Operational intelligence for a ~$20B market that still delivers blind — and still lifts 20 kg jugs by hand.
U.S. water company as Design Partner for a pilot. Signed before prototype.
A standard 5-gallon jug (~42 lb). The friction that can drive churn.
Advanced planning toward the prototype. Active fundraising process.
Market estimates vary by definition. References: HTF Market Intelligence — global home & office water delivery, $19.5B (2024) · Research and Markets / 360iResearch — global water delivery services, $23.0B (2026) · IBWA / Beverage Marketing Corporation — HOD at 9.9% of U.S. bottled-water volume (2024).
We turn every endpoint into data — and the water company pays for what it lacks today.
Routes on real consumption, fewer emergency deliveries, customers who tend to stay. We start with multi-point commercial Sites, with a U.S. Design Partner and a signed LOI — and the pilot will validate.
The optimization opportunity — in numbers · U.S. data
Example figures, a few of many: the inefficiency to be measured — and the base of the value calculation the pilot will validate.
per stop — every non-optimal stop costs
a day, per route
per emergency delivery
scattered at every endpoint, for fear of running out. A reliability gap.
Operating data shared with IntelliJug, plus industry estimates. U.S. figures shown as the example; the underlying economics are broadly similar across HOD markets worldwide, with local variation.
Operational pressure is rising — just as endpoint intelligence becomes deployable at scale.
Operational pressure and customer experienceLast-mile costs — drivers, fuel, service — keep rising, and profitability is decided by cost-to-serve per stop, not by the price of a jug. Customer complaints, documented on the home page, repeat three things: run-outs, the weight of the jug, unreliable service.
The technology is affordable, the innovation is matureSensors, connectivity and Cloud are affordable at every Site, and IoT and AI already run predictive operations at scale. The industry manages by KPIs — Route Density, retention, cost-to-serve. Only the data that feeds them is missing.
HOD is largely a price-driven market, not a value-driven one: little differentiation between companies, competition mostly on price and service. Water companies need a lever that is not price.
The water company knows what it delivered. It can only guess how much is left.
Multi-point Sites first: several dispensers, one Hub, one planned stop.
Why this segment
Many commercial customers, each with several endpoints and high consumption compared with a home; together they hold a large share of commercial volume, and every sale opens several points at once. The buyer — commercial leadership with operations and finance — decides on volume, forecast demand and cost-to-serve.
Right after — homes and small offices
The same platform, the same unit, 1–3 dispensers — lower consumption than commercial Sites. The home is an inherent part of IntelliJug: the customer who lifts, orders and runs out is, first of all, a residential customer. It follows the commercial segment, not instead of it — once the value is proven.
At a later stage — pallet-scale Sites
Few customers, but huge — factories and warehouses consuming hundreds of jugs a week, delivered on pallets by forklift to a loading dock. That is warehouse logistics, so it calls for a different IntelliJug configuration, in a form that fits giant Sites — planned, not now.
Schematic only. Axes are unscaled and no values are implied.
One Contract. One Invoice. Cost per endpoint falls as the Site grows.
A B2B model: the water company is the customer and the payer — a SaaS fee per connected endpoint plus a small per-gallon consumption fee, in one monthly invoice; IntelliJug earns when consumption grows, and so does the water company. The hardware, designed by IntelliJug, is transferred to the water company at cost — no hardware margin, no HaaS. The end customer does not pay IntelliJug; the water company may pass the cost on as it sees fit, and as its market allows.
The platform fee pays for the value engines — and they will be measured in the pilot:
Route economics
Fewer empty stops, more jugs per stop.
Supply continuity
Zero-Outs predicted days ahead; fewer emergency deliveries.
Retention
A customer who no longer lifts, orders or runs out tends to stay.
Consumption
An endpoint that never runs out and needs no lifting consumes more — no empty days.
Pricing is staged and will open on value measured in the field, starting with the pilot.
The problem and the need are validated. The solution will be validated in the pilot.
The problem and the need — validated
- A signed LOI with a U.S. water company for a 20–30-endpoint pilot — before a prototype; operator data in the model.
- Strategy consolidated over many conversations — with a former senior executive of the market, today a Special Advisor and an integral part of the team; with former senior executives of global water companies; and with the Design Partner.
- A live Hub & Spoke Site dashboard — what the water company sees — on the home page.
- Engineering, architecture and documentation built together with our systems engineer, toward an integrated prototype.
The solution — to be validated in the pilot
The value engines · deployment cost · hardware cost — to be measured on live data.
To validate in the U.S., then scale through water companies worldwide.
Validate
The 20–30-endpoint pilot with the U.S. Design Partner: real deployment, live operating data.
Commercial activity from a working prototype
U.S. operators, and in parallel operators in additional target markets: the Gulf states, India, several European markets and more.
Land-and-Expand
From pilot Sites to the operator’s other Sites, then to its full customer base — and from there, after quantified proof, to companies of different sizes, national and global operators.
Pilot and Pre-Seed milestones
Integrated prototype
Pilot-ready MVP
20–30-endpoint pilot
Field validation and first deployments
Active commercial engagement toward contracts begins the moment the prototype is ready.
Capital is deployed in tranches against these milestones. With a working prototype, an active pilot plan and funding in place, selling becomes materially easier. Today: pre-prototype — the system architecture is in detailed design, and the integrated prototype is the first milestone of the round. Not yet at the revenue stage.
Team and current capabilities.
Additional information
Detailed investor materials — including an interactive value-engines dashboard — are available on request.
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