Most people see checkout forms as mildly annoying but functional. You type your address, eventually something arrives but when we started thinking about AI agents handling commerce, the fundamental...
How PickSpot Adapted Sweden's Addressing Model to Adress the Unaddressed. The connection seems impossible at first glance. Sweden operates one of the world's most sophisticated addressing systems, with...
The biggest infrastructure shift in decades is unfolding in real time. Phone numbers used to be tied to buildings. Then they became portable, traveling with people wherever they went.
For centuries, an address has meant one thing: land. A house, a plot, a building, a street. If you didn’t have one, you were invisible to commerce. Goods couldn’t reach you, delivery drivers couldn’t find you, and e-commerce platforms couldn’t serve you.
Four billion people worldwide cannot give you their street address. Not because they forgot it. Because it doesn't exist. This isn't a mapping problem.
PickSpot, the network for digital addressing in emerging markets, has received formal endorsement from Kamukunji Constituency to pilot its mobile first digital addressing system in Eastleigh, Nairobi, Kenya.
Solving Half the Equation: Why Payment Innovation Fails Without Addressing. We can make money move at the speed of light. We can send payments instantly across continents for pennies.
We realized the fundamental assumption was wrong when we watched 4 single-story houses in Nairobi get demolished and replaced by a 15-story building with 800 residents.How do you address that? How do...
We created a vulnerability when we built the internet's delivery system. Every time someone buys something online, they hand over the most intimate piece of information they possess.
The entire logistics industry has been optimizing the wrong variable. Every company obsesses over speed and cost. They build algorithms to predict traffic patterns. They map optimal routes.
Half the world's urban population lives on unnamed streets, invisible to the systems most of us take for granted. While we've made remarkable progress in banking the unbanked through mobile...
In rapidly urbanizing Sub-Saharan Africa, traditional street addresses are becoming unreliable as cities expand and populations shift. Up to 20% of online orders fail on the first attempt due to address issues ...
Africa’s e-commerce sector is growing rapidly, but poor address infrastructure still cripples last-mile delivery—up to 20% of orders fail on the first attempt due to hard-to-find locations. PickSpot solves this ...
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