RoastPATH Launches Path Intelligence, A Groundbreaking Predictive Profiling Tool for Coffee Roasters

Minneapolis, MN – August 14th, 2025 – RoastPATH today announced the launch of Path Intelligence™, a first-of-its-kind predictive profiling tool that uses the collective roast history of the RoastPATH coffee roasting community to give roasters a clear, data-driven starting point for dialing in new coffees.

Built on a dataset of over half a million roast profiles spanning multiple harvest seasons, Path
Intelligence™ (PI) analyzes the most influential points in the roasting process: finish temperature and development phase duration. These two points have the greatest impact on the flavor profile of a coffee, and PI helps roasters get to a great cup on the very first roast.

A Smarter Way to Approach a New Coffee
Rather than relying on trial and error, roasters can select a coffee’s country of origin, processing method, and their roasting machine. PI then identifies the most common drop temperatures and adjusts for individual machine characteristics, accounting for differences in thermocouples, sensor placement, and historical first crack readings.

Responsible, Data-Driven Guidance
To avoid misleading suggestions, PI automatically excludes extreme outliers and will withhold
recommendations if there is too little data or if the data was created by too few people to provide meaningful (or responsible) guidance. For example, if the dataset for a rare combination such as Guatemala with Red Honey processing is too small, PI will default to a broader but more reliable category, such as all honey-processed coffees from Guatemala.

Sustainability and Profitability Through Smarter Roasting
True sustainability in specialty coffee is about more than just sourcing. It means building tools that help roasters achieve better outcomes faster with their green coffees. In a volatile green coffee market, where prices and availability fluctuate, we must collectively become smarter about how we roast to preserve quality, reduce waste, and maximize profitability. Path Intelligence™ empowers roasters to make informed decisions quickly, ensuring they get the most value from every bag of green coffee while delivering exceptional cups to their customers.

How It Works
1. Choose the coffee’s country of origin and processing method.
2. Analyze – PI reviews thousands of profiles and provides a histogram spread of popular drop
temperatures normalized to the temperature at which your machine typically hits first crack.
3. Select a drop temperature from a histogram based on your preference for roast level.
4. Save & Use – PI generates a recommended roast curve to send to your Path Library that you can
then use as an underlay with your next batch.

Roasters can use the Path as a starting point, focusing especially on the last half of the roast, from first crack to drop, while refining in subsequent batches.

Available Now
Path Intelligence™ is included in all RoastPATH paid tiers – Small, Medium, and Large Roastery. For
everyone else, a limited demo generating profiles for washed-process Brazil and Colombia is available (no account required).

For more information or to try the demo, visit roastpath.com/path-intelligence.

About RoastPATH
RoastPATH is a leading coffee roast logging and analysis platform, giving roasters powerful tools to track, refine, and perfect their craft. From hobbyists to production roasters, RoastPATH connects data, experience, and community to help coffee professionals make better coffee, faster. RoastPATH is developed and supported by a team based in the US.

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