About
TCP/IP moved data. We move things.
The Problem
Shipping is built for warehouses
FedEx and UPS carry boxes from a warehouse to a door. Nothing does that job from one person to another, with a check on who is on each end, live tracking, and trust built into the exchange itself.
You can send a message to anyone on earth in milliseconds, with proof that it arrived. A package to your neighbor still goes in a cardboard box. Its tracking number updates hours late, so you just hope it gets there.
The Solution
A trust layer for things
Designed for Vessel
Vessel is a protocol for sending things between people. Each exchange comes with identity, tracking, protection and trust. It runs on smart containers with an NFC chip, an electronic lock, and GPS and Bluetooth tracking, carried by the courier networks that already exist.
One tap on the copper NFC ring seals the shipment, confirms who sent it and calls a courier. From then on, each handoff is checked and the location is logged live. The shipment stays sealed until it arrives, and it goes from pickup to delivery in under an hour.
Everything is built on the Route: a set of people, rules and Vessels that you set up. A family can run a private route and a business can run a public one, both on the same protocol.
The Backbone
We run on the courier fleets that already exist
In the past ten years, the gig economy put millions of on-demand drivers in every zip code in the country. Courier networks have made same-day delivery something you can count on. Software can book it through an API, and it gets better every quarter.
Vessel treats these courier networks the way TCP/IP treats physical cables: we build the protocol that runs on top of them. One dispatch call sends the job to the fastest, cheapest courier free at that moment. As self-driving cars and drones start delivering, our dispatch takes them on automatically, and the protocol stays the same.
Couriers are our partners. They carry every Vessel that is on the move.
The Origin
StorageHero proved the platform
Vessel started with StorageHero, the first service built on the platform. BlueScroll, Inc. made it and runs it. It offers on-demand self-storage, built entirely on the Vessel protocol. StorageHero customers use their own app to store their things and get them back, while Vessel handles identity, dispatch, tracking and protection underneath.
Today the same protocol runs Vessel Exchange: buying and selling with anyone, with the money held until the buyer gets the item and checks it. It could also run a neighborhood lending library, a gear swap for a sports league, a community pantry, or any other exchange of things between people that needs trust.
The Company
Built by BlueScroll, Inc.
BlueScroll, Inc. is a team of engineers and designers in Texas. We think everyone should be able to send things with tracking and protection, from a family sending care packages across town to a neighborhood co-op sharing tools.
We design the Vessel hardware for this platform: tough containers with an NFC chip, an electronic lock, and GPS and Bluetooth tracking, made to roll out in large numbers.
The Vision
A protocol for things
We want every exchange between people to come with identity, tracking, protection and trust, in a container smarter than the cardboard box it replaces.
Moving something between people should be as reliable as moving data.