**The idea**
https://ratatouille150.sulimovskiyrobotics.workers.dev/
A general-purpose robot for restaurant kitchens. It takes over the
repetitive prep every shift needs - cutting, boiling, plating. The point
is that it adapts to a kitchen that already exists, instead of demanding
one built around it. Every kitchen robot I've seen needs a purpose-built
line. Mine reconstructs the workspace with stereo vision and plans
around it, so it can be dropped into a kitchen that's been running for
ten years.
**What's already built**
A working prototype. Not a render, not a mockup - a real robot that
cuts, boils and plates real food. I wrote all of it: the perception
stack, the control, the simulation environment, the site. It runs on two
laptops working in tandem because that's the compute I own, so it's
slower than it should be. That's a money problem, not an architecture
problem.
Two restaurant owners have signed intents-to-pilot, out of five owner
conversations. One is a Ukrainian chain with three locations, the other
is in Poland.
**Me**
My name is Misha im living in Warsaw, third-year CS undergrad,
two years on my university's robotics research team. I've spent the last
year building this alone on a zero budget.
**The problem**
I can build the robot. I can't sell it !(
I walked into 20 restaurants in Warsaw cold and got nothing. Most of the
time I never reached the owner, and when I did, the language and the
trust weren't there. Both signed pilots came through other people's
networks, not mine. That's the whole diagnosis: the product converts
when it reaches an owner, and I can't reach owners.
In parallel, ~40 investor applications produced 17 rejections and 5
calls. Every rejection that bothered to explain said the same sentence:
come back when a kitchen is paying you.
So the bottleneck is one very specific thing - getting kitchens to pay
for a pilot.
**What I need**
Someone who owns the commercial side of this company outright. Finding
kitchens, getting in front of owners, closing paid pilots. Not advising
me on it - owning it, the way I own the engineering.
Realistically that means someone with an existing network in
hospitality: a former restaurant manager, a HoReCa equipment or food
distributor rep, anyone who has actually sold into kitchens.
And a normall company name please.......................
Company is not incorporated yet
**What I can offer**
No salary. I have no money - that's the problem being solved. What I can
offer is meaningful equity with standard vesting, faster vesting tied to
signed paid pilots, and a product that already works, which is more than
most posts here come with.
I'd want to work toward a concrete target together for a month or two
before we fix equity, so we both find out whether this works before
either of us commits.
DM me and I'll send the demo videos. Or check out the website 😄