Winetelligent
Winetelligent is a German SaaS platform turning a restaurant or hotel wine list into a QR-code digital menu with an AI sommelier, food-pairing suggestions and Claude-generated tasting notes. Plans start at EUR 29 per month, 14-day trial included.
What is Winetelligent?
Winetelligent is a German SaaS platform published by Jimmy Chanon Singler, a sole trader based in Donaueschingen, Baden-Württemberg. One brand covers two distinct products whose statuses differ sharply. The first, in service today, is a digital wine list sold to restaurants and hotels. The second is a free consumer app for wine lovers, announced as Coming Soon and absent from both the App Store and Google Play as of 26 August 2026, even though the site's legal notice claims the opposite.
On the venue side, six functions are advertised: a customisable digital list carrying prices, vintages, grape varieties and food pairings with a QR code included; automatic food-and-wine matching that crosses the kitchen menu with the cellar; a shop module and ordering system with email notification; AI-written wine descriptions; an administration dashboard with two-factor authentication; and team management. The AI engine is named explicitly in the legal notice, the privacy policy and the processing agreement: Anthropic's Claude API. Guests can also open an AI Sommelier chat, whose questions, plus an anonymised summary of the collection for signed-in users, are sent to that API to produce recommendations.
The home page claims more than 950 wines in the shared database, five minutes to go live, more than 10 languages for the guest-facing list and full GDPR compliance. Onboarding runs in three steps: sign up with the venue name and choose a URL slug, fill the list manually or import from the global database with AI-completed descriptions, then print or embed the QR code. The architecture is multi-tenant, every venue living at a /t/{slug} address as the public demo confirms, and the terms also describe an installable PWA mobile experience, backed by a standalone-display manifest.
The published technical stack is Supabase for database and authentication on Frankfurt servers, Vercel for hosting in an EU region, Anthropic PBC for the AI on US servers under standard contractual clauses, and Cloudflare Turnstile for bot protection at signup. Marketing positions the consumer side as more than Vivino. The publisher is careful to state that its recommendations are orientation only, not professional oenological advice, and that regulatory allergen labelling stays outside its scope.
What it does
- Publish a digital wine list that guests open by scanning a QR code
- Generate tasting notes with Claude for any wine that has no description
- Suggest automatic food-and-wine pairings drawn from the restaurant's own menu
- Sell wine directly from the list and handle the resulting orders
- Manage wines, prices, quantities and staff from a dashboard protected by two-factor authentication
- Let guests create an account and build their own wine collection
When to use Winetelligent / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Winetelligent is the right fit.
When to use Winetelligent
- German-speaking restaurants and hotels whose wine list changes often and has to be reprinted every time.
- Venues with no in-house sommelier, where floor staff are expected to advise guests on pairings.
- Cellars of roughly 150 to more than 500 references, since the three tiers are indexed on that volume.
- Operators with no IT team: onboarding is announced in three steps and five minutes, without technical knowledge.
- Buyers who care about EU hosting and GDPR paperwork: a full Article 28 processing agreement is published and every subprocessor is named.
When not to use Winetelligent
- Private wine lovers: the consumer app is still marked Coming Soon and was found on neither the App Store nor Google Play.
- Consumers generally, since sections 1 and 3 of the terms restrict the contract to businesses within the meaning of section 14 of the German Civil Code.
- Teams that do not read German: no English interface or document was found anywhere on the site.
- Anyone who needs software integration: there is no public API, no technical documentation and no third-party connector.
- Restaurants expecting allergen compliance or a committed roadmap, both of which sections 9e and 9c of the terms explicitly decline.
How to use Winetelligent
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open the public demo at digitaler-sommelier.de, which needs no signup, or book a walkthrough through the cal.com link it carries
- Sign up free from the signup page: venue name and a URL slug, announced as a 60-second step
- Fill the wine list by hand, or import from the shared database of more than 950 wines and let the AI complete the missing descriptions
- Check and explicitly confirm the accuracy of every AI-generated entry in the dashboard before publishing it, as section 9e of the terms requires
- Leave the badge that marks AI-generated descriptions visible, as section 9g of the terms requires
- Print the QR code or embed it in the paper menu; guests scan it and land on your dedicated /t/{slug} page
- Run the venue day to day from the two-factor-protected dashboard: wines, orders, statistics, team and internal messaging
- Use the 14-day trial, which starts without a payment card, to judge the fit before committing
- Report any incident by email to support@winetelligent.com, since a verbal or telephone alert triggers no contractual deadline
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Legal documentation unusually complete for a publisher this size: legal notice, privacy policy, terms and a full Article 28 processing agreement are all published and freely readable before signature
- Subprocessors named one by one, each with its purpose, registered seat and the legal basis for the transfer
- Detailed and checkable technical measures: bcrypt, JWT, rate limiting, TLS 1.3, HSTS, Row Level Security, daily backups kept seven days, least privilege and an audit log
- Data hosting announced in the EU (Supabase in Frankfurt, Vercel in an EU region), with a contractual undertaking not to use customer data for the provider's own purposes beyond anonymised statistics
- No tracking cookies, no advertising network and no Google Analytics
- Incident correction deadlines quantified by severity (24 hours, 72 hours, 5 working days, 14 working days), with a status update promised within 4 hours
- Prices displayed publicly, a 14-day trial with no payment card, a public demo needing no signup, and EU AI Act compliance anticipated through automatic labelling of AI-generated content
Cons
- The site contradicts its own pricing. The home page advertises EUR 29, 49 and 79 per month with no setup fee, while section 4 of the terms charges a one-off EUR 499 setup for Starter and EUR 999 for Professional on top of EUR 29 and EUR 49 per month, and knows only those two named tiers plus an Enterprise quote. The EUR 79 tier does not appear in the terms at all.
- The same prices are announced as VAT-inclusive on the home page and as net, excluding statutory VAT, in the terms. Both cannot be true at once.
- The legal notice states that the app is available on the App Store and Google Play; the home page marks it Coming Soon, and targeted searches on both stores returned nothing.
- Article 2 of the processing agreement declares processing to take place exclusively in the European Union, while the same document lists Anthropic PBC (US servers) and Cloudflare (United States) among the subprocessors.
- The publisher is a one-person sole trader with no company behind it, holding production access alone under Article 5 of the processing agreement, and its tax number had not yet been issued when the legal notice was written. That is a real continuity risk.
- The terms carry no maintenance, evolution or wine-data update obligation (section 9c), deliver the platform as-is with no fitness warranty (section 9a), promise only a 99% annual average uptime with no penalty or service credit, and cap liability at the last 12 months of fees.
- No public API, no technical documentation, no third-party integration, no social presence, no customer review, no named reference and no external certification (neither SOC 2 nor ISO 27001). Interface, documents and support are German only, and the advertised 10-plus languages apply to the guest-facing list alone and are never listed.
Pricing & Plans
There is no free plan on the product that can actually be bought today: access begins with a 14-day free trial requiring no payment card, and the free consumer app announced alongside it is still marked Coming Soon. The home page's grid runs Weinkarte S at EUR 29 per month (up to 150 wines), Weinkarte M at EUR 49 per month (up to 500 wines) and Weinkarte L at EUR 79 per month (unlimited), with annual payment presented as two months free (EUR 290, EUR 490 and EUR 790) and optional add-ons at +EUR 10 for Analytics, +EUR 15 for Shop and +EUR 5 for a custom domain. The lowest entry point is therefore EUR 29 per month. Prospective buyers should note that section 4 of the terms publishes a different grid: Starter at EUR 499 setup plus EUR 29 per month, Professional at EUR 999 setup plus EUR 49 per month, and Enterprise on request. The home page states that all prices include VAT; the terms state that all prices are net, excluding statutory VAT, although the publisher declares itself a small business under section 19 of the German VAT Act and charges no VAT while that regime applies. Cancellation is likewise described as possible at any time to month-end on the home page, whereas section 5 of the terms requires 30 days' notice.
- digital wine list
- guest account and collection
- QR-code generator
- internal messaging
- team management
- label scanner and GDPR compliance
- all core features
- flagged as the recommended tier on the home page
- all core features
- Analytics +EUR 10
- Shop +EUR 15 and custom domain +EUR 5 per month
- Starter (EUR 499 setup plus EUR 29 per month)
- Professional (EUR 999 setup plus EUR 49 per month) and Enterprise on request
- Consumer app
- announced as free
- status Coming Soon
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Winetelligent handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR implementation is concrete and documented rather than merely claimed. The privacy policy is drafted under Articles 13 and 14 and dated March 2026; the controller is named and reachable at datenschutz@winetelligent.com. A full Article 28 processing agreement is published and accepted at contract signature, listing subprocessors, technical measures and a 24-hour breach notification to the customer. Rights under Articles 15 to 22 are set out one by one, exercised by email or by deleting the account, with a 30-day response commitment. Transfers outside the EU rely on standard contractual clauses (Implementing Decision 2021/914/EU) for Anthropic PBC and Cloudflare. The supervisory authority is named: Baden-Württemberg's data protection commissioner in Stuttgart. Customers hold an audit right, including on-site inspection with 14 days' notice. No data protection officer is appointed, and no external certification backs the home page's 100% GDPR compliant claim.
Who owns the data?
Section 10 of the terms states that everything the customer loads into the platform, meaning wine data, prices, texts and logos, remains the customer's intellectual property; the provider receives only a processing right, limited to operating the service. Rights to the software, the design and the Winetelligent brand stay with the provider. Article 3 of the data processing agreement adds that no processing takes place for the provider's own purposes, the sole exception being anonymised, aggregated analytics with no personal link. Article 8 grants a complete JSON or CSV export on request when the contract ends, followed by deletion confirmed in writing; end users hold the same portability right under Article 20 GDPR.
Reuse rights
The privacy policy lists each category with its legal basis: email address for performing the contract (Article 6(1)(b)), taste preferences by consent (Article 6(1)(a)), the personal collection and tasting journal for the contract, and credentials hashed through Supabase Auth. The processing agreement adds master data, usage behaviour, order data and technical data such as IP address, session token and timestamp. Questions put to the AI sommelier, plus an anonymised summary of the collection for signed-in users, are sent to Anthropic's Claude API on a legitimate-interest basis (Article 6(1)(f)); the chat history stays in the browser for the current session and is not stored on the servers. The publisher states that it collects no location data, no device identifiers and no advertising data, and uses only a technical session cookie plus local storage, with no tracking, no advertising network and no Google Analytics. Customers keep the right to reuse their own content freely and can pull everything out as JSON or CSV without asking permission.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The privacy policy and Article 6 of the processing agreement name four subprocessors with their location. Supabase Inc. runs the database and authentication on servers in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, under a DPA. Vercel Inc. handles hosting, CDN and deployment in an EU region (Frankfurt) under standard contractual clauses. Anthropic PBC delivers the AI recommendations through the Claude API on US servers, covered by Article 46 standard contractual clauses and described as API use without durable storage. Cloudflare Inc. provides Turnstile bot protection at signup, routed through EU points of presence and storing no personal data. One inconsistency deserves flagging: Article 2 of the processing agreement declares the place of processing to be exclusively the European Union, naming only Supabase in Frankfurt and Vercel in an EU region, and section 8 of the terms repeats it, yet the same documents list two subprocessors headquartered in the United States, one of which processes on US servers. The site's resolved IP address (216.150.1.1, Amazon AS16509, anycast) is a CDN node and says nothing about where the data lives.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Winetelligent.
- Two incompatible price grids. Get written confirmation of whether the EUR 499 or EUR 999 setup fee in section 4 of the terms applies, because the home page never mentions it, and of whether prices are VAT-inclusive as the home page says or net as the terms say, a gap of roughly 19% in Germany. The terms also know only Starter and Professional, so the EUR 79 tier is absent from them.
- Cancellation terms differ: the home page says any time to month-end, while section 5 of the terms imposes 30 days' notice.
- The mobile app is presented as available in the legal notice but was found on neither store, so do not build a commitment on that basis.
- Section 9c of the terms carries no obligation to maintain, update or extend the wine database; corrections and improvements are voluntary.
- Allergen labelling stays entirely with the restaurateur under section 9e, and the built-in age check does not amount to legal age verification under German youth protection law (section 9f).
- AI-generated descriptions must be checked and approved by the customer before publication, and the publisher declines all liability for hallucinations. That is a real proofreading workload, a real risk of a wrong tasting note reaching a guest if it is skipped, and a slower erosion risk: floor staff can start deferring to the machine instead of building their own wine knowledge.
- One-person publisher: production access rests with a single individual with no documented redundancy, and liability is capped at the last 12 months of fees.
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low. Setup is announced in three steps and five minutes, without IT knowledge: a 60-second signup with the venue name and a URL slug, then filling the wine list by hand or importing from a database of more than 950 wines with AI-completed descriptions, then printing or embedding the QR code. Nothing is deployed, installed or configured server-side, as the platform is fully hosted. The real cost is clerical rather than technical: the customer must read and validate every AI-generated description before publishing it. The optional custom domain (+EUR 5 per month) is the only step needing DNS work.
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Behind Winetelligent
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Frequently asked questions
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Should you pick Winetelligent?
Winetelligent is a very young product. The domain was registered on 28 March 2026, every legal document is dated March 2026, and the legal notice states that the tax number had not yet been issued. Behind it stands one person operating as a German sole trader, with no company structure and no documented human redundancy on production access.
What that person has built is, on paper, more rigorous than most of the segment. A full Article 28 processing agreement, a privacy policy drafted under Articles 13 and 14, subprocessors named individually with their seat and transfer basis, detailed technical measures, incident deadlines quantified by severity and anticipated EU AI Act labelling of AI-generated content are all published and readable before you sign anything. Very few tools of this size publish that much.
Against that stand contradictions the site has not resolved. The home page and section 4 of the terms publish two incompatible price grids, one with no setup fee and one with EUR 499 or EUR 999, and they disagree on whether prices include VAT and on the notice period. The legal notice claims a mobile app that neither store carries. The processing agreement declares EU-only processing while listing two US subprocessors in the same document.
For a German-speaking restaurant or hotel, the advertised feature-to-price ratio is good, provided you obtain written confirmation of the grid that will actually apply before subscribing. There are no customer reviews, no named references and no external certification, neither SOC 2 nor ISO 27001, to corroborate anything, so the public demo and the 14-day trial are the only evidence available. Treat this as a promising early-stage tool from a careful, unusually well-documented publisher rather than as a settled purchase.
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