Our Brand

Built to honor
a bold thinker.

Space Blasters didn't start with a business plan. It started with a cup of coffee, a conversation, and a father who believed you could change the world if you were willing to explore it.

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The Origin

Coffee as a
launch point.

I created Space Blasters to honor my late father, Zack. He and I would have conversations over coffee about life, aspirations, and changing the world. He was someone who believed in expanding your mind, exploring the unknown, and manifesting the future through your ideas.

Space Blasters carries that forward. Coffee as a catalyst. A launch point for bold thinkers. A spark for the conversations that actually matter.

This brand is more than a roasting company. It's a mission to build something at the intersection of specialty coffee and technology that pushes people to explore, create, and seek what's next.

“Give it hell.”
Wise words from my father, Zack
The Trajectory

Every stop was intentional.

The Foundation
Industrial Design & Neuroscience
Formal education in industrial design with a post-bacc in neuroscience and behavior. Trained to think in systems, understand how people experience things, and design what comes next.
The Craft
Highwire Coffee Roasters
Built around community, music, and the craft of creation. Learned what hospitality actually feels like when it's done right, and what it takes to hold quality standards on a busy floor.
The Source
Saint Frank Coffee
Deep relationships with the farmers growing the coffee. People who pour their life into the crop and care about how it's received. Understood the supply chain from origin to cup.
The Strategy
Signal & Particle
Positioning and growth for founders in AI, robotics, and deep tech. Turning complex products into clear narratives and real traction. Systems thinking applied to brand building.
The Mission
Space Blasters & Kiln
Everything converges. Specialty coffee meets AI. A brand built to honor a bold thinker, powered by a coffee intelligence engine designed to help people explore what they didn't know they'd love.
Why We Built Kiln

The future of coffee
isn't replacing craft.
It's unleashing it.

Specialty coffee is extraordinary. But the way people discover it is stuck in the past. Five-question quizzes. Generic subscriptions. Algorithms that play it safe.

We believe technology and AI belong in specialty coffee. Not to make it cheaper, but to make it better. The problems are everywhere and almost nobody is solving them well, because the people building the tools have never worked the bar.

Kiln is our answer. A coffee intelligence engine that learns your palate, surfaces origins you'd never find on your own, and treats every cup as data that makes the next recommendation sharper.

Explore Kiln
The Kiln Philosophy
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Explore the Unknown
Surface origins, roasters, and flavor profiles no basic algorithm would ever recommend. Push palates into new territory.
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Equipped, Not Replaced
The barista of the future isn't replaced by AI. They're equipped by it. Better tools, better understanding, better craft.
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Data Meets Taste
Every cup you log sharpens your profile. Kiln learns what you love and maps where your palate is heading next.
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The Mission

Craft and technology aren't opposites. They're the combination worth chasing. The people who can move between worlds, who understand both the bar and the boardroom, are the ones who shape what comes next.

Space Blasters exists for them. For the curious. The builders. The ones who refuse to pick a lane.

“Give it hell.”
Wise words from my father, Zack
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