Your own shelf. The assistant handles the rest.
You rent a fixed slot in an intelligent pickup point. Online orders, returns, items for sale and things waiting to be collected all move through it. You tell the assistant by text message what is coming or going, and the door opens with a code around the clock.
See how it worksThree things built in
You use the point by talking to it, it is open when you are out and about, and the shelf adapts to whatever you keep in it.
The assistant is the interface
You say by text message what is coming or going. The assistant reserves the slot, sends the code and tells you what is on your shelf right now. Nothing to install, no account to create.
A place that is always open
The door opens with a pickup code or a door button whenever it suits you. Every opening is logged, and the lock keeps working when the network drops.
A shelf that flexes
One point holds room temperature, chilled and frozen. The slot is yours for the whole month, whether it holds an online order, a return, something for sale or food.
The architect vision
A modular pickup point built on a shipping container frame
The point is built into a shipping container frame: the body is finished indoors and moved into place ready, with no construction site. Inside, the architecture decides: warm wood surfaces and lighting that put the shelves centre stage.
What the trials taught us
What actually works in unmanned points
Unmanned points have been trialled in Finland and Europe for two decades. We built our point on the numbers from those trials, not on assumptions.
Location
Location decides, not technology
The most visible unmanned stores in Finland closed because too few people came, not because the technology failed. Every point goes to a location that has been calculated.
455 km
Site visits eat the margin
In one village trial, 2 408 euros of sales took 33 hours of work and 455 kilometres of driving. So the point reports its own state, and someone drives out only when it pays.
2-8 %
An open shelf cannot carry shrinkage
Unsupervised sales typically lose 2-8 percent to shrinkage. Here every opening is logged and the point locks down when nobody holds a valid right of access.
Hybrid
Pure automation is not enough
The door also opens with a button and no phone at all, and the same point can host a staffed sales day without extra equipment.
Figures from public trial reports. Sources on request.
Platform and devices
The same technology in your point too
The same platform, the same assistant and the same set of devices are available to another operator, another city and another use. We deliver the whole point or only the missing part.
Who this is for
- For you, if you are never home when the parcel arrives
- For an online shop that needs a pickup point without building a chain
- For an operator who wants an own point under an own brand
- For a municipality or a village where the nearest shop is too far
- For an investor: a pilot whose numbers are measurable from day one
Platform
Shelf slots, orders, payments, pickup codes, logged events and reports. The same platform runs willit.fi and lahikalaa.fi.
Assistant
A text message interface for the people who use the point. The assistant never decides to open the door: it triggers a right of access whose conditions the platform checks.
Devices
Controller, lock control, sensors, label printer and indoor screen. The devices report their state every five minutes.
Deployment
Location assessment, notifications to the authorities, self-monitoring when the point handles food, and training for the people who use it.
EU co-funded project
The pickup point network is piloted as part of the Lahikalaa.fi project: a digital marketplace and a cold pickup network for professional fishers on the Bothnian Bay coast, in the Oulu region.
The project is funded by the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) through the Bothnian Bay Coast Fisheries Leader group.
Willit pickup point in Oulu
Practical details
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Modular shipping container point (20 ft), repeatable across locations
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Shelf slots at room temperature, chilled and frozen in the same point
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Access with a pickup code or a door button, no staff on site
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The lock works without a network connection, and every opening is logged
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Assistant over text message, in pilot use at the first point
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For food: adjustable cold zones and automatic self-monitoring under EU (EC) 852/2004
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The same proven platform that runs willit.fi and lahikalaa.fi
Interested?
We are reserving the first shelf slots at the Oulu point. We are also looking for location partners and operators for the next ones.
Get in touchOr call the founder directly:
+358 44 285 4421