Join the food-waste project
Atikova collects the waste of pastry shops and bakeries — stale bread, dough and pastry waste, fruit peels — separately from general rubbish, by motorcycle, and takes it to animal feed, compost or biogas; part of an environmental project to cut Istanbul's food waste. Alongside it we are building tools that pastry shops and bakeries themselves need.
The core offer: stale-bread and dough-waste pickup
A sealed box for stale bread, dough and pastry waste and fruit peels. The motorcycle operator nearest to you, matched by location, collects it, and each month you get a summary of pickups (kilos).
Good bread and pastry do not go in the box (see tool 2 for those). We are at pilot stage and looking for our first pastry shops and bakeries.
Atikova
The real aim of the Atikova app is to find the model in which food businesses cooperate most on waste; after restaurants and cafés, now pastry shops and bakeries. The tools below are built with AI and are not ready yet. For each need we also link the apps that exist today.
8 tools we are testing for pastry shops and bakeries
Tick the numbers that interest you in the form below; that decides what we build first.
- 1
Daily bread and pastry baking forecast
What Atikova is building (not ready yet)
AI uses past sales, weekday, weather and occasions (Nowruz, Ramadan, Yalda) to say how much bread and pastry to bake tomorrow — less left at night.
Available today for the same need
- Foodforecast
AI sales forecasting made for bakeries (Germany); paid.
- Delicious Data
Demand forecasting for bakeries and canteens; reports lower waste.
- Foodforecast
- 2
Selling good end-of-day bread and pastry
What Atikova is building (not ready yet)
An automatic message to regulars on Telegram and WhatsApp: “tonight these are left, discounted” — before they are thrown away.
Available today for the same need
- 3
Instagram and WhatsApp order assistant
What Atikova is building (not ready yet)
An AI assistant that answers order messages (birthday cakes, sangak and lavash by courier, event orders) in Persian and Turkish, logs each order with its delivery time and sends reminders.
Available today for the same need
- WhatsApp Business
Free; product catalogue, auto-replies and order labels.
- Meta Business Suite
Meta's free tool for Instagram and Facebook posts, messages and ads in one place.
- WhatsApp Business
- 4
AI preview of custom cake designs
What Atikova is building (not ready yet)
The customer writes an idea or sends a photo; a few visual designs are made so you agree on one before baking — fewer returned and remade cakes.
Available today for the same need
- 5
Cost per loaf and per kilo of pastry at today's prices
What Atikova is building (not ready yet)
The real cost of each product (flour, butter, sugar, pistachio, saffron, gas and waste) at today's prices, with an alert when the selling price falls behind.
Available today for the same need
- 6
Daily bread subscription and regulars club
What Atikova is building (not ready yet)
Customers pre-book their daily or weekly bread (e.g. “two sangak every morning”); you know how much to bake and less is left. With a digital stamp card.
Available today for the same need
- APPQ
Digital stamp and points card via QR for small businesses.
- WhatsApp Business
Free; product catalogue, auto-replies and order labels.
- APPQ
- 7
Google Maps and Instagram review analysis
What Atikova is building (not ready yet)
A monthly summary of reviews in Persian or Turkish: what people like (taste, freshness, price) and dislike, with draft replies.
Available today for the same need
- Google Business Profile
Free; reply to reviews, photos, opening hours and Google Maps statistics.
- Meta Business Suite
Meta's free tool for Instagram and Facebook posts, messages and ads in one place.
- Google Business Profile
- 8
Separate pickup of stale bread and dough waste, with a green report
What Atikova is building (not ready yet)
A separate box for stale bread and dough or pastry waste, picked up by motorcycle for animal feed, compost or biogas, and a monthly kilogram report to show customers.
Available today for the same need
Apps for waste and surplus food
These apps sell good surplus bread and pastry or measure waste. Atikova collects what is left.
- Fazla
Istanbul; unsold good products sold as 50%-off “surprise boxes”.
- Foodya
End-of-day discount packs from bakeries, pastry shops and markets, pick-up.
- Foodforecast
AI sales forecasting made for bakeries (Germany); paid.
- Leanpath
Waste scales and logging software; for large kitchens and production.
Atikova is not affiliated with any of these apps; the links are for information only (checked 19 October 2026).
Which ones interest your pastry shop or bakery?
Filling in the form costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Soheil, Atikova's founder, will contact you himself.