PitPilot helps you plan BBQ cooks backwards from serving time, track temperatures as you go, and build a personal BBQ playbook that gets smarter with every cook.
Built for pellet smokers, offset smokers, kettles, kamados and backyard BBQ crews.
Demo data shown. Smart thermometer integrations coming later.
Every experienced pitmaster has served dinner two hours late, stared at a stuck thermometer wondering if it's done, or lost the notes from their best cook ever.
Working out a start time from a target serve time is harder than it sounds — especially when you're not sure how long this cut will actually take.
Guests arriving at 6, cook stalling at 3 pm. The anxiety of not knowing if you're behind is worse than the actual stall.
Internal temp hasn't moved in 90 minutes. Is that normal? Should you wrap? Turn up the heat? Most guides give vague answers.
Your best cook — perfect bark, ideal smoke, great flavour — and you have no idea exactly what you did. Next time starts from scratch.
Three different rubs tried across five cooks. One of them was amazing. You think it was the third one. Maybe.
No system. No notes. No way to improve. Every cook feels like the first one — because there's nothing connecting them together.
Not a recipe app. Not a timer. A BBQ planning and memory system that connects every cook to the next — so you always know what's working and what to change.
Enter when you want to eat. PitPilot calculates your exact start time, wrap window, rest period and every stage in between.
Every cook generates a step-by-step plan with real clock times. Know exactly what to do and when — from smoker start to plate.
Log pit and internal temps as you go. PitPilot shows you your temp trend, estimates your finish time, and flags anything unusual.
Stalling? Running hot? PitPilot gives you plain-English guidance during the cook — not generic advice, but suggestions based on your actual data.
Record your pellets, wood blend, rubs, binders and sauces on every cook. Build a picture of what combinations you love.
After every cook, PitPilot saves smart insights from your review and uses them to improve the next plan — automatically.
Five steps. One continuous loop of improvement.
Enter meat, weight, smoker, fuel, rub, weather and serving time. PitPilot builds your cook plan.
Log pit temp, internal temp, notes and milestones as the cook progresses.
PitPilot estimates whether you're ahead, behind or on track — in real time.
Rate tenderness, bark, smoke, rub, flavour and timing. Describe what worked and what didn't.
PitPilot saves useful lessons and uses them the next time you plan a similar cook.
Most BBQ guides say 'allow 12–14 hours'. PitPilot says '7:30 am — start smoker'. Working backwards from your desired serving time, it builds a complete timeline with real clock times for every stage of the cook.
Log temperatures as you go. PitPilot plots your internal and pit temps, detects stalls, flags hot spots, and gives you a dynamic finish-time estimate as conditions change.
Log your exact fuel blend, pellet brand, wood species, rubs, binders and sauces on every cook. Then rate the results. Over time, PitPilot builds a picture of the combinations you love — and flags them when planning the next similar cook.
PitPilot learns how your specific smoker behaves. If yours runs 5°C hot on long cooks, or the upper rack always finishes faster, or cold weather adds 40 minutes — it will remember and adjust your next plan automatically.
Runs 5°C hot during long cooks — dial back target slightly
Cold days under 10°C add ~40 min to pork shoulder cooks
Cherry + hickory blend works well for pork — good colour
Upper rack finishes 20 min ahead of lower rack on this smoker
After every reviewed cook, PitPilot generates a private Flavour Profile Scorecard. Flavour, smoke, rub, bark, tenderness, timing — scored, summarised, and saved.
Cherry + Hickory · 18 May 2025
"Cherry and hickory gave great colour and balanced smoke. Next time, reduce salt slightly and allow 30 minutes more buffer in cold weather."
Whatever you're smoking, PitPilot can plan and track it.
PitPilot isn't just a planning tool. It's a BBQ memory system. Every cook adds to your personal knowledge base. Every plan gets a little more accurate.
Every cook becomes data. Every cook makes the next one better.
Today, PitPilot helps you build your private BBQ playbook. Your scorecards, your insights, your history — just for you.
Next, your best cooks can become shareable scorecards — a cook log you can send to friends, post to groups, or share as inspiration in the BBQ community. The Strava of BBQ. Coming later.