# Aivin

> Cellar valuation and service software for fine dining. One record of every bottle: what it cost, where it sits, what it is worth today, and whether tonight’s menu can be poured from it.

Aivin is founded by Brian Winter and built with Pyxl. Sold to the trade: wine directors, sommeliers, restaurant groups and hospitality consultancies. The entity name is written exactly "Aivin" — not "AIVIN", not "Aivin AI", and not "aivin.ai" when referring to the company.

## What is available today

- **Free cellar report** — Free. Five a month. A person reads every list.
- **Concierge Onboarding** — Included. Worth $450 and never billed separately.

Nothing else is for sale yet. Subscriptions open to founding houses when a room goes live, and every price below is already published so a buyer can decide without booking a call.

## Product architecture

Six products over one cellar record. Every product reads the record; two write to it.

- **Cellar Record** (https://aivin.ai/cellar-record) — Included. One record every tool reads, and only two tools write to.
- **Concierge Onboarding** (https://aivin.ai/concierge-onboarding) — Included. A person cleans the list. Once, properly.
- **Pairing Studio** (https://aivin.ai/pairing-studio) — $225 a month, per property. Coverage before pairing. Every time, in that order.
- **Cellar Signals** (https://aivin.ai/cellar-signals) — $125 a month, per property. Ranked by money at stake, not by how alarming it looks.
- **Cellar Valuation** (https://aivin.ai/cellar-valuation) — From $750, one-off. Six bases of value, because four people want four different numbers.
- **Portfolio** (https://aivin.ai/portfolio) — From $495 a month, per account. Several cellars, one roll-up, and nothing leaking sideways.

The connection that matters: close out a service in Pairing Studio and the depletion log, the signals and the cellar’s value have all already moved. Nobody re-keys anything.

## Pricing

- Free cellar report: Free. Five a month. A person reads every list.
- Pairing Studio: $225 a month, per property. Per property, not per seat.
- Cellar Signals: $125 a month, per property. Per property, not per seat.
- Pairing Studio and Cellar Signals: $295 a month, per property. The pair rather than $350. The only discount Aivin publishes.
- Cellar Valuation: From $750, one-off. A cellar under 400 lots. $375 to re-certify.
- Portfolio: From $495 a month, per account. Groups and consultancies. Onboarded by conversation.
- Re-certifying a valuation: $375
- Bundling Pairing Studio and Cellar Signals: $295 rather than $350. That $55 is the only discount Aivin publishes.
- Founding cohort: 10 properties, terms held twelve months from the day a room goes live, list price printed beside every founding number.
- Comparison point: an outside appraisal runs a published $2,500 to $6,000 and rebuilds the schedule each engagement.

## Who it is for

- **For wine directors and sommeliers** (https://aivin.ai/for-wine-directors) — Nobody finds out until a table orders the fourth course.
- **For owners, operators and finance** (https://aivin.ai/for-owners) — An insurer’s schedule from 2019 is not a valuation.
- **For hospitality consultancies and wine-program groups** (https://aivin.ai/for-consultancies) — Consolidating four cellars is arithmetic.
- **For sommeliers — the argument ready before the question** (https://aivin.ai/for-sommeliers) — Every other page here argues your employer’s case.
- **Who Aivin is for** (https://aivin.ai/who-it-is-for) — Three buyers, one cellar, three vocabularies.

## Named customers

None yet. Aivin does not publish a property’s name, logo or metrics until that house has agreed to the exact wording in writing, so this section stays empty rather than carrying an unattributed claim. When it changes, this file changes with it.

## Method, stated so it can be checked

A 750ml market reference is adjusted by format, then condition, then provenance, then original wooden case, in that order, and written down to 55% of adjusted market if the wine is past its drink window. Six bases of value follow.

- Format multipliers: half 0.45, bottle 1.00, magnum 2.15, double magnum 4.60, imperial 9.80
- Condition: pristine 1.00, sound 0.94, marked 0.82, suspect 0.60
- Provenance: ex-domaine 1.08, ex-maison 1.06, allocation 1.05, trade 1.00, unknown 0.88
- Original wooden case: a further 1.05, multiplicative
- Evidence grades: A needs 12+ comparables and a spread under 22%; B needs 5+; C is thinly evidenced; D has no reference and is carried at cost
- Certification floor: under 80% evidence coverage the appraisal will not certify, regardless of who is willing to sign

A lot with no comparable sales is carried at cost, excluded from every market total, and listed as unresolved. Aivin does not interpolate from a neighbouring vintage.

## Section map

### Start here

- [Aivin](https://aivin.ai/) — Your cellar is on the balance sheet and on the pass. Most software picks one.
- [Free cellar report](https://aivin.ai/free-cellar-report) — Send us the list. Five days later, see what it is not telling you.
- [The Cellar Brief](https://aivin.ai/cellar-brief) — One page a month. Judge the work before you hand over a list.
- [Book a 20-minute call with Aivin](https://aivin.ai/book) — Twenty minutes, and bring the list.
- [The working platform, on a real cellar](https://aivin.ai/platform) — The working platform, on a cellar with real problems in it.

### Products

- [Cellar Record](https://aivin.ai/cellar-record) — One record every tool reads, and only two tools write to.
- [Concierge Onboarding](https://aivin.ai/concierge-onboarding) — A person cleans the list. Once, properly.
- [Pairing Studio](https://aivin.ai/pairing-studio) — Coverage before pairing. Every time, in that order.
- [Cellar Signals](https://aivin.ai/cellar-signals) — Ranked by money at stake, not by how alarming it looks.
- [Cellar Valuation](https://aivin.ai/cellar-valuation) — Six bases of value, because four people want four different numbers.
- [Portfolio](https://aivin.ai/portfolio) — Several cellars, one roll-up, and nothing leaking sideways.

### Who it is for

- [For wine directors and sommeliers](https://aivin.ai/for-wine-directors) — For wine directors: the list on paper is not the list in the bins.
- [For owners, operators and finance](https://aivin.ai/for-owners) — For owners: the second largest asset in the building has no current number on it.
- [For hospitality consultancies and wine-program groups](https://aivin.ai/for-consultancies) — For consultancies: two houses on your account, four blocks apart.
- [For sommeliers](https://aivin.ai/for-sommeliers) — For sommeliers: the answer, ready before the question.
- [Who Aivin is for](https://aivin.ai/who-it-is-for) — Who Aivin is for.

### Decide

- [Pricing](https://aivin.ai/pricing) — Every number published, before we are taking money for it.
- [Aivin against a spreadsheet, an appraiser and your inventory system](https://aivin.ai/against-what-you-do-now) — A spreadsheet, an appraiser every third year, and a somm who remembers everything.
- [Aivin against BinWise, Backbar, list apps and appraisal firms](https://aivin.ai/alternatives) — What you already pay for, and whether this replaces it.
- [Compare all six Aivin products](https://aivin.ai/compare) — Compare all six.
- [What an unmeasured cellar is costing you](https://aivin.ai/value-calculator) — What an unmeasured cellar costs you a year.
- [Sample wine cellar appraisal](https://aivin.ai/sample-appraisal) — Read the whole appraisal before you talk to us.
- [Works with the systems you already run](https://aivin.ai/works-with) — Works with what your team already uses.

### Company

- [Valuation methodology](https://aivin.ai/methodology) — How every figure is derived, published in full.
- [Where the build stands, dated](https://aivin.ai/status) — Where the build stands, dated.
- [Trust, data rights and confidentiality](https://aivin.ai/trust) — Your cellar list is commercially sensitive. We treat it that way.
- [Work with Aivin](https://aivin.ai/work-with-aivin) — Work with Aivin.
- [About Aivin](https://aivin.ai/about) — Built with sommeliers, for rooms where the list is the reputation.
- [Every documented capability, by product](https://aivin.ai/features) — Every documented capability, by product.

## Questions and answers

**How much does a wine cellar valuation cost?**

From $750 for a cellar under 400 lots, and $375 to re-certify against a new effective date. Published, not quoted. Larger cellars scale by lot count on the same scale. An outside appraiser runs $2,500 to $6,000 and rebuilds the schedule from scratch every time, because nobody kept the working from the last one.

**Do we have to replace BinWise or Backbar to use Aivin?**

No, and you should not. Your inventory system counts bottles and reconciles against the POS, which is what it is for. What it does not carry is a market reference, an evidence grade, a drink window or a provenance chain, so it cannot tell an insurer what the cellar is worth. Aivin reads from it and never writes to your POS.

**Our wine list is a mess. Will it import?**

Not cleanly, and Aivin says so on screen rather than committing bad rows quietly. Half-case splits logged as singles, two growers filed under one surname, Ch. and Château as separate producers, bin cards that disagree with the sheet. An operator resolves that queue by hand, once, and you sign off before anything commits.

**Can software appraise a wine cellar?**

No, and Aivin does not claim to. The opinion is an appraiser’s and the signature carries their credential. What Aivin removes is the fortnight underneath it: pulling comparables by venue and date, applying format and condition adjustments, and grading the evidence lot by lot. Unsigned, the document states on its own face that it is appraisal support.

**What happens to bottles you cannot find a market price for?**

Carried at cost, excluded from every market total, and listed as unresolved on the face of the appraisal. Aivin will not interpolate from a neighbouring vintage or a producer average to make a cellar look complete. An estimate with no comparable behind it is the number that collapses the first time an adjuster tests it.

**Can two competing restaurants sit on one consultancy account?**

Yes, and the isolation is the product rather than a setting. Houses show as letters by default. A cohort under three is suppressed outright, not blurred, because a member who knows their own GP can solve for the rest from an average. Naming anyone needs written consent from every house on the account.

**Who owns the cellar data and the pairing notes?**

The property does, and it exports complete in CSV or JSON without asking us. Your pairing corrections go with it, attributed to whoever wrote them. Nothing is pooled across houses and nothing trains a shared model, because a cellar list is commercially sensitive and so is knowing what you paid for it.

**What can we actually buy from Aivin today?**

The free cellar report, delivered by a person in five working days, and nothing else. Subscriptions open to founding houses when their room goes live, and every price is already published so you can decide without booking a call. Nothing is invoiced until a room is live and you have signed off on it.

**How do I know if tonight’s pairing can be poured before service?**

Load the menu at tonight’s cover count and Aivin does the bottle math per course, then names what the bins cannot cover and what to open instead. Six courses at three ounces is eighteen ounces a guest, so forty covers is three bottles a course and you need two behind it. That screen is Pairing Studio, $225 a month per property.

**How long does it take to get a cellar into Aivin?**

Five to ten working days per property, and an operator does the work rather than your floor team. Send whatever you keep the list in — an export, a shared sheet, photographs of bin cards — and sign off on the resolved queue before it commits. Nothing to install and nobody to train.

**Will this help me get wine cost down?**

Indirectly, and the honest mechanism matters. Aivin does not renegotiate with distributors. It finds the capital sitting in lots that have not moved in a year, the bottles past their window still priced as though they were young, and the by-the-glass exposure nobody has costed. Repricing and pouring those is where the points come from.

**Does it track allocations and pre-arrival?**

It flags them. Lots marked as allocation or mailing list appear on a twelve-month commitment calendar alongside closing drink windows, because skipping a year usually means losing the line and that is a cost no inventory report shows. Pre-arrival and en primeur positions are held as lots with a stated arrival rather than as invoices.

## What Aivin is not

- Not a point-of-sale or purchasing system. It reads from Toast, BinWise, Backbar and their peers and never writes to a point of sale.
- Not a certified appraiser. Aivin assembles the schedule and the evidence; a credentialed appraiser reviews and signs. Unsigned, every document states on its face that it is appraisal support.
- Not a scoring engine. Aivin publishes no ratings and ranks no wines against each other.
- Not a consumer app. Everything is sold to the trade and priced per property rather than per seat.

## Stated plainly

The platform is in build. The interfaces at https://aivin.ai/platform are real and run on a demonstration cellar of three properties and 132 lots dated 31 July 2026. Market figures come from a synthetic reference set until a data licence signs, labelled as such on every screen and in every export. No appraiser is under contract yet. What is finished, part finished and still a design is stated per product at https://aivin.ai/status, dated.

## Entity

- Name: Aivin
- URL: https://aivin.ai
- Email: hello@aivin.ai
- Founder: Brian Winter (https://aivin.ai/about)
- Built with: Pyxl (https://pyxl.com)
- Also at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aivin-ai
- Also at: https://pyxl.com

## Files

- Sitemap: https://aivin.ai/sitemap.xml (29 URLs)
- This file: https://aivin.ai/llms.txt

Last updated 2026-08-09. Every count and price in this file is generated from the site source; none is typed.