Roastpic is a technology company composed entirely of students and professors from the Coffee Center at the University of California Davis. As scientists, we perform a lot of measurements of the size, color, and defect counts in coffee, which means we are intimately familiar with how laborious and expensive current methods are for quantifying these important metrics.

In 2022, two Q-certified computer science students who are deeply passionate about coffee joined the Coffee Center and started a project to use cell phones and computer vision to get high quality data about coffee. The result is Roastpic: an app explicitly designed to give the coffee industry hard data about coffee at a fraction of the cost of current methods.