About & press
Building the operating system for the kitchen.
KAI is an independent product company. We are building a single, coherent layer for how households know what they have, decide what to cook, and buy what they need.
Know more. Cook smarter, eat better.
Positioning
Not a recipe app. A kitchen operating system.
KAI maintains the live state of a household kitchen and uses it to answer four questions in order: what do I have, what should I cook, what should I buy, and how do I cook it. The architecture is local-first and private by default. The logic is deterministic where correctness matters, and AI-enhanced only where judgment genuinely helps.
The product is currently in a small private beta, with a public launch planned. It will be free for home cooks. Revenue comes from category-exclusive brand partnerships, partner-supported editorial, and chef-authored packs sold on mysmartkai.com.
What we believe
The kitchen deserves a system
Every other part of the home has been given software. The kitchen received recipe archives and shopping carts. We think it needs a state layer.
Correctness is the product
A cooking assistant that is confidently wrong is worse than no assistant. Determinism is not a limitation, it is the point.
Free should mean free
KAI is free for home cooks. The business is built on labeled partnerships and chef packs, not on the resale of household data.
Contact
Press, partnerships, and everything else.
Journalists: tell us your outlet and deadline and we will prioritise the response. Logo files and product imagery are available on request.
- Public site — mysmartkai.com
- Private beta — beta.mysmartkai.com