The First PourEdition № 001July 2026
№ 001July 2026
Artysan presents
The First Pour
The opening pour
Inside
- Your first week on Artysan
- Know what a bar really costs
- The shelf that watches itself
- + 3 more
Open edition · free forever
The opening pour
Every zine starts somewhere, and ours starts where every maker starts: an empty workshop, a first recipe, and the honest question of what a thing really costs to make. Edition 001 pours the six opening guides into one sitting - the whole arc from first ingredient to knowing your numbers.
0106Basics 6 min
Your first week on Artysan
The first week, from empty shelves to a tracked batch.
Artysan is a workshop that keeps its own records. You make the way you already make; the platform's job is to know what that took, what it cost, and what needs you next. Everything below is on the Free plan, and none of it asks for a credit card.
The shape of the system
Four records power everything else: ingredients (what you have), recipes (what you make and what one unit truly costs), batches (the make, stage by stage), and orders (who is waiting on it). Connect those and the rest of the platform starts working for you: the dashboard's attention list, the shopping list that fills itself, reorder forecasts, and the production plan.
Enter a thing once, where it happens, and never be asked for it again.
The first-week checklist
The daily rhythm
- 1
Morning: read the attention list
The dashboard's Needs your attention stack is the day's honest queue: batches sitting too long at a stage, overdue orders, low ingredients. Deal with them from there; every card links to the surface that fixes it. - 2
While making: advance stages as they happen
Batch cards carry a one-tap advance to the next stage. Every advance shows an undo, so a mis-tap with soap on your hands is never a problem. - 3
Evening: glance at Coming up
The two-week strip under the pipeline shows what lands when: batches ready, orders due, reorder-by dates. Hover a day to see its entries; click through to the calendar for the full month.
0206Making 7 min
Know what a bar really costs
The number most makers have never seen written down.
A recipe on Artysan is more than a formula. It is the yield you actually get, the cost of every line at your real supplier prices, and the number most makers have never seen written down: what one unit truly costs to make.
Cost per unit, computed live
Each ingredient line multiplies amount by your cost for that material, pulled from inventory. The recipe totals those lines and divides by yield. Change a supplier price once in inventory and every recipe that uses it updates - no spreadsheet to chase.
Cost per unit
$2.30
$27.65 across 12 units. Materials only - the Include-my-time toggle adds labor.
This is the same arithmetic the recipe page runs - batch cost over yield, nothing hidden.
The market comparison
Where public price data exists for a material, the recipe page shows the market median beside your cost, flagged clearly as sample or live data. A line reading “your cost is 348% above the median” is not a scolding - it is a nudge to check the next restock. If a match looks wrong, the wrong match? control on the line tells us so.
| Column | What it is | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Amount | How much this batch uses | You, once |
| Cost/unit | Your real price for the material | Inventory (live) |
| Total | Amount times your cost | Computed |
| % | Share of the batch by weight | Computed |
| Market | Median where public data exists | Price data (labelled) |
Price from your numbers, not from what the stall next to you charges.
What a recipe unlocks
From the recipe card you can start a batch (quantities prefilled, stock deducted with one confirm), and from a finished batch you can create a listing. Calculators that produce formulas live inside the recipe editor too, so a lye calculation or a fragrance load lands directly in the recipe instead of a notebook margin.
0306Inventory 6 min
The shelf that watches itself
A shelf that watches itself and a list that writes itself.
Inventory tracks what you have, what it cost, and - because batches deduct automatically - what you are using per week. That usage rate is what turns a static list into forecasts: weeks of stock left, reorder-by dates, and a shopping list you mostly never have to write.
Stock that stays true
Starting a batch deducts its ingredients with one confirm. Ad-hoc use has a maker-shaped path too: open the item, choose Use in production, Waste or spoilage, Physical count, or Receive stock, and enter the amount. Every adjustment lands in the item's history with its reason.
Reorder forecasts
With a usage rate and a reorder point, each item shows how many weeks of stock remain and the date to reorder by - lead time included. The same forecast powers the low-stock cards on the dashboard.
Reorder when stock hits
4.4 kg
Covers the 10-day delivery window plus 1 spare week at your usage rate.
Usage per week times lead time, plus a safety margin - the same shape the forecasts use.
The shopping list writes itself
Items join the list when stock runs low or a reorder window opens, grouped by supplier with a copyable order list. Mark a group Ordered and its low-stock flags pause while the delivery is in flight; when the box arrives, one tap on Receivedconfirms the quantity (editable, because deliveries arrive short) and the stock lands. “Not this time” snoozes a suggestion for two weeks.
You did the shopping. The list just remembered it for you.
0406Making 7 min
Every make, stage by stage
Your craft's real stages, quality gates and all.
A batch is one make of one recipe: its quantities, its stage, its dates, its quality checks. The production board shows every active batch by craft, and the stages are your craft's real ones - cold process soap cures, hot process cooks, brewing ferments. No generic to-do pipeline.
Starting a batch
From the dashboard's New Batch, pick a recipe: size, expected yield, cost, and per-ingredient deductions arrive prefilled, along with how many batches your current stock could support. One confirm starts it and deducts stock. Three taps, bench-tested with messy hands.
Stages, advances, and undo
Batch cards carry a one-tap advance to the next stage; the full pipeline lives on the batch page. Every advance pops an undo toast, and stages with quality checks hold the door: a cold-process batch does not reach Cutting until the pH and zap test pass. Fail a check and the batch stays put with the reason logged.
Ready on
Aug 17
The date a batch calendar entry would carry. Your process wins over any default.
Pick a start date and a cure length - the ready date the calendar would show.
Where batches meet orders
The production page opens with To start: open orders matched against your stock and real make times, each with a start-by date or the exact shortfall blocking it. Completed batches join a pending pool on the orders page, ready to drag onto the order they fulfil.
| Verdict | Meaning | Your move |
|---|---|---|
| Start by [date] | Due date minus your real cycle time | Start it by then |
| Overdue - start today | The due date already passed | Start it now |
| Needs [amount] more | An ingredient is short | One tap adds it to the shopping list |
The board is not a plan. It is the workshop, photographed honestly.
0506Tools 5 min
66 calculators, zero guesswork
66 calculators with their assumptions in the open.
Every craft carries its own calculators - lye and water discount for soap, fragrance load, cure time, batch scaling, cost per unit - plus shared tools that work everywhere. In the workshop they live in the top bar and inside the recipe editor; the public versions on the site run the same math.
The one everyone uses first
Batch scaling: your recipe makes 12, you need 30. The scaler gives the multiplier and the recipe page applies it to every line, including cost.
Scale every line by
× 2.50
Each ingredient amount times 2.50 - cost scales with it.
Recipe yield and what you need - the multiplier every line gets.
Honest math, visible assumptions
Calculator results show their inputs and assumptions in the open - a saponification value, an assumed density, a typical range - so you can check the work, not just trust it. Where a calculator touches safety (lye above all), the numbers are a starting point for your own verified process, never a substitute for it.
From calculation to recipe
Formula-producing calculators run inside the recipe editor, so the result lands as recipe lines with live costs - not as a screenshot you re-type later. The public site's calculators link into the workshop where saving needs an account.
0606Account 5 min
Your records. Actually yours.
Your records, actually yours - export, deletion, opt-outs.
Plainly, mechanically, this is how your account and data behave. No legal prose here - the privacy policy is the binding document; this page is the owner's manual.
What your account holds
Your workshop records: ingredients, recipes, batches, orders, contacts, and the product events tied to your signed-in account. That account data is included in your export and erased with your account.
Take everything with you
Your data export is one request in settings and returns your records in open, machine-readable form. Orders and inventory also export to CSV from their own pages, any time, no ceremony.
Deleting your account
Deletion removes your account and the product data tied to it. Export first if you want your records - deletion is not an archive.
Analytics, and turning it off
Signed-out browsing carries no stable identifier: no analytics cookies, no stored IP, and the daily-rotating hash cannot follow you across days. Product analytics on a signed-in account is account data, so it rides the same export and deletion. Three independent switches each disable analytics entirely on a browser - any one of them is enough:
| Switch | Where it lives | What honors it |
|---|---|---|
| Do Not Track | Your browser's privacy settings | All Artysan analytics |
| Global Privacy Control | Browser or extension | All Artysan analytics |
| On-device switch | This page, below | All Artysan analytics on this browser |
Sets the analytics-off flag in local storage. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control work independently of this.
Flips the analytics-off flag in this browser's local storage. It applies immediately and only here.