You already earned the money. It's sitting in a mill, at a port, or in somebody's payment terms. We find it, we free it up, and we hand you back a business that can grow without holding its breath.
Yes, there's trading and risk software underneath. No, that's not what you're buying.
Forty-five days of your own money, handed back. That's the next two containers you didn't think you could afford.
Nobody in this business loses money in one big obvious event. You lose it four days at a time, in five places, and none of them show up on a P&L as anything other than a slightly worse year than you expected.
Every one of those is a day, and every day is interest on coffee you already bought. Ninety days of cycle on eight containers a month is well over a million dollars of your own money that you can't spend — which is why the next container always feels like a stretch.
There are good trading systems out there. We're not trying to win a feature comparison against them — we're not in the same business.
"Do I start with bills of lading? Trucking? My contracts? My position? My liquidity?" It's the honest question, and it's why so many operators look at this for two years and do nothing. So here's the answer, free, whether you work with us or not: three of those are one chain, and you start at the top of it.
Your purchases, your sales, your terms — in one record instead of four spreadsheets and a memory. Deliberately unexciting. Everything else is derived from it.
Physical long and short, reconciled against delivery months and futures months, with your delta. The Greeks too, if you trade on them.
What's coming in, what's going out, what's trapped and where — including what's sitting at every mill holding your coffee. The screen you'll actually live on.
Trucking and bills of lading matter. They're also a separate track that gates nothing — so they wait, and we'll tell you that even though it means selling you less.
We're new and there are two of us. Rob traded softs for twenty years and lived in Colombia for twenty of them. John has built and turned around five businesses, doing one thing over and over: finding the bottleneck and clearing it. The software is built. What we don't have yet is your name on a page.
So the first ninety days cost nothing. Not a free trial with a sales call at the end — ninety days of us inside your operation, founder consulting included, building this around your actual book. You spend time, not money.
If at the end of it there isn't more cash in your account, you walk away and we'll still buy you a coffee next time we're in town. We'd rather earn the case study than borrow somebody else's.
Twenty years trading softs — coffee, cocoa, sugar — and twenty years living in Medellín. He has demoed most of the systems in this market to most of the companies in South America, and built this one because none of them fit an operation your size. Speaks Spanish. Knows the ports, the mills, and which questions actually matter.
Five businesses built, and a career spent on one problem: what is the constraint, and what happens if we clear it. He's the one who'll ask why you're carrying ninety days of cycle and what it would take to carry forty. Not a coffee man — which is exactly why he asks the questions nobody in coffee thinks to ask.
Tell us how your operation runs and we'll tell you where we think your cash is stuck. If we're wrong, you've lost thirty minutes and gained a second opinion. If we're right, you'll know the number before you decide anything.
Prefer to start by sending one trade? Send us a sale contract — buyer type, origin, port, price basis, payment terms. Fake numbers are fine. We'll build your cash position twelve weeks out and walk you through it.