For bakeries, patisseries and cake shops
In a bakery the day starts at four in the morning and is judged at six in the evening: leftover bread is money in the bin, and bread that sold out mid-morning is a sale that walked away.
Bakery
Today's list
01 / 054:00
The production sheet comes out by item and shift from earlier days; the head baker adjusts it.
Spotted by the Shadows
Star items sold out by mid-morning
02 / 058:00
Adren notes the hour each item runs out so you know how much selling slips away.
How much is a tres leches cake for 20?
I'll quote it: size, flavour and date. When is it for?
Saturday at noon
Noted. I'll send the quote and the deposit link
03 / 0511:00
Special orders on WhatsApp are quoted, scheduled and sent out with the deposit link.
Waiting for your approval
Flash offer at 6:30 PM for nearby customers
Conchas and croissants left in the case
04 / 0517:00
Leftovers are counted and a last-hour offer is proposed for nearby customers; you approve it.
Spotted by the Shadows
End-of-day waste
05 / 0520:00
Baked, sold and left over end up in pesos, and tomorrow's production sheet knows more than yesterday's.
Bakery
What was baked and what was sold are rarely written down separately, and the price of a piece stays put even when flour has gone up.
What did not sell by closing is given away or thrown out. The Shadows record pieces baked against sold and discarded per shift, and convert them to pesos using their cost.
The best-selling concha or roll runs out before the second shift. The Shadows mark when each piece sells out so you can see how much sales were lost.
The recipe costs more than when the price was set. The Shadows read your flour, butter and sugar invoices and compare current cost against the cost you use.
A cake for Saturday gets buried in a chat and nobody collects the deposit. The Shadows scan the messages and list orders that were never confirmed.
What Adren does
What we usually build first for a business like yours:
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Counts what is left in the case late in the afternoon, proposes a flash offer for nearby customers and suggests adjusting tomorrow's bake; the manager approves the offer.
Waiting for your approval
Flash offer at 6:30 PM for nearby customers
Conchas and croissants left in the case
Today's list
Proposes the baking sheet per item and per shift from previous days, and the head baker approves each adjustment.
Today's list
Conversation
Quotes cakes and special orders, schedules delivery and sends the deposit link, so the counter stops typing everything by hand.
How much is a tres leches cake for 20?
I'll quote it: size, flavour and date. When is it for?
Saturday at noon
Noted. I'll send the quote and the deposit link
Alert
Recalculates each recipe's cost when an ingredient invoice changes and suggests a price; you decide whether to move it.
Alert
Flour rose on the latest invoice
Bolillo recipe now costs more
Suggested price ready; you decide whether to move it
With your approval
Compares flour and other ingredient suppliers and leaves the order ready for you to approve.
Waiting for your approval
Flour order to supplier B
It's cheaper than the usual one, same type
Ask Adren
Type the question the way you'd ask your manager. Adren answers with what it saw in your operation and what it proposes; the decision is yours.
YouWhat bread was left over most this week and how much should I bake tomorrow?
I looked at what was left in the case by item and left an adjusted baking sheet for the head baker to approve.
How it works
The Shadows read your sales, bake notes and invoices in read-only mode, the Company Brief quantifies waste by item, agents propose production and offers, and the head baker approves before anything is baked.
Read your operation, read-only. They change nothing.
The map of your business and where the money goes.
Act with your approval. You decide what turns on.
We measure, adjust and look after it every month.
With what you already use
Shadows, read-only
Read the way you keep it today.
You approve every action.
Contactless
Your morning regulars already carry their phone; their card lives there.
NFC passes in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, on iOS and Android. No app to install. We set it up for your business.
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Each purchase adds a stamp, redeemed at the counter.
A coupon for what's left in the case before closing.
Made to measure
Before proposing a bake you need an honest count of leftovers, which is why we start there. A neighborhood bakery with one oven and one counter does not get the same as one with a central plant, delivery routes and wholesale accounts.
Packages
All three are made to measure. They differ by size and complexity, not by a fixed list of features.
1 business
One business · your ERP and systems included
For a single-site bakery we usually switch on the production agent and the last-hour agent, with a simple log of baked and leftover pieces.
Several locations
Several locations or more complex processes
For several sites we add purchasing, live costing and production consolidated across counters.
The whole operation
The complete operating system
For a central plant: delivery routes, wholesale and agents trained on your production.
What we measure
Measured from your own baseline. It is not a promised result.
Pieces baked and pieces left over per shift, even in a notebook or a photo of the sheet. Without a count of leftovers there is no honest way to propose how much to bake, so we begin with four weeks of records.
The head baker and the manager. The agent proposes the production sheet and the last-hour offer; none of it is applied without their approval, and discounts follow a policy you define.
No. We start from what you use: the cash register or POS, the order notebook or the business WhatsApp. What changes is that nobody has to cross those records by hand anymore.
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For bakeries, patisseries and cake shops