Frequently Asked Questions
What is Five Sharp?
Five Sharp is an AI-powered Sunday dinner planner. You set up your household once — who's eating, what they like, what they won't touch — and every Thursday morning you get a complete Sunday dinner plan: the dish, a recipe, a prep timeline, and a shopping list. Free to start, no credit card required.
It's not a recipe aggregator, not a meal kit, and it doesn't try to plan every meal of your week. It solves one specific problem: knowing what you're making for Sunday dinner before Sunday morning.
How does plan generation actually work?
Every Thursday morning, Five Sharp auto-generates your Sunday dinner plan based on your household profile. The plan includes the full dish, a recipe with ingredient quantities, a rough prep-and-cook timeline, and a shopping list you can take to the store.
Cuisine rotates so you don't see the same type of meal twice in a 5-week window. If the plan isn't right — wrong vibe, not what the household needs this week — you can regenerate it with a note and get a new one. Free accounts get 3 regens per plan, which covers most situations.
What does "1 plan per week" mean on the Free and Middle tiers?
Free and Middle accounts get one auto-generated plan per week — delivered Thursday morning, covering Sunday dinner. That's the weekly cycle. You can regen that plan up to 3 times if you want something different, but it counts as the same plan slot.
Pro lifts the limit entirely. You can generate menus on demand, any day, as many times as you want.
What does "per-person preferences" actually do on Pro?
On Free and Middle, you set preferences for your household as a whole: dietary restrictions, cuisine preferences, spice tolerance. The plan reflects those as a group.
On Pro, each household member gets their own preference profile. If one person is pescatarian, one is low-carb, and a third has a nut allergy, the system tracks those individually. When it generates a plan, it's reconciling eight distinct profiles rather than averaging a household into one. For households where everyone genuinely eats differently, this is the feature that makes the output actually usable.
What is single-dish swap on Pro?
If you get a Sunday dinner plan and everything looks good except one dish, single-dish swap lets you replace just that one dish without regenerating the whole plan. Keep the main, swap the side. Keep the side, swap the dessert. You don't have to start over.
Middle and Free accounts get full-plan regeneration (3 times) but not per-dish control. If one element of the plan is wrong, you regen the whole thing and add a note directing it away from whatever you didn't like.
Why does the Free plan only keep 5 weeks of menu history?
The Free plan retains your last 5 weeks of plans, then older entries get cleaned up automatically. That's a deliberate product constraint, not a technical one — it keeps the free plan genuinely useful for trying Five Sharp without giving away the features that make paid tiers worth paying for.
The 5-week window also doubles as the no-repeat memory: free users never see the same Sunday dinner twice within that window. Middle keeps 6 months of history. Pro keeps everything.
How are the three tiers different, in plain language?
Free is for households who want one solid Sunday dinner plan each week, generated automatically, no cost. It covers one household member, retains your last 5 weeks of menus, and gives you 3 regens per plan. It's the full core product — just with one person and a shorter history window.
Middle ($12.99/mo) is for households with real-life scheduling: skip a week, shift Sunday dinner to a weekday, put it on hold while you're traveling, download a PDF to put on the fridge, or add up to 4 household members. The weekly cadence is the same (1 plan/week), but the plan bends to your life instead of requiring your life to bend to it.
Pro ($19.99/mo) removes the weekly limit entirely, adds per-person preference profiles for up to 8 household members, and gives you single-dish swap so you can tune a plan without regenerating it from scratch. It's the right tier if your household has genuinely divergent dietary needs, or if you want to generate menus outside the Thursday-to-Sunday window.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Cancel from your billing settings — no email required, no form to fill out. You keep full access through the end of the period you've already paid for, then you roll back to Free.
Is my data shared or sold?
No. Your household preferences, generated plans, and account data stay on Five Sharp's servers. It is not shared with third parties, not sold to advertisers, and not used to train AI models. The preferences you enter are used only to generate your plans.
Does Five Sharp work for solo cooks, couples, and large families?
Yes to all three.
Solo: The Free plan is designed for a single household member. You get a full plan every week, built around your preferences.
Couples: Free handles two if you're treating the household as one profile. Middle's 4-member support gives both people individual preference inputs.
Large families: Pro supports up to 8 household members with per-person preference profiles. If you've got a table that seats eight with six different dietary needs, that's exactly what Pro is built for.
Why Sunday specifically?
Sunday dinner has a structure that other meals don't. It happens on a predictable schedule, it's the meal people most often cook with intention, and it's the one where the gap between "what I want to make" and "I'll just order something" is most costly. Most household meal planning tools try to cover the whole week. Five Sharp focuses on the one meal where the ritual is already there — it just needs the decision made.
The name comes from it too. Five sharp is when dinner's on the table.
What if a generated plan doesn't work for my household?
Start with the note field on the regen prompt. "Too heavy for summer" or "last week was also Italian, go somewhere else" are enough to steer the next generation. You get 3 full-plan regens on every plan.
If you're on Pro, single-dish swap handles the case where the plan is mostly right but one element is off.
If a plan consistently misses, that's usually a signal to update your household preferences — the generation is only as good as the profile it's working from. Settings are editable anytime.
Will Five Sharp plan my weeknight dinners?
No. Five Sharp generates Sunday dinner plans. The weekday shift feature (Middle and Pro) lets you move a Sunday plan to a different day if your household's schedule pushes dinner earlier in the week — but it's still one plan for one anchor meal.
If you're looking for a full weekly meal planner that covers Monday through Sunday, that's a different product. Five Sharp does one thing: makes Sunday dinner a solved problem before the week starts.