For beer distributors · now starting pilots
A thin Thermly tag on each keg reports its temperature, each reading with its time. A keg that read cold in the walk-in and then warmed up after a while at the account is likely empty and off the cooler. The Thermly agent works like an employee on your sales desk: it answers your customers' texts, checks in before a regular delivery when kegs look likely empty, and asks before it adds a keg to the order.
No Wi-Fi to set up and nothing to plug in. Each reading shows the time it was read.
Sample beer distributor/KegsMap
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Read the keg
A keg reads cold while it's on tap or waiting in the walk-in. When it warms up after a while at the account, someone has likely pulled it off the cooler because it's empty.
Why the agent asks first
Warm, after cold readings.
Warm, after cold readings.
At 2:05 the agent texted Jess, the bar manager, to ask about tomorrow's delivery.
Jess says what's empty. The agent asks rather than assume, because warm usually means empty, but not always.
How it works
The tags tell you what each keg's temperature was, and when. The agent gets the order right and the empties back.
A thin tag goes on each keg you want to see, from your warehouse cooler to the account's walk-in and back. No Wi-Fi to set up and nothing to plug in.
Keg 1184 · house lagerCold · 36–38 °FReadings travel over the Thermly network, each with the time it was read. Your delivery record says which account a keg went to, and the map shows roughly where it was last heard.
Customers text the agent like they'd text their rep. It checks the warehouse and the route, and asks your rep where a rule says so. Replies go on record.
Once the account or the rep says yes, it adds the change to that delivery's order for your team, puts the empties on the same stop and confirms with the customer.
The Thermly agent
The Thermly agent is an AI agent that works like an employee on your sales desk, with three jobs.
Empties go back on the next stop, with the kegs that replace them.
You decide what it does on its own and what waits for your OK: an extra stop waits for the sales rep, it asks the account before changing an order, and an order over the account's usual is noted for the rep. Texts go only to people who signed up for them: your own staff, and accounts who opted in for delivery texts.
Thermly agentto Jess, bar manager · by textSampleHi Jess, it's the Thermly agent for your beer distributor. Two of your house lager kegs warmed up since Sunday, so they look empty, and two still read cold. Want 2 house lager on tomorrow's delivery, and the driver to take the empties?
JessYes, but make it 3. We've got the game Thursday.
Sample beer distributor. Jess is the sports bar's bar manager; Dave is the sales rep for these accounts. She didn't have to count kegs or call it in.
What a pilot gets
| What it does | How |
|---|---|
| Readings from each keg, each with the time it was read | Tags |
| A map of roughly where each keg was last heard, and when | Thermly network |
| Texts to your accounts and your reps, and their replies on record | Agent |
| Follow-up when there's no answer, then the next person on the plan | Agent |
| A phone call when a text isn't enough | Agent (voice) |
| A daily summary of what's open and who it's waiting on | Agent |
| What | Status |
|---|---|
| Your account list, delivery days and routes | Per pilot |
| Each account's usual order | Per pilot |
| Which beer and size each keg holds, and the kegs in your warehouse | Per pilot |
| The keg rules, like how long warm at an account means likely empty, and what waits for the rep's OK | Per pilot |
| What | Status |
|---|---|
| Connecting to your ordering or route system | Planned |
Until then, an order the agent agrees with an account reaches your team, and your ordering system once it's connected.
It doesn't know for sure. A keg that read cold in the account's walk-in and then warmed up after a while there is likely empty and off the cooler. That's why the agent asks the account before it adds a keg to the order.
Your delivery record says which kegs went out on which stop. The map shows roughly where the Thermly network last heard each keg, and when: at an account or back in your warehouse, not where in the building it sits.
It depends on the place. Brett can walk you through what to expect at your accounts and in your warehouse.
It gets flagged too, so someone checks it, whether it's on a dock or was left out after delivery. People decide what happens to the beer.
No. Thermly reads each keg's temperature, and the agent follows up with your accounts about orders and empties. Deposits and keg audits aren't part of it.
You decide. It asks the account before changing an order, waits for the sales rep's OK on an extra stop, and notes an order over the account's usual for the rep. Orders reach your team today; connecting to your ordering system is planned.
Only people who signed up for the texts: your own staff, and the people at your accounts who opted in for delivery texts. Messages come from Thermly and say they're from the Thermly agent. When a text isn't enough, it can call.
No. There's no Wi-Fi to set up and nothing to plug in, at your warehouse or at your accounts. Readings travel over the Thermly network, each with the time it was read.
Meet the founder
My background is in hardware engineering and temperature-sensing devices. I’m building the tag and the agent around it, so a reading leads to someone checking, a fix, and a record your team can work with.
If you deliver kegs and want to know which ones are likely empty before the call comes in, I’d like to hear about it.
Brett Byer · Founder
Talk with Brett
Tell me about your routes and accounts, and the question you’re trying to answer. A conversation is a good place to start.
We agree on the accounts, the keg rules, and who the agent can ask before starting.
