About uncrack

Discover. Connect. Enhance.

uncrack is the technology-driven green bean auction platform built by EGGSTONE, a data-science and AI company. Behind every lot stands the uncrack engine: one connected intelligence spanning green chemistry, roasted profiles and the roast itself. See the unseen, powered by data and intelligence.

THE UNCRACK ENGINENIR SPECTROSCOPY · ML MODELS · V2

Not a scoring tool — an intelligence. The Engine is built on years of paired measurements across green beans, roasted beans and the roasting process, one of the deepest coffee databases of its kind, resolved by machine-learning models into evidence you can bid on. Every auction feeds it; every season it predicts sharper.

The numbers behind the engine — signals, components, taste axes, scans — live on The Data.

GREEN
Chemistry, density, water activity — the raw potential, measured
ROASTED
Component and sensory profiles — how potential becomes flavor
ROASTING
Curves and development — the path from one to the other
01THE CASE FOR DATA

An auction exists to discover differentiated quality because difference creates value.

The industry has long relied on sensory evaluation: five senses and experience. It works, but it isn’t enough. A score alone can’t fully explain what makes one lot different from another. It can’t explain why that difference exists, prove what lies behind it, or help reproduce it next season.

In a market where a 0.13-point difference can lead to 4.5× the bids and 3× the hammer price, the missing information matters. So we built an auction around what sensory scores alone cannot reveal.

DETAILS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
0.13score gap → 4.5× the bids

Best of Panama 2025, Geisha Washed — 94.63 drew 658 bids at $6,105/kg; 94.50 drew 148 at $2,040/kg.

0.25score gap → 13× the hammer

CGLE V-auction 2025 — 94.25 hammered 13× higher than 94.00, from the same region.

86 · 87two scores, two hashtags

#apple #pear vs #apple #chestnut-honey. Which do you bid on, and why? The score alone can’t say.

02SENSORY MODEL VS UNCRACK MODEL
SENSORY-BASED AUCTION
The conventional model
DATA-DRIVEN AUCTION
The uncrack model
Subjective evaluation

Scores vary by person, culture and region — nothing anchors them at the green stage.

Objective evaluation

Chemical composition reveals true value with clear, measurable proof.

Hidden quality stays hidden

Exceptional lots remain disconnected, undiscovered, undervalued.

Hidden quality, discovered

Data surfaces what a palate missed, then carries it to the world — trusted, traceable, traded on one floor.

Undefined value

Value stays vague; entry barriers stay high; many lots are never seen.

Precision-based value

Price driven by data, aligned with quality, built for long-term growth.

03DISCOVER · CONNECT · ENHANCE
DISCOVER

Data discovers the hidden value.

One NIR scan resolves a green lot into 16 chemical components, five taste axes and quality indices — its potential read objectively, before the first roast.

156,000raw signals per scan
CONNECT

Bridge origin to the world.

One live floor, one shared timeline. A producer in Santa Bárbara and a roaster in Berlin bid on the same evidence — anonymous paddles, exporter-settled.

1floor, every buyer
ENHANCE

Proof raises price.

Visualizing a coffee’s strengths with data enhances its value. Every farm gets its analysis back, win or lose — and the evidence compounds each season.

100%of farms get their report
04THE RECORD SO FAR

We believe great coffee is not found by chance; it is cultivated. Both auctions were led by EGGSTONE as part of a national project by Busan Technopark, working with partners at origin.

PILOT · HONDURAS

Honduras Discovery: Next Gen Auction

Discovering emerging producers across Honduras and bringing them to the global stage, with their coffee’s value demonstrated through data. In partnership with IHCAFE.

PILOT · COLOMBIA

Colombia Frontier: Science of Nature Auction

In partnership with Colors of Nature, experimental green beans created through microbial fermentation are analyzed through data and AI, revealing their potential before they reach the market.

05TWO PATHS, ONE FLOOR
FOR PRODUCERS
01
Send a sample

One submission brings your coffee into view through data.

02
Data analysis

The engine reads its chemistry. You receive the full report, whether it sells or not.

03
Auction listing

Your lot is introduced with its evidence attached.

04
Connect

Buyers worldwide bid on its proven value; it sells at the price it deserves.

FOR BUYERS
01
Register

Create an account, accept the terms, request samples.

02
Read the evidence

Chemical components, taste potential, and quality signals — set your ceiling.

03
Bid live

One shared timeline, tiered increments, anti-snipe close.

04
Win · settle

Confirmed at the hammer; the exporter ships and settles directly.

06WHAT YOU GAIN
PRODUCERS
01Know the true value of the coffee you grew
02Make next season’s production decisions on evidence
03Fewer sunk lots, lower sampling costs
04Seen by buyers worldwide — and traded dramatically faster
BUYERS
01An objective standard for choosing green beans
02Verified producers, backed by data
03A quality strategy built on data, not luck
04From bid to shipment, one connected process
07THE LIVE FLOOR

Won on value, not reflexes.

A washed Geisha at $92.50/kg. Three teams watch the same number. A bid lands in the final minute — the clock resets to five. No sniping, no backroom deals. Every buyer sees the same evidence, and the price is discovered in the open.

01
Unified timelineall lots open and close together.
02
Tiered incrementsthe minimum raise scales with the price band.
03
Anti-snipea final-minute bid extends the close by 5 minutes.
04
Committed bidsconfirmed bids can’t be retracted.
Join live bidding

Great coffee deserves to be seen.
Data makes it visible.

26 lots are open right now. Read the evidence. Find your lot. Make your bid.