Do these ever work? Who are these for, and why should you care?
Maybe there’s something to learn.

Let’s take a look at the holiday season coffee as a product.
Why do people buy these? What job does it do for them?

It is specially made to be consumed during the season.
It’s excellent...

I asked the following question in a poll on LinkedIn, the Facebook Coffee Roasters Forum group and our Instagram:

It’s a seemingly easy task that many coffee roasters do every day.
Everyone assumes there’s one way to calculate it.
However, when polled, roasters chose different answers. What’s going on?

I received 127 responses, and the...

When looking for the best software to manage your coffee roasting business, you might wonder how Cropster compares to Bean Mind’s Beanventory. Cropster provides you with market-leading roast profiling and other tools to manage your inventories, focusing on roasting your beans.

Beanventory takes a different approach by putting your products that you...

If there is one thing that coffee roasteries need to be good at it’s releasing products. Coffees are seasonal and vary from year to year. Roasters need to source, plan, cup available coffees, design labels, and promote and market constantly. Having a plan is key.

So you look at what green coffees...

We’ve been talking to more roasters over the summer and we heard about common problems they are facing. Software is often generic and not specific enough to coffee roastery needs. In this update we addressed some major issues all roasteries need to overcome. And also a lot of exceptions that...

At Beanventory, we’re thrilled to release exciting new features that will revolutionize the way coffee roasteries manage their inventory. We’ve been hard at work to bring you a set of tools that will streamline your operations, save you time, and give you more control than ever before. In this blog...

Running a roastery is hard work.

We have been working hard too. Talking to you, roasters and developing the tools you need. So much so that we haven’t updated you on where we are and where we’re going. So here it is.

We’re very excited about the next set of features we are releasing...

As a coffee roaster, managing wholesale orders can be a challenging and time-consuming task. With your orders coming in through various channels, including email, WhatsApp, phone calls and even social media, it can be difficult to keep track of everything and ensure that orders are fulfilled accurately and on time....

We’re excited to inform you that we are changing our company’s name to Bean Mind.

This decision was made after we looked at our previous name, a Japanese word meaning assistant, with a critical eye. We deemed that using a Japanese word was cultural appropriation, and we didn’t want to do that....

The idea for the software came from talking to roaster friends about work. We started asking more roasters about problems they have running their businesses. The same problems came up over and over, and themes emerged. Wholesale order processing and prioritisation, roasting and production schedules take a lot of time.

The solutions...