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Aesthetic intelligencefor the economy
built on taste.

ATH builds Taste, a platform for high-value decisions in relationship-driven markets.

Taste helps luxury businesses understand individual preference and carry that understanding across teams, systems, and physical encounters.

Platform

Intelligence behind the relationship.Context in the moment.

Taste is designed as an AI application platform for delivering context and recommendations inside the tools client teams already use. Not another tool to open — an embedded intelligence layer.

With approved signals from digital and physical interactions, Taste is designed to form an evolving understanding of preference. Taste uses that context to predict emerging intent and prepare what the people managing the relationship should consider next.

Existing systems

Approved signals connect from clienteling and CRM systems, analytics tools, communication platforms, and digital products.

Client teams

Recommendations and relevant context reach the client teams and specialists managing the relationship.

Physical encounters

The product direction extends that context toward boutiques, showrooms, and private appointments, preparing the encounter before the individual arrives.

Signals enter. Useful context returns.

Clienteling & CRMAnalyticsCommunicationDigital products
Preference modelStructured over time
Next-best-actionTaste evolutionIndividual & cohort analyticsPersonalized context

DeliveryDesigned for APIs and embedded aesthetic intelligence in existing systems and channels

Taste prepares context on when to engage, why now, and which object may be most relevant. Client teams decide what to do next.
Relationships

Preference shapes high-value decisions.The knowledge is scattered.

Taste is built for businesses where the people managing each relationship are expected to know it personally.

  • Art
  • Automotive
  • Design
  • Fashion
  • Handbags
  • Jewelry
  • Watches
  • Wine

Serving clients across all of themAuction houses · Concierge desks · Membership programs

Physical, high-value decisions, in markets built on relationships and taste.

Clients notice when they have to introduce themselves again — when an advisor has no record of an occasion or a preference, and when follow-up arrives with no memory of what came before.

They notice because being remembered is now what they expect everywhere else. A rare experience cannot be the one that forgets.

The best advisors already carry the whole of a relationship. What no one carries is every relationship at once, in full, on the day it matters.

Recognition should travel with the relationship.

The next encounter beginswith context already earned.

Digital systems prepare.People interpret and act.

Every encounter sees part of the relationship. Taste carries approved context forward.

An illustrative view of where context is often held and what each encounter contributes before it is connected.

Held hereHeld elsewhereContributes evidencePrepared by Taste

Relationship contextClient team & specialistDigital touchpointsClient recordIn-person encounterTaste
Who they areClient team & specialistHeld hereDigital touchpointsContributes evidenceClient recordHeld hereIn-person encounterHeld elsewhereTasteConnects identity context
What they've boughtClient team & specialistHeld hereDigital touchpointsContributes evidenceClient recordHeld hereIn-person encounterHeld elsewhereTasteConnects purchase history
What drew their attentionClient team & specialistContributes evidenceDigital touchpointsContributes evidenceClient recordHeld elsewhereIn-person encounterContributes evidenceTasteInterprets signals
The occasion behind itClient team & specialistHeld hereDigital touchpointsHeld elsewhereClient recordContributes evidenceIn-person encounterContributes evidenceTasteCarries relevant context
Why nowClient team & specialistContributes evidenceDigital touchpointsContributes evidenceClient recordContributes evidenceIn-person encounterContributes evidenceTasteSurfaces supporting evidence
Next best actionClient team & specialistContributes evidenceDigital touchpointsContributes evidenceClient recordContributes evidenceIn-person encounterContributes evidenceTastePrepares a next best action

Client teams stay in the loop. Taste prepares; they decide and act.

Relationships matter more than ever. Physical experiences matter more than ever. Personalization matters more than ever.

As discovery and filtering move through intelligent systems, interpretation, confidence, and commitment become more dependent on human attention and physical presence.

Intelligence

Preference is revealed across interactions.Its context develops over time.

Taste Profiles connect two sides of preference: the aesthetic qualities of objects and experiences, and the digital, physical, and specialist-observed signals that reveal what matters to an individual.

Patterns of attention across images, objects, and spaces.
The attributes, provenance, and context of the object or experience.
How preference appears across discovery, consideration, and choice.
The reasons, associations, and reactions an individual chooses to express.
Signals converging into a Taste ProfileVisual, semantic, behavioral, and voice signals converge at a central point and resolve into a structured, evolving model of individual preference.

Taste Profile

A structured, evolving model of individual preference — the institutional memory of a relationship.

Built for sparse, high-value decisions.Depth matters more than volume.

High-value decisions are infrequent, personal, and context-dependent. They require depth of signal and specialist judgment.

Observe

Transactions show what was bought. The surrounding signals add what drew attention, what language resonated, what was rejected, and what a specialist observed.

Understand

Taste turns those signals into a prediction of emerging intent, then prepares the next best action for the client team or specialist managing the relationship.

Inform

Specialists evaluate the recommendation and decide what happens next. Each new interaction and evaluation refines the model over time.

The relationship remains human.Its intelligence can travel further.

Company

The judgment these markets run on has never been written down.

ATH develops aesthetic intelligence for relationship-driven markets.

Judgment lives with the people who hold it, and it leaves when they do. No record has ever kept it whole, and no score ever will. Taste is built to carry that judgment across the relationship.

ATH geometric eye and Vitruvian mark

Leadership

Garry McGuire

Chairman & CEO

Bio

Trevor Ruegg

Founder, COO & Head of Product

Bio

Karol Winiarczyk

Chief Commercial Officer

Bio