How Daily Roast works.

Everything in the catalog starts as public information on a roaster's own site or another public page. We review entries before they're published. There are no private feeds and no paid data partnerships.

Public pages show only a small set of approved public fields. If a field is not on that list, it does not appear on the public site, even if we hold it internally for quality checks or future use.

The coffee grids show listings that were live on a roaster's own site the last time we checked, and that have passed our review. The date on a listing is when we observed it — not when the coffee was roasted, and not a promise it's still in stock.

Some short city introductions and roaster summaries are drafted with AI from the same catalog facts shown on those pages. Nothing from that workflow is published until a person has reviewed and approved it.

If reviewed copy is unavailable or withdrawn, the page returns to its plain directory wording. The underlying roaster and coffee listings remain the part of the page to use for current details.

Recommendations come from what you do on Daily Roast: coffees you save, preferences you set, and what you click. The same inputs always produce the same suggestions — there's no black box, and nothing is inferred from outside the site.

The short “reason” labels explain why a coffee was suggested. They are not scores, reviews, or promises you'll like it.

Recommendations are not paid rankings. No affiliate, sponsor, or advertiser can buy a position in them — and if that ever changes, it will be labelled as advertising, not dressed up as a taste match.

When we show a date next to a coffee, it describes when our crawler observed the public listing. Daily Roast is a discovery directory, not a roast-date or live-stock signal. Roast dates and current availability are something only the roaster can confirm.

A few short definitions, so the labels you see across the site mean the same thing every time.

In the Daily Roast directory

A roaster Daily Roast has reviewed and added to the public directory. It does not mean an on-the-ground audit, live monitoring, or guaranteed accuracy.

Last observed

When the directory last saw a coffee on a roaster's public listing. It comes from public sources, and it is not a roast date. You will see it on a coffee we can no longer confirm is for sale, where it explains why the page is showing you something we last saw a while ago. Pages and cards for coffees currently on sale do not show a date: observing a listing is not a freshness promise, so putting a date beside a coffee would invite a conclusion we cannot stand behind.

Profile checked

When the roaster's public profile was last reviewed by Daily Roast for accuracy. Only some roasters have this date today.

What Daily Roast does not claim

Field audits. Real-time monitoring. Complete coverage. Guaranteed price or availability. Objective quality rankings.

Signed-in suggestions

Coffees suggested from your own saves, preferences, and clicks. See “How signed-in recommendations work” above.