🥕 Carrot
Make every Instacart batch a business decision. Keep the profit.
Build today’s attack plan
Carrot will use only your verified outcomes to choose a starting branch, checkpoint, and floor.
Hunt · score while parked
Advanced offer details
🎙 while parked: “$11.54 total, two shop and deliver, 5 items, 7 units, 6 miles, Walgreens.” Labels can be spoken in any order.
Decision line: /hr gross · /mile. Predictions are estimates until Debrief.
Profit Coach · weekly intelligence
Instacart Profit Coach
Your history → one profitable rule → a listen-only road session.
Six-figure runway — show the honest math
Once started, Carrot locks the screen and only talks. No tapping, quizzes, batch scoring, or sales activity while the car is moving.
Settlement Inbox
Completed batch pay is realized immediately only when its split is known. Total-only entries stay fully pending; shown tips stay pending until you enter the final amount—even when it is $0.
Batch history — every run, in detail
Every batch you run is saved here permanently — nothing is auto-deleted. Tap one to see or edit its full detail. Final tip and actual minutes power verified Insights and record tip changes without assuming why they happened.
Passes logged
Truth Ledger · audit history
Append-only inside Carrot’s normal workflow. This is an audit history, not a tamper-proof blockchain; downloaded backups preserve it.
One controlled move this week
Carrot will prescribe a measurable experiment only when your history supports a baseline.
The truth engine
Chicago Signal · personal network node
Community network is not active yet. These are fresh, real outcomes from this device only. Anonymous citywide sharing needs explicit consent, minimum crowd sizes, and a privacy backend—Carrot will never dress sample data up as live Chicago demand.
🧬 Store Twins
Each Twin learns only from valid completed missions at the same branch. Predictions always show sample count and confidence.
⚡ Discipline receipts
🧠 Your playbook — written by your data
⏱ Golden Hours — your goal in the fewest hours
💡 Tip reliability by store
Median final-tip vs shown-tip ratio from your own settled batches. A low ratio is not proof of baiting — percentage tips move with refunds, replacements, and weight changes. Carrot prices the pattern without guessing intent.
Personal Aisle Memory
Exact-branch observations you confirm yourself. Carrot does not claim live inventory or copy a location between branches.
Replacement Copilot
Memory, not medical or dietary advice. Always re-check the current label and get customer approval.
Parked Power Blocks
Only available after you explicitly confirm you are parked and no Live Batch is active. Completions are productivity records—never counted as income.
This week's rings
Report card — this week vs last
Shift history — pocket $/hr
Your numbers
Best stores (gross $/hr)
When you earn most (gross $/hr)
Greener = higher real hourly rate. Use this to plan which shifts are actually worth leaving the house for.
Sweet spot — unique items × miles (actual gross $/hr)
🎯 marks your most profitable batch profile. Hunt these; the verdict card will recognize them.
Tip changes
Personal records
Close the loop on every dollar
Verified income, dated mileage rates, expenses, reserves, and cash targets stay separated.
Deduction vault —
Every mile you log is worth real money at tax time — most shoppers who don't track lose thousands in deductions. Estimates only (SE tax = 15.3% × 92.35% of profit); confirm with a tax pro. Quarterly estimated payments: Apr 15 · Jun 15 · Sep 15 · Jan 15.
Cost to own — no car set
Fixed costs accrue even while parked. The first earnings of each day pay the nut; only after that does a batch turn real profit.
Other deductions
Hot bags, phone mounts, tolls, parking, part of your phone plan — anything ordinary & necessary for the work stacks on top of the mileage deduction.
Export
Full batch log with dates, stores, pay, tips, miles, and minutes — drop it straight into a tax organizer.
Your targets
Your reality (tune once, forget)
Car cost is an all-in planning proxy for gas, maintenance and depreciation. Carrot applies 72.5¢/mi through Jun 30 and 76¢/mi from Jul 1 for 2026 unless you enter a custom rate. Source: IRS Announcement 2026-11. Confirm your deduction method with a tax professional.
Your car — true cost engine
Variable ¢/mile = fuel + class-and-age maintenance + the mileage share of depreciation; it prices every batch. Fixed $/day = payment + insurance + registration + the time share of depreciation; it's the daily nut tracked in Money. MPG and class auto-fill from an on-device table of common gig cars — every number stays editable.
⚡ Action Button capture — press, hear the verdict
On iPhone 15/16/17 Pro: offer on screen → press and hold the Action Button → Carrot reads the screen, scores it, and speaks the verdict. Zero typing. One-time setup:
⚡ Recipe T — Turbo: never leaves Instacart. Works on the batch list (up to 4 batches ranked) and the detail view.
1. Shortcuts → + → add Take Screenshot
2. Add Extract Text from Image (input: Screenshot)
3. Add URL Encode (input: Text from Image)
4. Add Get Contents of URL → paste the address below, then insert the URL Encoded Text variable immediately after t= — nothing in between:
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5. Add Speak Text (input: Contents of URL) · name it Carrot Turbo → map it to the Action Button
Press while Instacart is open: the verdict speaks over the screen — no app switch at all. With 3 batches showing, it ranks them: “Best is batch 2 at 24 dollars an hour — take it.”
Turbo is stateless: the screen text is scored in-flight, nothing stored or logged. It uses a generic time model and skips history — run Recipe A when you want the batch logged and your Store Twin applied.
Recipe A — instant, opens Carrot in Safari:
1. Shortcuts → + → add Take Screenshot
2. Add Extract Text from Image (input: Screenshot)
3. Add URL Encode (input: Text from Image)
4. Add URL → paste … then tap to insert the URL Encoded Text variable right after it
5. Add Open URLs · name it Score Batch
6. iPhone Settings → Action Button → swipe to Shortcut → Choose a Shortcut → Score Batch
Use it: offer detail on screen → press the Action Button → verdict spoken in ~2 seconds. Glance-check the numbers on the verdict card. Also works by voice: “Siri, Score Batch.” No Action Button? Map the same shortcut to Accessibility → Touch → Back Tap → Double Tap.
Recipe B — for the Home-Screen app: same steps 1–2, then add Copy to Clipboard instead of 3–5. Double-tap back → open Carrot → tap 📋. Use B if your history lives in the installed app (iOS keeps Safari and Home-Screen data separate).
Install as an app
iPhone (iOS 26): open this page in Safari → Share ⬆︎ → Add to Home Screen → leave Open as Web App on → Add. Launch the Carrot icon for the clean standalone view.
Android: Chrome menu ⋮ → Add to Home screen.
A normal Safari tab keeps Safari's controls; only the Home Screen icon opens the app-style view. During a tracked shift, Carrot requests that the screen stay awake when the browser and connection allow it.
Best first step: install before entering real data. If you already started in Safari, make a JSON backup there, then restore it after launching the Home Screen app.
Carrot updates
When an update is ready, tap again to install it. Carrot reloads once and keeps your local data. Home Screen name or icon changes can still require removing and re-adding the icon.
Data
Carrot keeps rotating on-device snapshots before important changes. They are not cloud backups and disappear if Safari/site data is erased. Demo mode uses a separate storage vault and never enters real analytics or taxes.
AES-GCM portable files can move the exact mission and settlement state to another device. Carrot cannot recover a forgotten passphrase. Automatic cross-device sync is not enabled in this private static build.