Chef Pauly
Built for Australian kitchens

Every tool your kitchen needs. One platform.

From costing your first dish to running your biggest event — Chef Pauly handles the numbers so you can focus on the food.

Our edge

The only kitchen software you can talk to.

Ask Chef Pauly anything — update a price, build a recipe, draft a catering quote, flag a margin problem, generate a shopping list. Voice or chat. It works while your hands are full.

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Chef Pauly — AI Kitchen Assistant
Chicken breast jumped 18%. Which dishes are affected?
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4 dishes are now above your 35% food cost target: • Chicken Parmigiana: 41.2% (was 34.8%) • Schnitzel: 38.9% (was 33.0%) • Caesar Wrap: 36.5% (was 31.0%) • Chicken Burger: 37.1% (was 31.5%) Want me to reprice all four to hold 35% margin?
4 dishes flagged
Yes — update all four.
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Done. Parmigiana → $36, Schnitzel → $33, Wrap → $22, Burger → $28. All sitting at 35.0% food cost.
Menu updated ✓

Recipe costing

Know your food cost before you cook.

Build recipes from ingredients. Every price links live — change a supplier price and every dish recalculates instantly. Sub-recipes work too: Hollandaise → Eggs Benedict. Demi-glace → all your sauces.

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chefpauly.com / menu
Dishes
14
Avg FC%
33.2%
Avg margin
66.8%
Dish
Cost
Sell
FC%
Wagyu Short Rib
$18.60
$58.00
32.1%
Garlic Prawn Linguine
$13.40
$38.00
35.3%
Barramundi
$11.80
$42.00
28.1%
Truffle Mac & Cheese
$14.20
$28.00
50.7%
Chicken Parmigiana
$11.20
$34.00
32.9%

COGS reporting

New

Find where the money actually went.

Run a stocktake, then compare your actual usage against theoretical. Chef Pauly calculates the variance by ingredient — so you can see exactly which items are bleeding margin, whether it's waste, theft, or portion size.

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chefpauly.com / costings / cogs
Theoretical FC%
28.6%
Actual FC%
36.4%
Variance
-$637
Ingredient
Theory
Actual
Variance
Tiger prawns
28.4%
41.2%
-$340
Wagyu beef
32.1%
34.8%
-$89
Salmon fillet
29.6%
30.2%
-$18
Chicken breast
24.8%
38.7%
-$210
Pasta / dry goods
12.4%
11.8%
+$22

Lead & enquiry CRM

New

Never lose a catering enquiry again.

Every lead, enquiry, and prospect in one kanban board. Drag from Enquiry → Quote sent → Proposal → Confirmed. See your pipeline at a glance and know exactly what needs following up today.

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chefpauly.com / crm
Enquiry2
Hartley Birthday — 60 pax
ANZ Corp Lunch — 40 pax
Quote sent2
Thornton Wedding — 120 pax
Steel Construction — 85 pax
Confirmed1
Gold Coast Gala — 200 pax
Lost0

None lost yet

5 active leadsPipeline value: $48,600

Proposals + deposit payments

New

Send a proposal. Get paid a deposit. Done.

Clients receive a branded proposal page they can approve with one click — then pay a deposit by card, right there. No invoice, no chasing, no Stripe account setup for them. Your dashboard updates automatically.

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chefpauly.com / proposal / …

Proposal approved ✓

Approved on 18 May 2026

Deposit to confirm your booking

$2,500.00

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EventThornton Wedding
Date14 June 2026
Guests120 people
Total$12,500

AI demand forecasting

New

Know what to order before you run out.

Chef Pauly aggregates every upcoming job, calculates the total ingredient demand, then uses AI to flag supply risks, suggest order quantities, and highlight anything you're likely to run short on. Never over-buy or under-order again.

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chefpauly.com / pulse / demand-forecast

3 upcoming jobs · next 14 days

Wagyu beef
18.5 kghigh
Tiger prawns
12.0 kgmedium
Salmon fillet
8.5 kglow
Chicken breast
24.0 kglow

AI Forecast

Wagyu demand spikes 340% this period. Place your order by Tuesday to avoid supply risk. Current stock covers 2.3 days — you need 18.5 kg and have 5.2 kg on hand.

Xero live sync

New

Your books stay reconciled automatically.

Connect Xero once. Push invoices from any job directly — no copy-paste, no CSV exports, no double entry. Contacts, line items, due dates — all synced. Your accountant will notice the difference.

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chefpauly.com / settings / xero

Xero connected

The Harbour Table · Connected 18 May 2026

Live

Recent invoices pushed

Thornton Wedding

Today

$12,500

Sent

ANZ Corp Lunch

2 days ago

$3,200

Authorised

Gold Coast Gala

5 days ago

$28,000

Sent

Nutrition & allergen labels

New

FSANZ-compliant labels from your recipes.

Enter nutrition data on any ingredient. Chef Pauly calculates per-serve values for any dish — automatically, weighted by quantity. Print a compliant AU nutrition panel in seconds. Allergens flagged throughout.

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chefpauly.com / recipes / labels

Nutrition Information

Servings per package: 1
Serving size: 320 g

Per serving
Energy
1,240 kJ(297 Cal)
Protein
38.2 g
Fat, total
12.4 g
— saturated
4.1 g
Carbohydrate
8.6 g
— sugars
2.3 g
Sodium
480 mg

Allergens: Contains gluten, dairy. May contain tree nuts.

Slow-braised Wagyu Short Rib

Purchase orders

New

Auto-generate orders from your event requirements.

Select a job. Chef Pauly calculates ingredient requirements from your menu, checks current stock levels, and drafts a purchase order ready to send to each supplier. Track status from draft to received.

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PO-2026-041

Auto-generated · Thornton Wedding

Draft
Supplier
Ingredient
Qty
Total
Bidfood
Wagyu beef 400g
18.5 kg
$703.00
Bidfood
Tiger prawns 500g
12.0 kg
$252.00
PFD Foods
Salmon fillet
8.5 kg
$178.50
PFD Foods
Chicken breast
24.0 kg
$336.00
4 items · 2 suppliers$1,469.50

Shopping lists + stocktake

From the kitchen to PFD and back.

Generate a consolidated shopping list from your confirmed jobs, grouped by supplier — ready to hand to your team or walk in with. Then run a digital stocktake to close the loop: count what came back, spot the variance.

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chefpauly.com / stocktake / weekly-count

Weekly Stocktake — 25 May 2026

In progress
Item
Exp.
Actual
Var.
Tiger prawns
8.0
5.2 kg
-2.8
Wagyu beef
12.0
11.4 kg
-0.6
Salmon
6.0
6.1 kg
+0.1
Chicken breast
18.0
14.5 kg
-3.5

All of this. 14 days free.

No credit card. No setup fee. No lock-in. Just a kitchen that knows its numbers.

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