AI that runs the back office of an independent café.
S-A-N-E is an AI-native operations platform for independent cafés and roasteries. Staff run attendance, orders, production and closing in the Telegram app they already use. Managers get an AI manager that watches the shop around the clock, plus one console for people, costs, labels and devices.
Battle-tested every day by the five-person team at AIRE COFFEE, our own roastery and espresso bar in Seoul.
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A shift, as S-A-N-E records it
Every step below happens at AIRE COFFEE today. Nothing is typed twice, and nothing lives only in a group chat.
Clock in, verified on site
The clock-in button only unlocks when the phone is on the store network. The POS tablet reports the store's public IP, so check-ins from outside the store are refused.
Bar asks the roastery for beans
A roast or baking request goes into a shared queue with quantity and due time. The roastery works from the same queue, so nobody has to scroll back through the chat.
Labels print from the console
Print Studio sends labels to the printer in the store through a small relay running on the store tablet, from any browser.
Running low becomes an order
Whoever spots that milk or cups are running low files a supply order in two taps. It shows who asked, when, and whether it has been ordered or received.
Roast profiles are filed automatically
The roaster's tablet uploads each roast profile when it boots, and the console keeps them next to the bean they belong to.
Closing report in one form
The closing shift files cash, stock and notes in a Telegram form. It is stored in the database first and copied to Google Sheets for the owners.
In use since September 2026
Since the Telegram side went live on 2 September 2026, the team has filed 124 supply orders, 67 production requests, 88 staff shifts and 25 closing reports through S-A-N-E. The roast archive holds 2,814 profiles synced from our roaster's tablet, and over fifty thousand POS orders from January 2025 onward have been imported for sales reporting.
Counts taken from our production database on 1 November 2026.
Why now
Korea has more than 93 thousand coffee shops, and the count is now falling for a second year as arabica prices climb and labour and rent stay high. Independent cafés cannot add managers. They need the manager's work done for them, and that is what S-A-N-E is built to do.
Coffee shop count: National Tax Service, Q1 2026. Arabica price trend: Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation (aT), 2026.
On the floor
Telegram bot and mini app. No new app to install and no passwords to forget.
- Attendance
- Clock in and out with on-site network checks. Managers read the history on the web.
- Ordering
- Supply orders with a clear owner and status instead of chat messages that scroll away.
- Production requests
- Roasting and baking requests in one queue that both sides can see.
- Notices
- Announcements that reach the whole team in the chat they already read.
- Closing
- Structured end-of-day reports, stored in the database and mirrored to Sheets.
In the office
Web console. Staff sign in by sending a one-time code to the bot, so there are no separate accounts.
- People and permissions
- Roles, per-tab access, onboarding and resignation records with a printable view.
- Beans and blends
- Green coffee costs, blend recipes and a history of every price and ratio change.
- Print Studio
- Label projects in folders, printed to the store printer from any browser.
- Roast archive
- Profiles synced from the roaster's tablet and searchable by bean and date.
- Sales
- Daily and monthly sales from imported POS orders, ticket size and peak hours.
- Devices
- Health of the POS tablet, roaster tablet and printer, with automatic recovery scripts.
How it is built
We build and run S-A-N-E with AI coding agents. The AI layer is model-agnostic, so each task runs on whichever frontier model does it best, and it reaches the shop data only through a database role that cannot delete anything.
S-A-N-E Admin: an AI manager that never clocks out
In production at AIRE COFFEE since 1 November 2026. Managers ask in plain language and get answers built from live shop data. In the background it checks orders, closing reports, cash and the POS feed on its own and raises what needs attention.
- Ask anything about the shop
- Ask who is on shift, which requests are still open or what closed last night, and it queries the shop database to answer.
- It notices before you do
- Orders waiting more than a day, a closing report that never arrived, cash that looks unusual for that weekday, and a point-of-sale feed that has gone quiet.
- Corrections need a person
- When a clock-in is missing or an order is stuck, it drafts the fix as a card. Nothing changes until a manager taps Apply, and the original record and an audit entry are both kept. This step is being switched on after a read-only trial.
24시간 넘게 대기중인 발주 알려줘
주문이 필요한 발주 4건이 하루 넘게 대기 중이에요. 가장 오래된 건은 18일째예요.
상태를 바꾸려면 말씀해 주세요.
[POS 동기화] 마지막 주문 이후 새 주문이 들어오지 않고 있어요.
연동 상태를 확인해 주세요.
Works with the POS and messenger you already have
S-A-N-E reads sales from the receipt stream, so it works with any POS without waiting for an integration. Where a POS offers an API, it connects directly for richer data.
- Any POS
- Receipt capture today, direct APIs where available. Toss Place is connected at AIRE COFFEE.
- Any messenger
- Telegram today. KakaoTalk, WhatsApp and LINE arrive with the Q1 2027 platform release, so staff keep the app they already use.
- Any language
- Korean and English today, Japanese next. The AI manager answers in the language the manager writes in.
Simple pricing
Per store, per month. Early-access stores get the first three months free.
S-A-N-E
$10 per store / month
- Up to 5 staff
- Attendance, orders, production, notices and closing
- Web console, Print Studio and roast archive
- POS sales from any POS
S-A-N-E + AI manager
$20 per store / month
- Everything in S-A-N-E
- Ask about the shop in plain language
- Daily digest and real-time alerts
- One-tap corrections with a full audit trail
Larger teams and multi-store groups: talk to us.
Roadmap
- Nov 2026
Live at AIRE COFFEE
Telegram workflows, web console, roast archive, POS sales and the AI manager in daily use.
- Q4 2026
Early-access cafés in Seoul
First independent cafés onboard with hands-on setup.
- Q1 2027
Platform release
Self-serve sign-up for any café, KakaoTalk, WhatsApp and LINE, English and Japanese, AI order drafts from stock levels, sales forecasting, and a staff assistant for recipes and opening and closing checklists.
Company
zxzx is the software studio of Louder Pantry Co., Ltd., a Seoul company founded in March 2023 that also runs the AIRE COFFEE roastery and espresso bar. We build the tools our own staff need first, then make them usable for other independent cafés.
Louder Pantry is angel-backed and AI-native: besides S-A-N-E, the company runs its content studio and day-to-day operations with a team of autonomous AI agents.
Early access, partnerships and press: hello@zxzx.app
- Legal name
- Louder Pantry Co., Ltd. (주식회사 라우더팬트리)
- Founded
- 31 March 2023
- Location
- A-LL, 19, Seosomun-ro 11-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea
- Brands
- zxzx (software), AIRE COFFEE (roastery)