An AI concierge for bespoke spirits

A Retail business working with Cloud Combinator on AWS. The client is anonymised at their request.

The proof of concept had to prove itself against four focus areas, each tied to a measurable success criterion.

The engagement is scoped as a three-phase journey. Phase 1, the proof of concept described here, was delivered inside Cloud Combinator's AWS environment. Phases 2 and 3 are the agreed roadmap that takes the agent into the client's own AWS account and on to a production service. Costs and scope for the later phases are indicative and subject to sign-off.

The proof of concept was accepted against its success criteria, demonstrating that an Amazon Bedrock agent can carry the client's early creative onboarding work and confirming the AWS environment is suitable for continued development. The figures below are the design targets the PoC was validated against.

• A sub-five-minute journey — Captured client inputs and returned recipes, pairings and label mock-ups inside the target window, keeping the experience interactive.
• Recipes grounded in the client's library — Drew on the client's flavour data rather than generic model output, so every recipe stayed on-brand and usable.
• Contextual pairings and branded labels — Gave each recipe cocktail and serve suggestions matched to the client's menu, plus mock-ups built around the client's own logo and brand guidance.
• A contained, recorded agent — Stayed on task and wrote every session to DynamoDB and S3, giving the client the conversation and output data it needs for analysis.
• Handover — Delivered CloudFormation infrastructure-as-code, a private repository with all code, prompts and example payloads, deployment docs and a knowledge-transfer workshop so the client's team can extend the agent independently.

With the proof of concept validated, the agreed roadmap takes the agent into the client's own AWS account for a MVP and then a production-grade, authenticated client workspace, turning a promising demonstration into a scalable digital ordering channel for bespoke spirits.