What we will and will not do with your kitchen.

KAI does not require an account to be useful. Your inventory, household preferences, and cooking history stay on your device unless you deliberately enable sync. There is no default upload, no silent backup, and no ad profile built from your groceries.

• No account required for core use
• Sync is opt-in and reversible
• Full export and full delete, on request or in-app

The kitchen state lives with the kitchen. KAI is designed to work offline and stay fast because computation happens where your data already is. Cloud services are an enhancement, never a dependency for the basics.

• Core features work without a connection
• Cloud used for optional, clearly-scoped tasks
• No feature held hostage to a login

Brand partnerships fund KAI so that it can stay free. That relationship has hard boundaries: a paid partner can occupy a category, but it can never outrank a better answer for your kitchen, and it can never be presented as a neutral result.

• Sponsored items labeled inline, in plain words
• Partner support never reorders correctness
• You can hide partner suggestions entirely

We do not invent ratings, review counts, testimonials, or partner logos to look further along than we are. If a number appears on this site or in the product, it is measured. If a claim is aspirational, it is written as a plan.

• No synthetic star ratings or review counts
• No placeholder testimonials presented as real
• Roadmap language stated as roadmap

AI-generated content, partner-supported editorial, and chef-authored material are each labeled where they appear. You should always be able to tell who wrote something and why you are seeing it.

• AI-assisted content marked at the point of use
• Partner-supported articles labeled at the top
• Chef packs attributed to a named professional