Food & Beverage

Ridgeline Coffee Co.

A coffee-obsessed creator with a large, engaged audience and four years of affiliate links pointing at other people's brands.

Dark roasted coffee beans spilling around a battered steel scoop.
9Weeks to launch
3SKUs at launch
410,000Starting audience
Food & BeverageCategory
OwnedBrand & customer

The problem

Every recommendation converted. None of it built anything they owned. Sponsorships came and went with the algorithm, and the audience's trust was being spent on somebody else's balance sheet.

The decision

Start with a fast-start route rather than custom roasting. Prove the audience would buy a physical product before committing to bespoke development.

What SpinUp did

  • Selected an approved roast and grind profile from the fast-start range
  • Designed the brand system, bag, label and insert
  • Produced a first run sized to the audience, not to a forecast
  • Connected the store and set up order routing
  • Packed and shipped under the creator's brand, blind

“I'd been sending every coffee sale to somebody else's brand for four years.”

— Marcus Webb, Founder, Ridgeline Coffee Co.
The result

Sold out first run in 11 days.

A second SKU and a subscription option went into planning before the first run had shipped out.

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