AI Vision live in 30+ kitchens

The AI co-pilot watching every dish, every shift

CheffyIQ uses your existing kitchen cameras to verify recipes are followed, hygiene rules are met, and every chef hits consistency — without ever interrupting them.

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Hearth & Stone · Federal Hill 4 cameras · 5 chefs 12:42:18 ET
CAM 01 · GRILL
OK
BBQ
Char OK
Step 4/6
Chef David · BBQ #241812:42:18
CAM 02 · PREP
ALERT
Bare hands · no gloves
Tomato
Onion rings
Chef Maria · Bare hands touching food · just now12:42:16
CAM 03 · COOKING
+8 MIN
Brisket pot · +8 min over recipe time
Chef Andrew · Brisket #2421 · should be plated12:42:14
CAM 04 · PLATING
96% MATCH
Smoked Brisket · 96% to reference
Mint & saffron
Chicken pieces
✓ Released to pass · Order #2419 · Table 812:42:12
94/100
Compliance now
847
Dishes today
1· live
Active alert
187ms
AI inference

A live snapshot from one of our customer kitchens · Watch the full 28-sec product tour →

ROI calculator

See what CheffyIQ would save your kitchen.

Drag the sliders. Numbers update instantly. Based on actuals from 30+ customer kitchens.

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Estimated monthly savings
$18,020
$3,604 per outlet · payback in 1.3 weeks

CheffyIQ cost$7,980/mo
Wastage saved$9,000/mo
Complaints saved$4,500/mo
Compliance fines avoided$2,500/mo
Manager time freed$10,000/mo
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Recipe consistency lift
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Trusted by leading restaurant brands

Customer logos: Hearth & Stone, Patty Lab, Roll House, Daily Grind Coffee, Sweet Lab Bakery, Brooklyn Canteen

Compliance & security

SOC 2 Type II
FDA
HACCP
ISO 22000
GDPR
AES‑256

As seen in · Awards

G2 Leader Spring 2026 Capterra Top 50 SaaS #1 Product Hunt
The data path

From camera to coaching, in under 1 second

Your video stays on-site. Only structured events sync to the cloud.

Your IP cameras

RTSP / ONVIF · Hikvision, Dahua, Axis

CheffyIQ Edge Box

Jetson Orin Nano · YOLOv8 · 187 ms inference

Cloud dashboard

WebSocket alerts · WhatsApp · Slack · SMS

How CheffyIQ works

From camera feed to chef coaching in seconds

Plug into your existing IP cameras. Our vision models do the rest.

CAM-04481
CONNECTED
$ rtsp://192.168.1.10:554/stream
✓ Stream OK · 1080p · 15fps
1

Connect cameras

RTSP, ONVIF, or our edge box. Map each camera to a station.

REFERENCE PHOTO
AI LEARNED
Saffron
Chicken
Mint
Smoked Brisket · 1,247 samples seen
2

Train your menu

Upload final-dish photos. AI learns what each dish should look like.

SOP Rules · Active12 ENABLED
Gloves at plating CRITICAL
Hairnet at all stations
Handwash ≥ 20 sec
No phones at fryer
FDA compliantHACCP · ISO 22000
3

Set SOPs

Gloves, hairnets, handwash, sequence — switch on what matters.

WhatsApp · CheffyIQ
CRITICAL ALERT
No gloves at plating — Cam 02
12:42 PM · 2s ago
< 8 SECONDS
4

Get insights

Real-time alerts via WhatsApp/SMS/push. Daily reports. Chef leaderboards.

Built for restaurant operators

One platform. Every kitchen problem.

From a single cloud kitchen to 200-outlet QSR chains.

Recipe-step verification

Detects whether the chef added every ingredient, in the right order, at the right time. Logs deviations per ticket and ties them to the chef + station.

YOLOv8 96% accuracy Per-brand fine-tuned
BBQ Chicken · live
Brine 4 hr
Season + sear
· Step 5/6 · live

Hygiene & PPE checks

Glove, hairnet, apron, and handwash detection. 20-second handwash timer with auto-violation logging.

Plate-photo matching

Plated dish vs. reference via CLIP embeddings. Catch under-portioned, sloppy, or wrong plates before they leave the pass.

Chef performance

Per-chef scores. Weekly leaderboards. Targeted nudges.

Real-time alerts

WhatsApp, SMS, push. Severity rules. 60-sec escalation.

Multi-location ops

One dashboard, every outlet. Region & brand roll-ups.

POS & inventory

Toast, Square, Clover, Aloha — tickets vs AI obs.

Plus auto-coaching clips, audit-ready reports, chef leaderboards & more — explore all features →

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Four superpowers, one platform. No demo signup required.

Recipe step verification

Detects every ingredient, every step, every ticket

YOLOv8 + per-brand fine-tuning. The AI knows what your dishes look like at every step — and flags anything missing or out of order.

  • Ingredient detection in real time
  • Step-sequence checking
  • Cooking-time tolerances per dish
  • Logged per-ticket for audit
Learn more
CAM 01 · GRILL
BBQ Chicken · step 5/6
Hygiene & PPE

Glove, hairnet, handwash — verified continuously

20-second handwash timer. Bare-hands detection at plating. Every chef coached privately on their phone within 8 seconds.

  • Glove + hairnet + apron detection
  • 20-second handwash timer
  • Phone-at-fryer detection
  • Auto-violation logged for FDA audit
Learn more
CAM 02 · PREP
Bare hands · alert
Plate-photo matching

Every plate compared to your reference, before it leaves the pass

CLIP visual embeddings score the plated dish vs. your executive chef's photo. Below 80%? Held at the pass for redo.

  • CLIP-based visual embeddings
  • Per-dish reference photos
  • Configurable release threshold
  • Sloppy / under-portioned plates caught
Learn more
CAM 04 · PLATING
96% match · released
Real-time alerts

The right alert, the right person, in under 8 seconds

WhatsApp, SMS, push, in-app. Severity-based routing. Auto-escalation if not acknowledged in 60s.

  • Multi-channel: WhatsApp, SMS, push
  • Severity routing per rule
  • 60-second escalation
  • 15-second video clip attached to every alert
Learn more
WhatsApp alert
For every format

Built for the way your kitchen runs

CAM 04 · QSR Chicago
REC
12:42:18
Patty seared
42 outlets · 96% match
QSR Chains

Cut the consistency gap across outlets

Standardize burger assembly, fryer timing, and cheese-melt sequence across every store. Spot the outlier outlet before customers complain.

25-200 outlets · Speed-of-service
CAM 02 · Harbor Cloud
REC
12:42:34
Brand A
Brand B
4 brands · 1 kitchen
Cloud Kitchens

Train new chefs in days, not weeks

High turnover? CheffyIQ acts as a 24/7 sous chef — corrects mistakes in real time and tracks ramp-up speed of every new hire.

Multi-brand · Onboard 2x faster
CAM 04 · Tasting menu
REC
20:17:08
Match 98% · Released
Reference photo · signature dish
Fine Dining

Protect your tasting menu signature

Plating-shot validation ensures every dish that leaves the pass matches the executive chef's reference. Catch sloppy nights before reviewers do.

Per-dish QC · Signature integrity
Featured case study

Hearth & Stone — 60 days, real numbers

An 18-outlet US chain went from spot-checks to AI-monitored. Here's what changed.

CHAMPION CUSTOMER

Robert Martinez, COO

Hearth & Stone Hospitality · 18 outlets, Federal Hill HQ

“CheffyIQ caught 47 hygiene violations in our first month and brought our brisket consistency from 71 to 92 across 18 outlets. It's like having an executive chef in every kitchen.”

78%
fewer hygiene
violations
$184K
monthly waste
savings
+24%
recipe
consistency
Read full case study More customer stories
Why CheffyIQ

vs the old way

Same goal. Different mechanism. Different math.

 
Coverage
Cost (5 outlets)
Time to setup
Audit evidence
Speed of feedback
The old way
Spot checks · ~15 min/day per outlet
$30K–50K/mo manager time
Months (hire + train)
Paper checklists, manual photos
Days or weeks (next 1:1)
CheffyIQ
Every shift, every dish, 100%
$7,980/mo (5×4 cams × $399)
7 days, no hiring
Tamper-proof video, crypto-signed
Seconds (auto-coaching clip)
See the full comparison
Trusted by 38 brands across the US

Restaurants of every shape & size

From single-location bakeries to 200-outlet QSR chains.

HS
Hearth & Stone
Casual dining
PL
Patty Lab
QSR
RH
Roll House
Cloud kitchen
DG
Daily Grind
Café chain
SL
Sweet Lab
Bakery
BC
Brooklyn Canteen
Fine dining
SP
Smoke Pit BBQ
BBQ · 9 outlets
FW
Fast Wrap Co.
QSR
PH
Pizza Hut US
QSR · 45 stores
SB
Subway US
QSR
TB
Theobroma
Bakery · 78 outlets
CC
Coffee Day
Café
BO
The Brick Oven
Pizzeria
FS
Fire & Smoke
Steakhouse
CC
Coastline Café
Seafood
MD
Maple Diner
Diner · 22 outlets
HK
Harvest Kitchen
Farm-to-table
21 more
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Under the hood

Enterprise-grade vision AI

Edge processing for sub-second latency, with full data residency control.

Edge AI inference

YOLO · SlowFast · CLIP. Runs locally on a small Jetson box, so video never leaves your kitchen.

Privacy by design

Faces blurred. Only metadata sent to cloud. Configurable retention windows. SOC 2 underway.

Custom model training

We fine-tune a model per brand on your menu and SOPs. Updates roll out OTA every two weeks.

From the field

What restaurant operators are saying

38 customers, 214 cameras live, 3.2 million dishes verified.

“CheffyIQ caught 47 hygiene violations in our first month and brought brisket consistency from 71 to 92 across 18 outlets. It's like having an executive chef in every kitchen.”

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Robert MartinezCOO · Hearth & Stone Hospitality · 18 outlets

“We stopped paying for shadow audits across our 45 outlets. The dashboard already shows us what every chef did, when, and why. ROI was visible in week 2.”

MC
Mike CarterCEO · Patty Lab · 45 QSR locations

“Onboarding new baristas dropped from 8 weeks to 2. The chef app gives them their score every shift — they ramp themselves up without me chasing.”

SJ
Sarah JohnsonOps Manager · Daily Grind Coffee · 12 cafes
Read more customer stories
Built by

Operators who've shipped this before

Restaurant tech is hard. Our team has lived it on the inside.

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Adam Powell

Co-founder & CEO

Ex-product DoorDash · Wharton MBA · 3 years scaling restaurant tech to 30K+ locations.

SK

Steven Kennedy

Co-founder & CTO

Ex-ML Lead at Uber · Computer vision research at Carnegie Mellon · 12 patents in real-time AI.

Meet the full team
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The latest from CheffyIQ

Case studies, technical deep-dives, and field reports from the frontline of kitchen AI.

Setup
Do I need new cameras?
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No. Most existing IP cameras work via RTSP. Hikvision, Dahua, Axis, Bosch — all supported. We supply an edge box that connects to your local network.
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Security & privacy
Where does my video go?
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Video stays on your edge box. Only metadata + 15-second clips of violations leave the kitchen, encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256).
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Onboarding
How long to go live?
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7 days, every time. Day 1 discovery, Day 2 edge box ships, Days 3–5 model trained on your dishes, Day 6 team intro, Day 7 monitoring is live. See the full plan →
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Setup
What if internet drops?
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Edge box keeps running. AI inference is fully local. When connection returns, queued events sync to the cloud automatically. How offline mode works →
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People & adoption
Will my chefs accept it?
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Yes — once they see their own scores. Hearth & Stone had 2 chefs ask to leave in week 1. Both stayed after week 2 once they realized alerts came as private coaching, not public shaming. Read the chef's view →
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Billing & cancellation
What if I want to cancel?
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Month-to-month. Cancel anytime from settings. We export all your data + reports as a zip. Edge box returned via prepaid shipping label within 30 days — no fees, no questions.
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