Our story

The four a.m. shift runs in the family.

Butterbase wasn't born in a boardroom, or, honestly, a bakery. It was built for the bakers in my family: the ones pulling trays at dawn and counting the till at dusk.

A worn bakery workbench at dawn: recipe notebook open, brass scale, proofing baskets — Market day · four a.m. The brass scale and the smudged notebook, which is what Butterbase is here to replace.

Butterbase started with my siblings. They're the bakers, up before dawn, recipes in a smudged notebook, loading the car for the Saturday market and sometimes loading half of it back home again. Me? I've been a software engineer for fifteen-plus years. The only four a.m. shift I ever worked was at a Starbucks.

But I've watched the grind up close: prices that were a best guess, spreadsheets that never survived a flour-dusted Saturday, good bakes with no idea whether they made money. That's a problem software is actually good at. So I built the tool I wanted my family to have: fast enough for one hand at the bench, honest enough to say what every bake really costs, and able to take a card at the market without a second device.

Bakers should spend their time baking, not reconciling.

What we hold to

Start from a real cost

If a tool can't tell you what to charge, it isn't doing its job. Everything begins with a transparent per-unit cost.

Never overwrite a number

Stock is the sum of what actually happened, not a figure someone typed over. History you can trust.

Made for the bench

One hand, floury fingers, no desk. If it isn't fast on a phone in a hot kitchen, it doesn't ship.

Free to start · two minutes to your first recipe

Your bakery, finally in order.

Start costing, tracking, and selling today. Free, no card, two minutes to your first recipe.

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