ITHS · AI RESTO ARCHITECT

The operational layer for modern hospitality.

Ten years of hospitality IT taught us one thing: the gaps aren't where vendors tell you to look. The real operational losses — procurement drift, food cost blur, supplier chaos, payment opacity — live between your POS, ERP and everything else. We design the layer that closes them.

Based in RigaWorking across the Baltics & EU10 years in HoReCa IT

Three ways we help restaurants, hands-on.

Our practice is personal. Each engagement is run hands-on — no junior teams, no outsourced delivery. Three services refined over 150+ projects across 6 countries.

Digital Architecture Audit
30-minute diagnostic, free.
A structured look at how data and money move through your restaurant right now — POS, suppliers, accounting, payments, reservations. We identify the bottlenecks, quantify the losses in euros, and hand you a roadmap you can execute with any vendor — including us. Written report delivered within 72 hours.
Best for: new openings, restaurants considering a stack change, operators suspecting silent losses.
KPI Audit
Cost control, done right.
Live KPI dashboard setup, food cost tracking calibrated to reality, blocked supplier price drift. Delivered as a managed service — you get the numbers weekly; we do the work.
Best for: established restaurants with unclear unit economics, operators scaling to multiple locations.
Custom AI Agents
Automation for the tasks you keep pushing to "next week".
Invoice classification, reservation handling, supplier message routing, automated reporting. If you have a specific problem AI can actually solve — we scope it, design it, deliver it.
Best for: operators with a specific friction point, not a general "we should use AI" intent.

And in parallel, we build the operational stack restaurants actually need.

Services fund and validate what comes next. Each product solves a problem we've seen repeat across dozens of restaurants — problems the POS layer doesn't address.

NEXX Ecosystem
B2B operating system for procurement.
Marketplace of suppliers, EDI integration, e-Agreements with digital signature, app market and accounting integrations. Built first for HoReCa; architecture extends to adjacent service industries (wellness, dental, beauty, spa).
MVP launching mid-2026 · Wait-list open
RestoAudit.ai
Automated food cost control with Price Guard.
OCR + AI Vision on invoices. Continuous supplier price monitoring. COGS alerts via Telegram. Currently delivered as a managed service; self-serve product coming end of May 2026.
Managed service available now
ITHS Gate
AI classification of incoming operational data.
WhatsApp messages, email attachments, invoice photos, reservation forms — sorted into structured data automatically. The entry point to the operational stack.
In production with internal clients
All three products are POS-agnostic by architecture. They work alongside Syrve, CompuCash, r_keeper, iiko — or any established platform. They don't lock operators in.

You're running a business you can't actually see.

Your POS knows what sold. Your accounting knows what was paid. Your WhatsApp knows what suppliers promised. Your spreadsheet knows what the manager thinks happened. Four different versions of the truth — and the decisions you need to make require one.

Most restaurants we work with have six to ten systems in active use. None of them talk to each other well. The gaps between them are where operational losses hide: supplier prices drifting unchecked, food cost numbers arriving two weeks late, cash tips slipping into grey zones, manager hours drained by data entry that should calculate itself.

This isn't a people problem. Not a tool problem. It's an architecture problem — and no vendor has incentive to fix it, because fixing it means designing above their layer.

That's what we do.

Not claims. Facts.

Three dimensions where the track record speaks for itself.

10y
Scale of work
10 years in hospitality IT · 150+ projects · 6 countries · 50+ Paynt implementations · deep Syrve technology partnership in the Baltics.
Depth of engagement
Current active clients include premium restaurants in Riga — Catch, November, Madame Mei — and other operators on our stack who prefer to stay private. Average engagement length: 18+ months.
Architectural accountability
Zero projects abandoned. Every implementation comes with a written architecture map that stays with the client — so the work is reviewable, transferable, and measurable over time.
Ten years in HoReCa taught us: every 'we should get better data' conversation ends the same way — unless someone takes architectural ownership.
— Konstantin

Three steps. No mystery.

Every engagement — from a 30-minute audit to a multi-location rollout — follows the same shape. It's deliberate: the steps force honesty at each stage.

01
Detect
We trace how data and money actually move through the business — not how they're supposed to. Bottlenecks, manual steps, loss points, integration gaps. Delivered as a written architecture map.
02
Design
We propose the minimum viable stack that closes the gaps. Existing tools, new tools, workflow changes, automation points. Every recommendation has a euro value next to it — what it saves, what it earns, what it prevents.
03
Deliver
If you want us to execute, we execute. If you want the brief to hand to another vendor, that's fine too. Either way, the architecture is yours. No vendor lock-in.
This is why "let me take a look at your operation" is the real first step. Not "let me show you a demo."

Three paths through this site. Pick yours.

Depending on what brings you here, the most useful next step differs. We've organized the site so you don't have to guess.

You run a restaurant
Independent operators, small chains, ambitious openings. Start with a 30-minute Digital Architecture Audit — no cost, no pitch.
Book Digital Architecture Audit
You run a POS or HoReCa platform
Looking for partners who add procurement, cost control, or AI automation to your stack — without building those layers in-house.
Partnership options for POS platforms →
You build tech for this ecosystem
Developers, product teams, service companies plugging into NEXX rather than building distribution from scratch. Pre-launch terms are favorable.
Partnership options for tech partners →

What we're thinking about right now.

We write about restaurant systems, AI-in-operations, and the architectural gaps we keep running into. Long-form here (starting Q2 2026), short-form on LinkedIn and Telegram.

Coming
The architecture tax
Why most restaurant IT stacks quietly cost 10–15% of profit — and why operators don't see it.
Coming
POS isn't the problem
A case for why the layer above the POS is where the real operational lift lives.
Coming
AI that restaurants actually need
Separating the three AI use cases that work in HoReCa from the twenty that don't.
Get notified when the first pieces publish

Konstantin Talikov

Founder · Co-founder NEXX Ecosystem

My background is ten years of hospitality IT — most of it running a dealer operation, deep work inside Syrve systems for most of that decade. That's how I learned where the real operational gaps sit, and why building the layer above the POS became the more interesting problem to solve.

I work hands-on. I configure systems myself, I write product specifications for NEXX myself, I sit in the audit sessions with clients myself. It's deliberate — architecture stays honest, promises stay realistic.

The partnerships I enter are long-term by design. I'd rather do fewer, deeper collaborations than a portfolio of shallow ones.

K. Talikov
Riga · 2026
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Let's look at your operation together.

The best way to know whether we can help is the Digital Architecture Audit. It's 30 minutes, it's free, and you leave with a written diagnostic you can use — with us or without us.

Email
kt@iths.lv
WhatsApp
+371 22 830 328
LinkedIn
/in/konstantin-talikov731
Based in
Riga, Latvia