You Know Your Business.

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Brand color
wall paint?

Cypress

Could customers recognize the shop from a photo?

Takeout containers?

Cypress

What would each takeaway order cost us?

New size of
glasses for coffee?

Cypress

Better for storage and as a smaller coffee size

Cypress works with you to keep track of how your whole business is working. It shows you what is going well, what needs attention, and what you can do next.

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The Owner's Problem

What Only You Know

You map the whole thing at once: cash, staff, suppliers, customers, and the reason Tuesdays are always strange. You notice problems early, make forecasts without calling them forecasts, and carry knowledge no spreadsheet can contain. You know your business best, but there's no backup for what only you know.

Cypress builds a living map of your business with you.

Through familiar conversations, it learns from your questions, observations, photos, and corrections. You stay in control of what it learns and what it does.

Your knowledge remains yours. Cypress makes it more useful to you by answering questions, surfacing insights, and taking work off your plate.

No extra dashboard. No generic report. Just the right information or action for the moment you're in.

How Cypress Learns

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modeling the neighborhood you flagged... — foot traffic comparable to your current block at year 1 — 2 competitors within 0.4 mi, but neither opens before 7am — your best window — rent is 1.3x current; breaks even at ~65% of your current volume

Cypress

Sales were three times the usual today. What happened?

Cypress starts with the systems you already use.

Cypress follows the books, schedules, purchasing, sales, staffing, and other digital signals your business already creates.

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You

Today was awesome. Tour bus came by and people loved the coffee and pastry special. We sold out by 2pm

You add what the numbers cannot show.

A tour bus parked outside. A new regular. A machine running strangely. A reason this Tuesday will not look like the last one.

Cypress

I saw that spike last week too.

You

That was also a tour bus. Can you see if a new tour is running?

Checking tours running with stops in the vicinity of the cafe...

Cypress

Turns out there's a tour running June - August that stops nearby!

The map becomes more faithful.

Cypress connects those observations with everything else it knows, creating a clearer map of how your business works from the inside.

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YOU

Can we brainstorm how to take advantage of that?

Maybe we try a new display case? A poster stand outside?

CYPRESS

Bluehill Coffee

Soho

Displays & Signage

Marketing Opportunities

A-Frame Sign — Soho Sign Co.

Weatherproof · Chalkboard insert

In stock

£140

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Window Poster Set — Berwick St. Press

6 designs · A2

Ready in 2 days

£65

It helps you choose and follow through.

Cypress shows you what deserves attention, where your options could lead, and what needs to happen next. What happens next makes the map better.

The Day to Day

Make sure we order more milk.

Why are we going through beans faster this week?

Who should cover Friday afternoon?

Here's what needs your attention most today.

Why Cypress

Know your business.

The state of the business finally lives somewhere besides your memory.

Make informed decisions.

See your options, understand the tradeoffs, and take action with more confidence.

Get after what matters.

Spend your attention where it can make the biggest difference.

Love what you do.

Give your best hours back to the craft, the regulars, and the reason you opened in the first place.

Partner with Cypress

We're building Cypress alongside a small group of owner-operators. We are starting with shops, cafés, restaurants, and other businesses where the owner is still close to the work.

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Serve Places People Love

We are building agentic systems that learn from messy data, human judgment, and changing conditions to understand a business over time. Join us in pushing what agents can understand while staying close to the people and reality they serve.

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