Our Story

The best conversations happen over a cup of coffee.

Convive started in 2012 with the belief that coffee can be a catalyst for connection in our community. The point of a great cup of coffee is the person across the table.

Fourteen years later, that belief looks like a coffee roastery on Butler Street in Lawrenceville, four neighborhood cafes across the Pittsburgh area, green coffee sourced seasonally, and every single bag roasted by us.

Yes, coffee-snob-level coffee, without the snobbery.

We sweat the sourcing, the roast curves, and the dial-in so you can focus on the meaningful moments of life that matter most.

Roasting coffee is an art and a science, and ours is in the hands of Paulo Meléndez. Paulo has been sourcing and designing every roast at Convive since 2019. He's a Q Grader — the certification for people who can taste a coffee and tell you exactly what's in it — and he grew up on his family's farm, Finca El Zapote in Acatenango, Guatemala, so he's stood at both ends of the supply chain: the harvest and the drum. He's a two-time Guatemalan National Barista Champion (2022 and 2025) and represents Guatemala at the 2026 World Barista Championship.

The machine is a Loring S7 Nighthawk: a smokeless roaster that uses one burner to roast the beans and burn off its own smoke, so the coffee never picks up anything but heat. We roast in closely watched, tailored small batches of 15 pounds or less, with every profile saved and repeated batch to batch — small enough that each one gets a person's full attention, not a timer's. We find the best coffees we can from importers who are respectable and accountable, roast each one a few different ways to find what you might like best, and get it to you fresh.

And yes, we drink a lot of coffee too.