Blog
What we are building, what we are learning, and where we are headed.
Feb 5, 2026
ProductYou don't hand a waiter a written form. You talk to them. We built Orderly around the same idea -- speak your order naturally, and let AI handle the translation to kitchen tickets.
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Jan 22, 2026
ExpansionWe're excited to announce our first partner in the UAE. Eya Salon in Al Barsha is now using Orderly to manage client service orders, proving the platform works beyond traditional restaurants.
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Jan 10, 2026
EngineeringMapping natural language to structured menu items is harder than it sounds. Here's how we built a system that handles "no onions, extra cheese, and make it spicy" reliably at scale.
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Dec 18, 2025
ProductNobody wants to download an app to order lunch. We made a deliberate choice to build Orderly as a web-first experience. Here's the reasoning and tradeoffs behind that decision.
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Dec 2, 2025
StoryOrderly started as a class project. Six months later, we were deploying it in real restaurants 7,000 miles from campus. This is the story of how we got from prototype to production.
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