Build your coffee roasting operation.
AI for in-house and home coffee roasting.
Introducing Aden
The frontier of automated coffee roasting.
Aden is a series of models trained to roast coffee. You provide the hands; Aden provides the knowledge.
Most of specialty coffee's value is added after export. Roasters paid $3.64 to $5.68 a pound for green coffee;1 a café buying it roasted pays a median $12.85,2 and a coffee drinker $35.10.3 Of surveyed businesses that roast their own, 93% sell it under their own brand, and 72% added revenue, led by retail bags.4 What stops the rest is know-how, not labor. With Aden-1, stay in control of every detail, or learn as you go with a safety net.
Benchmarked against Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Luna, DeepSeek V4 Flash and Qwen3.8 27B on roasting and cupping.
1 Wienhold & Roberts, 2025, Table 5. 2 Fresh Cup, Oct 2026. 3 SCRPI, Q3 2026. 4 Bellwether customers, Oct 2026.
Roast with confidence with the best roasting AI anywhere.
Coffee roasting is a niche the AI labs neglect: their attention is on coding, health, legal and business. So Nizami Coffee built two benchmarks from nRoast's real work, and on them, proprietary models carry over to roasting better than open-source ones.
- of five models on roasting and cupping
- 1st
- from a target curve, on average
- 1.2 °F
- a new coffee, against a consultant's $475
- $0.13
Scores · two benchmarks
Aden-1 leads both benchmarks.
| Model | Roastingout of 100 | Cupping0 to 1 |
|---|---|---|
| Aden-1Nizami Coffee | 78.6 (top score) | 0.618 (top score) |
| Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | 63.1 | 0.552 |
| GPT-6 LunaOpenAI | 55.4 | 0.509 |
| DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeekOpen weights | 44.2 | 0.478 |
| Qwen3.8 27BAlibaba CloudOpen weights | 36.9 | 0.431 |
- Aden-1's roasting lead over Claude Opus 5.5
- +15.5
- Aden-1's cupping lead over Claude Opus 5.5
- +0.066
Curve hitting · one target
Aden-1 lands closest to the target.
- Given
- Coffee: Guji Uraga, washed
- Roaster: Bullet R1 · 650 g
- Goal: Light, for filter
- Charge: 356 °F
Free roast · not scored
Five models, five roasts of one coffee.
Guji Dimtu G1 Natural. Heirloom from 2,150 m at Dimtu Wate Station, West Guji, Ethiopia, dried in the cherry; cupped 86.75 for lavender, grape and peach. Green, $4.63/lb; roasted, $19–26 a 12 oz bag.
The task: given its origin, not its cup notes: “Roast this coffee as you think best.”
Every roastEach roasted darker than it said it would. Aden-1 “bright” → Medium-dark · Opus light-medium → Dark · Luna light-medium → Medium-dark · DeepSeek medium-light → Medium-dark · Qwen light-medium → Medium. RoR eased from its peak to the drop with no stall, crash or flick, Rao's first rule (“control and smooth your RORs”). Kornman argues a steady decline suits some coffees and styles, not all. Each dropped inside the 8–12 min the SCA's cupping protocol sets for a sample roast. Aden-1 11:00 · Opus 10:30 · Luna 9:30 · DeepSeek 10:45 · Qwen 11:30.
DefectIts own aimSpecialty viewSound practiceFC at 385°F
Pricing · one new coffee
A new coffee costs $0.13 with Aden-1, $475 with a consultant.
nRoast app
Origin, process, altitude, harvest age, stock and your notes on one page, with 5,405 more green coffees a ⌘K away.
Describe the cup. Aden writes the roast for your roaster, simulates the curve and estimates the cup before you spend a bean.
One green, a profile for each brew: a light filter and an espresso, each a press of play away.
Hours are our estimate, for a café roasting 40 lb a week. Screens from the nRoast desktop app with a demo library; curves are from its fitted Bullet R1 simulator, not a real roaster, and the cup is an estimate, not a cupping.
Planning · a month
- Choosing the green3 hours 45 minutes by hand, 15 minutes with nRoast
- Dialing it in3 hours 15 minutes by hand, 30 minutes with nRoast
13 new coffees a year
7 h → ¾ h6¼ h handed back
