Menu Analytics: Shots February 2026
Ground Signal's menu analytics demonstrates how BevTech platforms track competitive positioning and category trends, offering founders data-driven insights on premiumization and flavor innovation.
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Baseball On-Premise Insights: The Cocktails, Flavors, and Accounts Driving the Season
Ground Signal's on-premise analytics reveal cocktail and flavor trends at baseball venues, showcasing beverage intelligence tools that help founders understand consumer behavior and market opportunities.
Menu Analysis: National Independent Accounts Q1 2026
Ground Signal's Q1 2026 menu analysis tracks cocktail placement across 79,600+ accounts, providing actionable data on brand momentum and competitive trends for beverage tech platforms and suppliers.
How AI Is Changing Beer
AI is transforming beverage production from quality control to recipe development. Examples include Propagate Lab's Yeast Buddy chatbot and custom AI models creating novel beer recipes, showing practical tech applications.
AI will help wine sales in hospitality but won’t replace humans
Why does this matter?
AI-driven beverage personalization tech like Preferabli shows how BevTech tools are solving real operational problems—reducing waste, improving staff onboarding, and increasing sales through better product matching rather than upselling.
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As Artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in hospitality, db hosted a webinar earlier this year
DRINKS Powers Forbes' Entry into Wine Commerce
Why does this matter?
Major media brand Forbes launches wine commerce powered by DRINKS platform, validating BevTech infrastructure and demonstrating content-to-commerce opportunities for beverage founders.
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Super-premium-plus spirits fall 15% in 2025
Why does this matter?
BevTech founders need to understand the premiumization reversal and shift to value-tier products, as this fundamental market trend impacts product positioning, pricing strategies, and growth opportunities in emerging markets.
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Irish whiskey, agave and no-alcohol products were the only bright spots for the spirits sector last