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Meet Tembo.The AI chef that thinks ahead.

We’re building him to plan the whole meal around how you cook — and to stay with you until it’s on the table.

See the whole plan before you start.

“I’d rather give you an honest range than a confident guess.”Tembo

Prototype preview

A recipe is a list.
Dinner is not.

Everything in it has to happen in the right order, and land at the same time.

Tembo moves the knife work before the heat, so nothing waits on you.

The same dish, in the order it actually happens.

Before the heat

  • 2Slice the garlic
  • 5Zest the lemon
  • 4Rinse the spinach

Once the pan is hot

  • 3Melt the butter
  • 1Boil the gnocchi
  • 6Finish with lemon and parmesan

Then he cooks it with you.

This is what we’re building Tembo to do once the plan is made.

  1. While it cooks

    One thing now. The rest is held.

    What’s resting and what’s coming stays with Tembo, not in your head.

    Now

    Crisp the gnocchi

    4 min

    Next

    Wilt the spinach

    when the pan clears

    Holding

    Garlic butter, off the heat

    ready

  2. When it changes

    Ask without stopping.

    Answered about this meal, with the rest of the plan still in place.

    Can I use dried thyme?

    Yes — about a third of the fresh amount, and add it with the butter so it has time to soften.

    The garlic is browning too fast.

    Lift the pan off the heat for thirty seconds, then turn it down a notch. The gnocchi can wait — it is still boiling.

    I’m ten minutes behind.

    Then hold the spinach until the gnocchi is nearly done. Everything still lands together, ten minutes later than planned.

    Illustration

When it’s ready

Everything lands together.

The last thing finishes while the first is still warm.

A results screen from the Platempo prototype: a finished cook at 31 minutes, inside the 20 to 35 minute range, above a question about what affected the timing.

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