TrueK reads the tills and bills you already have and shows you, in dollars, exactly how much of each item's price you keep. Not a percentage. Not a guess.
The number that matters: what lands in your pocket per serve, before labour. You keep $12.03 of every $18.50 smashed avo, but only $2.75 of a $5.50 croissant. Colour shows how hard each item works for its price. The quiet winners probably aren't the ones you think.
Every cafe in Australia is about to absorb the surcharge or reprice the menu. Repricing without knowing what each item keeps you is guessing with your money.
Your top seller by revenue is rarely your top earner. A busy register can still be quietly losing you money on the items people order most.
Milk, eggs, coffee: supplier prices shift every few weeks. A margin you worked out in January is already wrong by June.
A manual costing spreadsheet is accurate for about a day. After that nobody updates it, and nobody trusts it.
Generic dashboards show you a percentage moved. They don't show you the dollars, or what your options actually are.
Recipe cost joined to your real supplier prices, per serve. Not a category-wide estimate, and never an estimate dressed up as a real number.
Read-only. No manual entry, nothing to reconcile, and you don't change how you work.
One page that reads like it came from your own finance team. The biggest dollar movement of the week, what each item kept you, any supplier price shocks, and one option worth weighing, with the maths shown.
Then the detail underneath for when you want to dig: every item, every price move, plan versus reality, and exactly how solid the numbers are.
Checked by a human before it reaches you. Every week.
Every insight is specific and quantified: the observation, the dollars, and the trade-off, so you can act on it with confidence. If you're paying more than you should for milk, you'll know exactly how much more, and what it's costing you a year.
Every dollar figure is calculated by conventional software from your own data, then checked. The AI only helps write the plain English around numbers that are already right.
TrueK never writes back to your point of sale or your accounting. It can't move money, place orders, or change a bill.
Your data and all processing stay in Australian regions, in line with the Australian Privacy Principles.
Prompts carry numbers and findings only. Your cafe's name, your name, and your details never reach the model.
An item without a confirmed recipe or a matched invoice says "no cost data". A number that looks wrong is quarantined until verified. Never an estimate dressed up as real.
During the founding pilot, nothing reaches your inbox without being verified first. You also get the founder directly, not a ticket queue.
Overseas, tools that do this start at US$350 a month and make you run your whole kitchen through them. TrueK is $89, and you don't change how you work.
Currently open to a limited number of founding cafes, locked in while you stay subscribed. No setup fee, no contract, cancel any month.
Apply for a founding spotI'm Daniel. I'm building TrueK because most cafe owners can quote yesterday's takings to the dollar but can't tell you what their best seller actually leaves behind. Not a skill problem: the two systems that hold the answer have never talked to each other. During the founding pilot I personally verify every report before it reaches you, and you can call me when something looks off.
Connect the systems you already use and see your real numbers. Limited founding availability.
Apply as a founding cafeOr email hello@truek.com.au and tell us about your cafe.