The Places License
Sustainable Tier · 3-Year Digital License
For anyone working with coffee — wherever real practice happens.
Where coffee is grown, made, taught, tested, shared, and lived.
 
This license is for The Places — real, independent entities working with coffee in everyday practice.
It may be a farm, a roastery, a café, a training space, a lab, a logistics hub, a platform, a cooperative, or a community initiative.
Physical or digital. Large or small. Individual or collective.
What matters is not the form — but the commitment.
 
The The Places License supports you in applying The Better Coffee Standard in real work, building fair relationships, and operating with shared tools, values, and solidarity.
 
This is not a certification.
It is a working relationship.
 
What you receive with the Sustainable Tier
Full access to The Better Coffee Standard and implementation documentation
The right to operate publicly as The Place [Your Name] or The Place [Your Location]
Ongoing consultation and support from The Better Coffee Office
Dedicated Matrix + Element (M+E) spaces for licensed The Places
Access to The Places internal network — shared tools, experience, and peer support
Support in sales, pricing logic, communication, and long-term development
Access to The Ranking Method (TRM) as a service
Shared decision-making on how The Standard is applied in practice
Support to host events, trainings, collaborations, and local initiatives
Peer exchange and labor sharing — skills, knowledge, and capacity
Equal voice in the network — no HQ, no fixed model, no central control
 
The Sustainable Tier reflects the base cost of participation — designed to support real work, long-term cooperation, and system-level change without commercial distortion.
 
📩 Questions, onboarding, or support:
office@thebettercoffee.org
 
You don’t just work with coffee.
You shape how coffee works.
Be The Place where better practice becomes real.