Crustello: Smart AI Dough & Sourdough Tracker

Every baker knows fermentation is the most mysterious step: how much has it risen, are temperature and humidity right, when should it go into the oven. All guesswork, and failures are impossible to debug. Crustello turns it into data. It is a smart dough bowl whose lid houses a sensor array: a Time-of-Flight sensor measures dough height at millimeter precision to compute real-time volume changes, paired with a ±0.3°C temperature sensor reading both dough and ambient conditions, plus a humidity sensor. Data is encrypted over Wi-Fi to the cloud, where the app renders rise curves, pushes alerts at key moments, and keeps full bake history. Bluetooth BLE offers direct local monitoring. The rechargeable sensor module lasts about 60 days per charge and improves over time via OTA firmware updates. The team comes from Race Box, a race-telemetry company that noticed the same data gap in the kitchen as on the track. Launched in November 2025, the campaign drew 3,112 backers and $795,506, about 7,955% funded.