IRL to digital, connected

Give them
the first one.

Digital product sampling at scale. One taste per person, guaranteed — from a screen or a shelf, straight to their phone, no app.

Born in drinks and on-trade. Built to travel.

Bars & pubsCafésOn-trade Retail & groceryFestivalsFMCGBeautyPharmacyDTC
Why we built this

We ran the tours. We gave out the samples. We kept none of the reaction.

For years we ran national product sampling tours — bars, pubs and clubs, up and down the country. We put new products into thousands of hands and watched people taste them for the first time. Then we walked away with none of it: no name, no reaction, no idea what they thought. On a new launch, that live response would have been worth more than the sampling itself. So we built the version that keeps it.

The reaction we used to lose is now the point.

Why the first one matters in the on-trade

At the bar, most people haven't chosen yet.

In the on-trade the decision happens on the spot — around two in three walk in undecided. Once they pick, they tend to stay with it for the night, roughly four of the same drink, then home or gone. Win the first order and you win the rest. A sample is the one thing that acts at that exact moment — on the floor, in the venue, at the point of choice.

Win the first one, and you've won the round.

What a sample actually does

Trial is the shortest path to growth.

Brands grow by adding buyers, not by squeezing the ones they have. A free trial removes the risk of trying something new — and turns an undecided hand into a first purchase. It is the most direct move a brand can make on the number that matters: how many people buy at all.

80%
Will try after a sample
Four in five people say a free sample makes them willing to try a brand. Trial is where buying begins.
Penetration
Not loyalty
Growth comes from more buyers, not more loyalty points. A sample is the cheapest new buyer you'll make.
1 : 0
One per person, zero waste
Exactly one sample each, guaranteed — no workaround — with a full digital audit trail for brand and venue.
Watch it happen — consumer side and brand side

One scan on their phone. Live on your dashboard.

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The scan
A QR on the in-venue screen reaches people at the point of choice. One scan opens the offer — no app, just their browser.

The sample is the whole job here: get it into the right hand, once, and prove it worked. Everything that happens after — the ongoing relationship — is where the extensions come in.

Make it compound

Sampling is the core. The rest are extensions.

The sample earns you a name and a moment. Bolt on more of the system and that moment keeps paying back — the same QR, the same identity, doing more work.

Core
Digital Sampling
One taste per person, delivered and proven.
Add-on
Display CMS
Drive the in-venue screens from the same dashboard. Contextual creative that carries the offer — Friday an offer, Saturday a recipe.
Add-on
Packaging CMS
Put the same QR on the pack. Update what it shows live, long after the sample — the moment travels home with the bottle.
The full loop
Everything Connects
Turn the sampled name into an ongoing, first-party relationship — permission, follow-up, and a single ID that learns. Sampling starts it; EC compounds it.
The problems we set out to solve

Sampling used to mean a team in every venue.

Physical sampling is bound by bodies — hire a promo team, work one venue at a time, and you can only be where the staff are. We replaced the teams with the mechanic, so a single campaign runs in one venue or a thousand at once. Everything below is what used to make that hard — and doesn't any more.

Distribution
No stock to ship, no team to send
The merchant pours from stock they already hold — no sampling logistics on the road, no promo staff to book.
Merchant payment
Paid in stock, not cash
The brand gives the merchant extra stock to sell and keep the margin — that is the payment for taking part, and it reconciles exactly to the samples actually poured.
Leakage
Nothing walks off unaccounted
Every sample is tracked to a redemption — no shrinkage, no guesswork, and a full digital audit trail for brand and venue.
Compliance
Age-gated, one per person
18+ verification and a guaranteed single sample each, with no workaround. No app — just the phone's browser.

Run it yourself, or hand it to us — self-serve or fully managed.

The reach of a team in every venue. Without the team, or the ceiling.

Make it yours

Customise it. Integrate it.

Bars and on-trade taught us to deliver a sample under real pressure — busy floors, tight compliance, staff with ten seconds to spare. That discipline travels into any category. We shape the journey around your product and wire it into the systems you already run.

Customise & integrate — your requirements, our rails
POS / EPOSRedeem at the till, not a workaround
Coupons & vouchersA free-sample coupon, or money-off the full-size after trial
CRM & CDPIdentities flow into your single view
LoyaltySampling feeds the programme you run
E-commerceCarry the moment home to the basket
Email · SMS · WhatsAppFollow-up on the channel they chose
Ticketing & accessSample gated to an event or venue
ERP & stockRedemptions reconcile against supply
Your stack, via APIBespoke builds, quick, to fit

If it has a point of sale or a point of contact, sampling can live there.

Words of wisdom
We took the money we had planned to use on advertising and invested instead in enough material to give away large quantities of our products. It was so simple that competitors sneered when they heard. — Estée Lauder

She built a beauty empire on a sample. The instinct was right then — we've made it measurable, connected, and impossible to waste.

Built to last, not to bin

We build it to reuse, not throw away.

There are two ways to run a sampling campaign. One ships a one-off microsite for a short burst, captures an email, then deletes itself when the promo ends — so the next campaign starts from scratch. We chose to build the other way.

The one-off way
  • QRA throwaway link that dies when the promo ends.
  • DataEmail only. No mobile, weaker follow-up, resets each time.
  • BuildA bespoke microsite rebuilt for every campaign.
  • AfterCampaign over, relationship over. Start again from zero.
The way we build it
  • QROne permanent code — swap the campaign behind it in real time.
  • DataName and mobile, opted-in, ready to carry forward.
  • BuildBuilt once. Every future campaign runs on the same platform.
  • AfterHand the relationship to Everything Connects and it compounds.
Start

Sample in one venue, or a thousand at once. Let's talk.

Tell us what you're putting in people's hands. We'll show you the mechanic, live.

IRL to digital, connected