From the Franklin Kinetics Lab

Automatic Groceries

Your grocery cart, filled while you make coffee. Automatic Groceries teaches Claude your family's groceries. Each week it checks what you actually bought, reads the flyer for deals, fills your online cart, and can plan dinners around your calendar. You review it and check out.

Get Automatic Groceries, $43

One-time purchase. Works with a paid Claude plan and Google Chrome on a computer.

What it does every week

The same routine a careful shopper would follow, done in the time it takes to pour a coffee.

1

Learns from last week

Compares the cart it filled with what you actually ordered. Removed the extra bananas? It buys fewer next time.

2

Checks what you're low on

Knows rice lasts you seven weeks and milk lasts one, so it doesn't rebuy what's still in the pantry.

3

Reads the flyer

Finds your staples on sale and checks the price against what you usually pay, not just the store's "was" price.

4

Fills the cart and reports

Adds everything to your store's online cart and tells you what it added, swapped, and skipped. You check out.

Dinners that fit the week you actually have

Connect your calendar and Automatic Groceries plans dinner around it: a proper meal on free nights, five-minute food on swimming night. Here's a simulated week for a family of four.

MonWork until 5:00
45 minSheet-pan chicken and potatoes
TueSwimming 5:15–6:00
5 minHummus wraps and cut veggies
WedMeeting until 5:45
15 minTofu and egg noodle stir-fry
ThuNothing scheduled
30 minBean chili, double batch
FriHockey 5:30
5 minLeftover chili over rice
SatFree afternoon
45+ minSlow-roasted pork shoulder
SunBirthday party 3–6
5 minRoast pork tacos
5 min15 min30 min45+ min

Notice Thursday and Saturday: cooking extra on a free night feeds the busy night after it. The ingredients for all seven dinners go straight into the same cart as your staples.

Built to pay for itself in the first month

You'll need a paid Claude plan to run it. Claude Pro is US$20 a month, roughly C$28. Add the one-time $43 and your first month costs about $71.

Most of the savings come from two habits Automatic Groceries never forgets: buying staples when they're actually on sale, and not rebuying what you already have. Move the sliders to see your own numbers.

First-month cost
$71
Monthly savings
$0

An estimate, not a promise. Your savings depend on your store, its flyer, and your habits. Prices in Canadian dollars; Claude Pro converted at an approximate exchange rate, before tax.

A few fixed rules, then it's yours to shape

Like a pre-flight checklist: a handful of items never change, and everything else is how you like to fly.

Always true

  • It never checks out. You place every order yourself.
  • It never types your password or card number.
  • It shows you everything it added, swapped, and skipped.
  • When it's unsure about fresh food, it leaves it out and tells you.

Make it yours

  • Your staples, your brands, your "never buy" list.
  • How hard to chase sales and how much to stock up.
  • Your dinners, tagged by how long they really take.
  • Your own house rules, in plain words: "always two lemons."

What you get

  • The Automatic Groceries skill: upload it to Claude once and it's ready
  • Calendar dinner planning, included
  • A household profile template, or let Claude interview you and write it
  • A setup guide with a one-hour path to your first full cart

What you need

  • A paid Claude plan (Pro or higher)
  • Google Chrome on a computer, with the Claude in Chrome extension
  • A grocery store with online ordering. Built and tested on PC Express.
  • For dinner planning: Google Calendar connected to Claude

  • No. It fills the cart and stops. You review the cart and place the order yourself, every time.

  • No. Automatic Groceries runs inside your own Claude account and your own browser, with your own sign-in. Nothing comes back to us.

  • It's built and tested on PC Express (Real Canadian Superstore, Loblaws, No Frills and others). Any store with an online cart and a web flyer should work, since you tell it your store during setup. Check your store's terms of use if you're unsure.

  • Setup and the weekly cart run need Chrome on a computer. You can review the cart and check out from your phone as usual.

  • Yes. Setup is uploading one file and answering Claude's questions about what you buy. The guide walks you through it step by step.

  • Please do. Everything except the fixed safety rules lives in your household profile, in plain English. When you correct it, it offers to remember the correction.

Get an hour of your week back

One-time purchase, instant download.

Automatic Groceries
Automatic Groceries
$43.00

Your grocery cart, filled while you make coffee.

Automatic Groceries teaches Claude how your household shops. Each week it fills your store’s online cart with what you’re actually running low on and what’s genuinely on sale, and can plan dinners around your calendar. You review it and check out. About ten minutes instead of an hour.

Includes the skill, a household profile template, and a step-by-step setup guide. One-time purchase, instant download.

Requires a paid Claude plan and Google Chrome on a computer.

Automatic Groceries is made by Franklin Kinetics, Regina, Saskatchewan. It is not affiliated with Anthropic or any grocery retailer.