June 2026 · Bangalore, India
The rains have arrived. Afternoons go dark around four, the yard at the farm smells of wet earth, and the kitchen no longer fights the heat the way it did in May. Mornings are for coffee outside again. Bangalore’s reward for the summer.
Fika B’lore
The bakery is holding its busiest stretch yet. Around three hundred customers across ten WhatsApp communities, with the bigger weeks past 180 orders, and a growing line of cafés and offices on standing orders. Orders now come in through a proper order page instead of WhatsApp messages alone, which our spreadsheets appreciate. Our first hire joined in January and runs the kitchen with a calm precision that makes Niklas and me wonder how we managed before.
We still do deliveries ourselves every Friday. Service elevators, parking garages, security guards who’ve started recognizing the guys with the cinnamon bun boxes. The operation runs from a solar-powered farmhouse north of the city, with horses in the yard and landlords who’ve become collaborators.
Building
The AI operating system that started as late-night tooling for the bakery has grown up. WhatsApp orders parse themselves into the sales log, a finance dashboard tracks margins by product and community, the accounting prep runs on a schedule, and a school email scanner still catches my kids’ permission slips before I miss them. Around thirty skills now, built with Claude Code, for a business that does 25 products a week and doesn’t have a back office. There’s a full project page if you’re curious.
It has also stopped being only ours. The first external build is underway: a management dashboard for a Swedish dental clinic, pulled live from their practice system, so the owner sees the week without spending a morning in spreadsheets. How that kind of engagement works is on the work page. The site grew a Swedish sibling too, at rosheden.se.
Thinking About
Operational independence. Building the bakery so it runs well without us in every loop. It changes how you think about every decision, even small ones.
The India-Sweden trade thinking has moved from idea to practice. Sourcing between the two countries is now one of the two edges of the consulting work; the work page has the concrete version. The supply chain between a cardamom farm in Kerala and a cinnamon bun in Yelahanka is still more interesting than most people expect.
The Rest
The boys are at an international school north of the city. Linn works in supply chain too, on the corporate end. Our weeks are a logistics exercise of their own. We have a family house back in Ystad, on the Swedish south coast, that we rent out when we’re not there. Sweden stays close.
The longer pieces found their home. Nine essays are up now, the latest on why we built our own systems instead of buying them. The weekly dispatches stay on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn · dennis.roslund@rosheden.com · FIKA B’LORE
This page is updated when something meaningful changes. Last update: June 2026.