Twenty-one years running coffee processing facilities. Then we built the platform we wished we'd had.
I co-founded Vayhan Coffee in 2005. For 21 years I've been responsible for operations across two manufacturing facilities — a specialty coffee roastery and an instant coffee factory. Coffee at industrial scale, with everything that implies: PLCs, SCADA, recipes, operators, shift changes, batches, and the constant gap between what the data shows and what the experienced operator knows.
Mid-sized factories like ours can't justify enterprise MES platforms. They cost $150K to $500K, take 18 months to deploy, and assume an in-house automation team most factories don't have. Smaller IIoT and SCADA dashboard products exist, but they show data — they don't capture decisions, and they don't learn from outcomes.
For years I waited for the right tool to appear. It didn't. By 2025, AI economics had matured to the point where I could build it myself. I started Vigora with a clear mission: democratize the decision intelligence layer for the small and mid-sized process factories that have been priced out of it.
The first deployment is at my own factories. The next deployments will be at other operators who recognize the same gap.
Vigora is currently developed and operated by Junesun Private Limited for the purposes of pilot deployments, customer onboarding, and contractual engagements. Junesun is the implementation and service partner for all current Vigora installations.
I'm KVK Raju, an industrial entrepreneur. I co-founded Vayhan Coffee in 2005 and spent the next two decades building and scaling factory operations. Vigora is built from inside that experience, not adjacent to it.
As the platform evolves, a dedicated corporate structure for Vigora may be established to support its long-term growth and expansion.
Industrial software is full of vendors making claims they can't back up. We've decided to be specific about ours. These are the operating principles we hold ourselves to:
We don't write to your PLC during pilot. Recommendations go to operators. Your control system stays in control. Automation hooks are architecturally available but disabled by default and only enabled with explicit customer authorization after pilot maturity.
Your factory data stays on your factory floor. Vigora runs locally on a server we ship to your site. No cloud aggregation, no SaaS warehouse, no third-party analytics. Federated learning shares anonymized statistical weights only — no signals, no batches, no recipes, no operator names.
We don't claim what we can't show. Every operational claim on this site can be verified against running code at one of our pilot deployments. If we can't show it running, we don't claim it.
We don't sell what we haven't built. Our roadmap is public on the Product page . Items marked "what's coming" are real near-term work, not vapor.
We grow deliberately. We're working with a small number of pilot manufacturers this year. We're not racing to install Vigora at hundreds of sites. We'd rather have ten deployments running cleanly than a hundred running poorly.
We tell the truth about what's partial. The Engineering page describes what Vigora does today, how it's built, and how it's evolving. We update it as the platform matures.
If anything on this site resonates with how your factory operates — or fails to operate — we'd like to hear from you.