoever was there. The closing crew knows the stock is low, the walk-in is warm and the sourdough sold out by eight. The opening crew finds out at eleven. Nothing is written down because writing things down at midnight is the last thing anyone will do.
The product
A notebook you talk to. It writes, sorts and remembers.
At close you say what happened. Marcus turns it into a note with a title, a summary and lines sorted into prep, short and issues, filed in the right notebook. The next person opens the app and the home screen already says what matters today. Ask it a question and the answer comes from the kitchen's own notes.
Apple speech recognition on the phone. Audio is never sent or stored.
One workspace per venue, joined with a code. Everyone sees the same notebook.
Layouts, saved views and summaries adapt to how each kitchen uses it, inside a validated spec.
Why now
Speech recognition is finally good enough to run on a phone in a loud room, and language models are cheap enough to sort every note for a fraction of a cent. The pieces exist; nobody has put them in front of a chef at midnight in a form that takes ten seconds.
Who it is for
Owner-operated venues with two to twenty staff: cafés, bistros, bakeries, bars with a kitchen. The buyer is the owner or head chef. The user is everyone on the roster.
Business
Cost to serve is dominated by model calls and is under ten cents per active user per month at current prices. There is no sales team; venues find it through other venues.
Where it is
Marcus 1.0 is on TestFlight and submitted for App Store review. Sign in with Apple, Google or email. Data lives in Firestore in Sydney with per-kitchen access rules. Privacy, export and deletion are built in from day one.
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