Est. Anno MMXXVI · Brewed for people who type for a living

Slow brew.
Strong agents.

Seven beans · One library · No SaaS

A small-batch shop selling written instructions that turn AI coding agents into something resembling employees. Markdown brewed at 200°F, poured over your repo. No subscription. No "platform." No condescension.

Aside — the Latin is just for flexing

"Money never sleeps. The library compounds. Neither does the espresso machine."

House motto · Unofficial · Unapologetic

Bean I · single origin · light roast · est. notes of cognition
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Roast I · Mentalism Blend

Agent Memory Systems

Your agent forgets your name between sessions and you call that "stateless architecture." This pack is the decision layer for what an agent remembers, forgets, and politely declines to mention. Episodic, semantic, procedural — and the policy discipline above all three. Stop letting your bot drown in its own state.

$149 · single-user license 11 skills · 22 files v1.0.0 7-day refund

What's inside: 11 skills, 4 worked integration recipes (Redis, pgvector, Pinecone, multi-agent), 22 files, roughly 32,700 words. Install guide for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Every file listed in the pack's MANIFEST.

Bean II · the operator's daily driver
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Roast II · Correspondence Blend

Parallel Agent Lanes

Make N AI agents do your job at the same time. They work in separate git worktrees so they don't punch each other. They merge to main when local CI passes. You stay liable for the rebase. This is the actual pattern behind a multi-tenant SaaS built by one human operator who, statistically, was sleeping.

$199 · single-user license 13 skills · 29 files v1.0.0 7-day refund

What's inside: 13 skills, 9 worked artifacts from a real setup, 29 files, roughly 34,000 words. Install guide for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Skill 1 is free to read right now, in full, before you spend anything.

Bean III · we considered putting "AI-native" here · we have recovered
III
Roast III · Vibration Blend

Auto-Research Loop

Two agents in a small room. One proposes. The other grades. They argue about prompts, RAG retrieval, evals, and copy until the numbers go up. You sleep. The bill goes up. The numbers go up faster. Convergence is the goal. Stopping conditions are included so you don't wake up to a $4,000 OpenAI receipt and a slightly better headline.

$149 · single-user license 10 skills · 21 files v1.0.0 7-day refund

What's inside: 10 skills, 4 worked examples (prompt optimization, RAG tuning, eval-driven testing, strategy search), 21 files, roughly 16,000 words. Install guide for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

Bean IV · twelve skills · one server · zero hand-waving
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Roast IV · Polarity Blend

MCP Server Builder

Everyone is building a "GPT for X." You can do better. Turn your product's API into a production-grade MCP server — opportunity validation, tool schemas, auth, permission boundaries, prompt-injection threat model, Inspector testing, deploy paths, marketplace listing, monetization. Twelve skills. One server. No hand-waving.

$199 · single-user license 12 skills · 22 files v1.0.0 7-day refund

What's inside: 12 skills, 3 worked server build-outs, 22 files, roughly 22,300 words. Covers stdio and Streamable HTTP transports, OAuth 2.1, and the Inspector test flow. Install guide for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

Bean V · cold brew · slow drip
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Roast V · Rhythm Blend

LBC Image Pipeline

You need 80 on-brand images. Your design agency quoted $22,000. Midjourney quoted "good luck staying consistent across 80 prompts, buddy." This is a Python CLI. Drop in a JSON of prompts. Get back a metadata-clean, web-optimized WebP library in fifteen minutes, for whatever your image model charges per scene and not a cent more. Tide in. Tide out. Idempotent.

$149 · single-user license 8 skills · 20 files v1.0.0 7-day refund

What's inside: a 375-line single-file Python CLI, 8 skills, 2 complete example pipelines (22 finished scene prompts), 20 files, roughly 12,700 words. Post-processing runs on your CPU and costs nothing.

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Bean VI · regulars only · $50 off · not a tourist
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Roast VI · Cause & Effect Blend

Agent Memory · Add-on

Already buying one of the four core packs? Add Memory at the regulars-only price. Fifty dollars off because you're not a tourist. (An agent without memory is a cause without consequences. We won't sell you that life.)

$99 · add-on for PAL / ARL / MCP buyers Same content as standalone v1.0.0

What's inside: identical to the standalone Memory pack. 11 skills, 4 worked integration recipes, 22 files, roughly 32,700 words.

VII
Roast VII · House Selection

The Flight of Four

PAL · Parallel Agent Lanes ARL · Auto-Research Loop MCP · Server Builder Memory · The decision layer One tasting menu · four beans

All four core packs. Together. At a price your accountant will silently respect. Skip the bean-by-bean math: this is what the regulars buy on the first visit.

What's inside: 46 skills, 20 worked examples, 94 files, roughly 105,000 words across four zips.

$696 à la carte · $599 the flight — keep $97 for actual coffee
More ways to order · fewer trips to the counter

Two more flights

The Flight of Four is the house pour. If you want less, or you want the whole shelf, there is a bag for that too.

The Pair · two-cup pour

PAL + ARL

Parallel Agent Lanes and the Auto-Research Loop, poured together. One runs your agents in parallel. The other makes two of them argue until the numbers go up. Buy the pair and the second cup costs less than the walk-in price.

$348 à la carte 2 zips · v1.0.0 7-day refund

What's inside: 23 skills, 13 worked examples, 50 files, roughly 50,000 words.

$299keep $49 for actual coffee
Flagship
The Whole Board · five beans

The 5-Pack

Everything on the menu that comes in a bag. All four core packs plus the Image Pipeline. The Flight of Four with the cold brew added. This is the shelf, not the sample.

$845 à la carte 5 zips · v1.0.0 7-day refund

What's inside: 54 skills, 24 worked examples, 114 files, roughly 117,700 words, plus the Python CLI.

$699keep $146, and the whole library is yours
The Cupping Table · made to order

We taste your beans

Cupping is what a roaster does before they will vouch for a lot: sit down, grade it honestly, write up what is actually in the cup. Two audits, done by hand, single pass. You buy, you tell us where to look, and a report lands in your inbox within five business days.

Made to order · single pass

GEO Audit

How visible is your brand when someone asks an AI instead of a search bar? We run the prompts a buyer would actually type, grade where you show up and where a competitor takes your seat, and hand back the map.

  • Buy, then fill a short intake: your brand, your competitors, the questions that matter
  • We run the coverage passes across the answer engines
  • Report plus a prompt-coverage matrix, delivered in 5 business days
12 to 25 pages prompt-coverage matrix 5 business days
$499single-pass engagement · operator-reviewed
How the intake works →
Made to order · single pass

Security Audit

Point us at your AI agent or MCP server and we cup it for the things that spill: prompt-injection surface, tool and permission boundaries, secret handling, the paths an attacker would actually walk. Then we write down how to close them.

  • Buy, then fill a short intake: repo or endpoint, scope, what worries you
  • We run the single-pass review by hand
  • Report plus a remediation checklist, delivered in 5 business days
10 to 20 pages remediation checklist 5 business days
$499single-pass engagement · operator-reviewed
How the intake works →
The Roastery · commercial-grade gear

Equipment, not grounds

The packs teach your agents a pattern. These are the machines themselves: source-only tools you drop straight into production and own outright. Heavier, built for the shop that runs its own line.

Source-only · production template

MCP Server Builder Pro

A deployable MCP server, not a lesson about one. Cloudflare Workers, Hono, Drizzle, and OAuth, wired and ready. The lockfile ships with it, so your first deploy is a clone away.

21 files Workers · Hono · Drizzle · OAuth single-user commercial license
$1,499source-only · 7-day refund
Source-only · Node.js library

Memory Kit DevTool

The Agent Memory pattern, cast as a library you can import today. A Node.js memory core, three storage adapters, and a migration utility. Drop it into an existing agent and give it something to remember.

12 files 3 adapters · migration utility single-user commercial license
$1,499source-only · 7-day refund
Source-only · Python package

RAG Regression Harness

Stop shipping RAG changes on faith. A Python harness on Ragas and DeepEval that scores your pipeline, catches the regression before your users do, and keeps the numbers honest between releases.

9 files Ragas · DeepEval single-user commercial license
$1,499source-only · 7-day refund
Verified by absolutely nobody yet, but soon
The Guild of Sleepless Operators
Brotherhood of the Second Cup
Anti-SaaS Apothecaries of the Republic
Order of People Who Refuse to Use the Word Synergy

Things people actually ask

Is this just markdown?

Yes. Deliberately. A skill is a plain text file your agent reads and executes, which means you can read the entire thing end to end before it ever touches your repo. There is no binary, no runtime, no daemon phoning home, nothing to audit that you cannot audit with cat. The value was never the file format. It is knowing which five prerequisites decide whether two agents can share a codebase, and what to do when the answer is no. We publish a complete skill from the Parallel Agent Lanes pack at /free, unedited and unlocked. Read it and decide for yourself.

Why $149 to $199 when marketplace skills cost $10?

Because a marketplace skill is one file and these are packs. Parallel Agent Lanes is 13 skills, 9 worked artifacts from a real setup, and 29 files. The MCP pack is 12 skills across transports, OAuth, permission boundaries, and a prompt-injection threat model. The comparison that matters is not one file against another file. It is the pack against one hour of a senior developer's time, which is what you will spend rediscovering the third prerequisite the hard way. Buy once, keep the files, v1.x updates are free for life.

Can I inspect it before I buy?

More than most shops will let you. Every product lists its full manifest right on this page: exact skill count, worked-example count, file count, word count. One complete skill is published free at /free, the same file buyers get, nothing held back. Every pack ships a MANIFEST describing each file it contains. Everything is plain text. And if the zip still is not what you expected, reply to the delivery email with the word "refund" inside seven days and we send your money back without an interview.

So what am I actually buying?

A folder of markdown files plus worked examples. You drop them into your agent's context — Claude Code skills, Cursor rules, Codex AGENTS.md, any agent that loads a .md file. The pack teaches the pattern. The agent applies it. You own the files forever. Not a subscription. Not a "platform." A bag of beans you grind at home.

Why isn't this a SaaS subscription like literally everything else?

Because we already wrote the thing. You're going to pay us. The transaction is done. No monthly tax, no "your free tier is over" emails at 11pm, no surprise pricing changes when our investors demand growth. Buy once. Own forever. Sync to whatever machine you want. If we have to send you another invoice in six months, one of us is doing this wrong.

What if it doesn't work for my stack?

Seven-day refund, no interview, no exit survey. Reply to the delivery email with the word "refund" and we send your money back. After day seven we still listen, but the receipt is closed.

Do updates cost extra?

v1.x updates are free for life. New skill variant, bug fix, better example, fresh stack pattern — existing buyers get it. We'd only charge for v2.0 (significant restructure), and v1.x owners get a discount. We're not running a Subscription as a Service.

Can I use this for client work?

Yes. Single-user commercial license covers any commercial software you ship. The line we draw is on redistributing the files themselves or wrapping them into a competing skill product / paid course. Don't be that person. Build with them, ship something good, charge what it's worth.

OK but what is up with the Hermes Trismegistus thing?

There are exactly seven Kybalion hermetic principles and we have exactly seven packs. We thought that was funny. Hermes also happens to be the classical patron of merchants, messengers, and language — the literal job description of "a store that sells written instructions." We're not running a cult. We're running a coffee shop that read too much philosophy.

Why "Lonely Brew Club" if you sell software?

Because solo operators with AI agents are the new espresso machine, the new home roastery, the new "I do this myself, slowly, and it tastes better than the chain." That's the whole product. The metaphor and the offering rhyme.

How do the audits work, exactly?

You buy the audit like anything else on the menu. Right after checkout you land on a short intake form where you tell us where to look: your brand and competitors for the GEO Audit, or your repo or endpoint and scope for the Security Audit. We run a single pass by hand and send the report to your purchase email within five business days. One engagement, one report, no retainer.

What's the difference between a pack and a Roastery tool?

A pack is a set of markdown instructions that teaches your agent a pattern; you keep the files and the agent does the work. A Roastery tool is the finished machine: source-only code you deploy or import directly, like the MCP server template, the Memory Kit library, or the RAG harness. Same shop, heavier gear. You own the source outright, single-user commercial license, same 7-day refund.

@somebody just ordered the Flight of Four. This counter is fake. The product is real.