Pour5

If the tools never fit your bar, talk to us.

Pour5 is in private beta. The parts for your shelves, deliveries and register are built. What we don't know is how they hold up in a bar that looks nothing like the last one. Beta is how we find out. If you already know you want in, tell us about your bar.

What the program is

A small number of bars, found through direct conversation and referral. We are picking for difference. A dive bar, a cocktail bar, a hotel bar and a neighborhood pub will each ask different things of Pour5, and we would rather learn all four now than get very good at one of them.

An unusual menu, a house pour nobody else does, categories that only make sense to you. Those are the ones that tell us something.

The trade is simple. You get some of your hours back. We get the truth from someone using Pour5 in their own bar.

Tell us what worked, what didn't, what would help, and any wild ideas you have. Some of it we'll build. Some of it we'll say no to, and say why.

What a partner gets

All of Pour5, as it's built. Your stock, your deliveries and your register, plus whatever we come up with during the beta.

You talk to the people building it. No support queue, no account manager. The person who answers you is the person who writes the code.

Free for the length of the beta. You're doing real work for us by running Pour5 in a real bar and telling us what breaks. We're not going to charge you for that.

What a partner owes us

Conversation. Give us lots of feedback. Short notes when something works, longer ones when it doesn't. If a screen makes no sense at 11pm with wet hands, we need to hear that, not have it quietly worked around.

Patience while it changes. This is beta. Things will change, break, and get rebuilt while you're using them. If you need something polished today, this isn't it yet.

Fair questions

Does it work with my register? Square is the one that's built. Toast and Clover are already designed for, we just haven't had a bar on either to build against. So if you're running something else, tell us anyway. We can't promise you a date, but what people are actually running is how we decide what comes next.

How much of my time does this take? A few minutes at a time. Connecting happens once, a delivery is a photo, and a count is a check rather than a survey. Check-ins happen on whatever channel you already use. If a week goes by with nothing to tell us, that means it's working.

What happens to my numbers? They stay yours. Your sales, costs and margins are your business record. We don't sell or share them. What we learn from you is general knowledge about how bars work, never a record of your business itself.

What's the catch? It's early software. Some edges are rough, and some features arrive mid-beta. In exchange, the product gets shaped around bars like yours. The fine print is in our terms.

Tell us about your bar

Alongside your name, your bar and your email, tell us what your bar is like and what about it never fits the tools you've tried. Tell us what's actually giving you trouble, what's eating up your time, and what you'd want instead if anyone asked. A few honest paragraphs are plenty. We read every one, so thank you for the time.

Take your time here. This is the part we actually read.
Wild ideas welcome.

We'll follow up by email, usually within a few days.