Case study · 12 / 12 · Building · Q3 2026

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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