Cook in season, wherever you are.
Koji plans your week around what's at its peak near you — then carries you from market to plate. Your recipes, your equipment, your rules. One quiet, well-made tool for people who take cooking seriously.
No spam, no “growth hacking”. One email when your invitation is ready.
Koji does this to every recipe — units, spelling, and what you call the hobstovetop.
Bring every recipe you've ever loved
The recipe card in your nana's handwriting. The PDF from a cooking class. The block of text a friend pasted into a chat. Photograph it, drop it in, or paste it — Koji's AI reads it and rebuilds it as a structured recipe: ingredients with proper quantities, steps grouped into phases, timings attached.
- Photos, PDFs, pasted text and web pages
- Extracted into phases and steps you can edit
- Nothing is lost — the original stays attached
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An assistant that knows your kitchen
Not a generic chatbot with generic answers. Koji's assistant is grounded in your recipe collection, your equipment, your dietary rules, and what's in season outside your door. Ask what to cook tonight and it answers with your food.
- Answers cite your actual recipes and notes
- Knows you have a 28 cm11-inch cast-iron pan, not a wok
- Hard dietary rules are never negotiable
Plan the week. Shop it once.
Your meal plan collapses into a single shopping list — consolidated across recipes, organisedorganized by shop, with prices where Koji knows them. Tell it you prefer organic dairy but don't care about organic onions, and the list remembers, every week.
- One list from seven dinners — duplicates merged
- Per-shop prices, best price highlighted
- Organic preferences by category, not all-or-nothing
- Cooking for two? Recipes, lists and whole kitchens share with your household — add one person to your kitchen for free
| Item | Millbrook Grocer | Field & Pantry |
|---|---|---|
| Leeks × 3 | $4.50 | $5.80 |
| SilverbeetSwiss chard, 1 bunch | $3.99 | $3.50 |
| Butter 500 g1 lborganic | $9.20 | $8.90 |
| Lamb shoulder 1.8 kg4 lb | $26.10 | $31.40 |
| Mandarins 1 kg | $3.20 | $4.10 |
| + 9 more items | $41.20 | |
A cook mode that respects floury hands
One step at a time, in large type. Timers start themselves when a step mentions one. Scale to six servings and every quantity follows. And the screen stays awake until the dish is done — no knuckle-tapping your phone.
- Per-step timers, running in parallel when phases overlap
- Instant scaling — mass, volume and tinpan sizes recalculated
- Screen wake-lock for the whole session
Depth, for when you want it
Most nights you just want dinner. But when a dish becomes a project, Koji keeps up — every variable recorded, every iteration kept.
Like kōjikōji GlossaryRice or barley cultured with Aspergillus oryzae. Its enzymes break starch and protein into sugars and amino acids — fermentation’s first step. itself — the starter culture behind miso, soy sauce and sake — the system improves slowly with time: your data compounds with every cook.
Recipes that evolve
Fork your sourdough, change the hydration, keep both. Diff any two versions and see exactly what you changed.
country loaf · v7 · 78% hydrationCooking sessions, logged
Every cook is a record: what you scaled, which timers ran long, the note you made at the stove at 9pm.
cooked 14× · last: oven ran hot, −10 °C−18 °F next timeA technique library
Lamination, emulsions, braising curves — referenced from your own recipes, written like a good cookbook, not a wiki.
linked from 23 of your recipesNutrition with provenance
Numbers you can trace. Every value cites its source database and shows its confidence — no mystery calories.
per serveserving · 612 kcal · src: NZ FCD 2024USDA FDC 2024A calendar of peaks
See the year as your market does. Plan the preserving weekend before the apricots — or the feijoaspineapple guavas — disappear.
feijoapineapple guava window: Mar–Jun · closingYour data, exportable
Your collection is a body of work, not a hostage. Export everything, any time, in open formats.
export: json · markdown · pdfThe sauce split. Ask why.
Every cook has a post-mortem. Describe what happened and the assistant works through it with you — at whatever depth you want: the general principle, the feel and the texture, or the exact temperatures — anchored to the version you cooked and the notes you made at the hobstovetop.
Then the part that compounds: distil the conversation into a skill — a standing review Koji applies automatically, every time you write another sauce.
- Answers at your depth — the principle, the feel, or the exact numbers
- Grounded in the version you cooked and your session log
- Conversations become skills — the assistant grows as you do
The good tools are worth waiting for
Koji is in private development with a small group of serious home cooks in New Zealand, Australia and the US.
The waitlist isn't scarcity theatre: every account carries real AI capacity, so we add people the way kōji grows — slowly, deliberately.
We'll write when your place at the table is ready.