Founderzaptpowerbanks.co.uk
ZAPT
Powerbank rental across UK venues, and the software that runs it.
- stations across the UK
- 100+
- rental hours
- 100,000+
Found in China, built in the UK
Powerbank rental barely existed in the UK. The hardware was proven and the manufacturers were reachable, but nobody at home had built a serious operation around it.
I went out to China, met the factory and negotiated supply direct. What came back was not a product to resell. It was the makings of a business: the brand, the supply chain, the first venues signed, and stations live inside them.
The company still runs on that split. A partner owns venue acquisition and the ground work. I own the system underneath it.
Oracle, the system that runs it
Every operator on this hardware gets the same deep API and the same thin tooling above it. Most of them run the business out of spreadsheets and vendor tabs. I built the layer instead: one operator's view of every station, every rental and every venue, in one place.
Predictive replenishment
Rental history and station spread forecast when a kiosk will run dry. At half stock a replenishment dispatches on its own, tracked, and the venue is told before they think to ask. Nobody watches a dashboard for this.
- Trigger
- 50% capacity
- Dispatch
- Automatic, tracked
Dynamic pricing
Demand is not flat across a day or a week. Tiers are tuned to the usage the network actually sees and pushed out to every station on a schedule. The factory software cannot price this way, so competitors running identical hardware cannot answer it.
- Tiers
- Tuned to demand
- Push
- Scheduled, network wide
Commission, quarterly, in one click
Every rental is calculated into the venue's share and held in a quarterly matrix. One action from a row sends a branded statement with the line by line PDF attached. Hours of admin per venue per cycle becomes a single click.
One dataset behind every call
Pricing tiers, replenishment timing and which venues are worth signing all read the same rental history. Good sites and bad sites separate on evidence rather than instinct.
A venue goes live in one form
New venue setup pushes to Stripe and to the vendor API in a single action. Nothing gets half configured, and nothing waits on someone remembering the second step.
- Pushes to
- Stripe and vendor API
Every UK competitor, mapped
Each competitor kiosk plotted by brand and by density. Expansion aims at open space instead of walking into an incumbent, and a venue's numbers are read against the footprint around it.
- Coverage
- Every UK competitor
- Read by
- Brand and density
It runs itself. That was the point.
Over 100 stations across the UK and more than 100,000 rental hours. Replenishment dispatches itself, pricing tunes itself and venues are paid on time, because the operation was built to carry all of that without anyone chasing it.
That is the difference between a business with a hundred machines in it and a business that can take the next hundred. Oracle is now being productised as the operating layer for other powerbank operators, which turns the software from overhead into an asset of its own.