An AI wine sommelier that surprised
a championship judge.
Built and operated solo. Live on the App Store →
How agents run the product, and the team ↓Sommvi is unusual because there are agents on both sides of it. There’s an agentic system inside the app — multiple specialist agents that compose every wine answer. And there’s an agentic team around the app — Tech Lead and Product Owner agents that build, deploy, monitor, and grow it.
That dual-angle is what makes this case load-bearing for the playbook: agents aren’t just inside your product or just around it. They’re both. Same patterns, different scopes.
“Intrigued and surprised by what the app produced — I didn’t expect this kind of pairing intuition from software.”
Senior judge · International wine-tasting championship
The user-facing experience is intentionally simple — natural language in, expert response out. The complexity sits behind the interface, in a four-stage agentic pipeline.
A coordinator routes the request to specialist agents that work in parallel: knowledge lookup, pairing reasoning, taste memory, and synthesis. The pipeline composes a structured answer with a confidence score — not generic LLM output.
Sommvi’s answers don’t come from a single LLM call. They come from a structured knowledge graph that connects wine ontology, pairing patterns, regional context, vintage data, and user history — composed at query time.
The 2nd brain is the unfair advantage. Generic LLMs hallucinate vintages and pair Bordeaux with sushi. Sommvi grounds every claim in the graph, then lets the language model do what it’s good at: turning structured facts into a sommelier’s voice.
The team is four agents. Two senior agents — Tech Lead and Product Owner — own the strategy. Each doubles up: TL also handles SRE; PO also handles Marketing.
Under TL, two engineer agents do the actual building. They code in parallel and peer-review each other before anything ships. The TL orchestrates them, reviews the final output, and owns reliability. Real software-team patterns at single-operator cost.
The traditional plan for Sommvi’s scope was sized for 10 people over 6 months: a Tech Lead, four engineers, a Product Owner, a marketing lead, a designer, two domain specialists. That’s the proposal you’d normally take to a venture firm.
We shipped solo with agents in under 30 days. Live on the App Store, validated by a senior judge from a wine-tasting championship. Stack runs at £300/month. The headline isn’t cost-savings against a team that never existed — it’s a 6× compression in time-to-live, with 10-person scope absorbed by one operator and four agents.
Coach (5 → 50 clients), Innowait (B2B agency), FitWay (production app), Sommvi (you’re here). Real numbers, real costs.
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