The spreadsheet was never going to scale with you.

Every run is logged against the machine running it and the prep sheet that filled it, so a fleet of dryers reads like one schedule instead of one spreadsheet per unit. The clock starts when you start the batch and stops when you finish it, so run time is measured rather than remembered.

• Prep sheets that carry each tray's product, weight, tare and lot code
• Measured run time per batch, per machine
• Weigh-in check-ins that tell you when a run has actually stopped losing water
• Print a prep sheet for the bench, or work from your phone at the dryer

Three mushroom varieties across seven trays is an ordinary week, and a single run-level yield figure averages products that behave nothing alike. Oyster at 17% and lions mane at 10% reports as 12%, and neither number is true of anything. FreezeDry HQ splits yield by product within the run, because every input for the split is already on the tray.

• Wet weight in, dry weight out, per product, not just per batch
• Tray tare and mats subtracted so the yield is of food, not hardware
• Grams or ounces, whichever your process already speaks

Cost per gram is built from three things you record once: what the raw product cost, the prep time at your own labour rate, and the power the machine drew across the actual run, from its wattage and your electricity price. It updates as the run does. No formula to drag down a column.

• Raw product cost carried per tray, so a mixed run stays honest
• Prep labour at your rate, from the prep time you logged
• Energy from machine wattage, your cost per kWh and the measured run hours
• CSV export of costs and yields PRO

Completed runs contribute anonymised yield and time figures to a shared benchmark, so you can see what other operators get for a product before you commit a machine to it. If bananas come off in 32 hours and strawberries take 36, that is a scheduling decision you can now make with a number instead of a hunch.

• Typical yield and run time by product, across real operators
• A group only appears once enough separate workspaces are in it
• Never your costs, never your prices, never anything that identifies you
• Owners and admins can opt the workspace out entirely in Settings

Freeze dryers don't live next to the router. Records you enter without a signal are held and sync when you come back, and the long forms save themselves as you type, so a dropped connection or a closed tab doesn't cost you a prep sheet.

• Capture works offline, syncs when the connection returns
• Roles: owners, admins, staff who record runs but can't delete them, and read-only viewers
• Deleting hides a record; an owner or admin restores it from Settings
• Nightly encrypted backups to separate infrastructure, kept 90 days