Roadmap — RoastSource

Current Release

Pilot Feedback

Home Launch

Expert Launch

Expert — live probe data

Commercial (later)

v6.6 Foundation Release Shipped

Green Bean Inventory

Unlimited bean collection with origin, processing method, vendor, cost, storage bins, and tasting notes. 250+ growing regions with country-specific grading systems (SCAA, Kenya AA, Ethiopia ECX, and more). Import invoices or add beans manually.
Guided Roast Profiles

Roaster-specific guided profiles for Fresh Roast SR540/SR800, Behmor 2000AB/1600, Hottop KN-8828, Gene Cafe CBR-101, Kaldi Wide/Fortis, and 9+ DIY/stovetop builds. Each profile adapts heat, fan, and timing to your specific equipment with audio cues at first crack, drying milestone auto-detection, and post-roast weight loss analysis.
Temperature Logging & Charting

Log temperatures manually at 30-second intervals with audio chimes and milestone detection. Real-time roast profile chart with phase-colored backgrounds, milestone markers, and clear axis labels. Input from your roaster's built-in display or an external thermometer. External USB probe support available in Expert tier.
Ratings & Cupping

10-point quick rating with tasting wheel, or guided evaluation covering aroma, flavor, acidity, body, sweetness, balance, and aftertaste. A quality modifier weighs how accurately you hit your target roast level and adjusts your suggested cup score accordingly.
Blend Builder

Create multi-bean blend recipes with percentage-based ratios, cost-per-pound calculations, and flavor profile predictions. Build from your inventory and save recipes for repeatable blends.
Brewing Guides

10+ brew method guides with grind size, water temperature, ratio, and technique for pour-over (V60, Chemex, Kalita), immersion (French press, AeroPress, Clever Dripper), espresso, Moka pot, cold brew, and more. Built-in extraction calculator for dialing in any method.
Java Geek & Coffee Education

Free coffee encyclopedia covering origins, processing methods, roast science, flavor development, and defect identification. The education content is always free — no tier required. (Personal analytics built from your own roasts arrive with Expert.)
Equipment Guide & Roaster Database

16+ roaster deep dives organized by brand — Fresh Roast, Behmor, Hottop, Gene Cafe, Kaldi, Aillio, and more. Six budget-tier categories from under $100 to $2,000+. Equipment Advisor answers 5 questions and recommends the best roaster for your experience, budget, and goals.
Privacy-First & Offline-Ready

All data stored locally on your device — nothing sent to servers. Works offline after first load. Export and backup your data as JSON anytime. No account required, no tracking, no cloud dependency.
Roast Spectrum & Analysis

Visual roast level spectrum from Light through French with color-coded segments. Blue range highlights your bean's suitable levels, emerald marker shows the recommended target. Post-roast analysis compares achieved vs. target with consistency tracking across roasts.
Green Bean Vendor Directory

Curated directory of green coffee vendors so you always know where to find your next beans. Track which vendors you've ordered from and link purchases to your inventory.

v6.7 – v6.9 Feedback from Pilot Groups Shipped

Feedback & Enhancements from Pilot Groups

Incorporating real-world feedback from the FreshRoast Pilot Program to improve workflows, usability, and roasting accuracy.
Light "Coffee Cream" Theme

Warm, latte-art-inspired light theme for daytime roasting sessions and bright environments.
Vendor Receipt Import Enhancements

Improved parsing for more vendors, better accuracy for weights, prices, and coffee names from receipt text and photos.
Roast Session Improvements

Enhanced temperature logging with better audio cues, improved milestone detection, and smoother chart rendering during active roasts.
Enhanced Artisan Import

Improved Artisan profile import with better parsing of temperature curves, fan and heat settings, and roast event markers for more accurate roast log entries.

v7.0 Home Tier — Full Launch Shipped

Adaptive Profiling

Roast profiles that learn from your results. Adapts heat, fan, and timing recommendations based on your roaster, bean origin, and past roast outcomes for increasingly precise guidance.
Roast Quality Score

Every roast earns a Roast Quality Score that weighs roast level, development time ratio, rate of rise, weight loss, and evenness — so you know whether a batch was good and exactly what to adjust next time. The score adapts to how you roast, so hand-loggers and air-roasters get fair feedback too — plus predicted cupping scores and a flavor intensity wheel.
Decaf Roasting

Full decaf-aware roasting across every module. Adjusted charge temperatures, gentler heat curves, and warnings about muted first crack and misleading color. Decaf-specific quality scoring that doesn't penalize inherent decaf characteristics. Java Geek decaffeination education with evidence-graded fact-vs-lore content, plus decaf and half-caf blend presets.
Roast Alerts

Audio, voice, and haptic cues during roasting — hear when to change heat or fan settings, get spoken recommendations at key moments, and feel haptic feedback on mobile. A prominent mute control is always visible during active roasts.
Enhanced Manual Temperature Logging

Improved 30-second interval logging with better audio cues, automatic first crack detection, and dynamic roast adjustments based on logged temperatures and milestone events.
Roast Profile Visualization

Real-time roast chart with phase-colored backgrounds (drying, Maillard, development), milestone markers for first crack and drop, and clear temperature and time labels.
Full Roast Comparison

Compare roasts side by side with chart overlays, cupping score deltas, and weight loss analysis. See how your technique evolves across roasts of the same bean.
Formatted Print & Export

Print-ready SCA cupping sheets, included with Home. Client cupping reports and retail bag labels with QR codes are Commercial-tier features, available today as an early preview toggle.
Web App

Use RoastSource from any web browser — no app store download required. Works on phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop.
Unlimited Bean Inventory & Roast Logs

No limits on your bean collection or roast history. Track every roast with full details, notes, and ratings.
Licensing & Activation

One-time purchase with a simple license key. Activate on your device and roast forever — all future Home updates included.

Coming Next In Development Next Up

Specialty Roast Styles

Named roast styles beyond the light–dark scale, starting with Nordic (developed-but-light for high-altitude washed coffees). Each style adjusts the quality rubric, profile targets, and flavor predictions — so a well-executed Nordic roast scores as well as it should, not as under-developed.
Home Country & Locale Awareness

Set your home country to see region-appropriate vendor recommendations, unit defaults, and Craft-mode scoping. The vendor directory and sourcing guides adapt to where you actually buy green coffee.
International Vendor Directory

Green coffee vendor directory expanded with worldwide regions, offline sourcing modalities, and origin buying-culture guides. Find where to buy green beans no matter where you roast.

v7.5 Expert — roast on every device Late Summer 2026

Roasting from more than one device — or want your log on your phone at the roaster and your laptop afterward? Expert keeps every roast, rating, and blend in sync across your phone, tablet, and laptop, adds a web app you can roast from anywhere, and includes the extra tools below. Your one-time Home purchase always carries over. Expert pricing will be announced when it's ready.

Cloud Sync & Multi-Device

Sync your data across phone, tablet, laptop, and desktop. Up to 5 linked devices — works offline and syncs when connected.
Auto Cloud Backup with Version History

Automatic cloud backups with 30-day version history. Restore any previous version of your data with one tap.
Unlimited Roast Comparison

Compare any number of roasts side by side with chart overlays. See how your technique evolves over time.
Expanded PDF Export Formats

More export formats beyond the v7.0 cupping sheets (Home) and Commercial-preview reports and labels — roast logs, cupping notes, and blend recipes as beautifully formatted PDFs.
Custom Bean Tags & Categories

Create custom tags and categories to organize your bean collection your way. Filter and search by any tag combination.
Purchase List & Restock Alerts

Get notified when your favorite beans are running low. Build purchase lists and track vendor orders.
30-Day Sync History

Full version history with 30-day recovery window. Browse, compare, and restore any previous version of your data with one tap.
Unlimited Roasting Locations

Track roasts across multiple locations — home kitchen, garage, outdoor setup, shared roasting space. Each location keeps its own roast history and notes.
Deep Import Analytics

Quality scoring and defect detection (stalls, crashes, scorching) on imported curves, Rate-of-Rise and phase analysis, continuous auto-import of new roasts, and export back out as Artisan-compatible JSON. (Basic import is included with Home at v7.0 — unlimited, and it never expires.)
iOS App (planned)

A native iOS app — your roasts, inventory, and scores on your phone, synced through the Expert cloud. Targeted in a similar timeframe as the Expert release.
Desktop App — Windows & Mac (planned)

An installable desktop app for roasting-day use without a browser tab. Targeted in a similar timeframe as the Expert release.
CVA Cupping — SCA 2024 Coffee Value Assessment

Score cups on the current SCA standard — descriptive (intensity + CATA) and affective (9-point liking) evaluation. Already built in the app; unlocks with Expert.
Multi-Cupper Cupping Sessions

Run cupping sessions with multiple cuppers and automatically average their scores into a session result.
Cupping Calibration Exercises

Guided calibration exercises to sharpen your palate and keep your scores consistent with reference standards.
Blend Versioning & Costing

Track blend recipes across versions with cost-per-pound history, so you know what changed and what it costs.
Water Recipe Management

Save and manage brewing water recipes — mineral profiles, ratios, and notes — and link them to your brews.
Roast Advisor

Suggests what to roast next based on your roast history and current green inventory.

v8.0 Expert — live probe data Fall 2026

For roasters who run a temperature probe: log bean temperature live, watch your rate of rise as it happens, and dig into every phase of the roast. Included with Expert — nothing new to buy.

USB & Bluetooth Probe Support

Connect temperature probes via USB and Bluetooth. Supported devices include CombustionInc, BlueDOT, Meater, InkBird, RoastLink ONE, and Mastech MS6514.
WiFi Probe Support

Connect to FireBoard and ThermoWorks Signals probes over WiFi for wireless temperature monitoring during roasts.
Real-Time Rate of Rise (RoR)

Live Rate of Rise calculations from probe data with charting and trend analysis. See how fast your bean temperature is climbing in real time.
Multi-Channel Temperature Logging

Simultaneous bean temperature and exhaust temperature logging from connected probes. Monitor both channels on a single chart.
Real-Time Roast Visualization with Probe Data

Live-updating roast chart with probe temperature data, phase-colored backgrounds, milestone markers, and predictive roast analysis.
Roast.World (Aillio) Roast-History Import

Import your roast history from Roast.World, Aillio's cloud platform for the Bullet, straight into your RoastSource log.
Regional / Country Roast Analytics

Drill your roast history down by growing region and country to see where your best results come from, with per-origin quality trends and target-adherence breakdowns. (The full SCA 100-point cupping protocol is already included at the Home tier.)
Equipment Maintenance Tracking

Track cleaning schedules, part replacements, and maintenance history for each roaster. Get reminders when maintenance is due.
Profile Templates

Save your best roast profiles as reusable templates. Load a template to replay proven heat, fan, and timing settings for consistent results every time.
Multi-Step Profile Recording

Record roast profiles with multiple heat, fan, and drum speed steps. Capture every change you make during a roast and replay it precisely.
Profile Overlay & Comparison

Overlay multiple roast profiles on a single chart to compare temperature curves, RoR, and milestones. Spot differences in technique across roasts, beans, or roasters.
Green Bean Moisture & Density Tracking

Log moisture content and density readings for green beans. Track how storage conditions affect moisture over time and correlate with roast outcomes.
Sensor Profile Configuration

Save and switch between probe configurations for different roasting setups. Define channel assignments, calibration offsets, and sampling rates per sensor.
Advanced Roast Analysis

Deep analytics including development time ratio, Maillard phase analysis, crack energy estimation, and batch-to-batch consistency scoring. Identify exactly where to improve.

v8.5 Commercial — talk to us For roasteries · 2027+

For roasters selling their coffee — production planning, green-to-roasted traceability, and team access. We're building it alongside working roasteries, so if you run a micro-roastery, tell us what you need and help shape it.

Multiple-Roaster / Fleet Management

Manage profiles for every machine in your roastery and switch between them — settings, notes, and roast history per roaster.
Advanced Blend Costing & Profitability

Cost-per-pound breakdowns for blends, margin calculations, and profitability analytics to price what you sell.
Production Planning & Batch Scheduling

Daily and weekly batch scheduling with drag-to-reorder and yield tracking. Plan your roasting week in advance.
Roasted Goods Inventory

Track finished batches with lot codes, degassing timers, and packaging records. Know exactly what's on your shelf.
Supplier & Purchase Order Management

Manage supplier profiles, create and track purchase orders, log receiving, and view cost history.
Customer Order Tracking & Fulfillment

Order board with fulfillment workflow from roasted goods inventory. Track orders from received to shipped.
Lot Traceability

Full traceability chain from purchase order to green bean to roast log to finished batch to customer delivery.
QC Reports & Batch Consistency

Batch consistency analysis and production reports. Track quality metrics across batches and identify trends.
Multi-User Access & Team Roles

Invite team members with role-based access. Assign roasters, QC reviewers, and order managers with appropriate permissions.
Wholesale Order Management

Manage wholesale accounts, recurring orders, volume pricing, and invoicing for your retail and wholesale customers.
Production Reports & Analytics

Comprehensive production reporting with yield analysis, cost tracking, and performance dashboards. Export reports for accounting or business reviews.
Batch Sequencing & Priority Scheduling

Sequence batches by priority, deadline, or roast profile. Drag to reorder your production queue and optimize roaster utilization throughout the day.
Demand Aggregation & Forecasting

Aggregate customer orders into production demand, forecast green bean needs, and auto-generate purchase suggestions based on order history and seasonal trends.

Upcoming Enhancements

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