Introduction
What AreaCacao is, how the app is organized, and where everything lives before you start formulating.
AreaCacao is your bean-to-bar chocolate lab: a single place to design chocolate and filling formulas, digitize your paper recipes, manage your ingredient catalog, cost out every production run, and analyze your tastings like a pro.
This section gives you the map: what the app does, how the screen is organized, and how to get to each tool. If it's your first day, read it before you start clicking around—it'll save you some back-and-forth.
What you'll find here
Product tour
What can AreaCacao do for your workshop, and which area solves each need?
The interface
Where is everything? The sidebar, the Create button, the user menu, and notifications, one by one.
The two big areas (plus your account)
AreaCacao is organized around two blocks of work, plus your account:
- Formulation. The heart of the tool: your recipes, the AI-assisted chocolate and filling formulators, recipe import from photo or PDF, the ingredient catalog, and the costing of every production run.
- Sensory analysis. The professional tasting module: evaluations, descriptive tasting, panels, training, protocols, batches, shelf life, and reports. Available on the Pro plan.
- Account and subscription. Your profile, your plan, your AI credits, and your account settings.
How to continue
If you've just logged in for the first time, head to Getting started to create your account, get to know the dashboard, and formulate your first recipe. If you're already in and just want to find your way around, go straight to The interface.