I never post on LinkedIn and hardly post anything online at all, except for some of my adventures outdoors.
But today, I wanted to change that and share what I've really been pouring my time into.
A year ago, my time at CPP Investments came to an end as I was part of some unexpected layoffs. Forever grateful for my time building and maintaining systems which managed risk and helped automate back-office processes, I continued to sharpen those skills and never stopped building. After working on a few ideas and making some MVPs, I couldn't stop thinking about one, BeanBonus.
BeanBonus addresses a core problem with brick-and-mortar SMBs, specifically cafes. Everyone's favorite cafe gets by day to day without access to modern tools which their large franchise competitors build out internally. BeanBonus gives unique cafes all the benefits of an app similar to that of Starbucks or Tim Hortons without the hassle of building it themselves.
It is a flurry of beneficial features all packed into one convenient app: one app for them to manage and one app for their customers to download. It's not a white-labeled approach where your customer needs to download a different app for every cafe but rather a central platform for everyone to be part of.
A core value for BeanBonus is community, as we believe these unique cafes are the hearts of theirs. This idea has been burning away at me ever since driving across Canada from Halifax to Tofino back in 2021. Whether it's a particular neighborhood in a big city or a town of less than a thousand people, cafes can help become a central point of a community. From modernizing their loyalty programs to notifying customers of day-olds and so much more, I truly believe BeanBonus can become a game changer for these cafes.
If you think there is a cafe in your community which would benefit from BeanBonus, feel free to reach out or contact me at josh@beanbonus.ca, and I would love to meet with them!
Learn more about us at beanbonus.ca and start collecting rewards as we onboard our first cafes by downloading the BeanBonus app on The App Store!
Wooohoooooo!!!!