Bar Genius

An AI-enabled product for cocktail recommendations, inventory awareness, and personalized mixology workflows — LLM integration in a real consumer surface.

Challenge

Consumers and bartenders needed more than a static recipe list — they needed recommendations that adapted to ingredients, taste, and context.

Solution

Integrated LLM-based recommendation and conversation into a React Native and Node.js stack, with real-time data sync and push notifications around inventory and experience.

Architecture

01Mobile client in React Native
02Node.js API layer
03LLM integration for recommendation and assistance
04Realtime sync and notifications

Engineering challenges

Structured LLM usage as a product workflow, not a chat toy.
Recommendation and inventory as first-class domain concepts.

Technologies

React NativeNode.jsOpenAI APITypeScriptRealtime sync