Dionysus
Your best sommelier, on every table
Dionysus gives every server a sommelier-grade wine answer for any dish on your menu — in under three seconds, on the device already in their pocket, even when the Wi-Fi drops.
The product
Every dish gets three cards
A guest asks what goes with the dish. Your server taps it and reads the answer — two by-the-glass picks and one bottle worth trading up to, each with a line they can say at the table, word for word. These are real answers from a live venue, not a mock-up:
What's the guest ordering?
By the glass
Izway 'Rob & Les' Shiraz 2023
$19 glass
Generous, spice-driven Shiraz matches cassoulet's rich, slow-cooked flavours and pork belly fat.
What the server says
“This Shiraz has the weight and spice to really stand up to a rich cassoulet.”
By the glass
Ochota Barrels 'A Forest' Pinot Noir 2024
$26 glass
Savoury, forest-floor Pinot Noir complements the confit duck leg while its acid cuts the richness.
What the server says
“The Pinot's earthy character works beautifully with confit duck, and the acid cuts the richness.”
Trade-up
Château Ferrand 2016
$39 glass
Plush, Merlot-driven Pomerol matches cassoulet's richness with velvety texture rather than aggressive tannin.
What the server says
“This Pomerol's plush texture is a lovely, more serious match for a rich cassoulet.”
Sells more of what you pour by the glass. Trades guests up when the moment is right. Never mentions a bottle that isn't in stock.
How we work
Live the same week
Send us your list and menu
Wine list and food menu in whatever shape they exist — spreadsheet, PDF, the printout by the till. We handle the rest.
We enrich every bottle
Tasting notes, producer stories, structure, and food affinities for your whole cellar, plus pairing cards precomputed for every dish — reviewed by a human before anything goes live.
Your team signs in with their own PIN
Add each server once with their email and they get a one-time link to pick their name and PIN. From then on, any phone or tablet, no app store, no passwords to remember.
It stays current
New wines, menu changes, a bottle 86'd mid-service — updates flow to every device, and recommendations refill automatically with what you actually have.
Pricing
One plan. Everything included.
$500 /month per venue
No setup fee. No contracts. Cancel anytime.
- ✓Full wine list enrichment, human-reviewed before go-live
- ✓Pairing cards for every dish — two by-the-glass picks plus a trade-up
- ✓Personal staff accounts, unlimited devices per venue
- ✓Offline-first floor app — keeps working when the Wi-Fi doesn't
- ✓Wine list and menu updates whenever they change
- ✓Daily shift brief: new wines, running low, just 86'd
- ✓Email support straight from the founders
One glass of wine per night pays for it.
Who we are
Built on both sides of the pass
Dionysus exists because great wine service shouldn't depend on which server happens to be on tonight. We're a two-person team: one of us builds the product, the other has lived the problem.
Raul Movila
Co-founder · Product & Engineering
Raul designs and builds Dionysus end to end — the enrichment pipeline that turns a wine list into knowledge, the guarantees that keep every recommendation in stock, and the floor app your team actually uses on shift. Obsessed with one number: how fast a server gets an answer at the table.
Fenn Neal
Co-founder · Hospitality & Wine
Fenn has spent their career in hospitality and winemaking — on restaurant floors during the Friday rush, and in the winery making the bottles that end up on your list. Every pairing card, server script, and shift brief in Dionysus is shaped by what actually works at the table, because Fenn has stood there.
Questions
Asked by every good operator
Will it ever recommend a wine we're out of?
No — and this is a structural guarantee, not a promise. Every recommendation is checked against your live stock at the moment it's shown, and our release process is gated on a test suite that verifies zero out-of-stock recommendations. If a bottle is 86'd, it's gone from every device instantly.
Does it work without internet?
Yes. The floor app keeps a full copy of your list, menu, and pairings on each device and works completely offline — we've tested it in airplane mode. It syncs whenever a connection comes back.
Is this a chatbot on the floor?
No. All the intelligence runs before service, not during it. On the floor it's a fast, tap-only tool — pick the dish, see three cards, each with a line your server can say at the table verbatim. Sub-three-second answers, no typing, no waiting on an AI.
Does it replace our sommelier?
It bottles what your best wine person knows so the other fifteen servers can use it on a busy Friday. Someone who knows your list can review and edit every tasting note and pairing before it reaches the floor.
Do we need to integrate our POS?
No integration required to start. Stock changes are a one-tap update in the admin view, and your list is refreshed whenever you send us changes.
How long does onboarding take?
Send your list and menu today; your team is usually live the same week — most of that time is the human review pass, not the technology.
Put a sommelier in every apron
Send us your wine list and menu today — your team can be answering like your best wine person this week.
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