For coffee roasters
Screen the lot before it reaches the roaster
Grade an incoming green coffee lot from one photograph of the sample, against SCA Category 1 and Category 2 defect standards, with a close-up crop of every bean we flag.
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Free to download • 3 free analyses included • No subscription
Benefits
Benefits for Roasters
Instant Pre-Screening
Photograph your sample and receive defect analysis in seconds. No waiting for lab results or external graders.
Consistent Baseline Checks
Establish a consistent pre-screening process for all incoming lots. Track quality patterns across suppliers over time.
Informed Sourcing Decisions
Use indicative assessments to identify potential issues before committing to larger purchases. Spot quality concerns early.
Documentation Ready
Generate PDF reports for your records. Keep a digital trail of incoming lot assessments for quality documentation.
How It Works
The receiving-bench check, done in the time it takes to spread a tray
A roastery's green room turns over faster than a physical grading table can keep up with. The honest version of incoming QC is that most lots get a look, a smell and a cupping, and the 300 gram defect count only happens when something already feels wrong.
We built BeanGrader for that gap. Spread the sample, take one photograph, and get the defect count classified against SCA green arabica methodology with the bean-level evidence attached, so a problem lot is caught at intake rather than three roasts later.
- One photograph per sample, with large trays tiled automatically on our side
- Category 1 and Category 2 counts weighted by SCA equivalence factors
- A close-up crop of every flagged bean, so a call can be checked rather than argued
- Coverage stated on every result, so a partial read is never passed off as a full one
Who it's for
How Roasters Use BeanGrader
Receiving Inspection
Quick quality check when new green coffee shipments arrive. Compare against supplier specifications and identify obvious defects.
Sample Evaluation
Pre-screen samples from potential new suppliers before cupping. Prioritize which samples deserve deeper evaluation.
Inventory Monitoring
Periodic checks on stored green coffee to monitor for quality degradation or storage-related issues.
Team Training
Help production team members learn defect identification. Use the analysis as a teaching reference.
BeanGrader is a pre-screening tool that provides indicative assessments. For official quality certification, contractual grading, or export documentation, always work with certified Q Graders.
At the bench
How a lot moves through intake
Draw the sample
Pull a representative sample from the lot as you normally would and spread it on a flat, evenly lit, neutral tray.
Photograph it once
One frame from directly above. There is no need to shoot the tray in sections; we tile it and grade each tile.
Read the evidence
Work through the flagged beans as crops. Where you disagree, you are disagreeing with a photograph rather than a score.
File it against the supplier
The result joins that supplier's record, so the next lot is read against a history instead of in isolation.
Why you can trust the number
A screen you can put in front of your supplier
Rejecting a lot, or renegotiating on it, means showing your supplier why. Every BeanGrader result carries the evidence behind the count and is explicit about its own limits.
A photo of every flagged bean
Each defect links to a close-up crop of the bean it was counted from, so a conversation with the exporter is about a photograph rather than an assertion.
Coverage stated on the result
The report says how much of the sample was assessed. A partial read is never presented to you as a complete one.
Confidence on every call
Borderline beans are labelled borderline, so you know which parts of the count to confirm by hand before you act on them.
Bad photos cost nothing
A shot too far away or too dim to grade is rejected and the credit refunded automatically, rather than returning a confident-looking guess.
Simple Pricing
Buy credits, use when you need
No subscriptions, no expiration. Purchase analysis credits and use them whenever you're ready to grade your green coffee samples.
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One credit grades one sample. Credits are bought once and stay on the account until they are spent. If we cannot read a photo well enough to grade it honestly, we reject the photo and refund the credit.
FAQ
Roaster questions
Put a defect count on the next lot that lands
Install BeanGrader and grade your first samples free. Indicative pre-screening, with the evidence attached.
Free to download • 3 free analyses included • No subscription