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The Cloud Bakery® — Founding Bakery Pilot Programme

We Are Selecting 5 UK Bakeries For a 6-Month Founding Pilot.

Six months of access to the pilot feature set. No cost. One ask: work with us to make it right.

The Cloud Bakery® handles HACCP, costing, allergen labels, and traceability — in one place, designed for how bakeries actually work. We are selecting 5 founding bakeries.

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5 places only. UK bakeries only. No payment required.

The Problem

Running a bakery is already hard enough.

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Your HACCP records are paper-based, incomplete, and you know it. An EHO visit on the wrong morning is a problem.

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You price products by feel or by competitor comparison. You do not know for certain which lines actually make money.

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Your allergen labels were accurate when you wrote them. But that was before you changed suppliers last month.

We built the system that solves all three. Now we need five bakeries to put it through its paces.

The Offer

What Founding Bakeries Get

What you get

  • Full access to the pilot feature set — recipe costing, HACCP, allergen labels, ingredient traceability, invoicing, dispatch
  • 1:1 onboarding call with Mikey Koszo, head baker and founder — not a customer success executive
  • Monthly check-in sessions — your feedback directly shapes what gets built
  • Direct contact with the founding team throughout the pilot
  • Founding Member pricing locked in for life after the pilot ends

What we ask

  • Active use for 6 months — completing the agreed workflows in your bakery
  • Monthly check-in calls (pre-scheduled, 45 minutes)
  • A short written review at month 3 and month 6
  • A case study conversation at the end — if the platform has delivered real value

Most bakeries spend less than 10 minutes per day once set up.


This is not a free trial. It is a partnership with mutual obligations. We select bakeries carefully, and we expect active participation in return. If that is not the right fit right now, no hard feelings.

The Founder

Built by someone who has been where you are.

My name is Mikey Koszo. I spent more than 20 years as a head baker in UK production kitchens — early mornings, EHO visits, allergen panics, the constant guesswork of recipe costing.

I built this platform because I needed it and it did not exist. Every screen was designed around the way bakeries actually work — not the way a developer imagined they work.

The Founding Bakery Programme exists because I want the first cohort to be the people who help make it right. Not just the first people who clicked a link.

Mikey Koszo — Head Baker, Founder, The Cloud Bakery®

Built from real production kitchens. Now opening to its first 5 external bakeries.

This is either exactly what you have been looking for — or it is not.

If your bakery is dealing with any of the problems above, it is worth a conversation.

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The Process

What happens after you apply

1

Submit your application

Takes around 5 minutes. Tells us about your bakery and your biggest operational pain. No preparation needed.

2

We review it personally

Every application is read by Mikey. You hear back within 5 working days.

3

A 20-minute discovery call

Not a pitch. We want to understand your bakery and make sure this is genuinely useful for you.

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Selection decision

We notify every applicant — selected or not. No ambiguity.

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Your onboarding call

60–90 minutes, 1:1. We walk through your bakery's specific setup and configure the platform around how you work.

The Platform

What the platform does

Recipe Costing

True cost-per-unit based on actual yield and wastage — not purchase weight. Ingredients, labour, packaging, overhead, and target margin in one calculation.

HACCP & Food Safety

Daily checks logged digitally. Temperature records timestamped and stored, so your records are in one place when an inspector asks — not spread across a binder.

Allergen Labels

Generates PPDS labels directly from your recipe and ingredient data, and flags when an ingredient change affects allergen status. Label accuracy depends on the allergen data you enter.

Ingredient Traceability

Lot-level tracking from supplier delivery through production to customer — the records EC 178/2002 asks a food business to keep. Trace a batch from a lot number without going through paper.

Invoicing

Invoices with mixed-rate food VAT handling and an export formatted for MTD submission. Built for the complexity of selling food in the UK.

Customer & Dispatch

Wholesale order management, delivery route planning, and proof of delivery — in the same system as everything else.

FAQ

Questions we get asked

Apply

Apply for a Founding Place

Takes around 5 minutes. No preparation needed.

We read every application personally. If you are shortlisted, you will hear from us within 5 working days. If you are not selected for this cohort, we will tell you that too — clearly and promptly.

We read every application personally. You will hear from us within 5 working days.

The Cloud Bakery

Not the right time? No problem. We will be here when it is.

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