“You can't fight
what you can't see.”

Popote AI is an AI assistant built to make everyday shopping easier while giving real-time visibility into local retail markets.

Popote AI brings together three services:

By helping merchants and consumers every day, Popote AI constantly picks up information directly from the ground. This gives brands quick visibility into:

Popote started as a grocery delivery service in Cotonou. After delivering over 1,000 orders, we realized the main problem went far beyond delivery. The real problem was a total lack of market visibility.

When a product is out of stock, shoppers simply pick an alternative. For the original brand, that sale is lost. It is a real loss, but nobody sees it.

This happens every day. If a merchant sells a product above the suggested retail price, that product loses its appeal. Shoppers buy less or switch brands, while the manufacturer has no idea that price markups are causing the loss.

In the same way, a major stockout can go unnoticed for days while competing products keep selling. Consumer preferences slowly change, and price shifts in one product group secretly lower sales in another, all without reaching brand owners in time.

Repeated every day, these hidden problems lead to massive losses.

That reality is why we created Popote AI: an AI assistant built to make daily shopping easier for merchants and consumers, while giving brands the real-time signals they need to protect their sales.