Zero to Chef

5:30 PM

in Kīhei

Blueberry scones, Mongolian beef, pad Thai, Jalisco birria tacos, your favorite Italian dish. The takeout you thought you couldn’t make, made at home with Kai.

  • No. 01From your kitchen

    Snap your fridge, pantry or freezer. Upload a grocery receipt. Or just tell Kai what you have.

  • No. 02From a night out

    Loved something when you ate out? Snap the menu, or just name the restaurant and town.

  • No. 03 · Ready to cookMade your way

    Kai looks up what it can and writes a recipe to match, or as close as it can get. Keep it or tweak it. Desserts and cocktails too.

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No cooking experience needed.

A weeknight at our house

Work’s done

Six people. All hungry.

Full-time job, little kids, and a husband who used to handle dinner on the barbecue. Takeout for six adds up fast in Maui.

On the way home

Onions and garlic at home.

Kai tells me the few things to grab on the way. No meal plan, no big shop.

In the kitchen

Tell Kai what you have.

Step-by-step, sized for six, laid out so you prep together and wash fewer dishes.

At the table

Restaurant-level. At our table.

Authentic Italian pasta, Moroccan chicken, sometimes better than eating out, with ingredients we chose ourselves.

What’s in your kitchen tonight?

Toss in what you have. I’ll show you what I’d make.

Tonight, I’d make

Italian garlic tomato pasta

These are examples. Kai writes the full recipe, step by step, sized for your family.

Cook it with Kai

Built by a busy mom. In Hawaii.

From the kitchen of Mia · Kīhei, Maui. Serves 6. Busy weeknights. If I can, you can.

  • 1 mom with a full-time job
  • 1 husband, retired from barbecue duty
  • Little kids who won’t sit through a restaurant dinner
  • Onions and garlic, always
  • A few things grabbed on the way home
  • Zero patience for scrolling

Admit it

I was never the cook in our house. My husband was, on the barbecue, most nights after work. I could do breakfast for six, no problem. Dinner? I overcooked things. I over-salted things, or forgot the salt altogether.

Try one thing

One night I saw a pasta on YouTube and couldn’t find the recipe. I asked AI to walk me through it, followed every step, and made the best pasta I had ever made. I was so proud of myself.

Keep going

Muffins. Scones. Moroccan chicken, the kind of dinner we used to only get at a restaurant. Now we eat restaurant-level dinners at home, sometimes better, with cleaner ingredients we choose ourselves.

Fix what got messy

AI chats buried my recipes. Ask one question and I was scrolling back up to find my place. Ask again and the recipe came back different. So I took the best parts and built Kai to do the thinking for me.

Share it

My friends tried it first. Then they kept asking me to share it. So here it is.

Mia’s note

You’re not a bad cook. You just never had someone in the kitchen who remembered everything for you.

Mia · Kīhei, Maui

Everything I loved about AI recipes. None of the scrolling.

Cooking from an AI chat

Moroccan chicken for 6, please.

Sure. Here’s a recipe for Moroccan chicken. Ingredients: 1.4 kg chicken thighs, 2 onions, 4 cloves garlic…

Can I swap the chickpeas?

Of course. Here’s the updated recipe…

Scrolling back up to find step 4.

What was step 4 again?

Here’s the full recipe again…

Wait. That’s not the same recipe.

Reminder: 6 people, no seed oils, one kid hates olives.

Retyping my family. Again.

Cooking with Kai

  1. Recipes you love are saved to your recipe box.The recipe gets buried in the chat.
  2. Ask Kai mid-recipe. Your steps stay right where you left them.Ask a question, then scroll back up to find your place.
  3. The recipe you saved stays the way you made it.Ask for it again and it comes back different.
  4. Kai remembers your household.Retype your family size, allergies and swaps every time.

Send the list.Watch it get checked off.

  1. Plan the week.Pick the dinners you want to make later in the week.

  2. Add a recipe’s ingredients in one tap.Plus anything else you need, like milk or paper towels.

  3. Text or email the list.Send it to your teen driver, your husband, or whoever is closest to the store.

  4. See what’s coming home.Items check off as they find them, so you know what made it into the cart.

No app or sign-in needed to check off a shared list. Stop sharing anytime.

Can you grab these on the way home? Thursday is Moroccan chicken.

Sent to our teen driver

Tonight + ThursdayLive

6 left · 0 of 6 picked up

  • GarlicBurrata pasta1 head
  • BurrataBurrata pasta2 balls
  • Chicken thighsMoroccan chicken · Thu1.4 kg
  • Fresh basilBurrata pasta1 bunch
  • LemonsMoroccan chicken · Thu3
  • MilkExtra1 gal
Example list

What dinner costs at our house.

Three of our family favorites for six people. What it costs to eat them out in Maui, and what it costs to make them at home.

Three dinners at home. About $800 back in our pocket.For the six of us, that goes toward our next family trip.

Estimated prep + cook times use comparable recipes, with sides cooked alongside. Your timing may vary. Restaurant estimates use current Maui menu prices for 6 entrées plus 4.712% tax and a 20% tip. Home estimates use typical Maui grocery prices. Your costs will vary.

Your recipe.A helping hand.

Check off each step. Prep ingredients together. Fewer dishes, with instructions that fit your time and energy.

Your household, remembered.
Kai keeps track of the diets, allergies and preferences you share. As your people change, update Kai so dinner can change with them.
Keep the conversation cooking.
Swap an ingredient, change a side or adjust portions mid-recipe. Ask Kai as you cook. Pivot, don’t start over.

For allergies, always check ingredient labels and cross-contact risks.

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Test preview · Sample recipe · New design, not live.
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Just staples. And dinner.Just staples.And dinner.

Your kitchen. Your people. Tell Kai what you have. Kai takes it from there.

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