Ration

Ration is a kitchen lifecycle platform built on the premise that pantry tracking only works if the data entry cost is low enough to maintain. AI receipt scanning, photo recognition, recipe URL imports, and conversational input via MCP push the ingestion burden away from the user. The result is an inventory that stays current without constant discipline.

From there, the platform runs a closed loop. Inventory lives in Cargo, while recipes live in the Galley. The weekly meal plan, known as the Manifest, ties them together. The shopping list, or Supply, is generated from the difference between what the plan requires and what the pantry already has. When a meal is marked as cooked, ingredients are deducted automatically so that the next week starts from an accurate baseline.

The matching engine underneath is semantic rather than string-based because every ingredient gets a vector embedding. "Basmati rice" in the pantry covers "rice" in a recipe, and "tinned toms" resolves to "canned tomatoes." This powers deduplication, recipe matching, supply generation, and cook deductions without requiring exact naming conventions from the user.

AI features run on a credit system. Receipt scanning and meal generation cost 2 credits each, while weekly plan generation costs 3 and recipe URL imports cost 1. Credits are purchasable anytime, and the annual subscription includes a yearly allocation. The AI handles the tedious decisions, such as what to cook tonight or what to buy at the store, so the user can focus on cooking rather than planning.

The entire platform is accessible via a 16-tool MCP server. Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible assistant can search the pantry, check which meals are cookable, add items to the shopping list, mark meals as consumed, and plan the week. A REST API covers the same surface area for scripts and automations.

Households share a single workspace where one "Crew Member" subscription unlocks unlimited capacity for the whole group. Family members or roommates join via an invite link and get full access to shared inventory, recipes, and meal plans. Credits also pool at the group level.

Ration runs entirely on Cloudflare's edge network using Workers, D1, Vectorize, R2, and Queues. Most interactions resolve in under 100ms regardless of location. It is available as a web app at ration.mayutic.com, via the REST API, or through MCP.