For investors
A bar plan, properly drawn.
bartendersNow™ is a professional bartending services marketplace built by Midnight Logic, Inc. It pairs event hosts with independent mobile bartenders, plans the bar with proprietary algorithms, and removes the spreadsheet math from hospitality.
We're early. We're selective about who we talk to and careful about what we share before we know each other. This page is for first conversations — if any of the below resonates, reach out.
What's different
The mechanics that compound.
The work of planning an event bar happens in a spreadsheet, at the venue, and in an off-platform DM. We moved that work into the product.
- A real two-sided marketplace
- Hosts get identity-verified independent bartenders, transparent pricing, and a bar plan generated from their event details. Bartenders set their own rates and choose the events they take.
- Proprietary algorithms anchor the product
- The Stock List generates ingredient-level shopping lists scaled to a host's event, and is refined from post-event feedback. The Smart Staffing Calculator returns a recommended bartender count from guest data and beverage complexity.
- Trust built into every booking
- Every bartender is identity-verified through Stripe. Self-reported RBS certification is surfaced as a filter for hosts whose venues require it. Universal privacy rights (CCPA / CPRA, GPC) are built in from the start, card data is handled entirely by Stripe and never touches our servers, and we are working toward WCAG 2.1 AA conformance.
Who's behind it
Midnight Logic, Inc.
A Delaware C-corp building hospitality software in Santa Clara, California. We come from the operating side of events — we've run the bars, written the rate sheets, lost the receipts, and spent the late nights on the spreadsheet math that this platform replaces.
Kristopher Young (founder) has been a working bartender for over a decade, the longest stretch as a bar Captain across the Bay Area private-event circuit. He's the source of the Stock List algorithm specification and the operational knowledge embedded in every screen of the product.
Get in touch
Start a conversation.
Drop a short note and we'll reply. Anything you share stays between us. We're not running a process — we're looking for partners who get hospitality and care about how this category gets built.
Existing investors and advisors: hello@bartendersnow.com.