What we're building
Major work in progress, what's next, and planned directions. We ship continuously and incorporate publisher feedback.
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Overview
Allspice is built as a long-term platform for food publishers and creators. We ship continuously, and this roadmap highlights major work currently in progress and what’s coming next.
Timelines may shift as we prioritize reliability, performance, and publisher needs. If there’s a feature you want prioritized, reach out through the Publisher Portal - we actively incorporate your feedback into roadmap planning.
Now - In Progress
These initiatives are actively being built and may roll out incrementally.
Pico 5.1
Smarter, leaner, and faster, with more context to work from and more tools to work with.
GDPR readiness
Finalizing consent, privacy, account-management, and data-handling infrastructure required for broader international availability.
Even more publisher control over the assistant
Giving publishers deeper control over what the assistant says, which suggestions it offers, and how it behaves in conversation.
Analytics API and MCP updates
Expanding what a connected tool or AI assistant can read and write, and widening the reporting available through the API.
App templates
Letting publishers build a professional-quality app on top of their recipe blog, running on the Allspice operating system and connected to their site.
Next
These are the next major initiatives after the current in-progress work ships.
Publisher groups and multi-site search
Enabling publishers with multiple domains, brands, or creator networks to provide search and discovery across a combined, approved recipe library.
Additional publisher data integrations
Providing eligible publishers with more ways to export or connect audience and intent data to their own analytics, marketing, CRM, and data infrastructure.
Planned
These initiatives are confirmed directions but are not yet scheduled for a specific release window.
Advanced audience insights
Expanding publisher analytics to surface aggregated trends across searches, saves, reader questions, meal plans, shopping activity, cooking behavior, preferences, and return visits.
Social creator pages
Creating hosted Allspice-powered pages where creators can publish searchable, interactive recipe libraries without operating a traditional recipe website.
Native advertising within Allspice
Supporting publisher-controlled advertising placements within appropriate Allspice experiences while preserving usability and compatibility with existing monetization systems.
Recently Shipped
Analytics API & MCP
Added a documented API and an MCP connection, so publishers can read their Allspice reporting and recipe content from their own tools or a connected AI assistant, and write approved changes back.
Pico 3.5
Improved Pico’s agentic behavior, tool execution, and context awareness, with better interactions across recipes, grocery lists, meal planning, and cooking workflows.
Recipe editing in the Publisher Portal
Publishers can review, edit, and override parsed recipe information, including ingredients, instructions, timing, servings, images, and recipe structure.
Improved publisher control over Pico
Publishers have greater control over how Pico responds, prioritizes content, recommends recipes, and represents their brand.
Site memberships and gated content
Publishers can sell paid memberships directly on their sites, gate recipe cards, previews, or full posts, and offer member benefits like ad-free reading and unlimited chat.
Ecosystem
A publisher-controlled version of Allspice with your own reader sign-in and branding, accounts that work across your sites, and a reader list you can view and export.
Publisher Portal improvements
Expanded publisher controls, improved usability, and added more visibility into how Allspice behaves across sites, pages, devices, and placements.
Inline, floating, and overlay experiences
Introduced multiple ways to deploy Allspice, including embedded inline blocks, compact floating assistants, and the complete overlay experience.
These configurations give publishers more control over page layout, reader visibility, mobile behavior, and compatibility with advertising placements.
Placement experimentation and ad compatibility
Improved launcher and widget placement options, added device-specific configuration, and expanded support for publishers balancing engagement with their existing page and advertising layouts.
Publisher-created meal plans
Added tools for publishers to create, manage, schedule, package, and distribute structured meal plans through Allspice.
Publisher-created products and payouts
Added support for free products, one-time purchases, recurring products, publisher revenue sharing, and payouts for eligible publisher-created offerings.
Checkout, entitlements, and fulfillment
Added checkout flows, reader access rules, purchase fulfillment, refund and cancellation handling, subscription lifecycle support, and meal-plan delivery by email.
Feedback & Requests
We build Allspice closely with publisher input. If you want to request a feature or prioritize an existing roadmap item, contact us through the Publisher Portal. The fastest way to influence roadmap priority is to share your use case (what you're trying to accomplish and how success is measured), not just a feature name.