Case study · 12 / 12 · Building · Q3 2026
Forge & Co.
Forge & Co.
Cairo coffee,
roasted to order.
Sector · DTC · Coffee subscription
Discipline · E-commerce · Brand
Status · Building · Launch Q3 2026
The brief
Coffee from the roaster, not the shelf.
A Cairo-based roaster wanted to launch a DTC subscription where every bag ships within 48h of roasting — not 6 weeks like the bigger brands. The site had to make freshness feel tangible, sell the origin story without sounding like a coffee-table book, and run the entire subscription lifecycle without an external platform.
- + Custom subscription engine · pause / skip / swap
- + "Roasting Tuesday · ships Wednesday" live banner
- + Single-origin storytelling pages
- + Grind-size selector · brew-method recommender
- + Stripe subscriptions · Paymob fallback
- + Restock notifications · waitlists per origin
Single Origin · Ethiopia · Light Roast
Yirgacheffe — 250g
420 EGP
$22
/ bag · subscription
What launches with it
- · 3 origins at launch · Ethiopia · Colombia · Yemen
- · Weekly · biweekly · monthly cadences
- · Grind: whole bean · filter · espresso · turkish
- · Free shipping at 800 EGP$40
- · Roast log · every order traceable to the day it was roasted
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