Task-Gofer.
An industrial ecosystem has grown exponentially in the last decade: Gig Workers providing delivery. (A Gig is simply a paid task.)
The demand for these services accelerated since the COVID pandemic (2020 – 2022); while there is no longer the need to “shelter-in-place”, the supply of these Gig services has still accelerated in growth. There are now a few American companies that thrive in this space for retail restaurant deliveries — most noticeably DoorDash and Uber-Eats.
As another Use Case for AccountOne, SFE has fostered an alternative product-offering for this delivery industry-space: the Task-Gofer Business Model. It allows for Virtual Auctions to dynamically select the lowest-cost provider for one Task (i.e. delivery) after another.
The strategy is simple: identify people who would normally be traversing the origin-to-destination locations anyway. These ones — Gig Workers, “Gofers” — could, would, should complete the delivery for a Requesting Establishment, and then get paid immediately at delivery completion.
This is not just the simple Plan-Do-Review, but rather allowing for complex data to be gathered before Gig Workers make their thoughtful Bids.