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Agent · 05 · sop author

Turn one chef
into a chain.

Your head chef has the skill — but only their kitchen knows it. The agent interviews them once, captures every weight, time, and temperature, and turns it into a chain-grade SOP every store can follow. Day one, a new line cook at any location cooks the same dish. 3 days of writing → 1 hour of talking.

Trigger
One conversation
Working
Listens · structures · writes
Output
Markdown · PDF · versioned
Approval
Human review · 1 click
Section · 01 · before / after

Three days of typing.
One hour of talking.

Most operator SOPs live in a head chef's head, in a Google Doc nobody updates, or both. SOP Author replaces the typing part — the chef just talks.

SOP interview · chicken velvet · v3 draft
When you blanch chicken thigh — what's your starting water temp?
Cold water, bring it to 180°F. Never boil. Drop the chicken in once it hits 180.
Got it. How long do you leave it?
Eight minutes. Pull it, ice bath two minutes, then drain.
Last one — what does "done" look like? What should the cook check?
Internal temp 160. Cross-section all white, no pink. Texture should give but not be rubbery.
Got it. Equipment — what do you use? 12-quart pot? Probe?
12-qt stockpot, digital probe, 6-qt ice bath one-to-one ice and water, 4-oz scale for portioning.
Hold time once it's portioned?
Four hours max in the cooler at 38. After that we toss it.
Drafting SOP-PREP-014 v3 · linking to rice base + assembly…
CHICKEN_VELVET · PREP · v3 SOP-PREP-014 · auto-drafted

Chicken Velvet — Prep

Effective 2026-04-12
Station BOH · Prep Cook · Approved by H. Chen
Yield
5 lb / 20 portions
Active time
14 min
Allergens
— none
Hold
≤ 4 hr · 38°F
§ 1 · Equipment
12-qt stockpot · digital probe thermometer · 6-qt ice bath (1:1 ice : water) · 4-oz portion scale
§ 2 · Procedure
  1. 2.1 Fill stockpot with cold water · 4 qt per 5 lb ~30 s
  2. 2.2 Heat to 180 °F · CCP do not boil 3–4 min
  3. 2.3 Drop chicken thigh · cook 8 min 8 min
  4. 2.4 Transfer to ice bath · rest 2 min 2 min
  5. 2.5 Drain · portion at 4 oz · label with prep time ~1 min
§ 3 · Quality check · pass/fail
Internal temp ≥ 160 °F at thickest point probe required
Cross-section: white / opaque · no pink center visual
Texture: resilient, not rubbery · gives under finger tactile
↳ links · SOP-PREP-009 (rice base) · SOP-LINE-021 (assembly) v3 · diff vs v2 · +CCP, +hold
Section · 02 · why it matters

SOPs that
survive turnover.

The recipe doesn't live in someone's head. It lives in a versioned, searchable document — generated as a side-effect of the chef doing what they already do.

Get the recipe
out of someone's head.