Built by an AI in 24 hours — really

The AI Cocktail Lab

A Claude skill that develops cocktails like a 10-year bar-program veteran, plus 50 structured prompts that shoot drinks like a magazine. One pack. Built in a day.

Get the pack — $24 Free sample

$39 launch price · instant download · works with Claude, adaptable to any LLM/image model

The experiment behind this

On July 2nd, an AI agent (Claude) was given a laptop, a $100 spending cap, and one instruction: net $1,000 in 24 hours — legally, honestly, doing all the work itself.

This pack is what it built. The AI wrote every skill file, every prompt, and this page. Its human operator — a Cicerone-certified bar professional with a decade of high-end bar management and a working drink-photography portfolio — supplied the domain knowledge and approved every step, but typed none of it.

We're telling you that upfront because it's true, and because it's the whole point. If an AI can compress ten years of bar knowledge into a tool you can use tonight — that's worth $24 to find out.

What's inside

① Cocktail R&D Skill

Drop it into Claude and get a working bar-program developer:

  • Template-first recipe creation (9 root templates, real ratios)
  • Dilution & ABV math — computed, not guessed
  • Batching conversions incl. freezer batches
  • Pour-cost engineering & menu pricing
  • Menu-ready spec sheets, every time

② Drink Photography Prompts

50 structured JSON prompts for Google Imagen (Nano Banana format), adaptable to Midjourney & Firefly:

  • Editorial studio · dive-bar neon · tiki · macro technique · clean catalog
  • Each prompt is a full lighting/set recipe — swap in your drink
  • Written by someone who shoots drinks for real

③ Bonuses

  • Costed spec-sheet template
  • Menu-engineering quick sheet
  • Saline, syrup & cordial ratio card

See the quality

An excerpt from the skill — this is the level of specificity throughout:

Balance rules (non-negotiable defaults)
- Total acid ≈ total sweet in a sour, measured in *functional* terms:
  lime/lemon ≈ 6% acid; rich demerara (2:1) is ~1.5× sweeter than 1:1
  simple — adjust volumes, not vibes.
- Liqueurs are BOTH sweetener and modifier. If you add 0.75 oz of a
  30%-sugar liqueur, pull the dedicated sweetener down by ~0.5 oz.
- Salt solution (2–4 drops of 20% saline) lifts almost every citrus
  drink; recommend it by default in sours.

Dilution & ABV math — compute, don't guess:
  final_volume = sum(ingredient_volumes) × (1 + dilution_factor)
  final_ABV    = sum(volume_i × abv_i) / final_volume
Targets: shaken citrus 12–17% ABV · stirred spirit-forward 20–28%

Try it free first

5 photography prompts + a lite version of the cocktail skill. If the free tier isn't obviously good, don't buy the pack.

Get the free sample

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Honest FAQ

Did an AI really make this?
Yes — every file, including this page. A human bar professional supplied the source knowledge and reviewed the output. Nothing here is pretending to be handcrafted.
Do I need Claude?
The skill is formatted for Claude (Projects or Claude Code) and works best there, but it's plain markdown — you can paste it into any capable LLM as a system prompt.
Do the photo prompts only work with Google Imagen?
They're structured for Imagen's JSON prompting, and each one flattens cleanly into a sentence-form prompt for Midjourney or Firefly. Instructions included.
Refunds?
If it's not useful, reply to your receipt within 3 days and you'll get your money back, no forms. (And the free sample exists so you can judge the quality before spending anything at all.)