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Inventory software that doesn't make you use inventory software

Just talk to it. The AI handles the counting, data entry, and numbers — so you don’t have to.

  • Count in minutes, not hours
  • No training required — new hires can use it on day one
  • Know your real food cost every week
  • From $19/month per location. Cancel anytime.
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On-hand value
$9,363
Food cost · 7d
27.5%
ItemOn handPar
Chicken Breast64 lb120 lb
Heavy Cream1.5 gal5 gal
Romaine Hearts18 ea24 ea
Espresso Beans28 lb40 lb
Chicken Thigh44 lb40 lb
Half & Half5 gal4 gal
Avocados64 ea60 ea
Cold Brew Concentrate12 gal10 gal
Oat Milk26 ea24 ea
Butter34 lb30 lb
AP Flour55 lb50 lb
The real cost of guessing

You’re already doing everyone else’s job.

Don’t add data-entry clerk to the list. Most weeks you skip the count because it takes too long, and you end up guessing at your costs.

It steals your time

You spend hours counting, then more hours typing it in. So you skip it and hope for the best.

Money quietly disappears

Portions creep. Prices go up. You only notice when it’s already cost you thousands.

It all falls on you

No one else knows how to do it properly. So it stays on your plate — every single week.

You get blindsided mid-service

You 86 something and only find out when a server tells you — in front of a table.

How it works

Traditional inventory software with an AI employee who already knows how to use it.

You don’t learn the software. You just talk to it like you would a trained employee. It turns two simple habits, snapping photos of your invoices and counting your shelves out loud, into just about everything you want to know or do about your money: what your food really costs, which prices are creeping up, who’s overcharging you, what to reorder, and what to count next.

You supply the paper and the shelves; the app does the rest.

Two steps. That’s the job.

Snap a photo of your invoices.Snap a photo of your invoices.Snap a photo of your invoices.Snap a photo of your invoices.

01Snap a photo of your invoices.

Stockcount reads them and does the data entry for you.

Count your stock.Count your stock.Count your stock.Count your stock.

02Count your stock.

Or hand it to the new hire: download the app, do what it tells you. It makes sure they count the right things.

That’s it. You get numbers you can trust — without the usual hours at a desk.

Something looks off? It checks with you first.

Not sure what’s next? It tells you.

Early on it asks more. A month in, it knows your kitchen and stays out of your way.

It’s AI, so it can be wrong. You can override anything. Most of the time you won’t need to.

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What you get

Less work. Numbers you trust.

The same job as before, minus the hours, the training, and the guesswork.

Count in minutes, not hours

Phone in your pocket, count out loud down the walk-in, and you’re back on the floor in five minutes. Nothing waiting to be typed up tonight.

This week’s number, on your phone

Open the app and your food cost is right there, fresh from your last count. You see it while you can still fix it, not a month later from the books.

Hand it to a new hire, day one

Give a first-day hire the phone and they can count. No sit-down training, no manual. The job stops living on your shoulders.

The shopping list builds itself

As you count, your order list fills in, sorted by vendor. You reorder before the line ever calls out that you’re 86 on something.

Find the right fit

Different tools for different kitchens.

The right inventory tool depends on who’s using it and what they can maintain. Here’s the honest map.

Stockcount

AI-first inventory management with an agent that does the data entry. Built for independent restaurants where the owner runs the place.

From $19/mo per location. Best for $250K–$1.5M revenue.

Spreadsheets

Familiar and free. Entirely manual. No price tracking, no real-time cost, no audit trail. Falls apart the first week you skip.

Free. Best when you only count quarterly.

Traditional suites

Craftable, MarketMan, MarginEdge, Restaurant365. Deeper procurement and accounting workflows than Stockcount — built for multi-unit groups with a dedicated manager or bookkeeper to run them.

$99–$469+/mo. Best for chains with back-office staff.

Why we built this

We know what it feels like to count the walk-in all morning, enter invoices all night, and still not trust the number.

Jeremy Dudet, founder of Stockcount.

Jeremy Dudet

Founder, Stockcount

Former cafe operations manager and big-tech engineer.

I always wished I had a live cost of my menu, but getting that number was too much work. I spent about ten years in restaurants and cafes, and I had to do the inventory myself. Training someone on my method, my units of measure, my attention to detail, that was never realistic. So it was on me: two hours a week counting the place, then two more entering invoices and working out costs. It wasn’t worth it. We’d just decide not knowing our numbers was fine, because getting granular wasn’t worth the grind.

Free tools like spreadsheets took hours to set up, and they were tedious and fragile. Someone still has to be trained on them, and entering counts on your phone’s Google Sheets is miserable. The paid software is expensive and clunky. It turns your cooks into data-entry clerks, and restaurant people don’t want to deal with a computer. You pay around $400 a month and still spend a few hours a week feeding it and making sure the data reconciles.

So we made the process the product. You just talk to Stockcount in plain language. No new software to learn, no long forms. The AI knows what it needs to give you an accurate number, and it always tells you what to do next.

Your newest hire can use it on day one, untrained. That’s the test. Which means counting isn’t only the manager’s job anymore. You can hand it to the whole team.

For years, I figured I was better off growing sales than getting surgical about my costs. There was just too much friction. Take the friction away, and you don’t have to choose.

Pricing to fit your kitchen.

Starter

$19/mo

For a single-location restaurant, café, or bakery — covers a typical month of counting, scanning, and chat.

  • Voice counting

  • AI chat agent

  • Invoice scanning

  • Recipes & plate costs

  • Shopping lists

  • Variance + food-cost analytics

  • Team members (Managers + Counters)

  • 500 AI credits / month

  • Email support

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Pro

$49/mo

For businesses with two or more locations — covers a busy café’s full month with credits to spare.

  • Everything in Starter

  • Multi-location dashboard

  • Cross-location reporting

  • 1,500 AI credits / month

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Business

$149/mo

For high-volume, multi-location groups — covers a busy restaurant or small 2–3 location group running heavy day to day.

  • Everything in Pro

  • 5,000 AI credits / month

  • Priority support

  • Extra usage billed at cost

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Questions & Answers

Ready to know your real food cost every week?

Count by voice, scan invoices on the loading dock, and see a number you trust. Without the weekly hour at a computer.