Cinnabar Co.

Everything off the bar — so the bar stays a bar.

Independent bars are asked to be everything at once: operator, host, designer, marketer, IT, photographer. Cinnabar Co takes the design and technical work off the bar. Every service below is delivered free of charge — no fees, no equity, no strings, no upsell.

Because the bars that shape our nights deserve the same care they pour into every drink.

Cinnabar is the bright red pigment Chinese seal-makers have used for centuries to mark something authentic, something finished, something worth standing behind. We borrowed the name on purpose.

We are a small group of designers and engineers who spend our nights at the bar and our days writing software. The work we do for our employers is paid generously. The work we do here is not, and that is the point. Independent bars cannot out-design a chain, but they can out-feel one — and the small printed and pixel things that carry that feeling shouldn't be the line item that gets cut.

Tell us about your bar.

One email is enough to start. Tell us where you are, what you pour, and what you need first — a website, a menu redesign, a card for the owner who keeps writing the number on a napkin. We reply to every message, usually within a few days.