Beta opens October 12

At a busy restaurant, the clock moves fast.

One system for the whole restaurant, with AI built in. Every morning at 7 it tells you how last night went.

An animation of the AI-R Today screen on an iPad at Lantern & Lotus, a sample restaurant, from 6 AM Saturday to 5 AM Sunday: the phone host answering overnight calls, the morning brief, the drawer counted at open, lunch and dinner service, the nightly close approved, tips settled, and Sunday's morning brief at 7.

A sample Saturday at a sample restaurant, on the iPad, and the brief that follows it.

Baked in beats bolted on.

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Inside the four walls

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Each range runs from the vendor's lowest published plan to its top standard plan, from their own pricing pages, checked August 24 to October 5, 2026. Hover a range for its terms. A $0 plan usually costs more per card swipe. What you type stays on this page. Compare AI-R with Toast and Square · Price your whole stack

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Take cards your way.

Bring the processor you have, or use ours. Every payment, fee and tip lands in the same close and the same books.

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Square TerminalSquare HandheldPhoto: Square

Square

Getting paid fast, with loans and payroll in the same account.

Rates
2.6% + 15¢ in person, 3.3% + 30¢ online, on Square for Restaurants' free plan (lower on its paid plans)
Money
Next business day free; same day 1.95%. Square Loans by invitation. Square Payroll $35/mo + $6 a person.
Hardware
Square Terminal ($299) and Square Handheld ($399). Tap to Pay on iPhone: coming soon.
Setup
Keep your Square account and your hardware.

Square's own published US rates, checked Oct 5, 2026.

Under contract with another processor? Keep it. AI-R connects through the NMI gateway for 10¢ a transaction.

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  1. 1

    Connect

    We connect your Square or Stripe account with you, or you apply for AI-R Pay in the app.

  2. 2

    Pair

    Pair the terminal at the counter and the readers that go to the table.

  3. 3

    Take cards

    Tip on the reader or on paper. Every payment, fee and tip lands in the nightly close and the books.

Your processor's terms apply. On Square and Stripe, AI-R adds no markup.

Questions about switching? Request a demo →

One restaurant, four beats.

Morning, open, service, close: each one gives the owner time back. The payroll report in one click. Food and labor cost as the night happens. Every number tracked against your plan, and a cash forecast for the weeks ahead. The tools other industries take for granted, built for a restaurant's day.

A sample morning brief on the iPad at 7 AM: net sales first, last night at a glance, sales by hour against the usual Saturday, what AI-R did overnight, and three things that need the owner

7 AM

Morning

The brief arrives, on the iPad and in your inbox. One number first, then the reports last night's close proved.

  • Tips and tip-outs to the penny
  • Timesheets, punches against the schedule
  • Voids and comps, by who rang them
  • The drawer, over or short

The brief shown is a sample, at a sample restaurant.

One software suite, three surfaces.

One restaurant and one set of numbers, on whichever screen is in front of you. The iPads and iPhones are the ones you already own.

AI-R's real Menu page on a laptop, in the browser: category filters and the item list, with dish photos, prices and statusSample iPad Today screen at 7 PM: peak hour, phone host and reservations, pickup quoted at 35 minutes, Daily Open done, and the bar printer reconnectedSample iPhone screen: the owner's morning brief, $6,284 on Saturday, and a $24 tip change from the close waiting for approval

The hub

iPad

The Today screen runs the room: orders by seat, kitchen screens, the phone host, pickup times, the time clock, the Daily Open and the Nightly Close.

The back office

Computer

Set up your team, your menu and your settings, and keep the books: bank and card accounts, payroll, costs. In the browser, on a PC or a Mac.

In every pocket

iPhone

Staff take orders at the table and fire them straight to the kitchen. You check last night's close, payroll and costs from wherever you are.

  • Pay at the table. Tip on the reader or on paper, your choice, check by check.
  • No handhelds to buy. AI-R runs on the iPads and iPhones you already own.

The tedious parts

You did the work once. AI-R moves it in.

Your menu is already written, your dish photos are on your phone, your statements are in your inbox. AI-R does the copying across, and you check what it did.

  • Photograph your printed menu, and AI matches each description to its dish. Nothing is saved until you accept.
  • A dish with no description gets an AI draft, marked as a draft until you approve or edit it.
  • Dish photos straight from your phone: scan the dish's code, take the picture, and it lands on that dish.
  • Connect your own Claude or ChatGPT and it can bring in your bank statements too. Anything it changes waits for you.
Sample chat with the owner's own AI, connected to AI-R: it proposed 41 Square Checking lines and 6 dish descriptions, both waiting for the owner's approval

The iPad, iPhone and AI screens are samples, at a sample restaurant. The computer is AI-R’s real Menu page, from our own restaurant.

The books, kept as you go.

A plan, a budget and a cash forecast, kept current while the restaurant runs, and clean records that go straight to your accountant.

  1. 1

    Plan

    Set the sales you expect and what food, labor and everything else should cost. That's your budget, beside the public chains.

  2. 2

    Track

    Every morning the brief puts last night against the budget, and the cash forecast shows payroll, rent and the bills coming due.

  3. 3

    Record

    Connect your bank, or drop in or forward its statements, and every line is coded. Photograph receipts as they arrive; about 30 days in, every dish sold has a plate cost.

  4. 4

    Hand off

    At month end your accountant gets records to work from, with nothing to re-enter in between.

Check your prime cost

A typical month, roughly. Food and drink plus labor, against the big chains.

Dollars, or “60k”. Food and labor can also be a share of sales, like “31%”.

Example numbers. Type yours over them.

61.7%Your prime cost: $37,000 of $60,000 in sales.

Between Chili's (Brinker) at 57.4% and Darden (Olive Garden) at 62.3%.

  • Chipotle54.7%
  • Cheesecake Factory56.7%
  • Chili's (Brinker)57.4%
  • You61.7%
  • Darden (Olive Garden)62.3%
  • Texas Roadhouse68.3%

In AI-R this is your plan's first step, and the brief tracks it every morning. Chains' figures are from their latest 10-K filings, as a share of revenue. Nothing you type leaves this page.

The small screens are illustrations, not a restaurant's numbers.

Chan Nara, Middleburg, Virginia.

Chan Nara is our restaurant. We built AI-R by running it here, on a Thai kitchen and sushi bar with 14 staff, since April.

Chan Nara · since April

Orders
5,440
Orders on its own website
1,404
Phone orders the AI took
334
Nights closed and signed
69
Tips settled to the cent
$23,143
Invoices captured from photos
76
Dishes with a description
232 of 267

Read from Chan Nara's own records · Oct 10, 2026

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AI-R Beta

10 restaurants at a time, from October 12

30 days free.

  • From the day you download AI‑R
  • Then $99 a month for 12 months
  • Month to month
  • Setup help is free, however long it takes
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  1. The AI-R beta sign-up on an iPhone
    1

    Sign up online

    Join the beta, then sign in on the web. Setup walks you through your menu and hardware.

  2. The AI-R iPad app's Today screen
    2

    Download the app

    AI-R on the iPad you already own. Sign in, and you're good to go.

  3. SampleA sample morning brief on a laptop
    3

    Your first morning brief

    The next morning at 7, AI-R tells you how the night went.

Help when you want it

Message us any time from Tech Desk in the app. Rather have a hand? We'll set it up with you, free, however long it takes.

Founding restaurants

The first 25 restaurants get unlimited personal support and a direct line to the founder's office.

Not ready? No email needed.

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