🧪 The Places License – RESEARCH / Sustainable Tier
3-Year Digital License
For universities, laboratories, innovation hubs, and non-commercial R&D.
 
Where questions matter — and where better answers begin.
This license is for Places conducting research on coffee systems or coffee itself — including universities, labs, field stations, and independent or collaborative research hubs. Whether your focus is fermentation, sensory science, supply chains, education models, or labor conditions — you belong here.
 
The Research License supports non-commercial inquiry that advances the values of The Better Coffee. It offers access to internal documentation, collaborative support, and a place within a global network of applied learning and critical study.
 
With the Sustainable Tier, you receive:
Full access to The Better Coffee Standard and Research license documentation
The right to operate as The Place [Your Name] or [Your Location]
Inclusion in research collaborations, working groups, and exploratory pilots
Branding, identity, and communication tools for ethical visibility and knowledge sharing
Access to internal tools, datasets, visual systems, and cross-discipline material
Participation in network-wide events, research showcases, and open publishing projects
Administrative support — from structuring partnerships to handling IP and data protocols
Trust-based license check-in after 3 years — focused on alignment and mutual growth (earlier by request if needed)
Support for joint applications, ethical review documentation, and open-access pathways
Talent and labor sharing — find co-authors, field partners, or embedded observers
Equal standing in the network — no central authority. Every Place contributes inquiry while upholding the shared Standard
 
💡 The Sustainable Tier offers everything needed to pursue ethical, impactful research — without pressure to commercialize or compete.
 
💳 Prefer to pay annually?
We offer a year-by-year agreement if needed.
Contact us for a 1-year invoice and onboarding process:
📩 redinkcoffee@proton.me
Subject: Research License – Annual Payment Request
 
You don’t just study coffee.
You question its systems.
Be The Place where knowledge begins to shift the paradigm.