Hospotech Systems builds simple, affordable tools for independent cafés, restaurants, and bars. No enterprise contracts. No six-week setup. No features you'll never use.
No spam. Updates only when something real is ready.
Your POS tells you what you sold. A spreadsheet tracks your labour. Your accountant's reports land six weeks late. None of it talks to each other — and none of it gives you the number you actually need: did we make money today?
The big software companies — Lightspeed, TouchBistro, MYOB — were built for hotel groups and franchise chains. You pay enterprise prices for features you'll never use, and spend three weeks getting set up before you see a single useful number.
Independent venues are a different thing entirely. You need tools that work the way your business actually works.
Labour running hot, food cost creeping up, margins shrinking — these things show up slowly. By the time they appear in a report, the damage is already done.
"The tools that exist were built for someone else's business. Independent operators have been making do with the leftovers."
You don't need an enterprise platform. You need a clear picture of where things stand, right now, without spending an hour pulling it together.
That's what Hospotech Systems builds.
Each one starts as a focused solution to a specific problem. Where it makes sense, they'll connect. Right now, here's what's in the works.
Your daily numbers in one place. Revenue from your POS, labour from your roster app, expenses from Xero — one clean view, updated in real time. Know how yesterday went before your first coffee.
Recipe costing that stays current without you touching it. Forward your supplier invoices to a dedicated email address — AI reads the line items and updates ingredient costs across every recipe automatically.
A branded mobile game for your venue. Players catch falling coffee beans on their phones while they wait for their order. Custom logo, colours, and leaderboard. Keeps your brand top of mind — no app download needed.
The conversation you keep not having. Hosea is an AI coaching tool for hospo managers who know what needs to be said — and keep finding reasons not to say it. Free to use, no signup, works on mobile. Try it →
One dashboard for your entire online footprint. Google reviews, listings, and profile — managed from one place. AI-drafted reply suggestions. Weekly digest so you always know what people are saying.
Digital staff onboarding. New hires complete their paperwork and upload documents without a single printed form. Takes five minutes to set up, and your new starter can do it from their phone.
I run Trader & Co., a specialty café in Yass, NSW. I also roast coffee under Six8 Coffee Roasters. For years I was cobbling together spreadsheets, POS dashboards, and late accountant reports just to understand whether we were making money.
I'm not a developer by training. I'm a venue operator who got frustrated enough to learn how to build tools — first for my own café, then for other operators in the same situation.
The tools I'm building are priced for small operators, built to set up in under an hour, and designed so a busy café owner at 7am can actually understand what they're looking at.
No investor money. No sales team. Just tools that work — built by someone who's opened the same café every morning for years and knows exactly what you're dealing with.
Early access opens venue by venue. Get on the list and we'll reach out when your product is ready to try.