MAGMA — Hospitality IT & AI, run from a bar

Software built on the line,
not pitched at it.

We are operators first, technologists second — the inverse of every other vendor in this space. We help independent bars, restaurants, and boutique hotels run better shifts through honest IT and AI.

01 Bars 02 Restaurants 03 Hotels
Plaça de Santa Caterina, 1 — El Born, Barcelona Est. 2025 · ENG / ESP

The pitch, in one paragraph.

01 — Why MAGMA

A note from the pass

Every other vendor in hospitality is a coder who read a book about restaurants. We are the inverse. Ten years of front office, four years behind a bar, and a full-stack developer who builds what the floor actually needs. We have worked the same Friday- night pass you have. We know which screen the runner cannot see, which report your accountant secretly rebuilds in Excel, which integration breaks at 23:47. Hire operators who code, not coders who read about hospitality.

The bar in El Born is the lab.

02 — Proving ground
Fig. 01 Bar interior · El Born

Tested on real shifts, real staff, real P&L.

We co-own a cocktail bar at Plaça de Santa Caterina. Every workflow, integration, and product we sell has been run there first — on live service, in front of paying guests, with a real team that will tell us, plainly, when something is bad.

Nothing leaves the lab until it has survived a full weekend on the floor. If a tool slows down a bartender by three seconds per drink, we feel it that night and we fix it that week. Most vendors will never know what their software does to a Friday at 23:00. We do.

Location
Plaça de Santa Caterina, 1
El Born, Barcelona
Cover count
~40 seats
TUE–SAT, 18:00–02:30

What we sell.

03 — Two tracks
A.

Ready-made solutions.

Productised tools we have built for our own venues and packaged for yours. One subscription, one onboarding, one bill.

Sunny-side

Runs your breakfast room without the manager standing in it. Orders, allergens, room charges, dietary tags — one tablet on the pass.

Available

Service Notes

Pre-shift briefings the team will actually read. Drops 86s, guest preferences, and reservations into one card per shift.

Q3 2026

Mise

Inventory that survives a real bar back. Counts in pours and bottles, not spreadsheet decimals. Closes itself.

Q4 2026
B.

Consulting engagements.

For operators who already know something is off. Scoped projects, fixed deliverables, no retainers we cannot justify.

Founders.

04 — Who we are

Irakli

Operations · Co-founder

Ten-plus years in hospitality. Front office and accounting operations at Marriott. Four years behind a bar and on the schedule as bar manager. Currently co-owns the cocktail bar in El Born that is also MAGMA's lab.

Denis

Engineering · Co-founder

Full-stack developer, AI practitioner, longtime IT specialist. Builds the systems Irakli specs and the floor breaks. Currently co-owns the same bar — usually in the back office, occasionally on the door.

How an engagement starts.

05 — Three steps
STEP 01

A discovery call.

Thirty minutes. You tell us where the friction is — staffing, tickets, integrations, breakfast room, the lot. We tell you honestly whether we are the right people. Sometimes we are not.

30 min · No deck · No charge
STEP 02

An audit, on-site or remote.

We spend time inside your operation. A weekend of service for a bar or restaurant; a full check-in cycle for a hotel. Remote works for chain-level tooling. We watch, we ask, we write.

2–7 days · Fixed fee
STEP 03

A written proposal.

One document. What is broken, what we would do about it, what it would cost, what it would not cost. You decide whether to move forward. No retainers, no monthly creep.

7 days from audit · Fixed scope

Book a call.

06 — Talk to us

Thirty minutes. No deck.