Procurement & food-cost OS for F&B

Your food spend, captured and counted to the cent.

Snap an invoice from any supplier. Chit's AI reads every line, a person confirms it, and your spend lands in one clean ledger - so you can see where the money goes and keep food cost in line. For any F&B operator. No spreadsheets.

Free to start, no card. Restaurants, cafes, bakeries, and small F&B groups.

Spend this month

Sample data · March

Verde Produce · produce
$1,204.18
Harbour Fish Co. · seafood
$2,118.40
Stone Mill Bakery · dry goods
$486.75
Daily Dairy · dairy
$842.50
+ 22 more suppliers
$43,565.57
Total spend$48,217.40
every line, confirmed by a human

Spend you can't see

$15k-$500k

flows through a typical F&B kitchen every month - across 30 to 300+ supplier invoices that arrive as PDFs, photos, paper, and forwarded email. Until each one is captured, none of it is countable. Most operators only learn where the margin went once the month is already closed.

Illustrative ranges from Chit's ICP research, not a measured Chit result.

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The month-end scramble, every month

the problem

The pain is the same in every kitchen: too many invoices, too little time, and no clear picture of where the money actually went.

Invoices keyed by hand

Every PDF, photo, and paper invoice re-typed line by line into a spreadsheet. Hours gone each week, and errors baked in from the start.

Spreadsheet reconciliation

Vendors, categories, and totals stitched together by hand at month-end - and out of date the moment the work is finished.

No real spend visibility

You can't see total spend by vendor, category, or item until the books close, so overspend is always caught too late to act on.

Food cost creeps up

Prices drift up quietly. Without per-item history, an 18% jump on a staple hides in the noise until the margin is already gone.

How it works

02

From a photo to counted spend, in one pass

  1. 01

    Snap it

    Upload a PDF or snap a photo of any supplier's invoice - from any vendor, in any format.

  2. 02

    We read it

    GPT-5.4 vision extracts every line - vendor, items, quantities, prices - into a clean, structured ledger.

  3. 03

    You confirm

    A glance and a tap. A person confirms the lines - the human pen-mark on every invoice.

  4. 04

    See spend

    Your spend updates at once: total, by vendor, by category - to the cent.

Verde Produce

INV-2041 · Mar 14

Confirmed
Heirloom tomatoes · 12 kg
$58.80
Baby spinach · 8 kg
$41.20
Lemons · 1 case
$36.00
Field mushrooms · 6 kg
$54.30
Invoice total$190.30

Read by AI, confirmed by you - then it joins your ledger.

More than capture

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One place for everything you buy

The capture-only tools stop at the invoice. Chit runs the whole loop - capture, one ledger, food cost, and purchasing - in a single place.

Capture all spend

AI invoice capture for every supplier, in any format - PDF, photo, or paper. A person confirms each one; nothing is keyed by hand.

One unified ledger

Every invoice, whatever its source, normalizes into one ledger you can actually query. The raw vendor item name is always kept; cross-vendor product matching fills in over time.

Food-cost control

Spend by category, vendor, and item, with per-item price history and price-creep alerts - “tomatoes up 18%, Vendor B is 12% cheaper.”

POs & approvals

Raise purchase orders, route approvals, and match what you ordered against what was delivered and billed - the three-way match.

Powered by Farmio

Optional

When you buy from a Farmio supplier, the loop closes itself.

Most of your suppliers are external, and Chit handles them all on its own. For suppliers powered by Farmio, there is nothing to capture at all - the order goes out and comes back fully reconciled.

  1. 01

    Raise a PO

    Send a purchase order to a Farmio-powered supplier, right from Chit.

  2. 02

    Fulfilled

    The supplier receives and fulfills the order on Farmio.

  3. 03

    Flows back

    The delivery and the invoice return to Chit automatically.

  4. 04

    Auto-matched

    PO, delivery, and invoice reconcile themselves - auto-confirmed, zero keying.

Optional and additive. Chit is a complete, standalone product without it; the closed loop is a bonus for the suppliers you already buy from who happen to run on Farmio.

Why Chit

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Warmer than a spreadsheet. Sharper than a generic tool.

A spreadsheet

Free and familiar - and entirely manual. Re-keyed by hand, stale by month-end, with no capture, no price history, and no real-time spend.

A generic procurement tool

Built for enterprise purchasing, not a kitchen. Heavy to roll out, cold to use, and blind to food cost.

Chit

F&B-native

F&B-native. AI capture, one ledger, food cost, and POs - warm, fast to start, and built for how kitchens actually buy.

What you get

05

Designed to pay back in time saved and margin protected

Minutes

to your first captured invoice

Same session

to your first populated spend dashboard

100%

of your spend in one ledger - the goal, not just one supplier

0

invoices keyed by hand

Design targets from Chit's go-to-market plan - directional goals, not audited customer averages.

Pricing

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Free to start. Pay as your spend grows.

Start free - capture your first invoices and see your spend, no card required. If you buy from a Farmio supplier, that spend is free to watch from day one. As more of your spend comes under management, expand to cross-supplier capture, analytics, POs, and approvals.Plans and pricing are still being finalized.

Start free

Stop keying invoices. Start seeing your spend.

Capture your first invoice in minutes and watch your spend dashboard fill in - on the house.