The idea came from a trip to China, where you take a powerbank from one bar & drop it back at another. My phone is always low, so I was sold. In the UK it wasn't common.
I met the manufacturers, designed the brand & bought the first 10 units. The software I built runs most of it, so a small team keeps the service high.
Our operator dashboard. I built it on the vendor's API.
- Automatic replenishment predicted from rental data
- Dynamic pricing: we push prices on a cron
- Rental data sorts good venues from bad
My partner handles venue acquisition & the ground. I run the system. Onboarding a venue is one form, pushed to Stripe & the vendor API.
Commission is calculated per rental into a quarterly payout matrix. One click emails the venue a branded PDF, line by line. That used to be hours of admin per venue.
Every UK competitor kiosk is mapped by brand & density, so we expand where there's space. Each venue is benchmarked against the kiosks around it.
It runs on the vendor's API & replaced a dozen spreadsheets & vendor tabs. It's productised as Robin, for other powerbank operators.
