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CRAFTED PROOF
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ADULT BEVERAGE × CPG · CATEGORY INTELLIGENCE

Your story deserves better than a guess.

We tell your brand's story, then back it with the category data a Fortune 500 supplier brings to a buyer meeting.

PUBLISHED THIS YEAR
17 papers
ACCOUNTS ON WEEKLY WATCH
900+
SCAN DATA READ, CONTINUOUS
3 years
LIVE READING · $/TDP
THE STORY × PROOF METHOD

Story makes them care. Proof makes them commit.

Your founders, your ground, the reason the brand exists. Told in your voice, by people picked to match it.

The data stays in the background, then steps forward when a decision needs backing.

01

Brand & story

Positioning, identity, founder storytelling, PR. Earned media first.

02

Trade & activation

Retail strategy, commercialization, displays, and playbooks timed to national retailer resets.

03

Category intelligence

Velocity diagnostics, scenario models, dashboards that refresh themselves, and the decks that come out of them.

Aerial view straight down onto planted rows of blue agave in red soil.

Velocity tells the truth. Distribution just repeats it.

SELECTED WORK

The work, and what it moved.

ALL PROJECTS →
A single worker walking a rutted red dirt road between planted rows of blue agave under low fog.
PROJECT Nº 01 · ADDITIVE-FREE AGAVE SPIRITS

Story and shelf, moving together.

Earned media carried the story. A 25-page review on three years of scan data carried the buyers. One distributor in one state became 22 across ten, and velocity held the whole way.

+368%
RETAIL $ · 2 YRS
Top 9%
OF 974 BRANDS
+68%
DEPLETIONS YOY
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PROJECT Nº 02 · CRAFT DISTILLERY & WATERFRONT HOSPITALITY

A launch the press showed up for.

PR, organic social and live activation run as one engine. National press inside 90 days, with 72% of the reach coming from audiences the brand had never touched.

680M+
IMPRESSIONS · 3 MO
100%
POSITIVE SENTIMENT
+89%
ENGAGEMENT WOW
PROJECT Nº 03 · THE INTELLIGENCE STACK

Monday morning, the reading is already done.

Small teams can't staff an analyst and a salesperson. So the analysis never happens, and the buyer meeting runs on anecdote.

We build the routine instead. Data lands in a warehouse, dashboards refresh themselves, and the weekly at-risk report goes out before anyone opens a laptop.

Depletion & velocity readingsHOURS → MIN
Retailer scorecards and rankALWAYS ON
At-risk accounts by cases at stakeEVERY MONDAY
Buyer decks from live dataDECK-READY
FIG. 01 · CATEGORY MONITOR
L52W
$5.0B
CATEGORY $
$483M
AF SEGMENT $
+23.6%
AF $ YOY
70 / 899
BRAND RANK
Additive-free share doubles every two years.
AF SHARE % OF TEQUILA DOLLARS · MONTHLY
10% 6% 2% 9.6% JAN 2024 JUL 2026
SOURCE: NIELSEN BYZZER OFF-PREMISE, TOTAL US · CLIENT DASHBOARD
INSIGHTS

Readings from the field.

ALL INSIGHTS →
FEATURED · CATEGORY INTELLIGENCE Nº 01

The 2028 wave

Spirits is sitting in a gap between Millennials and Gen Z. Relief starts when the largest cohort in US history turns 21 in 2028. Their money arrives on a different schedule.

4.79M
TURN 21 IN 2028
0.70×
GEN Z SPEND VS AVG
54%
OF ADULTS DRINK
READ THE EXCERPT →
FIG. 01 · AMERICANS TURNING 21, BY YEAR
The gate opens widest in 2028, and never that wide again.
4.8M 4.2M 2028 2016 2046
SOLID = RECORDED · DASHED = PROJECTED
SCENARIO MODEL · JUL 2026

High proof, mid-year scorecard

We called it in March and graded ourselves in July. The slowdown showed up on schedule.

CATEGORY STANDARD · SEP 2026

The additive-free endgame

A fifth of the super-premium shelf, holding its price while everything under it gets cheaper.

NEW ITEMS · AUG 2026

The innovation freeze

479 new tequilas launched in 2022. Nine launched last quarter. The shelf never got smaller.

PROJECT Nº 05 · FREE TOOL

The Bench: cocktail math, worked out.

Dilution, final ABV, batch scaling, cost per pour. We built it for our own bar work and left it open.

No signup. No email.

OPEN THE BENCH →
WORKED EXAMPLE · BATCHED MARGARITA
SPIRIT2.00 oz · 40.0% ABV
CITRUS + SYRUP1.25 oz
SHAKE DILUTION+24%
15.4%
ABV IN GLASS · 4.03 OZ SERVED
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