Bake by the numbers, not by luck. A baker's platform for those somewhere between amateur and world-class.
Making something great once is luck… making it again is the whole point.
You got it right, and then, for the life of you, you couldn't do it again. The measurements were a guess, the timing was a feeling, and the one note you kept went through the wash on the back of a receipt. Superior Dough quietly keeps track of what actually worked — so your best day in the kitchen slowly becomes your normal one.
Real baker's math for 50 kinds of dough and 139 flours, worked out for you. Change one number — more water, a bigger batch — and the whole recipe rebalances itself, down to the fiddly parts most calculators quietly get wrong. Scale one loaf up to fifty without ever opening a calculator.
| Final dough | Wt | % | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tipo 00 Flour | 94g | 50% | $0.19 |
| Bread Flour | 47g | 25% | $0.05 |
| Caputo Nuvola Super | 23g | 12.5% | $0.03 |
| All-Purpose Flour | 23g | 12.5% | $0.02 |
| Water | 126g | 70% | $0.00 |
| Salt | 5g | 2.5% | $0.01 |
| Olive Oil | 3g | 1.5% | $0.08 |
| Levain | 40g | 20% | $0.20 |
| Total | 361g | $0.58 |
Four flours in one crust — the founder's New Yorkipolitan, the same dough behind every pie and loaf on this page.

Ten phases from preferment to bake, adjusted to your kitchen's actual temperature. Live timers for every fold and proof, so you can leave the room without leaving the schedule.
Track feedings, watch its health, and keep its lineage — the whole family tree, back to the jar it came from. Miss a feeding and it will say something before it sulks.


Photos, crumb ratings, and the exact formula that made them — the recipe travels with the picture. Scroll back six months and see precisely what you did the day it finally opened up.
Send a photo of your dough mid-bulk and ask what you're looking at. The answer already knows your kitchen temperature, your starter, and the exact formula you're running — because all of it is right here in the app.

Available on Artisan. Never a chatbot in a trench coat — a baker that reads your actual bake.
A feed of real bakers and real bakes, every formula there to open, import, and run in your own kitchen. All three of these are the founder's: one formula, three different ways, and he'll happily admit it's a one-hit wonder.

Mushroom, scallion, white pie. The one-hit wonder handles everything.
Full formulaThe New Yorkipolitan, running as a white pie. Import it, change the toppings, keep the crust.

Honest char, even color. The hit single, one more time.
Full formulaThe formula as intended — a New York cheese slice, leopard and all. This is the original recording.

A very legit loaf. Same formula as the pizzas, somehow.
Full formulaA pizza formula, shaped and baked as a boule. It shouldn't work this well. The versatility is the point.

For a few years I worked for a restaurant tech company, which mostly meant I got to stand around in other people's kitchens — cruise ships, stadiums, a James Beard spot with one cook who'd been at it for thirty years. I picked up baking somewhere in there. Badly, at first. I kept a stack of guest checks in my apron and wrote down whatever I noticed: hydration on one, fermentation on another, a whole lot of question marks.
What finally turned it around was the math. Not the textbook version of baker's percentages — I could recite that in my sleep. I mean the day it actually made sense to me. After that I could repeat a good loaf instead of just mourning it, and baking stopped feeling like something that happened to me.
So I built the app I wish I'd had back then, and now I run all of it. It's still in beta. It's mostly just me. I read every email that comes in, so if something breaks, tell me and I'll fix it.
— Ptah, FounderSelf-taught at most of it.
No trial, no countdown. The calculator, the workflow, the log, your starter — all free, for as long as you want. Artisan is there when you want Baker Chat and the deeper stuff.
Everything you need to bake by the numbers.
For when you're in it, and you know you're in it.
For production kitchens and small teams.
Founding Artisan bakers pay $5.99/mo or $47.99/yr, locked for life. It exists because asking for a favor outright felt weird — and because the people who show up early should never pay more than the people who show up late.
Cancel anytime, in two taps. Your formulas and bakes stay yours — and you can export them.
Baker is free and stays free — the calculator, the workflow, starter tracking, and the bake log, with no trial clock counting down. Artisan is the upgrade for when you want Baker Chat and the deeper tools.
Honestly, a kitchen scale — precision starts there. You don't even need a starter to begin; plenty of the app is pizza, focaccia, and same-day yeasted dough. The app reads your room temperature and handles the timing.
Cancel anytime, in two taps. Your formulas and bake history stay in your account whether you pay or not, and you can export them whenever you like.
No — and sourdough isn't really a dough type here. It's a leavening choice. Almost any of the fifty doughs — Neapolitan and New York pizza, focaccia, bagels, brioche, ciabatta — can be raised on your starter or on yeast, and the formula rebalances either way. Sourdough is just the one people lose their minds over first.
One baker in Philadelphia, in public beta. Things break; write hello@superiordough.com and they get fixed, usually by the same person who reads it.