01 · PLAN
Open the app and see the whole shop at once.
The Scoreboard on top, the day’s work underneath. Everyone on shift sees the same priorities, so nobody has to guess what matters next.
Systems, software + support for independent coffee shops
We’re fixing that.
Independent coffee shop owners can make more money without doing everything themselves. Blue42 gives you software to manage daily operations, tools to make better business decisions, and a community of operators to help you grow without figuring everything out from scratch.
Opening a shop instead? See the tools for opening
Blue42OS · For operating coffee shops
Your POS tells you what sold. Blue42OS runs the work behind it: checklists, training, assignments, inventory and standards, with an owner, status and record for what happens every day.
Then it turns that activity into a read on the whole shop, showing you what needs attention and where to act next.
$42 a month covers the whole team, ten seats included. We walk you through setup. Cancel anytime.
The Floor Score shows how the shop is operating now: performance, participation and progress across the team.
The Shop Scorecard pulls back to the business trend: revenue, waste, labor and COGS against your ceilings.
One shows you what’s happening on the floor. The other shows you what it’s doing to the business.
In most shops, training is tribal knowledge, handed down shift to shift and changed a little with every telling.
Blue42OS turns it into a six-block ladder with the core training already built. Assign the next step, set a due date, track progress, and require a manager’s sign-off before someone is cleared.
You skip the months you’d spend building the system yourself, and the standard stays the same when you’re off the floor.
Inside Blue42
In most coffee shops, the checklists, training and tasks live in a group chat or in the owner’s head. Nothing closes the loop, so accountability depends on how much attention a manager has left.
Blue42OS moves that work into a closed loop. Every item has an owner, a status and a record, so the team is held to account without it costing you your focus.
The Scoreboard on top, the day’s work underneath. Everyone on shift sees the same priorities, so nobody has to guess what matters next.
Training goes to a person with a due date, and the team can see who owes what. It doesn’t disappear into the group chat.
The checklists come refined in a working café, and every line is yours to edit. When something isn’t right, the note moves to the punch list where it stays visible until it’s handled.
Someone can ace the quiz and still struggle to hold the bar on a Saturday. A manager watches the station and signs it off. Until then, the training isn’t complete.
Floor Score reads the work the team already did and identifies what’s holding the shop back. You know how Saturday went without driving in to find out.
Included in Blue42OS
Refined in a working café and ready on day one. Change any line to match how your shop runs.
A scored floor walk with health-critical items weighted double, so drift gets caught the same afternoon.
Core courses already written, with a manager’s sign-off. No season spent writing a manual.
A name and a date on every task. Quicker than the group chat, and it doesn’t scroll away.
Every flagged problem waits in one list until somebody fixes it.
One number for the whole shop and the signal behind it. Know how Saturday went without driving in.
Revenue, waste, labor and COGS against your ceilings, weekly. Catch the drift while the margin’s still there.
Your items, your vendors, your pars. One count becomes an order list by vendor, so the day off stays off.
Every SOP on every phone, current, with nothing to reprint.
We spent ten years working in and on coffee shops before we built any software. Blue42OS is built from that work.
Blue42OS came out of working coffee shops, Calioh Coffee first. The checklists, training and standards ran on the floor for real before any of it was written into software.
And we still do the work for other shops:
The app is the newest thing we do. Everything in it, we did by hand first.
“The checklists alone are worth the subscription price.”
Blue42OS demo
The scoreboard shows your Floor Score and the week’s revenue, waste, labor and cost of goods. The binder holds what the team works from: checklists, inventory, the punch list, assignments, training and the playbook.
Pricing
Includes 10 seats. Add another 10-seat block for $20 per month.
Setup is included. We walk you through it, so your shop starts on its own lists instead of a blank app.
You get the complete Blue42OS platform. Features are not locked behind higher subscription tiers.
*Cancel anytime. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. Fees already paid for the current billing period are non-refundable.
Request a DemoSpreadsheet tools for opening a shop and running one. Enter your email and the file downloads.
For operators who want Blue42OS but do not want to design and install the operating system alone.
Over approximately three months, we work with the leadership team to put Blue42 into the shop. We define the operating standards, organize the training ladder, build the management rhythm, and help the team learn how to use the signal.
For host businesses, ownership groups, and operators without the internal experience or bandwidth to build the coffee program themselves.
We build the program, install Blue42OS, train the team, establish the operating standard, and prepare the business for handoff.
Start here
Opening, operating, or trying to turn things around. Start with where your shop is today.
The first mistakes are usually made before the doors open. They get signed into the lease, drawn into the plans, and financed into the project.
Blue42 Tools help you test the site, model the numbers, and investigate the conditions that are too expensive to discover during construction.
Explore Blue42 ToolsThe doors are open. Now the work has to happen every shift, without you standing over it to make sure it does.
Blue42OS holds the checklists, training and tasks in one closed loop, so the shop runs on a system and your evenings stay yours.
Free tools for running a shop →
Explore Blue42OSA shop can be busy and still be failing.
Labor drifts. Standards become manager-specific. Sales come in, but cash does not accumulate. The owner works harder while the business becomes less predictable.
Explore Shop SupportBlue42 Tools · Free
Run the numbers before you commit to anything: the site, the build-out, the cash to open and when the shop pays you back. Once you’re open, keep watching cash, the weekly numbers and your ads. Free spreadsheets, built from real shops.
In this order. Each tool hands its numbers to the next.
Is this location a good deal or a bad deal?
Put the rent, square footage and build-out costs up against what the neighborhood can actually support, and get a clear go or no-go before you sign the lease.
Can your equipment handle the volume?
Check your espresso setup against your busiest hour, then list every machine with its power, water, drains and size for your electrician, plumber and architect.
Download free →What will the build-out actually cost?
Price the project line by line, from construction, millwork and signage to permits and equipment, and see the real total before you set a budget.
Download free →How much cash do you need on opening day?
Add up pre-opening payroll, opening inventory, launch marketing and deposits, then fund the months it takes the shop to break even.
Download free →Will this shop make money, and when?
Turn revenue, costs and financing into a monthly P&L and cash flow, with payback and returns worked out for you. It’s the package a lender asks for.
Download free →Weekly numbers, cash and marketing.
Will you have cash for payroll?
Track cash in and out week by week, so you see the low point coming before it hits payroll.
Download free →Is your shop getting better or worse?
Enter revenue, waste and labor each week. The dashboard measures them against your goals and tells your manager what to fix first.
Download free →Are your ads bringing in customers or burning money?
Set up your Business Profile, build your keywords and budget, and know what Google can measure at each stage, from your first clicks to tracked store visits.
Download free →Looking at a site? Read the coffee shop site feasibility guide — the arithmetic worked through and what to ask the landlord for.
Blue42 Community · Hosted on Skool
Downloading a tool and understanding every result are not always the same thing.
Bring the tool, your assumptions, your questions, and the verdict.
Use the community and office hours to pressure-test the inputs, understand what the model is telling you, and learn from operators working through the same decisions.
Weekly office hours, quarterly meetings and an annual meetup — where you see the tools and Blue42OS used live before you commit to anything.
The community does not make the decision for you.
It gives you a room full of operators while you make it.
Bring a location you’re looking at — a lease, a space, a trade area, or a number that isn’t working. We work through the numbers, pressure-test the decision, and find the next move.
Blue42 Operator Support · For shops that need more than software
Revenue can grow while profit disappears.
The schedule can be full while the floor remains understaffed at the wrong times. Managers can work hard while operating from different standards. The owner can stay involved in everything and still have no reliable view of what is happening.
Blue42 operator support starts with the operating reality of the business. We identify what is breaking, install a working system, and help the leadership team use it.
It starts with one call. You describe the shop; we tell you what we would look at first.
Blue42 is a resource ecosystem for independent coffee operators.
It includes modeling tools for people opening coffee shops, operating software for shops already running, a community for operators, and implementation support for businesses that need direct help.
No.
Blue42 is the parent brand and resource ecosystem. Blue42OS is the coffee shop operating software inside that ecosystem.
It is the layer of daily work your POS cannot see: opening and closing checklists, training, manager verification, the reason a task was missed, and one whole-shop measure of how the floor is running.
Blue42OS is that layer, built for independent coffee shops and used on a phone, on the floor, mid-shift.
Blue42 is for people planning their first coffee shop, operators running an existing shop, and owners trying to correct a business that is struggling.
The right starting point depends on the stage you are in.
It is a site-selection modeling tool.
It calculates the sales volume a lease demands, tests that requirement against what the trade area can support, screens for physical and permitting risks, and returns a GO, CONDITIONAL, or NO-GO result with the reason attached.
No.
Blue42 Tools are free. Enter your email and the file downloads. You don't need Blue42OS to use them.
For opening a shop: Site Feasibility Analysis, Equipment Schedule, Cost Detail, Launch & Labor, Pro Forma. Each one hands its numbers to the next.
For running a shop: Cash Monitor, Manager Scorecard, Google Ads & Business Profile.
Yes.
Blue42OS is currently available as a beta product while we continue testing and improving it with working coffee-shop teams.
The $42 monthly subscription includes 10 seats.
Additional 10-seat blocks are $20 per month.
No.
Every new shop gets a guided setup. We walk you through loading your checklists and getting your team into the app, so you are not starting from a blank screen.
That is part of the $42 subscription. Guided Implementation is a separate service: roughly three months working inside your shop with your leadership team.
No.
Every Blue42OS subscriber receives the complete software platform. What changes between the subscription, Guided Implementation, and a Full Program Build is how much of the work we do alongside you — not how much of the software you get.
Yes.
Blue42 operator support starts with the operating reality of the business: what is breaking, why, and what to install first. It runs as Guided Implementation over roughly three months with your leadership team, or as a Full Program Build for host businesses and ownership groups.
Blue42OS subscriptions can be canceled at any time. Cancellation applies at the end of the current billing period, and fees already paid for that period are non-refundable.
Blue42 Tools are free, so there is nothing to refund.
If you are evaluating a location, use Blue42 Tools.
If you are running the shop, use Blue42OS.
If the business is slipping, talk to an operator who can help you identify why.