Cook Automation

cookAuto

A smart kitchen coordination app that connects grocery orders, meal planning, and cook communication — from expiry tracking to an agentic reorder cart.

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Pain points & target user

Pain points

  • 🗑️Food wastage from forgotten groceries
  • 🤯Daily “what to cook” decision fatigue
  • 📵Miscommunication with household help on meal planning
  • 🕳️No visibility into what's actually consumed

Target user

  • 🏙️Urban dual-income households
  • 🏠Hostel-mess-style shared kitchens
  • 🛒Quick-commerce grocery users with domestic help
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Features

  • ⏳Auto expiry tracking from order data
  • 🍳AI-curated cook suggestions based on inventory
  • 🗳️In-app voting between household members
  • 💬Auto WhatsApp dispatch to cook
  • 🔄Post-cook inventory reconciliation
  • 🧾Wastage logging (finished / thrown)
  • 🛒Agentic auto-cart generation with one-click approval
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Metrics to track

⭐ North star

Grocery Utilization Rate

% of ordered groceries consumed before expiry

  • 💸Food wastage rate (₹ value or kg thrown per week)
  • ⏱️Voting-to-cook turnaround time
  • 🤝Cart auto-approval rate (trust in agentic suggestions)
  • 📈Weekly active decision cycles (orders → cooked loop completions)

Try the flow

Start on Ridhima's phone (owner), open voting, switch to the friend's phone to vote, then watch it land on the cook's WhatsApp and sync back.

Ridhima's phone (owner)

9:41••• 📶 🔋

cookAuto

Hi Ridhima, here's your kitchen today

⏳ Bread & Milk expiring in 2 days — suggest a sandwich?

Grocery list (from Blinkit)

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Bread

1 loaf

Expires in 2d
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Eggs

6 pcs

Expires in 5d
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Tomatoes

4 pcs

Expires in 3d
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Paneer

200g

Expires in 4d
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Milk

1L

Expires in 2d
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Onions

1kg

Expires in 10d

What can be cooked

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Veg Sandwich

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Paneer Bhurji

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Masala Omelette

Friend's phone

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Cook's phone (WhatsApp)

Ridhima (via cookAuto)

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