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Notes from the field and from the team.

Raw materials and the regions they grow in, how we work, the technology behind Finches, and the people building it.

Also from Finches The First Mile Webcast Interviews on sourcing decisions under uncertainty. Watch the series

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A trend can be over in ten months. A field answers in five years.

Viral demand moves in weeks. A whey concentration line takes two to four years, a tea field five, a pistachio tree ten. What a sourcing team can see before the price tells them.