TL;DR: What is RobotFoodie?

RobotFoodie is an operating system for your kitchen. It helps households save money, reduce waste, and decide "what's for dinner" without the stress.

🤖 The "Robot" (How you use it)

The core of this app is a smart Chatbot. You don't just click buttons; you talk to it.

• Where it lives: You can talk to the Robot via Siri, Google Home, Alexa, or through text/voice chat on our iPhone/Android apps and website.
• How it thinks: The Robot connects to powerful AI brains like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude.
• What it does: It acts like a kitchen manager. It remembers what is in your pantry so you don't have to.

🧩 The Key Pieces

1. Households 🏠

The "Account." Data belongs to the house, not a specific person. This keeps things private. Manage household settings and members.

2. People 👥

The members of the house. We use nicknames like "Mom," "Dad," or "The Picky Eater."

• Role: Used to track who likes what (e.g., "The Picky Eater hates mushrooms").

3. Foods & Inventory 🍎

• Foods: A reference catalog of food items with nutritional information.
• Inventory: The actual food sitting in your kitchen right now (e.g., "The 3 Apples in the fridge that expire on Friday").

4. Recipes 🥣

Instructions on how to cook food. The Robot links these to your Inventory to see if you have the ingredients to make them.

📅 Meal Plans (The Brain)

The Robot solves the "What's for dinner?" problem by looking at what you already own.

• Inventory First: The Robot prioritizes recipes that use food you already have, specifically items that are about to expire.
• Schedule Aware: It knows "Mom" works late on Tuesdays, so it schedules a 15-minute recipe for that night.
• Workflow:
  1. You: "Plan 3 dinners for this week."
  2. Robot: "You have chicken expiring soon. How about Chicken Tacos on Tuesday, Pasta on Wednesday, and Soup on Friday?"
  3. You: "Sounds good." -> Meals are locked onto the Calendar.

🛒 Shopping (The Gap)

The Robot ensures you never buy duplicates of things you already have at home.

• The Math: Recipe Ingredients minus Your Inventory equals Shopping List.
• Auto-Add: When you approve a Meal Plan, the Robot automatically adds only the missing items to your list.
• Ad-Hoc: You can also just shout at it.
  • You: "Alexa, add milk to the list."
  • Robot: Checks inventory. "You actually have a full gallon left. Do you still want to add it?"

🔄 The Lifecycle Workflows

1. Buying Food (Inbound)

You: "I just bought milk, eggs, and spinach." Robot: Moves items from the Shopping list into your Inventory and estimates when they will expire.

2. Prep Sessions (Cooking)

You: "I'm making Chicken Tacos." Robot: Tracks the cooking session and adjusts ingredient quantities in your Inventory.

3. Consumption (Eating)

You: "We ate the Chicken Tacos." Robot: Logs the meal, removes the portions from your Inventory, and tracks nutrition.

4. Menu Intel (Eating Out)

You: Snap a photo of a restaurant menu. "I'm eating the Burger." Robot:

1. Logs the nutrition of the burger via Menu Intel.
2. Realizes you ate a heavy lunch.
3. Auto-adjusts tonight's dinner plan to be lighter (e.g., swaps Pasta for a Salad) to keep you healthy.