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BeLeaf - Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf
Synthetic Business

Meet BeLeaf

A mid-size tea & coffee supplier we built to prove our approaches work - before we ever touch your business.

"BeLeaf" = "Belief" - because we want you to believe in better beverages.

Once Upon a Time... Bean Hunters

BeLeaf wasn't always BeLeaf. It started life as Bean Hunters - a fictional coffee company conceived in 2024 when Dave was experimenting with AI-generated business strategies.

The original concept? "The Hunt" - the tireless search for the world's most exceptional coffee beans. A brand for sophisticated digital nomads and professionals who value craftsmanship and a good story as much as their caffeine hit.

The Cast of Friends (Legally Distinct)

In a hilariously audacious move, Dave originally "hired" the entire cast of Friends to run the business. Imagine if they'd really quit Central Perk to start their own roastery!

But legal reality intervened. The team was subsequently rebranded with "Not" titles:

CEO Definitely Not Gunther Vision and leadership (finally out from behind the counter)
Marketing Not Rachel Green Branding and social media (fashion sense intact)
Operations Definitely Not Monica Supply chain and quality control (obsessively)
Customer Experience Not Phoebe Buffay Support with "not-quite-mystical" vibes
Digital Marketing Not Chandler Bing SEO and content "scribbles"
Sales Not Joey Tribbiani "How YOU doin'... with our wholesale pricing?"

Then Came the Chai

The pivot happened when Dave got hooked on chai. Suddenly, a coffee-only company felt limiting. Bean Hunters became BeLeaf - because leaves cover both tea AND coffee, and the pun was too good to resist.

Coffee Bean Hunters (2024)
+
Tea Chai Obsession
=
Leaf BeLeaf (2025)

Read the original Bean Hunters marketing strategy on Medium

Most consultants show you slides. We show you working systems.

BeLeaf is a fully-realised fictional company with 149 employees, £18M revenue, real org charts, real processes, and real problems. Every tool we build, every framework we teach, every AI agent we deploy — we test it on BeLeaf first.

Simpler + Smarter + Speedier = Smilier

BeLeaf demonstrates how our integrated approach delivers all four — because transformation only works when everything connects.

149 Employees
£18.2M Revenue
87 Products
4 Locations

BeLeaf Ltd. is a Bristol-based tea & coffee supplier serving offices, cafés, and direct consumers across Europe. Founded in 2012 by Marcus Chen and Priya Sharma, they've grown from a garage startup to a thriving mid-market player — but they've hit a plateau.

"Where quality brews"

BeLeaf's pain points map to our 5 tenets — and probably sound familiar:

Simpler
Clarity

"Great products, confusing range"

87 SKUs but customers don't know where to start. Product excellence gets lost in complexity.

Aisha Patel, CMO
Smarter
Insight

"Data everywhere, no insight"

3 years of customer data sitting unused. 4 systems that don't talk to each other.

Fatima Al-Hussein, Data Lead
Speedier
AI

"Should be using AI, haven't started"

Everyone's talking about AI but where do you actually begin? Analysis paralysis.

Priya Sharma, CTO
Smilier
Story

"Losing to dumber competitors"

Best coffee in the market but sales team can't articulate the difference.

Emma Rodriguez, VP Sales
Growth

"Post-pandemic plateau, what's next?"

The boom masked structural issues. Now growth has stalled and the team is burning out.

Sarah Mitchell, CEO
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Agentic AI Dashboard

Multi-agent systems transforming 5 core processes

Speedier
🌱

The Greenhouse

90-day diagnostic for human-centric transformation

Smilier Coming Soon
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Solution Stack

Simpler alternative to Business Model Canvas

Simpler Coming Soon
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Zeitgeist

Knowledge graph connecting all business intelligence

Smarter Coming Soon
4 Executive Team
38 Operations
32 Sales
22 Technology
18 Marketing
16 Finance & HR
15 Customer Experience
8 Product

Why This Matters

Most consultants arrive, observe, and recommend. We arrive having already built and tested the solution.

BeLeaf is our proof of work. When you see a demo, it's not a mock-up — it's a system that works. When you hear a framework, it's not theory — it's been stress-tested against real complexity.

Simpler documentation Smarter insights Speedier execution Smilier outcomes

See BeLeaf in Action

Experience how agentic AI transforms a real (fictional) business.