Sourdough, pizza, everything between

Good Dough, Good Day.

Bake by the numbers, not by luck. A baker's platform for those somewhere between amateur and world-class.

Founder featured twice in the Philadelphia Inquirer 139 flours 50 dough types Baker's percentages, ungated

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.

What it does

Four tools that do the remembering for you.

Formula Lab

All the math, worked out to the gram, so your hands stay on the dough.

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.

See a real Formula Lab dough The founder's New Yorkipolitan — drag the hydration and watch every weight, percentage, and cost move.
superior doughFormula Lab
DoughNew Yorkipolitan Pizza
LeaveningSourdough
PrefermentLevain
Products1 × 350g
Baker's %70% hydration
Development9 phases
Recipe Formula
New Yorkipolitan Pizza
Total24h 55m
Active1h 35m
Passive23h 20m
Levain 4hAutolyse 20mMix 15mBulk 1hShape 15mCold Proof 18hFinal Proof 1hBake 5m
Final doughWt%Cost
Tipo 00 Flour94g50%$0.19
Bread Flour47g25%$0.05
Caputo Nuvola Super23g12.5%$0.03
All-Purpose Flour23g12.5%$0.02
Water126g70%$0.00
Salt5g2.5%$0.01
Olive Oil3g1.5%$0.08
Levain40g20%$0.20
Total361g$0.58

Four flours in one crust — the founder's New Yorkipolitan, the same dough behind every pie and loaf on this page.

The Superior Dough workflow, showing the dough-development phases
The workflow

It watches the clock so you can watch the dough.

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.

  • Real-temperature timing, not a generic recipe clock
  • Fold and proof timers that follow you to the home screen
  • Always knows which step you're on
Starter

A starter is a living thing, and it does its best work on a routine.

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.

  • Feeding reminders tuned to your flour and temperature
  • A health gauge that reads rise, not vibes
  • Lineage and sharing, so a starter can travel
A clay jar of bubbling sourdough starter on a morning counter
The Superior Dough bake log, with photos and crumb ratings
The bake log

Every bake you've ever made, remembered.

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.

  • The formula is attached to the photo, forever
  • Crumb and rise notes you can actually compare
  • Your record gets more useful — and more incriminating — every bake
Baker Chat

A baker to text when the dough looks strange and you can't say why.

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.

A real Baker Chat conversation reviewing a fresh pizza

Available on Artisan. Never a chatbot in a trench coat — a baker that reads your actual bake.

The Bench

Everyone here has something proofing, and every formula is yours to borrow.

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.

@pizzaptahAdvanced · Philadelphia
A mushroom and scallion white pizza with a leoparded crust
Mushroom Pizza★★★★★
New Yorkipolitan Pizza

Mushroom, scallion, white pie. The one-hit wonder handles everything.

Full formula
70%Hydra
600°FBake
19hProof
S.D.Leaven
Total24h 55m
Active1h 35m
Passive23h 20m

The New Yorkipolitan, running as a white pie. Import it, change the toppings, keep the crust.

@pizzaptahAdvanced · Philadelphia
A New York cheese pizza with a spiral of sauce and leoparded crust
Cheese Pizza★★★★★
New Yorkipolitan Pizza

Honest char, even color. The hit single, one more time.

Full formula
70%Hydra
600°FBake
19hProof
S.D.Leaven
Total24h 55m
Active1h 35m
Passive23h 20m

The formula as intended — a New York cheese slice, leopard and all. This is the original recording.

@pizzaptahAdvanced · Philadelphia
A crusty scored country sourdough loaf
Country Loaf★★★★★
New Yorkipolitan Pizza

A very legit loaf. Same formula as the pizzas, somehow.

Full formula
70%Hydra
475°FBake
19hProof
S.D.Leaven
Total24h 55m
Active1h 35m
Passive23h 20m

A pizza formula, shaped and baked as a boule. It shouldn't work this well. The versatility is the point.

The founder in a bakery kitchen, smiling, one hand in the flour on the bench
Who made this

One person in Philadelphia, who also has to clean the kitchen afterward.

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.

Pricing

The free plan is the whole tool.

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.

Baker
Free
Forever, not for now

Everything you need to bake by the numbers.

  • Formula Lab — all 50 dough types, 139 flours
  • The workflow engine and phase timers
  • Starter tracking
  • A real bake log
Start baking free
Most bakers
Artisan
$9.99/mo
or $79.99/yr — two months free

For when you're in it, and you know you're in it.

  • Everything in Baker
  • Baker Chat — reads your actual bake
  • Unlimited sharing and formula imports
  • The DDT calculator
  • Deep bake-log analytics
Go Artisan
Master Baker
$19.99/mo
Launching later this year

For production kitchens and small teams.

  • Everything in Artisan
  • Production session management
  • Ingredient cost analysis
  • Team operations
  • Verified-baker badging
Join the list

The first five hundred bakers lock in founding rates for life. After that, the price is the price.

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.

Before you ask

The honest answers.

Is it actually free?

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.

Do I need special equipment?

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.

Can I cancel? What happens to my bakes?

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.

Is it only for sourdough?

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.

Who's behind it?

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.

Your first formula is thirty seconds away.

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