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.

Billions of people around the world still live this way — unaddressed, excluded, and locked out of the delivery economy.

At PickSpot, we believe that no one should be unaddressable. So we asked a radical question: What if your address wasn’t a place at all — but something you carried in your pocket?

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The Big Shift‍

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PickSpot turns the address into a digital handle. Anyone can download the app, create their unique handle — something as simple as amina@pickspot.world — and instantly own a portable, personal address.

That handle isn’t tied to land. It isn’t bound by government records or landlord contracts. Instead, it points to a PickSpot locker — public, residential, or estate-based — that you choose.

Move apartments? Change cities? Switch jobs? No problem. Your handle moves with you. Your address is now as flexible as your life.

It’s as if the mailing system caught up with the age of email.

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History Repeats: A Pattern of Portable Infrastructure‍

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Every major leap in infrastructure has followed this same pattern: what was once fixed became portable.

• Landlines → Mobile numbers. Once, a phone number rang in a building. Then it rang in your pocket. Suddenly, people became reachable, not places.
• Postal mail → Email. Letters depended on geography. Then handles like @gmail.com made communication universal.

• Bank branches → M-Pesa wallets. Finance used to require buildings, forms, and accounts. Now it lives in your SIM card.

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PickSpot is the next step in this lineage. We’re doing for addresses what M-Pesa did for banks.

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Why This Matters‍

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1. Inclusion

Half the world’s population lives without reliable addresses. That means exclusion from e-commerce, from reliable delivery, from participation in the digital economy. With PickSpot, anyone, anywhere, can create a handle and instantly join the delivery economy.

2. Portability

Life is mobile. Why should your address stay chained to one location? PickSpot lets you point your handle to any locker you want, whenever you want. Your address follows you, not the other way around.

3. Simplicity

No paperwork. No waiting on government registries. No need to convince a landlord to add your name to a mailbox. Just download, create, and you’re in.

4. Scalability

Traditional addressing requires expensive, slow infrastructure: street signs, house numbers, postal systems. PickSpot grows digitally. Add a locker, add a user, and the system expands —like adding another server to the cloud.

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Unlocking the Delivery Economy

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This shift isn’t just philosophical. It’s practical.

• For e-commerce merchants: Customers can check out with a handle, not a complicated description of landmarks.
• For couriers and riders: No more calls, wrong turns, or wasted trips. Every handle is pinned to a precise locker.
• For property owners: Residential and estate lockers turn buildings into plug-and-play delivery hubs.
• For consumers: A seamless experience: your handle is your key, and everything flows to your locker.

• When delivery becomes this simple, the entire economy accelerates.

A Human Right: The Address Layer

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We believe that an address is not a privilege tied to property — it’s a basic right. Without one, you’re invisible to commerce. With PickSpot, your address lives in your pocket, like your phone number or your bank account.

That’s why we call this the address layer for the world. Just as PayPal abstracted banking, just as M-Pesa abstracted financial access, PickSpot abstracts geography itself.

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The Vision

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Our vision is simple:

• Every person should be addressable.

• Every parcel should have a destination.

• Every city should run on a seamless grid of lockers and handles.

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When you zoom out, you can see the transformation:

• Streets no longer define delivery.

• Buildings no longer gate access.

• Commerce no longer stops at the unaddressed.

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Instead, everything connects through handles, portable and universal.

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Join the Shift

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We’re only at the beginning. Already, PickSpot is rolling out lockers across Nairobi and beyond. Our explorer map lets you watch new handles being born in real time. Our app makes it easy to claim your own handle today.

Download the app, create your handle, and join the future of delivery. Because in the PickSpot world, your address isn’t a place. 👉 It’s you!

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