Intelligence for restaurants bars event venues

Your AI automation
partner beyond just
consulting.

More than a consultancy. We design, build, and run AI systems for hospitality operators — capturing event revenue, controlling inventory and prep, and recovering guest demand when staff can't respond. Intelligence that works from day one.

Industries we serve
Hospitality & Events Legal & Compliance Med Spa & Wellness Construction & Infra Gov & Defense Maritime & Ports
Tools & frameworks we build with
OpenAI Anthropic Google Vertex AI LangChain LangGraph n8n Make Python Pinecone Chroma RAGAS PostgreSQL Airtable Twilio Stripe Square AWS Docker

We specialize in translating business problems into AI systems that actually run in production — combining strategy, engineering, and disciplined product judgment.

Simulated benchmark

Three hospitality systems,
measured on one venue.

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70%
Event booking rate
Simulated, up from 41.7%.
27s
Median guest response
Simulated, from 36.4 minutes.
48
Inventory anomalies flagged
Across 672 simulated daily records.
201
Guest bookings recovered
Simulated, worth $70.5K.

Our custom approach
ensures deployments succeed.

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Event & Group Inquiry

Event Inquiry Agent

Captures event and group inquiries across phone, web, email, and social, qualifies them against your rules, and recommends a package — with a human gate on high-value events.

n8nLLM extractionRules engineCRM
Inventory & Prep

Inventory Intelligence

Deterministic inventory, variance, and prep intelligence. Flags stockout risks and anomalies, then briefs the manager before any order goes out.

PythonDecimal mathForecast rules
Guest Recovery

Guest Recovery

Answers missed calls and messages in seconds, checks real availability, and books or escalates — never inventing a reservation time.

TwilioRAG / FAQGPT-4o
Top-tier consultancy & timely delivery
Long-term partnerships built on trust
Quick onboarding, faster than new hires
Free diagnostic and flexible first engagement

Simulated benchmark

Explore the hospitality systems.

Figures are simulated demonstration outcomes on one venue. For our real, in-production work, see Case studies ›

Event inquiries captured and qualified 24/7

Every event and group inquiry — phone, web, email, Instagram, SMS — captured, qualified against your rules, and answered in minutes.

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Deterministic usage and variance calculations, with AI flagging the anomalies and briefing the manager before any order goes out.

Guests who reach out during peak service get an instant reply, real availability, and a booking or a clean handoff to staff.

Money, thresholds, dates, and availability are computed by deterministic code — AI never invents a number or a booking.

Buyouts, large events, purchases, and anything high-value wait for human sign-off before they happen.

System
Focus
Result
Metric
Event & Group Inquiry
Revenue
41.7→70%
Booking rate
Event & Group Inquiry
Revenue
+68
Bookings
Inventory & Prep
Operations
48
Anomalies
Guest Recovery
Guest
36.4→0.45m
Response
Guest Recovery
Guest
201
Recoveries

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DigitalStone AI

DigitalStone AI drives
growth with innovation.

Our approach goes beyond dashboards. We design solutions that address every aspect of how intelligence meets your business — from planning and engineering to deployment and the quiet, continuous improvement that keeps systems sharp over time.

Services & skills

We build intelligence
that actually runs.

Six practice areas, built for hospitality operators. Every engagement is measured against production metrics in your venue — not slideware, not decks, not chatbot screenshots.

01

Event & group revenue

Capture and convert more event and group business. We build the agent that answers every inquiry, qualifies it against your rules, and hands your team a clean, tracked pipeline.

  • Multi-channel inquiry capture
  • Automatic qualification & packages
  • Automated follow-up sequences
  • Human approval on high-value events
02

Inventory & prep intelligence

Deterministic inventory, variance, and prep — with AI that explains it. Know what to order and prep before service, and catch the anomalies quietly costing you margin.

  • Theoretical vs actual usage
  • Variance & anomaly detection
  • Event-adjusted demand forecasts
  • Manager-approved purchasing
03

Reservation & guest recovery

Stop losing bookings during the rush. An always-on system answers missed calls and messages in seconds, checks real availability, and books or escalates — never inventing a time.

  • Instant multi-channel response
  • Real-availability booking
  • FAQ from approved knowledge
  • Large-party & complaint escalation
04

Marketing studio

On-brand hospitality media on demand. Menus, flyers, social ads, and event graphics generated from a brief — a creative add-on for the venues we build systems for.

  • Menus, flyers & signage
  • Food & drink photography
  • Ads & promo creative
  • Social & influencer content
05

AI strategy & diagnostics

Honest diagnosis first. A free 45-minute session to map where AI actually helps your venue — and where it doesn't. Half our engagements start as a no.

  • Opportunity discovery
  • Build vs buy roadmaps
  • Cost & ROI modeling
  • Vendor & model selection
06

Managed operations

We run what we build. Monitoring, evaluation, and continuous tuning across your systems — hosted, measured, and improved so your team can focus on guests.

  • Hosted multi-system deployment
  • Monitoring & evaluation
  • Continuous tuning & updates
  • Owner analytics & briefs

How we work

A calm process.
Five stages, each earns the next.

01

Diagnose

Free 45-minute session. We map the work, the data, and the outcome you actually care about. If AI is wrong for the job, we say so.

02

Design

A written system spec: stack, workflow, success metrics, and a realistic schedule. You sign off before a line of code is written.

03

Build

Two-week sprints with visible progress. You see the system working at the end of every sprint — not at the end of the engagement.

04

Ship

Production deployment with monitoring, eval harnesses, and a documented runbook. Your team can take it from here, or we can keep running it.

05

Operate

Optional managed operations. We watch the metrics, tune the system, and deliver a monthly intelligence brief.

Tools of the trade

The stack we reach for
when the job calls.

Languages
Python
TypeScript
SQL
AI platforms
OpenAI
Anthropic
Google Vertex
Orchestration
LangChain
LangGraph
n8n
Make
Vector & retrieval
Chroma
Pinecone
pgvector
RAGAS
Data
PostgreSQL
Airtable
Snowflake
BigQuery
Infra
GCP
AWS
Cloudflare Workers
Docker
Integrations
Twilio
Calendly
Square
Stripe
Slack
Hospitality
Toast
OpenTable
Resy
SevenRooms

Bring us your
hardest problem.

Free 45-minute diagnostic. We'll tell you whether AI is the right tool before you spend a dollar.

Case studies

Systems shipped.
Measured in production.

Four recent engagements across legal, wellness, hospitality, and infrastructure. Each one is a live system — not a demo, not a deck.

Evaluation Framework Legal

RAG-Eval

Retrieval quality benchmarking system

91% answer faithfulness, up from 34%

Caught a 34% hallucination rate before launch and shipped at 91% verified faithfulness — measured, not estimated.

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Lead Capture Wellness

IntakeAI

Client intake & reactivation system

+31% monthly bookings in month one

Round-the-clock intake with a 47-second median response — captured 94% of after-hours inquiries and booked them automatically.

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Business Intelligence Hospitality

BI-Agent

Venue intelligence & owner brief system

+28% loyal-guest retention

Replaced 3 hours of weekly dashboard review with a 5-point SMS brief — and flagged the events quietly losing money.

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Infrastructure Inspection Infrastructure

InspectAgent

AI-assisted infrastructure inspection

5.7× faster structure reviews

Cut review from a full day to 1.4 hours per structure, with 100% critical-defect detection in testing.

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Evaluation FrameworkLegal

RAG-Eval

Retrieval quality benchmarking system

Client

Legal Services Firm

A mid-size personal injury firm handling heavy case-intake and research volume. They'd bought an AI assistant from a prior vendor to answer questions against their own case files and legal knowledge base, and were weeks from putting it in front of clients and staff.

The problem

In pre-launch review, the assistant was inventing case details — names, dates, and outcomes that appeared nowhere in the source documents — at a 34% rate. In a legal setting, a single confident hallucination can misdirect a client or contaminate case strategy. Worse, the firm had no way to measure how often it was wrong or why, so they could neither trust it nor fix it. We were brought in to prove the real failure rate, find the root cause, and get it to a defensible standard before go-live.

Stack

PythonLangChainChromaDBOpenAI EmbeddingsRAGASn8n

How it works

  1. Reproduce and measure. We built a labeled evaluation set from real firm queries and scored the existing pipeline with RAGAS — turning "it feels wrong" into a hard, defensible 34% hallucination rate.
  2. Isolate the root cause. A/B tests across chunking and embedding strategies showed retrieval, not the model, was surfacing the wrong passages.
  3. Rebuild retrieval. We re-chunked the corpus, changed the embedding approach, and added a faithfulness gate that blocks any answer not grounded in a cited source.
  4. Lock it with a harness. An automated eval harness re-runs on every change, so quality can't silently regress after launch.

Results

34→91%
Faithfulness
88%
Retrieval precision
4.2%
Hallucination rate
3h
Time to evaluate

The outcome

Answer faithfulness climbed from 34% to 91%, retrieval precision reached 88%, and the hallucination rate fell to 4.2% — with every answer now traceable to a cited source. The firm went live with a system it could actually defend, and kept the eval harness so quality stays measured, not assumed.

"We were about to go live with a system making up case details. DigitalStone AI caught it before it cost us a client relationship."

— Managing Partner, Legal Services Firm

Workflow

A closed-loop evaluation pipeline that measures retrieval quality end to end, then gates every answer on grounded, cited evidence before it ever reaches a user.

Corpus ingestionChunking A/B testsEmbedding evaluationRetrieval scoring (RAGAS)Faithfulness gateCited answerRegression harness
Lead CaptureWellness

IntakeAI

Client intake & reactivation system

Client

Medical Spa & Wellness Clinic

An owner-operated medical spa with three providers, competing in a market where prospective clients shop several clinics at once and book with whoever answers first. Inquiries arrived by web form, text, and DM around the clock — but were answered by hand, only during business hours.

The problem

Roughly 40% of after-hours inquiries went cold before anyone replied the next morning; prospects had already booked elsewhere. The owner was doing intake manually between appointments, so even daytime leads waited, follow-up was inconsistent, and past clients who could be won back were never contacted. Every missed message was booked revenue walking to a faster competitor.

Stack

n8nTwilioGPT-4oAirtableCalendly API

How it works

  1. Instant first response. Any inquiry — form, SMS, or DM — gets an on-brand reply within seconds, day or night, from a GPT-4o agent over Twilio.
  2. Qualify in conversation. The agent asks the right questions, captures treatment interest and contact details, and writes a clean record to Airtable.
  3. Book without a human. Qualified leads are offered real open slots and booked straight into the calendar through the Calendly API.
  4. Reactivate the dormant list. The same system re-engages past clients with tailored follow-ups, turning an idle database into new appointments.

Results

94%
After-hours capture
47s
Avg response time
+31%
Monthly bookings
$11.7k
Reactivation rev (m1)

The outcome

The clinic now captures 94% of after-hours inquiries with a 47-second median response, and booked appointments rose 31% in the first month. A reactivation sequence against the existing client list added $11.7k in month-one revenue — from leads that were previously lost or forgotten.

"I used to lose so many people who messaged after hours. Now the system responds in under a minute and they're on the calendar before I wake up."

— Owner, Medical Spa & Wellness Clinic

Workflow

A 24/7 intake and reactivation loop that responds, qualifies, and books every inquiry automatically — then keeps following up until the client is on the calendar.

Inquiry receivedInstant AI replyQualificationCRM recordAuto-bookingAutomated follow-upReactivation
Business IntelligenceHospitality

BI-Agent

Venue intelligence & owner brief system

Client

Independent Music Venue

A 280-capacity independent music venue running four to six events a week across wildly different formats — touring acts, DJ nights, local showcases. Booking decisions were made on gut feel and how full the room looked on the night.

The problem

A packed room felt like success, but the owner couldn't tell which events built a loyal, returning audience versus a one-time crowd that never came back. Sales lived in Square, tickets in Eventbrite, and attendance in nobody's head — three disconnected systems and no time to reconcile them. The result: money quietly lost on events that looked good but didn't pay back, and no data to plan the calendar or negotiate with agents.

Stack

PythonSquare POSEventbriteGPT-4oTwilioAirtable

How it works

  1. Unify the data. The system pulls sales from Square and tickets from Eventbrite and stitches them to check-in records for a per-event, per-guest picture.
  2. Find the patterns. A GPT-4o analysis agent scores each event on repeat attendance, spend per head, and true margin — separating loyal draws from one-night crowds.
  3. Brief the owner, not a dashboard. Findings arrive as a five-point SMS brief, so insight lands without a login or a spreadsheet.
  4. Guide the calendar. Recommendations flag which formats to book more of and which to cut.

Results

+28%
Loyal guest retention
+$9
Revenue per head
3
Low-ROI events cut
5 hrs
Owner time saved / wk

The outcome

By booking toward events that actually retained guests, loyal-guest retention rose 28% and revenue per head climbed $9. Three consistently low-ROI event types were cut, and the owner reclaimed about five hours a week previously spent piecing together reports by hand — now replaced by a brief that lands on their phone.

"I thought DJ nights were my best nights because the room was full. Turns out I was filling the room with strangers who never came back. The data changed how I book."

— Owner, Independent Music Venue

Workflow

An automated intelligence loop that consolidates fragmented venue data every week, finds what's actually driving loyalty and margin, and delivers it as a plain-English brief.

Square POS pullEventbrite importCheck-in mergePattern analysis agentMargin & retention scoringBrief generationSMS delivery
Infrastructure InspectionInfrastructure

InspectAgent

AI-assisted infrastructure inspection

Client

Construction & Infrastructure Firm

A regional inspection firm working state and port-authority contracts on bridges, docks, and other critical structures. Their deliverables are formal condition reports that carry real liability and must hold up to public-agency scrutiny.

The problem

Each structure took a senior inspector six to eight hours of manual footage review, and output varied by whoever did it — different defect language, different severity calls, different report formats. That inconsistency was a liability risk on regulated work, and the manual bottleneck capped how many contracts the firm could take on. Their best people were spending full days scrubbing video instead of inspecting.

Stack

PythonGPT-4VffmpegPostgreSQLLangChainn8n

How it works

  1. Extract the evidence. Raw inspection footage is processed with ffmpeg into clean, timestamped frames covering the full structure.
  2. Classify with vision. GPT-4V reviews every frame, identifying and labeling defects — cracking, corrosion, spalling — with consistent terminology.
  3. Score and standardize. Findings are written to PostgreSQL, deduplicated, and assigned severity against a fixed rubric, so every structure is judged the same way.
  4. Generate the report, human-signed. A LangChain step assembles a uniform PDF condition report, with an inspector reviewing and signing off before it ships.

Results

1.4h
Review per structure
91%
Classification match
100%
Report consistency
100%
Critical defects caught

The outcome

Review time per structure fell from a full day to 1.4 hours — a 5.7× speedup — while classification matched senior-inspector judgment 91% of the time and caught 100% of critical defects in testing. Every report now follows the same format and severity standard, removing the inconsistency that created liability and freeing the firm to take on more contracts without adding headcount.

"What used to take my best inspector a full day now takes ninety minutes — and the report is cleaner than anything we were producing manually."

— Operations Director, Construction & Infrastructure Firm

Workflow

A vision-driven inspection pipeline that turns hours of raw footage into a standardized, severity-scored condition report — with a human inspector signing off at the end.

Footage uploadFrame extraction (ffmpeg)Vision classification (GPT-4V)Defect databaseSeverity scoringHuman reviewStandardized PDF report

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Hospitality demos

Three hospitality systems,
shown end to end.

Event revenue capture, inventory intelligence, and guest recovery — the operational AI DigitalStone builds for restaurants, bars, and event venues, demonstrated on one venue.

The scenario

To demonstrate these systems honestly, we created a fictitious venue — Harborline Social & Events, a high-volume restaurant, cocktail bar, and private-event space — and generated a complete synthetic dataset for it: event inquiries, inventory and prep records, guest interactions, and transactions. We then ran all three demos on the real, working systems against that data, so every result reflects how the software actually behaves in real-world use — only without any real client's information. Together the three systems form one hospitality intelligence portfolio, while each remains an independently deployable product.

220-seat restaurant & bar 2 private event spaces 7-day operation ~9,000–12,000 monthly covers Phone · web · email · Instagram · SMS Beverage-heavy inventory
Event & Group Inquiry Revenue

Event & Group Inquiry Agent

Structured revenue capture across every channel

70% simulated booking rate, up from 41.7%

Turns scattered inquiries into a qualified, tracked pipeline — cutting simulated first response from 91.5 minutes to 3.9, with a human gate on high-value events.

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Inventory & Prep Intelligence Operations

Inventory & Prep Intelligence

Deterministic inventory, variance & prep

48 anomalies surfaced across 672 daily records

Keeps every calculation deterministic and lets AI explain it — flagging stockout risks and anomalies, and drafting a manager brief before any order is approved.

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Reservation & Guest Recovery Guest

Reservation & Guest Recovery

Immediate response for missed demand

87.8% simulated resolution, 0.45-min response

Answers missed calls and messages in seconds, checks real availability, and books or escalates — recovering 201 simulated bookings without ever inventing a time.

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Event & Group InquiryRevenue

Event & Group Inquiry Agent

Structured revenue capture for event & group inquiries

Scenario

Harborline Social & Events simulated

Event inquiries arrive by phone, web, email, Instagram, and SMS. In the baseline process a manager reads each one, chases missing details, checks the rules, recommends a package, follows up, and updates a lead tracker by hand.

The problem

High-value inquiries slip away: responses are delayed during service, information is incomplete, leads scatter across channels, qualification varies by employee, and follow-up is inconsistent — with no reliable funnel view.

Stack

Channel adaptersPythonLLM extractionRules engineCRMn8n

How it works

  1. Intake & dedupe. Every inquiry from web, email, Instagram, phone, or SMS is normalized to one schema and checked for duplicates.
  2. Extract & qualify. AI pulls date, party size, event type, and budget; a deterministic engine checks minimum spend, capacity, lead time, and blackout dates.
  3. Recommend & converse. It recommends an eligible package and asks only the genuinely missing questions — never inventing a value or promising availability.
  4. Route & follow up. High-value or unusual events route to a human; the rest get a tracked lead record and an automatic follow-up sequence.

Simulated results

91.5→3.9m
First response
41.7→70%
Booking rate
+68
Incremental bookings
240
Synthetic inquiries

AI handles

Field extractionEvent classificationMissing-info questionsLead summariesReply classification

Deterministic logic

Minimum spendCapacityLead-time rulesBlackout datesPackage eligibilityRevenue math

Human approval

Party size over 100, estimated value over $9,000, buyouts, weddings, custom pricing, and low-confidence extractions all require human review before anything is promised.

Demonstration outcome — expected behavior under synthetic test assumptions across 240 generated inquiries, not a client result.

Workflow

From a raw inquiry to a tracked, qualified lead and a deposit/contract handoff — with a human gate on anything high-value.

InquiryChannel adapterExtractionQualificationMissing-info Q&APackage recommendationHuman reviewCRM leadFollow-up
Inventory & Prep IntelligenceOperations

Inventory & Prep Intelligence

Deterministic inventory, variance & prep intelligence

Scenario

Harborline Social & Events simulated

A beverage-heavy bar program with food prep requirements, where counts and usage live across POS exports, spreadsheets, vendor invoices, manual counts, recipe sheets, and manager knowledge.

The problem

Fragmented data drives stockouts, over-ordering, waste, weak prep estimates, emergency orders, and unknown variance — with little visibility into theoretical versus actual usage. The system deliberately does not treat an LLM as an accounting engine.

Stack

PythonDecimal mathUnit conversionForecast rulesLLM briefCSV / Sheets

How it works

  1. Normalize. POS sales, counts, deliveries, recipes, pars, and events are unit-normalized with decimal-safe arithmetic.
  2. Calculate. Theoretical usage, expected closing inventory, and variance are computed deterministically — the single source of truth.
  3. Detect & project. Anomaly rules flag unexplained variance, and event-adjusted demand projects the next period.
  4. Brief & approve. AI ranks the highest-risk items and writes a plain-English brief; any purchase requires manager approval.

Simulated results

672
Daily records
48
Anomalies flagged
3.27%
Avg absolute variance
$268K
Suggested order value

AI handles

Anomaly explanationRisk rankingEvent-context readingManager briefItem-name mapping

Deterministic logic

Usage mathUnit conversionVariance %Reorder quantityPar logicDecimal money

Guardrails

AI never invents counts, changes balances, overrides unit conversions, or submits a purchase. Deterministic values always win over an AI explanation, and every order needs manager approval.

Demonstration outcome — variance and anomaly figures come from 672 generated daily records with injected test cases, not a client result.

Workflow

Operational and financial data in, a ranked risk brief out — deterministic math as the source of truth, with a manager gate on every purchase.

POS + counts + deliveriesNormalize unitsTheoretical usageActual vs expectedVariance & anomaliesDemand projectionOrder + prep recommendationAI briefManager approval
Reservation & Guest RecoveryGuest

Reservation & Guest Recovery

Immediate response & booking recovery for missed demand

Scenario

Harborline Social & Events simulated

During peak service, missed calls and digital messages create lost demand and interrupt staff. Guests reach out across phone, SMS, web, and DMs and expect a fast, accurate answer.

The problem

Staff cannot answer every call during service, so guests abandon requests. Repetitive questions interrupt hosts, large parties need different handling, and owners cannot measure how much demand is lost.

Stack

TwilioIntent classifierRAG / FAQReservation adapterBusiness rulesPython

How it works

  1. Respond instantly. Every missed call, SMS, web, or DM gets an immediate reply and an intent classification.
  2. Answer or route. Approved FAQs are answered from a grounded knowledge source; reservations, large parties, and complaints route accordingly.
  3. Check real availability. The reservation adapter returns only real times — the system never fabricates a slot or a confirmation.
  4. Book or escalate. It books when details are complete and the tool confirms, or hands off to staff with concise context.

Simulated results

36.4→0.45m
Response time
87.8%
Resolution rate
201
Recovered bookings
$70.5K
Recovered value

AI handles

Intent classificationEntity extractionClarificationFAQ (RAG) answersEscalation summaries

Deterministic logic

AvailabilityBooking creationModify / cancelHours of recordLarge-party thresholdSMS opt-out

Safety rules

Hard constraints: never invent a time, never claim a booking is confirmed without tool confirmation, respect SMS opt-out, and escalate complaints or safety issues. Private-event leads hand off to the Event & Group Inquiry Agent.

Demonstration outcome — resolution and recovery figures come from 500 generated interactions, not a client result.

Workflow

A missed message becomes a verified booking or a clean escalation — grounded entirely in real tool results.

Missed call / SMS / DMImmediate responseIntent classificationRules & knowledgeReservation adapterVerified availabilityGuest recordRecovery analytics

These are demonstrations.
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Simulated portfolio dataset. Every business, guest, transaction, and result on this page is synthetic and generated under test assumptions to demonstrate how these systems behave. These are not client outcomes. Our real, in-production engagements live on the Case studies page.

Studio

Marketing content for
hospitality brands.

DigitalStone AI Studio is our creative add-on for the venues we work with — menus, ads, flyers, and social content generated on brand from a simple brief, without a photoshoot or a design agency. Offered as a feature alongside the systems we build.

Publish-ready media for
your whole venue.

From menus and flyers to social ads and event graphics, we generate on-brand hospitality media from a simple brief — a creative feature we add for the businesses we build systems for.

Menus Flyers & posters Event graphics Social ads Table tents Signage Email & SMS graphics Promo reels Brand kits

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