Other baking software tackles bits and pieces—formula percentages here, scaling there, maybe scheduling if you're lucky. BenchProof connects it all: formulas that handle multi-stage recipes, scaling that actually works, and production schedules that plan backwards from when you need bread ready.
Recovering CPA, sourdough enthusiast, spreadsheet refugee
Matt spent 15 years as a CPA making other people's numbers add up before he realized his real passion was making dough numbers add up. After too many late nights fighting with Excel formulas for bread calculations, he decided to build the tool he wished existed.
When he's not coding BenchProof, Matt's either on the ski slopes, out on the mountain bike trails, or in the kitchen testing formulas—usually with his dogs underfoot and his wife wondering why he's timing preferments instead of dinner.
"Scaling bread shouldn't be more annoying than building financial models for billion dollar companies."
As a recovering CPA, he understood numbers—but even he was frustrated by baking software that couldn't handle multi-stage formulas or reverse timeline calculations.
When BreadStorm disappeared in 2019, it left thousands of bakers without a reliable baker's percentage tool. That felt wrong.
So we built BenchProof: professional-grade formula management with production scheduling, reverse timeline planning, and calculations that actually work for multi-stage recipes.
Tell us when you need bread ready, and we calculate every step backwards—when to start your levain, when to mix, when to shape, when to bake. Adjust any step and the whole timeline flows.
Preferments, levains, poolish—automatic flour and water accounting across every stage. No manual adjustments, no broken calculations.
By loaf count, by dough weight, by available flour, by starter amount. BenchProof handles them all correctly.
Good baking software thinks the way bakers think. It handles preferments naturally, scales recipes intuitively, and generates schedules that actually help you bake better bread.
This is the tool we use in our own kitchens, and we're building it to last. No venture capital pressure, no enterprise pivot plans. Just reliable software for people who care about their craft.
Whether you're scaling your first sourdough or managing production for a small bakery, BenchProof should feel approachable. The math works the same whether you're new to percentages or you dream in hydration ratios.
BenchProof is built to last. This is our craft, and we're in it for the long haul.
Professional tools at honest prices: $5/month gets you unlimited recipes, production scheduling, and reverse timeline planning. Free tier with 3 recipes, always available. No enterprise pricing games, no sudden price hikes.
We'll email you when there's something actually useful to share. Your production schedule doesn't care about our latest feature update, and we're not going to pretend it does.
Every feature decision starts with one question: Does this help someone make better bread?
We rely on feedback from bakers like you to make sure we're solving the right problems in the right ways.
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