Good Folks, Doing Good Work

Why I Created the Core 7 Framework for Coffee Roasters

Good Folks, Doing Good Work

Show Notes

The Core 7 Framework didn’t start as a book or a product. It started as pattern matching.

After years of working with coffee roasters ranging from small startups to multi-million-dollar businesses, I kept seeing the same seven cost categories determine whether a roastery was profitable or constantly stressed. Different sizes, different markets — similar underlying challenges.

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