Tesco SmartRecipes

Recipes are stupid, it' time they became smart.

Tesco is all about "every little helps" but why should that experience stop in store? I wanted to bring this philosophy into peoples homes by creating a cooking helper that would be truly helpful.

A dynamic experience that responds and modifies itself according to your situation. A cooking helper with the convenience of a printed recipe, the added help of rich media tutorials and all presented in a conversational interface using artificial intelligence. All with TESCO’s unmistakable helpfulness at heart.

What if a recipe 'serves 4' but you're cooking for 7? Tesco SmartRecipes changes the ingredient quantity and also adjusts all the cooking times associated with it.
Is your oven old and slightly under performing? The AI will learn this and automatically adjusts cooking times accordingly.
Contextual voice control: When a recipe requires both hands (or means your hands are dirty) control the recipe using your voice only.

We developed a prototype (which you can see below) as a bot for Messenger to make it accessible for as many people as possible but longer term it would evolve outside of Messenger and the plan was for it to be developed into Google assistant.