· 7 min read
How Would You Know a Great Coffee Before You Roast It?
Coffee's quality signals are inconsistent, often unverifiable, and forgotten after every harvest. Wine and Warren Buffett show what a usable record of quality looks like.
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· 5 min read · Fieldnotes · Edition 004
Purveyors Fieldnotes: Making room for automation
Apps that people and agents can both use, judging automation by the work a crew can delegate, and coffees from Thailand and Yemen.
· 5 min read · Market Brief · Edition 002
Coffee growth is pulling closer to origin
This week’s market stayed quiet while origin access, recovery, and support for producing communities moved to the foreground.
· 5 min read
Is Co-Fermentation Cheating? Wrong Question.
The specialty coffee world is split on whether co-fermented coffee belongs in competition. The more useful question is what processing transparency should require from everyone else.
· 8 min read
Who Profits When Coffee Data Stays Scarce?
The specialty coffee industry solved price transparency. The harder problem, product metadata, remains relationship-gated. Across 35 suppliers, disclosure ranges from 1 to 13 attributes per listing. That gap is not an accident; it is an economic structure with beneficiaries.
· 10 min read
Beyond the Coffee Belt
The coffee belt is a useful heuristic, but the tails of the distribution reveal where quality, risk, and long-term value are really heading.
· 12 min read
Building a Coffee Data Pipeline from Scratch
The most interesting thing about the purveyors data pipeline isn't the scraping. It's the recursive feedback loop, and what it reveals about directing AI agents.
· 8 min read
What is Purveyors?
The green coffee supply chain is built for commercial buyers. If you're a hobbyist, you're an afterthought. That's the problem purveyors.io exists to solve.