About Ratify
Ratify is an intelligence platform for beverage-alcohol compliance, built for the small and mid-sized producers underserved by the existing tooling.
The founder
Ratify is a solo-founder company. James Shehan started the project after watching small wineries spend thousands a year on compliance software and still get blindsided by missed renewals and out-of-date tax rates — not because anyone gave them bad advice, but because nobody was re-reading fifty states’ rule books the week they changed. The product is the answer to a simple question: what would compliance look like if you rebuilt it from primary-source data with AI in the loop?
More about James and his other work: jamesshehan.dev.
The advisor circle
Industry voices help keep Ratify honest. A winemaker with deep DTC experience has expressed interest in an advisor role, and formal terms are still being worked out. Additional advisors will be named as they come on board.
The principle
Ratify is built foundation-first. The rates we ship trace to primary sources, and the assistant carries citations on every answer — try the live demo. No cut corners, no technical debt, no guessing from training data. The compliance copilot you trust is the one you can audit.
Want to talk about your compliance setup, share what isn't working today, or just say hello? james@getratify.ai.