# How Cuadra works

Four inputs, one plan, one basket, one total. Here is what goes in, what comes out and what is still being built.

Last reviewed: 2026-11-01

## What do you give Cuadra?

Four things: the days you cook, how many people eat, a budget in euros and the store you shop at. Optional rules narrow the plate: no fish, no pork, more vegetables, or ingredients you would rather avoid.

In the first release the store is fixed: one Mercadona warehouse in Madrid. Multi-store planning is on the roadmap, not in the product yet.

## What do you get back?

One dinner per day you turned on, a shopping list made of the packs the store actually sells, and the basket total before you leave the house.

The menu and the basket come from the same calculation, so the total is not a surprise at the till.

## How is the basket priced?

Each recipe's ingredients are converted to grams, summed across the week, then rounded up to the store's pack sizes. Packs are chained: an open bag used on Tuesday is counted again on Friday, and only what spoils before then becomes waste.

- Quantities follow pack sizes, not recipe decimals.
- Perishables carry a shelf life; pantry staples do not.
- One price per store per day, from the catalog snapshot the plan was built on.
- The plan shows the total, and if it misses the budget, tells you by how much.

## What does the health score mean?

Every product gets a 0–100 score from Nutri-Score, NOVA and its additives. The planner can favour cheap, balanced or healthier baskets, and you can read the whole method.

[Read how the score is calculated](/score-method)

## What is not available yet?

- Real-time stock and home delivery: Cuadra plans and prices, it does not place the order.
- Supermarkets beyond Mercadona, and warehouses beyond the launch one.
- Photo-to-recipe, macro targets and household sharing.
- Agent access through MCP, planned for the paid tier.

## Is Cuadra available today?

Cuadra is in build. Accounts, billing and this site are live; the catalog, planner and basket solver are specified but not shipped. The score method is published ahead of launch so it can be checked, not to describe scores that do not exist yet.

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Source: https://cuadra-staging.murabi.io/en/how-it-works