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title: "AI Import: build your smart inventory database | Havenue"
description: "Drop in your existing PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, photos, and screenshots. Havenue's AI import turns them into a smart inventory database with allergens, costs, and review notes attached."
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# Upload the recipes you already have.

Drop in your existing PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, photos, and screenshots. Havenue reads them and builds a clean digital recipe database, with allergens, costs, and review notes attached.

Plans from £399 a month, after 7 days free.

AI import takes the recipes and menus your team has already written, in whatever shape they arrived in, and turns them into a clean digital library your kitchen can rely on. Each ingredient is tagged with the right allergens, each recipe gets a cost, and nothing is retyped.

## The problem this solves

Most venues already have hundreds of recipes written down somewhere: a chef's notebook, an old Word file, a supplier set menu, a printed PDF. Getting them into a working system used to mean weeks of retyping and a steady stream of mistakes. AI import removes that step.

## How it works

1. **Drop in your files** : PDFs, Word documents, Excel and CSV files, photos, and screenshots all upload together.
2. **Havenue reads each file** : Multi-file uploads run in parallel, so a problem with one file never holds up the rest.
3. **Review with confidence** : Every extracted recipe shows where it came from, with a short snippet and a confidence score, so you publish only what looks right.
4. **Publish to your library** : Approved recipes land in the Menu Library with allergens, dietaries, and costs already attached.

## What you get

- **Days of typing in a coffee break** : Three weeks of manual data entry now takes an afternoon, not a quarter.
- **Allergens tagged for you** : Standard 14 allergens applied automatically; overrides are tracked so the kitchen sees the change.
- **Source you can trace** : Every recipe links back to the file, page, and snippet it came from, so reviewing is a glance, not an investigation.
- **Set menus split for review** : When a single file contains several set menus, Havenue detects it and offers a manual review screen before anything goes live.

## Who this is for

- Head Chef
- Sous Chef
- F&B Operations

## What Havenue is

Havenue is the AI-native dietary and catering management software for hospitality: catering companies, hotels, venues, restaurants and private dining.

It automates the back-of-house behind event catering, from the enquiry to the kitchen pass to the invoice. The Dietary & Catering Engine checks every dish against every guest's requirements and finds safe replacement dishes from the operator's own recipes, for chef sign-off. Around it sit an advanced, automated event CRM with a live pipeline, a smart inventory and stock system with every allergen tagged from the ingredients themselves, recipe and menu costing with live cost per head and GP%, ordering and supplier management, invoicing, billing and client payments, generated BEOs and allergen matrices, reporting, and the full platform in a mobile browser. One integrated platform, one event record.