About

Beanff is a Toronto specialty coffee company that staring with selling roasted coffees from independent roasters and then we building  and roasting their own blends to fit the similar taste of the customer orders. The company also sells customers personalized blend which contains their own flavor notes, brewing preferences and roasting levels.

Project

Beanffis currently experiencingtwo challenges which are limiting their business: developing a new coffee takes too many trial roasts, and their online recommendation tool relies on simple rules instead of learning from customer preferences.  With support from the Future Ready program, BEANFF will work with AI experts to unlock the valuable data hidden in their roasting logs, cupping notes, and coffee origins. The team will learn to use AI to speed up roast development, reduce wasted coffee, and create an intelligent online assistant that gives each customer a genuinely personal recommendation.

Impact

By the end of the project, Beanff expects to have three people who can do the work that decides both how fast a new coffee reaches the site and whether a customer buys again. Each of them should be able to record roast and cupping data to a standard that keeps it usable; read a curve — phases, rate of rise, development time ratio — against the cup it produced; use AI to design the next development roast.  This increase in efficiency will save approximately $10,000/year in roasting costs, increase product consistency and reduce the time required to perfect the roasting process for each batch.