The Brikly Connector for Claude
Ask your café anything.
It already knows the answer.
Margins. Costs. What-ifs. Whatever you'd ask if you had a full-time analyst on staff - answered in seconds, from the chat box on your phone.
Three months free. No card. Cancel anytime.
Stop asking AI for tips.
Start asking it about your café.
Generic AI
"What happens to my margin if milk goes up 10%?"
"Consider analysing your top-selling milk-based drinks, monitoring your food cost percentages, and reviewing your menu mix. You may want to think about adjusting prices or switching suppliers depending on your cost structure..."
Brikly Connector
"What happens to my margin if milk goes up 10%?"
"Five recipes affected. Latte takes the biggest hit at -1.7pp. Cappuccino and flat white both down 1.5pp. Annualised impact at your current sales mix: £2,840 lost margin. Want to push back on the supplier or raise the latte by 10p?"
Every operator who's tried ChatGPT for business advice has bounced off the same wall - the answers are generic because the AI doesn't know anything about your menu, your suppliers, your prices. The Brikly Connector closes that gap. Claude is now reading your actual numbers, not guessing at the industry average.
Run the numbers
What if milk goes up 10%?
What used to be an afternoon in a spreadsheet is now thirty seconds.
Every operator has wanted to ask this question. Almost none of them have ever sat down and actually done the maths - cross-referencing every recipe, weighting by sales mix, recalculating each margin, adding it all up. The Connector does the lookup, the multiplication, and the annualised total against your real numbers - and gives you the answer in the time it takes to type the question.
Menu development
Brainstorm new menu items.
Get fully-costed drafts back.
The Connector doesn't invent recipes out of thin air the way ChatGPT does. It reads your existing recipes, the ingredients you already buy, the suppliers you already use, the portion sizes you already serve - and proposes something that fits your kitchen, not a generic one.
When you're happy with the direction, ask Claude to save the recipe. It lands as a draft in your CostingBrik inbox, already costed against your live ingredient prices, with the suggested sell price and gross margin worked out. You tweak, you approve. The four hours of recipe writing, costing, and pricing maths it usually takes are gone.
Plain English questions
Your data, in plain English.
No exports. No spreadsheets. No "wait while I refresh the dashboard". Type a question, get an answer - pulled live from your CostingBrik.
“Which cakes use double cream?”
Six recipes: Victoria sponge, scones, lemon drizzle, carrot cake, brownies, cream tea.
“What's my margin on the flat white?”
68.1% gross profit at £3.20 sell price. Cost: £1.02.
“What's my worst-performing menu item this month?”
Halloumi wrap. 41% GP, 3 sold this week. Down from 12/week in February.
“Show me every recipe with butter, sorted by gross profit.”
Top: lemon drizzle (74% GP). Bottom: cream tea (64%). Eleven recipes use butter.
“How much did I spend on milk last month?”
£412.80 across 8 deliveries from Booker. Up 7% on March; 11% on January.
“Which supplier has raised prices in the last 30 days?”
Booker (cream +12%, butter +4%). Wessex Mill held. Yates dropped eggs by 3%.
Margin alerts
Catch margin leaks before they cost you.
Supplier prices used to surface at month-end, buried in a reconciliation report nobody had time to read. Now they surface as a question - the moment a new invoice lands.
Open the chat in the morning and Claude leads with what changed and what it costs you: which supplier moved, which recipes are affected, what the annualised hit looks like. Then it asks you what you want to do - push back, switch, raise the menu price, or accept it. Every option is one sentence. None of them require a spreadsheet.
Why it works
Why it actually answers.
Live data, never stale
Every answer is pulled live from your CostingBrik. No exports, no nightly refresh, no "last updated three weeks ago". The number you see is the number on your invoice this morning.
No new app to learn
Runs inside Claude - the chat app a growing chunk of operators are already using on their phone for everything else. If you can text, you can use it.
You stay in control
Every write action - new recipe, price change, supplier swap - lands as a draft you approve in the Brikly app. Nothing changes in your live data without your sign-off.
Built on a real café
Built by an operator.
Tested in a real café.
“I've personally found the recipe-brainstorm flow the most useful thing the Connector does.”
The Connector has been running on Hunters Cake Company's live ingredients, suppliers, recipes and POS feed for months. 17 years of operating across cafés in Witney, Burford, and the Carterton bakery have gone into shaping it. Every rough edge it had was found and filed down by an operator who needed to use it on a Tuesday morning between deliveries - not by a software team who'd never wiped down a milk fridge. That, more than anything, is why it works.
Launch pricing
Free with any paid Brik.
Already on CostingBrik? Follow the setup guide to connect Claude (or ChatGPT) in a couple of minutes. New to Brikly? Three months of CostingBrik free, then £39 a month - and the Connector comes with it.
Get started
Start with CostingBrik. Three months free.
We set you up ourselves so your menu is right from day one. Drop your details and we’ll be in touch within a couple of days.
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