Digital Passport × YYC Coffee Festival
A 3-sided platform connecting Calgarians, coffee shops, and creative vendors. During the Coffee Pilot, participating cafés host Creative Sessions — puzzling, knitting, crocheting — and a digital passport drives traffic between them.
Who
Calgarians who like coffee + analog hobbies; café owners with slow weeknights; creative-kit vendors.
What
Weeknight Creative Sessions, host-supplied activity kits, passport stamps.
Why come
Discover new cafés. Support local. Build the platform with us.
The 3-sided platform
This is the economic loop: Participants gain reasons to visit slow-day cafés. Cafés gain bookings on slow nights. Vendors place creative-kit inventory in real venues. Each side gets value from the other two.
Participants
stamp · play · discover new cafés
Shop Owners
host · serve · attract slower-day traffic
Vendors
supply · sell · run creative kits
How the passport works (5-step flow)
What's in it for you
Discover Calgary's quiet cafés on weeknights.
- Free passport, no commitment
- Pick a Tuesday, find a Creative Session
- Reward at the end if you finish your passport
- Connect with locals over a 500-piece
Fill your slow Tuesday + Wednesday nights.
- Host-supplied activity kits — minimal setup
- $0 sign-up · revenue stays with your shop
- Drive new traffic from passport-holders
- Featured in Puzzle Time field reports
Place inventory at real Calgary venues.
- Creative kits placed across pilot cafés
- Direct discovery by participants
- Optional vendor table at IPM 2027 finale
- Co-marketing through PuzzleYYC channels
Lead partner
YYC Coffee Festival · Joanni Perizo / Taste of the City. Confirmation pending — formal partnership letter or verbal handshake TBD. Pilot calendar must align with the YYC Coffee Festival 2026 dates (also TBD).