Everything the product does, and everything it is going to.

As little as possible, as late as possible.

• Open straight to the mapReal prices before any account exists
• Sign up at the first bookingThe first moment it buys you anything
• Apple, Google, email or phoneGoogle needs an OAuth client id
• Phone and email both collectedOne for your pioneer, one for receipts
• Notifications explained firstOur screen before the system prompt
• Reopens on a live rideA dead phone at a kerb finds the car again

The whole company, explained in numbers, at the moment of paying.

• Fare to your pioneer, in fullWāyu takes nothing out of it
• Platform fee on its own lineShown even at zero, as the price you are not paying
• Ride insurance at costNever waived, never padded, never ours
• Total, and the trust lineThe price you book is the price you pay
• Both prices on every classWith a membership and without
• Cancellation ladder at bookingNot discovered later when it costs money
• Card paymentsStripe, once the company is registeredNext
• Airport and toll pass-throughsPriced at what the airport chargesNext

People do not book rides. They run routines.

• A month you watch fill upA dot on every booked day
• Book 90 days aheadPriced when booked, shown before confirming
• Now, later today, or pick a dayAsked once you have already chosen a car
• My routes, the whole ladderA place, then a route, then a commute
• Your usual, one tapOffered on an empty day
• Routine noticingAfter three similar rides, offered, never created
• Commutes that book themselvesSay it once, it fills every week

Knowing who is coming, and being able to reach somebody.

• Pioneer, car and plateBefore they arrive, not as they pull up
• Their promise-kept recordOr silence, when there is not enough to be honest
• Spoken pickup codeYou never guess which car to get into
• Live position on the mapWith a real arrival time
• Share the tripA link needing no app and no account
• Get help now911 or our line, with the car and plate attached
• Change the time, freeYour pioneer gets first refusal at the new one
• In-app messagingNumbers stay private both waysNext

The money story, told once more, where gratitude actually is.

• Receipt with every line namedFare, fee, insurance, tip, total
• Rate your pioneerOn the screen where the ride ended
• Favourite themTheir rides reach that pioneer first, next time
• Tip, whole, no pressureNothing pre-selected, No tip equally sized

A booked week, not a discount card.

• Early accessFree for everyone, no price shown anywhere
• The early price, lockedHeld on your row, not in a plan we intend to reprice
• Three tiers on one axisHow much of a week each covers, and nothing elseNext
• Wāyu PremierA pioneer held by the hour, the night planned wholePlanned
• Kansas City perksMember benefits at partner spotsPlanned

Reachable by a person, not only by a form.

• Trusted contactsThey follow a ride with no app
• Always require the codeA setting, if you want it every time
• Support threads in appAnswered from the control center
• Promise-break protocolTold early, with a fix and a credit already applied
• Message your pioneerOpen while the ride is on, closed a day after it endsNew

The only growth a company with no commission can afford.

• WalletWhat we owe you, and every line behind itNew
• Credit spends itselfOff the next fare, named on the receipt, nothing to applyNew
• Your own referral codeMade once, never rotated, readable out loudNew
• Paid on the ride, not the signupBoth sides credited in the same momentNew
• Enter a friend's codeRefused after your first ride, so it stays honestNew
• Promo codesClaimed to the account, applied to the next fare

A company that will not hand you your history is telling you something.

• Export every rideRows a spreadsheet opens, with every part of the priceNew
• Delete your accountRequired by Apple before submissionNext

What is earned, what is secured, what is still there to take.

• Demand as a named areaA glow, never a pin. Nobody is standing there
• Rides today, still to come, accessPast, future and standing, in one line
• Online toggleThe schedule map stays browsable offline
• Your day, in orderEverything already promised to somebody

The rides exist before they happen. That is the whole advantage.

• Upcoming work, map firstPins carry money and hour, nothing else
• List as the second lensCorners, miles, and the fit
• How each ride fits your dayFits, or tight with the number on it
• Chains that fit togetherOne block, one total, empty miles drawn
• One claim, several promisesAll of it or none of it, both ways
• Asked for by nameA rider's chosen pioneers see it first
• Scored chain rankingValue per committed hour, with tie breakersPlanned
• Anchor and return rulesChains that end near where you startedPlanned

A card that knocks. Never a screen that takes over.

• Floats over your dimmed dayJudged against the day, not in a vacuum
• Held for you, not a countdownSame seconds, opposite feeling
• Passing costs nothingRecorded silently, never counted against you
• Full information firstPrice, distance away, trip length, destination

A record, never an accusation.

• A clock that counts upGPS stamped where you are
• No-show button does not exist earlyAbsent, not disabled. Enforced in the database
• Keep waiting, equally availableThere is no hurry from us
• Code fallback, in orderFlash it on their screen, then a masked call

What you can do changes when there is a person in the car.

• Give it back, before the codeFree further than 6 hours out, and unrecorded
• End the ride early, after itStops where you are, paid for distance driven
• Navigation in your own appApple, Google or Waze
• Ride complete hands you the nextWith the time to be online for it

Everything we have written down about you, shown before it is used.

• Promises kept, as the heroIn counts until there is volume for a rate
• Rating and favouritesThe currencies the tiers will run on
• Work record, recorded never scoredOffers shown, taken, passed. Gap-fills
• Never against youRider cancellations, in their own section
• Tap any tile for the rulesWhat counts, what never counts, where it goes
• The tier ladderNamed and thresholded once there is real dataPlanned

One duty. Not a rating, not a rate, not availability.

• Be online 30 minutes beforeThe only obligation a claim creates
• Give back free, 6 hours outInside that it is still free, just counted
• Miss it and it is releasedHonestly, to somebody else. Nothing is charged
• A rider cancelling pays youWhole, plus an offer to fill the gap

The fare is yours. Access is the only charge there is.

• Access covered this seasonNobody billed, on either side
• The day counted in ridesEvery individual price stays real everywhere
• Earnings and ledgerEvery fare, every tip, every adjustment
• WalletOne balance, one definition, shared with the rider sideNew
• Cash out whenever you wantNo schedule, and no fee for being handed your own moneyNew
• One request in flight at a timeA unique index, not a hopeful checkNew
• Payouts to a bankStripe Connect, after the company is formedNext

Work that suits your day, with nothing taken away for asking.

• Destination filterThe board only shows rides that end near where you saidNew
• No daily limit on itA ride you filter past is still there for the next pioneerNew
• It never counts against youNot an acceptance rate, because there is no acceptance rateNew

A message can wait for a red light. A call cannot.

• Masked calls both waysNeither number is ever shown
• Message your riderFour canned lines, so most of it is one thumbNew
• A real safety screenWhat to do now, who to tell, and what we already doNew

A pioneer is harder to find than a rider, and worth more.

• Referral code, paid on their first rideTwice what a rider introduction is worthNew
• Export every ride you droveFor a tax return, without asking us for itNew

Who may ride, when, and how far.

• Invite by email or phoneClaimed on the employee's first sign in
• Per-person monthly capIn dollars, not in rides
• Days, hours, classes, zonesThe policy that decides what the company pays for
• Offboard somebodyTheir own rides stay theirs

One number the finance team can reconcile.

• Ride spend and seat feesA seat bills only when somebody travels
• Monthly invoicePer person, per ride, per month
• Recent activityWho went where, and what it cost
• Export and accounting syncCSV, then the obvious integrationsPlanned

Advance demand is the engine. It is the first number on the page.

• Median hours booked aheadThe single figure the whole model rests on
• Percent booked aheadPlanned against hailed
• Promises keptAcross every pioneer, over any window
• What memberships savedThe counter that argues for itself
• Priced before signupThe most interesting people in the funnel
• Every line of the diaryFilterable by event

Ending it is a graduation, not a switch.

• The early access rosterWho is owed a locked price, on both sides
• End the season, onceGraduates everybody first, then flips the flags
• Every number in the productFees, windows, radius, prices, all editable
• No app update neededEvery price and gate is computed server side

The things a human has to be able to do at eleven at night.

• Companies and their first adminOne flow, not two
• Promotions on demandPercentage or amount, never both
• Support queueReply, close, and the rider is notified
• Staff and accessWho can see what
• Live ride interventionReassign, refund, or step in mid-rideNext

For somebody who has no app and no account.

• A token link, nothing elseNo login, no install
• Live position and statusThe car, the plate, the arrival
• Expires with the rideIt stops being anything afterwards

Invariants, enforced by the database rather than by care.

• The booked price never movesA trigger refuses it, even for us
• A pioneer never sees the priceOne function is the only way to a number
• The ledger is append onlyEnforced, not agreed
• A ride settles exactly onceA unique index, not a retry guard
• The company takes nothing from a cancellationEvery cent reaches the pioneer

Row level security on every table with a person in it.

• Published prices are publicReadable signed out. It is a promise, not a secret
• Nothing with a person in it isVerified: zero rows leak to a signed-out session
• The diary is write onlyNeither app can read a line back, including its own
• A pioneer audits their own recordThe one window, and it shows only them

Seven jobs, running without anybody watching.

• Dispatch, near then wideningWith a hard cap on how far it looks
• Favourites get a head startAnd are notified, so they need not be online
• Rides at risk, flagged earlyTwo hours out, never after the pickup
• The online duty, enforcedReleased honestly rather than silently held
• Four messages, and only fourEach one a kept promise or a real offer
• Commutes expanded nightlyIdempotent, so a missed night catches up

The parts that decide whether any of the above reaches a phone.

• Rebuilds from eight filesVerified against an empty database
• One shared package for logicThe apps cannot disagree about a fare
• Ad-hoc builds to real phonesNo store review in the loop
• Push notificationsNeeds an APNs key and a rebuildNext
• AndroidSame codebase, untested on a deviceNext
• Privacy policy and termsRequired before either store accepts a buildNext
• Account deletion in appApple will not accept a build without itNext