About Pour Intelligence
Building a clearer operating
system for beverage.
Beverage is one of the world's most knowledge-rich industries. Yet product, quality, inventory, trade, education, and market information remain fragmented across organizations and systems.
Pour Intelligence is creating the connected operating and intelligence foundation through which that information can become more structured, traceable, and useful.
Why it matters
Expertise should move with the product.
Every beverage carries information: origin, production, quality, ownership, location, price, education, placement, experience, and demand.
Too much of that information is lost, recreated, or separated from the decisions it should inform.
Pour Intelligence connects those records across the value chain — preserving context while giving each participant clearer operating and market visibility.
Principles
What guides the platform.
Quality first
Reliable intelligence begins with structured, contextual information.
Transparency with control
Traceability and attribution must coexist with ownership, confidentiality, and role-based access.
Connected by design
Each capability contributes to a common operating foundation rather than another isolated database.
Built around the industry
Technology should strengthen the expertise, relationships, and commercial realities through which beverage markets operate.
Intelligence that leads to action
Data becomes valuable when it improves production, allocation, inventory, pricing, education, buying, and market decisions.
Origin
It started in the classroom and the dining room. The problem was larger.
Jessica Stiver saw it firsthand — not only among wine educators, but across the restaurant and hospitality floor, where professionals build deep product knowledge every day and the tools around them fail to capture how expertise is actually taught, tasted, and applied. Her original idea was to build a better platform for structured learning and tasting, grounded in her technology experience, industry relationships, and passion for the trade.
Bryan J. Kaus recognized that the same fragmentation ran through the entire commercial stack. Product information, inventory, provenance, pricing, trade activity, and market signals were just as disconnected across the value chain — and connecting complex, capital-intensive value chains is his area of expertise. He expanded the vision from the education and hospitality floor to the full beverage system, producer to consumer.
Together, they developed Pour Intelligence: a quality-first operating and intelligence platform for beverage.
Founders
Built at the intersection of technology, strategy, and beverage.
Jessica Stiver
Co-Founder — Product, Technology & Partnerships
Jessica Stiver is a technology and learning-systems leader and the founder of Tech Evolution Partners. She originated the idea that became Pour Intelligence through her work making complex systems teachable at enterprise scale, her relationships across wine education and her conviction that the industry's knowledge deserves better infrastructure.
At Pour Intelligence, Jessica leads product vision, technology, learning architecture and partner development. Her combination of technical discipline, industry passion and relationship-driven business development ensures the platform is built with educators and the trade — not merely for them.
Bryan J. Kaus
Co-Founder — Strategy, Commercialization & Company Building
Bryan J. Kaus is a strategy executive, investor and company builder with a career spent improving complex, capital-intensive value chains. His experience includes growth strategy, commercial performance, pricing, M&A, capital allocation and transformation — work in which better information, clearer decisions and disciplined execution create measurable value.
At Pour Intelligence, Bryan leads company strategy, commercialization, operating design, and the expansion of the platform across the beverage value chain. He brings an investor-operator perspective to connecting the company's product vision with a scalable business model, disciplined execution, and long-term market value.
Quality-first architecture
Built for clarity across the beverage value chain.
Pour Intelligence connects product identity, quality, provenance, inventory, pricing, trade, education, and demand within one governed operating environment.
Shared standards and traceable records create a more reliable view of the beverage system, while role-based access protects the commercial information each participant owns.
Trusted at the source. Connected through movement. Intelligent in use.
Build it with us.
Pour Intelligence works with organizations across the beverage value chain to connect the records, workflows, and signals that matter to their operations.
Or write to us directly: hello@pourintelligence.com