April 2026 · Bangalore, India
The heat is arriving. Not the worst of it yet, but you can feel it leaning in. By May, Leanne will be starting the ovens at 5 AM to stay ahead of the kitchen temperature. For now, mornings are still pleasant enough to stand outside with coffee and pretend Bangalore has seasons.
Fika B’lore
The bakery is in its busiest stretch since we started. We crossed 300 customers this month, spread across ten WhatsApp communities around Bangalore. Our biggest weeks are pushing past 180 orders. Leanne D’Costa, our first hire, joined in January and runs the kitchen with a calm precision that makes Niklas and me wonder how we managed before her.
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. That’s how most things work here: the plan gets you started, the people carry you forward.
Building
Most of my late nights recently have gone into building what I’ve started calling an AI operating system for the bakery. Not the kind that gets announced at conferences. The kind where WhatsApp orders get parsed into a spreadsheet, a finance dashboard tracks margins by product and community, and a school email scanner catches my kids’ permission slips before I miss them. Practical tools, cobbled together with Claude Code, for a business that does 25 products a week and doesn’t have a back office.
The stack now includes skills for order processing, accounting prep, content publishing, and a Google Workspace integration that ties it all together. It’s become the most interesting technical work I’ve done in years, and none of it was planned. I’ll write about the architecture properly at some point. There’s an early project page if you’re curious.
Thinking About
Acquisition readiness. Not because we’re selling tomorrow, but because building a business that could run without its founders is the same as building one that runs well. The target is August 2027: documented systems, clean financials, operational independence. Everything we build gets measured against that frame now. It changes how you think about every decision, even small ones.
Also thinking about India-Sweden trade corridors. The supply chain between a cardamom farm in Kerala and a cinnamon bun in Yelahanka is more interesting than most people would expect. There might be a business in that gap. Too early to say more.
The Rest
Valter and Alvar are both at Stonehill International here in Bangalore. Linn works in retail. 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.
I’ve started writing on LinkedIn, weekly dispatches from whatever’s happening. The first one was about the delivery run and what it’s actually like to haul buns through a parking garage. This site is where the longer pieces will live. Essays are coming.
LinkedIn · dennis@rosheden.com · FIKA B’LORE
This page is updated monthly. Last update: April 2026.