The daily commute is the most wasteful trip in the city.
Every working day, millions of people travel the same corridor at the same hour, most of them alone. Riders overpay, drivers subsidise empty seats, and the city pays in congestion and emissions.
Supply and demand are on the same road, and never meet.
An office commuter without a vehicle and a colleague driving past their building with empty seats are separated only by the lack of a trusted, fair and effortless way to connect.
Peak-hour private vehicles mostly carry only the driver.
Office commutes cluster into narrow departure windows.
Ride-hailing prices peak when commuters have no choice.
Every empty seat is fuel burned with no one benefiting.
Every alternative forces a trade-off.
Commuters choose between expensive, unreliable, or untrusted. None is built around the recurring, predictable nature of the office commute.
| Option | Cost to rider | Reliability | Trust | Core pain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drive alone | High | Medium | — | Fuel, parking and traffic, borne by one person |
| Cab aggregator | Very high at peak | Surge-dependent | High | Surge pricing lands exactly at 9 AM and 6 PM |
| Auto rickshaw | Medium–high | Low | Medium | Negotiation, refusals, no fixed fare on long trips |
| Bus / metro | Low | Medium | High | Crowding, and the first/last-mile gap to tech parks |
| WhatsApp carpool | Low | Low | Unverified | No KYC, no fair pricing, awkward cash settlement |
| Pair My Ride | Low, fixed per-km | Recurring match | KYC-verified | Built for exactly this trip |
A two-sided network, with a third side on the way.
The rider
“I don't own a car. Cabs cost me a fortune at peak and the bus leaves me 2 km from the office gate.”
- Predictable, fair price
- Verified co-commuters
- Door-to-corridor pickup
- Repeat weekday rides
The pilot
“I drive the same route every day with three empty seats. I'd happily share if it were safe and effortless.”
- Offset fuel and tolls
- No detours or hassle
- Instant UPI payouts
- Control over who rides
The employer (next)
“We want fewer cars in our parking lot, lower commute emissions and happier employees.”
- Company-only pools
- Commute subsidies
- Emissions dashboards
- Parking relief
Six shifts make trusted commute pooling possible today.
UPI is universal
Instant, near-zero-cost settlement between two individuals is now normal behaviour, which makes peer-to-peer fares work for the first time.
Fixed office days are back
Hybrid policies concentrate commutes on predictable weekdays and time windows, and predictable demand is exactly what matching needs.
Routing got cheap
Self-hosted OSRM and PostGIS give us Google-grade road routing and spatial search at a fraction of API costs.
Digital KYC rails
Aadhaar, driving licence, RC, insurance and PUC can be captured and verified digitally, so trust can be built into onboarding.
Emissions reporting
Employers increasingly need to measure and cut Scope 3 commute emissions. Shared rides are a measurable lever.
Smartphone-first workforce
Every office commuter already has GPS, maps and payments in their pocket, so there is no hardware to deploy.
We size bottom-up, corridor by corridor.
Commute pooling wins street by street. We plan to launch in one dense office corridor, prove liquidity, then replicate. Our market model is built from four measurable inputs per corridor.
Try the interactive version with your own assumptions on the business model page.