Kaplink

Our kitchen · built in public

Our own pizza kitchen, in the open.

Before we ask you to trust AI with your admin, we’re using it on ours. Ollie is opening a small pizza kitchen, with AI helping on the admin behind it: the fit-out, the costings, the orders, the dough plan.

It is our own business, not a client, and we’ll show what worked and what didn’t.

The oven, late service. An illustration, not our garage.

The kitchen ticket

Where it stands.

Only what has happened or is planned, marked as such. Updated 1 October 2026.

Kitchen
We’re building a small pizza kitchen in a garage in Petersfield. Being built
Build
The build started on 28 September 2026. Done
Layout
We planned the layout with AI and a floor-plan tool before the builder started. Done
Council
We checked the plan with the council’s food-safety officers before building. Their official visit comes once we open.
First night
Our first pizza night is planned for November 2026. Planned
App
Pizza night will run on our own kitchen app, for recipes, costing and stock. It is still being built. Being built
Series
We’re filming it for a weekly series on YouTube. Coming
Name
We haven’t chosen the trading name yet, so for now it’s simply our pizza kitchen.

The route · an example night

Every station hides an admin job.

One pizza night, station by station, as an example. Pick a station: the dot walks there and shows the admin hiding at it, what a machine could draft, check or flag, and what stays with a person.

Orders, gathered in one place

A machine drafts
One order list from the messages, with the time each one wants.
It checks
Every order has a name, a time and a pizza we actually make.
It flags
A time that is already full, or the same order sent twice.
Stays with a person
Saying yes or no, and the regular who wants something off the menu.

Dough, sized to the orders

A machine drafts
The dough for the night, from the orders and the recipe.
It checks
The sums come to the balls we need, with a few spare.
It flags
Orders that have jumped since the dough was mixed.
Stays with a person
The feel of the dough, and the call on the day.

Do the dough sums yourself

The prove, on a timetable

A machine drafts
When to mix, when the dough comes out of the fridge, when the oven lights.
It checks
The timetable fits the hours before the first pizza.
It flags
A step that is running late.
Stays with a person
Judging when the dough is ready.

The oven is all person

A machine drafts
Nothing. A machine has no business at the oven.
Stays with a person
The fire, the timing and the turn of the peel.

Boxed, and checked against the order

A machine drafts
The allergen sheet that goes in the bag.
It checks
Each box matches its order.
It flags
An order with an allergy note on it.
Stays with a person
The last look before the lid goes on.

Out of the door

A machine drafts
The order the pizzas leave in.
It checks
Every order has gone out.
It flags
One still waiting.
Stays with a person
The hello at the door.

Try it · the dough planner

Dough for the night.

Put in your own recipe and the pizzas you expect. It does the sums and the timings. Nothing you type leaves this page.

Dough balls under a cloth, proving

Sample numbers

The planner needs JavaScript. The sums are simple baker’s percentages: flour is the total dough divided by one plus the water, salt and yeast percentages.

The logbook

Dated, done or planned.

When a date moves, the logbook says so.

  1. 28 September 2026Done

    The build started on 28 September 2026.

  2. November 2026Planned

    Our first pizza night is planned for November 2026.

The series

Filmed as it happens.

The first episodes are being filmed. They appear here once they are public on the Kaplink YouTube channel.

Compare notes

The same method, for your place.

Your café, kitchen or bar has its own route, and the same admin hides at its stations. Count your week on the pass, or bring one job to a free conversation.

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