Testing Hypotheses
Main Pain Points
- Automatically track wine purchases
- Provide option to sell owned wine
- Track estimated price of wine
- Allow allocations of future wine
- Receive updates on wine
Main Gains/Features for Palate
- Ability to sell EP purchases
- Ability to purchase future allocations
- Hold wine in storage
Main Assumptions
- Wine buyers need technology
- Wine buyers are aware of blockchain
- Wine buyers want to use another system to track cellar
- Lack of automation is a problem
Customer Empathy Map
Key Themes
2 distinct problems
- Wine Storage
- Wine Technology
- automate wine purchase to cellaring
- find wine purchase/selling opportunities
- Can’t easily track en-primeur wine
Opportunity Mapping
Opportunity 1 - Automate wine purchase to cellaring
Outcome: Users automatically update their wine collection from purchasing to drinking
Opportunity: Purchase to Cellar Tracker Automation
Solutions:
- Website widget to automate purchase to cellar
- Email address to send receipts to - AI to monitor and upload to your cellar
- Screenshot reader
- Integration with known wine ERP
Experiments
- Prototype the widget for technical feasibility - will the widget read the web page purchases
- Prototype Cellar Tracker integration - is it capable
- Qualitative interviews - is it worth paying for?
Opportunity 2 - Find wine selling opportunities
Outcome: find/sell current wine
Opportunity: don’t know how to sell my wine
Solutions:
- List cellar tracker inventory on a public marketplace
- Cellar Tracker integration with Liv Ex selling
- App to sell wine
Experiments
- Qualitative interviews with Cellar Tracker user base to assess selling requirements
- Feasibility prototype for Cellar Tracker & Liv Ex integration
Opportunity 3 - Can’t easily track en-primeur wine purchases
Outcome:
- users can track en-primeur wine purchases
Opportunity:
- Buyers can’t easily track en-primeur purchases
Solutions:
- Wine shop/distributor to send you a receipt of the purchase
- Wineshop login
- Wine shop/distributor to send you a digital token of the purchase
- Winery creates receipt which can be delivered from winery to distributor to customer
- Login to a webpage to view your purchases
Experiments
Wine shop/distributor to send you a digital token of the purchase
- 10 x user research with websites in AUS that sell en-primeur
- 10 x user research with buyers who buy en-primeur wine
- Figma prototype for widget