Someone to have coffee with
Fifteen minutes on the phone with us, booked in advance. We ring you — there is nothing to open, nothing to join, and no camera anywhere in it. Talk about your day, think out loud, or say almost nothing and get on with your work while someone keeps you company — body doubling, if you have heard it called that.
On the other end is Coaster Rizz — the same people who write the story that goes on the back of the mug. Not a call centre, not a bot, and not a stranger picked off a list. We print the mugs the coffee sits in; this is the part where somebody drinks it with you.
Fifteen minutes, on the phone. If we cannot make it, you choose: a full refund, or a new time.
And if it is not for you, say so in the first two minutes and we refund it. No explanation needed.
What this is not
The internet calls this a listening ear, or renting a friend online. We call it a coffee break, because that is the size of it: fifteen minutes, no appointment, nothing to prepare.
Nobody here is a therapist and this is not therapy. It is not coaching and it is not mentoring. Nothing gets assessed, nothing gets fixed, there is no programme and no homework, and you do not have to arrive with a subject or leave with a conclusion. Coffee does not ask you to make progress.
How it works
We open an evening. A short window, a handful of fifteen-minute slots, announced to subscribers when it opens. Some of them are the same evening.
You take a slot. Pick a time, leave a number. The call comes to your phone, so the number is asked for when you book. It is used for that call and nothing else.
We ring you. At the time you chose, your phone goes. Nothing to install and no account to make. Fifteen minutes, and when they are up they are up.
Not open yet. The evenings go out to subscribers first, so the way in is to write to us or subscribe at the bottom of any page. Nothing to pay for now — there is nothing to book yet.