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SOP Genie

Bilal Chaudhry · founder, Dastarkhwan Group — the process lives in three men’s heads

Dastarkhwan’s karahi tastes the same in ten branches because three senior men carry the process in their heads — and one of them just moved to Islamabad. Every attempt to write the SOPs has died of blank-page boredom.

SOP Genie skips the blank page: record the expert walking a new crew through the process once, and the playbook turns the transcript into a formatted SOP — steps, timings, critical points.

fictional demo · real workflow concept · ready to build runs on your own ChatGPT/Claude the process out of three heads and onto paper, finally ~1 week setup

The mock

A sketch of the drafting conversation — not yet captured from a client run, which is why it fades out.

concept mock

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SOP Genie

Claude Project · runs on Dastarkhwan’s own subscription

📎 rafiq-evening-prep-walkthrough.mp3 · 40 min transcript

Turn this into the evening-prep SOP for the Islamabad kitchen.

Drafted: ‘Evening Prep — Kitchen SOP v1’ — 22 steps in 6 stages, with timings and quantities. The three moments Ustad Rafiq called ‘where new boys ruin it’ are marked as critical-control steps. Two spots where the audio was unclear are marked [confirm with Rafiq] — please don’t guess them either.

What we’d build

What arrives: a formatted SOP from a recorded walkthrough — steps, timings, critical points — in your house template.
When: whenever someone records a walkthrough; it runs on your own subscription.
Your part: the expert reviews the draft — the [confirm] marks show exactly where.

The essentials

This runs on your own Claude or ChatGPT subscription. No infrastructure, nothing extra to run. We set it up with your SOP template and train whoever holds the recorder.

Setup time: About a week
Honest note: It writes down what was said — it can’t taste the karahi. The expert’s red pen is the point.

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Want this for your business?

The process in their heads is one resignation away from leaving. Record it once; keep it forever.

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