What is BatchDash?

BatchDash is a recipe and production engine: one pipeline from recipe development to costed stock, for food and cosmetic makers. You keep your ingredients and what they really cost in one place, write your recipes as formulas, and plan production batches from them. It answers the question a spreadsheet keeps approximating: what does this batch cost, and can I make it with what’s on the shelf?

It fits a hot-sauce maker filling 250 ml jars, a brewer, a restaurant kitchen, a skincare lab formulating with INCI names. If you buy in kilos, make in batches and sell in units, it works, from a one-person workshop to a production kitchen.

How the pieces fit

Four building blocks, each feeding the next.

Ingredients. Every raw ingredient has a record: unit, stock level, deliveries and losses, and an average cost computed from what you actually paid. That number is the weighted average cost, and it grounds everything downstream.

Formulas. Recipes written as percentage lines, with phases, steps and checkpoints. The cost panel prices every line from your ingredient costs and shows the batch cost per liter, per 100 g, or per portion.

Runs. A run turns a formula into a real batch. It freezes the recipe, explodes it to raw ingredients, flags anything you’re short, and once completed books the output into stock with a lot code.

Products. Sellable formats (a 250 ml jar, a 1 L pouch) with their packaging counted per unit, so the margin on a jar includes the jar, the lid and the label.

Around that core sit vendors and purchase orders that receive straight into stock, packaging and equipment records, CSV imports for your existing data, and teammates with roles.

A thread you can follow

Say a chili farm delivers 20 kg of habaneros against a purchase order. Receiving the order books the stock and updates the ingredient’s average cost, delivery fee included. Your fermented mash formula uses those habaneros; your sauce formula uses the mash. Plan a 20 L run and BatchDash tells you what the batch needs, what it will cost, and whether the salt will run out first.

Where to start

• Create your organization takes about two minutes.
• Set up your inventory so your first recipe carries real costs.
• Then build your first formula and close the loop with your first run.