Your Custom Digital Sous Chef
Hosted on Your Own Domain

Give your food blog, chef profile, or family archive a premium home. Clean neumorphic layout, real-time AI recipe importer, automatic nutrition calculations, and PWA capabilities.

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Everything You Need for a Premium Site

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AI OCR Scanning

Scan handwritten family cards, printed recipes, or PDFs directly. Our built-in Gemini AI digitizes and extracts them cleanly in seconds.

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Nutrition Analyzer

Instantly estimate total calories and detailed macros for any custom recipe based on ingredients. No manual input required.

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Meal Planner & List

Organize your weekly meal schedule and generate aggregate shopping lists automatically to share via WhatsApp or Email.

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Create Own Categories

Customize and organize your library with personalized tags, preventing clutter and keeping matching culinary sets together.

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Recent Recipes

Quickly pull up your last-cooked recipes and active preparations directly from your dashboard for seamless kitchen access.

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Edit Recipes

Keep your library perfect. Full control to update ingredients, instructions, cooking times, and add custom chef notes.

What Our Chefs Say

"Digital Sous Chef transformed my scattered family recipe notes into a beautiful, searchable website. The AI handwriting OCR scanner is magical!"

Chef Sarah Naidoo

Home Baker & Food Blogger

"Having my own recipe box hosted on my domain is a game changer. My cooking class students love accessing the meal plans and sharing shopping lists!"

Chef Johan Botha

Culinary Instructor

Deploy Your Digital Sous Chef

Custom Site Deployment

Complete domain registration, setup, and hosting package.

R315.00 / upfront
  • Custom .co.za domain registration
  • First month's premium hosting included
  • Isolated cloud container deployment
  • cloned Google Sheets backend integration
  • R750.00 setup balance payable on final delivery
  • R90.00 / month hosting contribution starting month 2
    (Subject to annual inflation adjustments)
  • Up to 100 recipes capacity
    (To manage AI model & token expenses)

Initiate Your Deployment

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Frequently Asked Questions

Digital Sous Chef is a custom-branded, AI-powered recipe box web application deployed on your own .co.za domain. It acts as your private culinary portal where you can import, store, and manage your recipe collection.
Your recipe database is linked to a private, cloned Google Sheet web app. Any changes made in the app sync in real-time, giving you total data ownership and portable cloud backups.
The R315-00 fee covers your custom .co.za domain registration and your first month of premium containerized cloud hosting.
Once your custom site is provisioned, it starts in Restricted Trial Mode. Settle the R750-00 setup balance via Payfast to remove the 5-recipe limit and unlock high-cost AI OCR scanning features.
Powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash, the app lets you upload images of handwritten recipe cards or PDF documents. The AI transcribes the text, extracts the ingredients/instructions, and estimates nutrition.
Starting from Month 2, a hosting contribution of R90-00 per month is required to keep your isolated cloud container online.
Yes, we can point your custom deployment to a subdomain or domain you already own. Contact support to coordinate setup.
You have full control to define custom categories. The system automatically categorizes your recipes based on these tags, keeping your recipe collection clean and organized.

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