Path Intelligence

Path Intelligence™ (PI) is a ground breaking new tool that is part of the RoastPATH family of applications. Path Intelligence uses the combined Profile history in the RoastPATH system to find the best fit for your machine to start roasting a new green. With Path Intelligence™ you can get to a good cup of coffee on your first roast.

How it works:

To get started with PI, select the country of origin and the processing method for the green you plan to roast. Additionally, choose which machine you plan to roast on. PI will analyze your request and find the most common drop temperatures for that combination of country and processing method. PI will also analyze your machine characteristics based on your previous roasting history and adjust the temperatures for the roasting events, such as green to yellow and first crack, to predict when you will see these events on your machine. The exact same green is likely to experience first crack at different recorded temperatures due to thermocouple model, age and placement in the machine. PI accounts for these variations in every machine when analyzing the data.

Select your desired drop temperature from the histogram showing the most common drop temperatures found. PI will then create a recommended roast curve you can save to your Path Library. You now have a starting path to follow. This shortcut will quicken your journey to the perfect cup of coffee for this green.

Path Intelligence™ is available to all users on a small, medium or large subscription. A limited demo is available for users on a free hobby plan.

Tips For Following a PI Generated Path

• The most important part of the curve is the last half. The Charge and Turning Point temperatures are simply an average of what most people see. Drive your roaster through the first roasting phase as you prefer to roast, selecting your preferred Charge temperature and making adjustments through Turning Point.
• Your initial goal is to get close to the Green to Yellow event and hit the First Crack time and temperature.
• Focus on the curve between First Crack and Drop. Following the Development phase as close as possible is your second goal when following a PI Path.
• Path Intelligence creates Paths that are a good starting point when working with an unfamiliar green. Use a PI Path to get an initial baseline, then refine to achieve your perfect roast profile.
• It is likely you may only use a PI Path on your initial roast. After you have a starting Profile, you may refine your process by following the subsequent Profiles you save.

Data Privacy: 

Path Intelligence™ collects critical data points from every Profile saved in our system. For every Profile saved, PI extracts less than 0.2% of the data for analysis. This small collection of temperature readings are then modified to fit a normalization algorithm and combined with hundreds of thousands of other data points in the analytics engine. Path Intelligence™ is not giving away your roasting secrets.  Path Intelligence™ offers a quicker path to a good initial cup of coffee, on your journey to developing the perfect roast.