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CHEF GENAI
AI-powered household pantry tracker and recipe assistant. Tell it what you have — it tells you what to cook.
At a glance
33%
Food wasted per household
The problem being solved
20%
Build complete
Foundations laid, AI engine next
2
Monetization paths
B2C app + B2B menu engine
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Problem
Problem
Average households waste 33% of purchased food. Chef GenAI tracks your pantry, monitors expiration dates, and suggests recipes from what you actually have — reducing waste and eliminating the "what’s for dinner?" problem.
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Approach
- Pantry tracking via barcode scan or manual entry
- Expiration date tracking with push notifications
- AI recipe suggestions from available ingredients (LLM-powered)
- Dietary preference filters: vegetarian, vegan, allergies, macros
- Shopping list generation for missing recipe ingredients
- Recipe history and favorites library
- B2B option: menu suggestion engine for small restaurants
03
Architecture
NX Monorepo
Shared code between web app, mobile (Ionic), and backend. The AI layer wraps OpenAI and Anthropic APIs with structured prompt engineering. Type-safe API contracts are shared across all packages via NX libraries.
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Result so far
Infrastructure60%
Auth + Database40%
B2B Research30%
Pantry Module25%
AI Recipe Engine15%
Mobile UI5%
Pivot Analysis
B2C pantry app has a long monetization path. B2B pivot — selling an AI recipe and menu engine to restaurants — may be faster to revenue. The NX monorepo architecture supports both paths without a rewrite.