Pulla watches your pull, reads the puck, and tells you — in plain language — what went wrong and what to change on the next shot.
You have a $900 machine, a $500 grinder, and a bag of $25 beans — but you still can't tell if that sour shot means grind finer or tamp flatter.
Tell Pulla what you're working with, record the pull, and get a flow reading plus a single concrete correction for the next shot.
Pick your machine, grinder, scale and baskets from our catalog — or let Pulla look up a model it doesn't know yet. Sets your baseline temp and grind scale.
Log the bag once — roaster, origin, process, roast date. Pulla uses age and roast level to suggest a starter grind and target ratio.
Prop your phone, hit record, and pull. Enter dose, yield, shot time and a quick taste rating. Snap the spent puck if you want a deeper read.
Two layers: what Pulla saw in the flow, and one concrete change to try — grind, dose, yield or distribution. Dial-in mode walks you through the retry.
A light Ethiopian from Sey, tamped fast. Pulla flagged it inside 4 seconds. Here's what it saw.
The pull started centered but drifted east by frame 4. Once the channel opened, the whole shot gushed. Puck level is off — grind sits a hair fine too.
The east channel is a prep issue, not a grind one — level first. A hair coarser helps the next pull survive an uneven tamp.
Pulla isn't for baristas. It's for the people who bought the gear and then hit the wall.
You've pulled fifty shots. Three were great. You can't figure out why. Every forum answer contradicts the last one.
You used to dial in by feel. You took a year off. Your muscle memory is rusty and the beans are different now.
You roast twenty lots a month and every one needs a different profile. You want structured feedback, not vibes.
The best baristas don't memorize recipes. They listen to the flow, read the puck, taste the shot, and adjust one variable at a time.
Pulla doesn't replace that instinct. It gives you the vocabulary while you're still building it.
Grind, or tamp, or dose. Never all three. Pulla will tell you which variable to move and what to leave alone.
Every diagnosis comes with the visual evidence. You'll see the channel, the uneven crema, the gusher — not just a verdict.
Your beans, shots and ratings are yours to export or delete any time. Nothing is sold, nothing trains a third party's model.
We don't push notifications. We don't gamify streaks for shipping — we reward them for tasting. Espresso is meant to interrupt the day, not compound it.
Three diagnoses a month on the house. Go unlimited monthly, or buy it once and never see a bill again.
Pull one. Let Pulla read it. Decide for yourself whether the diagnosis was worth the three minutes.