Founded in 2015

While waiting on a long line for coffee in late 2012, robotics engineers Stuart Heys and Mark Sibenac noticed a barista making pour-over after pour-over, repeating the same recipe over and over while the line grew and saw a problem they could solve.

They believed they could apply the same engineering and technology they used for test rovers for NASA and laboratory equipment for the pharmaceutical industry to a revolutionary automatic pour-over machine.

Sibenac and Heys went about building the first prototype and, along with Stephan von Muehlen, they brought it to the NYC Maker Faire in 2013 where it made over 800 cups of coffee in the first weekend.

The team was met with tremendous enthusiasm and brought home a bunch of ribbons. They realized then there might be more to this than just a science fair project.

Poursteady and the Steady Equipment Corporation were born.

Photo by Howard Bryman for Daily Coffee News

In 2015, Poursteady’s first product, the 5-cup automated pour-over machine known as PS1 won Best New Product at SCA Expo and began shipping internationally the same year. We followed that up shortly after with the PS1-3c, a slightly smaller version of our original model.

Building on nearly a decade of user feedback, Poursteady debuted its latest product PS2™ at SCA 2023. Boasting on-screen recipe creation and an internal boiler, PS2 is a revolutionary step forward for pour-over.

There are now Poursteady machines making delicious coffee in over 25 countries around the world.

Poursteady is Made in Brooklyn by a small team of dedicated engineers and artisans.

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“Poursteady is really coming from the point of view of a barista. They are making it so easy and simple to change recipes and the pouring patterns and really adjust things so that you can still put in your recipe and your insight.”