Every cookbook you own. Every ingredient price in your city. An AI agent that can do the math.

A phone scans one page. A cookbook is 250 pages, with recipes that run across page breaks, headnotes that are not recipes, and index pages that look like recipes. We convert the whole book, catch the seams and duplicates, check every recipe with software and the flagged ones with a person, and tell you the error rate for that book. Then we give you a file you can import anywhere, in the language of your choice.

A chatbot can write a plausible plan. It does not know what coconut milk cost at your market on Tuesday, what is in your storeroom, or which brand of fish sauce your school uses. Our AI Kitchen Manager runs fixed, tested routines on your real recipes, your real pantry and real local prices, and shows its working, so you can check it.

A delivery app shows its own prices, for its own stock, often the highest in the city. We capture the wet market, the wholesale market, the supermarkets and the specialty shops side by side, so you can see the spread and decide where each item is worth buying this week.

For a cookbook: photos of the pages, using our simple photo guide, or a person with a book-scanning rig in your city. For a binder: photos or files. You get back every recipe, checked, searchable and costed, in the format you choose: a PDF for the wall, a spreadsheet for the accountant, a recipe-app file (JSON-LD or Paprika; we use the schema.org standard) for any app, or a workspace in our Mintari app (planning and budgeting for kitchens).

The language your books and binders are written in, printed or handwritten. We return each recipe in the original and, when you want it, with a translation beside it.

Every recipe is graded by software; anything flagged is checked by a person. We report the error rate per book instead of hiding it. If a book comes back worse than we promised, we fix it or you do not pay.

Yes. A book you photograph belongs to you alone; we never build a shared library from anyone's books. Your own recipes and versions are yours to use as you wish. We delete your photos after delivery, and you can export everything and leave at any time.

Your school's take on a dish: your edits, your brand of curry paste, the palm sugar from one province, the step your head chef insists on. A version keeps its link to the original, carries its own cost, and shows your native language and English on one page so every instructor teaches the same dish.

It keeps the spreadsheet for you and points it forward. It costs every class per seat from this week's market prices before you sell it, and re-costs everything when the market moves, shows that beside what your stock cost you. It builds a class from what is already in the storeroom. It sorts your shopping list by store, so you know which items to buy where. It lets you take any dish apart, swap a brand, a quantity or a store, and watch the plate cost move. It keeps every instructor's version of a dish beside the original, each with its own cost. And it reads your class calendar, seat counts and costs together to say how many seats make a bulk order pay back, which class carries the margin, and how to scale what works.

Ho Chi Minh City from December, weekly. Bangkok is the next city, and the schools that join us first help decide when, and which markets and stalls go first. Until then, your own supplier prices work for costing.

Each tool is priced on its own, and you can take one, two or all three. The Cookbook Converter is priced per page, pennies each, with a volume rate for a whole shelf. City Ingredient Data comes in the shape you choose: a monthly subscription, a one-off price sheet or report, a capture of the stalls you name, or a single answer to one question. The AI Kitchen Manager is a small monthly fee per school account, covering cloud hosting for your library, the AI Kitchen Manager and recipe costing. Founding Kitchens lock in lifetime terms on whatever they take. We quote on the demo call, with your numbers.

A referral fee for every student who joins Mintari from your class and keeps cooking; the students get their first month free. A place in our app to sell your own sauces, kits and classes. Your name on the price sheets and in the product if you help fund your city's capture.

A Founding Kitchen is one of the first cooking schools we build these tools alongside: your feedback shapes what we build next. In return you get lifetime terms, early access to your city's data, a say in what we capture next, your stalls captured first, and a named place in the product.

The intro call is twenty minutes: who we are, what is launching in the next weeks, and what you are trying to do over the next year. If it is useful, we agree a free first test (your binder, one class, or your market) and a date for a demo call on your own material in December.

Export everything and go. No lock-in is the point.