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. Every new account starts on Plus for two weeks, no card; after that it is one free Sunday dinner a week, for as long as you like.
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.
Is there a trial?
Yes, and it is the default. Every new account starts on Plus for 14 days with no card. When the two weeks end the account becomes the free plan, one Sunday dinner a week, unless you keep Plus. Nothing is charged unless you choose to. Your Plus settings are kept, not deleted, so turning Plus back on later restores them as you left them.
Can't I just ask ChatGPT for a dinner plan?
You can, and it will write you a decent one — once. What it won't do is remember what your family ate for the last six months, rotate cuisines and proteins so the weeks don't repeat, schedule every dish backward from the minute you want to sit down, honor each person's allergies and dislikes without being re-told every time, or show up in your inbox every week whether you remembered to ask or not.
Five Sharp is the part that happens after the first prompt: the system that keeps Sunday dinner planned when the novelty wears off. Nobody re-prompts a chatbot every Thursday for six months — that's the job we took.
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, or not what the household needs this week, you can regenerate it with a note and get a new one. Free and Plus share a pool of 3 generations per plan week — the first build plus two do-overs — which covers most situations.
How many plans a week does each tier get?
Five Sharp is one plan a week, for Sunday dinner, delivered Thursday morning. You can regen that plan up to 3 times if you want something different, but it counts as the same plan slot.
Five Sharp Plus runs up to three plans a week, each for a night you choose, each with its own menu, timeline and shopping list. Five Sharp Reserve runs up to ten, and can also generate menus on demand, any day, under a rolling daily fair-use cap of 15.
What does "per-person preferences" actually do on Five Sharp Reserve?
On Five Sharp and Plus, you set preferences for your household as a whole: dietary restrictions, cuisine preferences, spice tolerance. The plan reflects those as a group.
On Reserve, 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 Five Sharp Reserve?
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.
Five Sharp Plus and Five Sharp 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 Five Sharp plan only keep 5 weeks of menu history?
The Five Sharp 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. Five Sharp Plus keeps 6 months of history. Five Sharp Reserve keeps everything.
How are the three tiers different, in plain language?
Five Sharp is for households who want one solid Sunday dinner plan each week, generated automatically, no cost. It sizes the plan from simple adult and child counts, retains your last 5 weeks of menus, and gives you 3 regens per plan. It's the full core product on a shorter history window, planned for Sunday, and it is where every account lands after its two weeks of Plus.
Five Sharp Plus ($99/yr or $12.99/mo USD) is for households with real-life scheduling: choose which night your meal lands on, run up to three plans a week, skip a week or move it to a weekday, put it on hold while you're traveling, cook from 40 cuisines instead of 18, and get the PDF in every email. The plan bends to your life instead of requiring your life to bend to it.
Five Sharp Reserve ($149/yr or $19.99/mo USD) runs up to ten plans a week and generates on demand under a fair-use cap of 15 a day, adds per-person preference profiles for up to 8 people at your table, your own cooking window, and 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 plans on any day of the week.
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 Five Sharp.
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: Set your household to a single adult and you get a full plan every week, built around your preferences.
Couples: Set two adults and Five Sharp plans for both as one household. If the two of you eat genuinely differently — one pescatarian, one low-carb — Five Sharp Reserve's named table gives each person their own preference profile.
Large families: Five Sharp Reserve 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 Reserve 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 Five Sharp Reserve, 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 (Five Sharp Plus and Reserve) 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.