Investors and partners
Orderable is early. Here's exactly where it is.
We're not running a fundraise. If you care about independent restaurants staying reachable as people start ordering through AI agents, a small amount of help goes a long way right now. This page should give you enough to decide in five minutes.
What's changing
People are starting to hand ordering to AI agents. In September 2026 DoorDash opened an MCP connector that lets workplace agents search, build a cart and order lunch for a team, with companies like SpaceX, Cognition and Vercel as early users (Digital Commerce 360). An agent can only order from businesses it can reach. Today that mostly means businesses on a delivery platform.
What Orderable does
Orderable is open-source software a restaurant, cafe or bakery runs to make itself orderable by any agent: menu, live stock, prices, a quote that holds for ten minutes, and the order itself. The restaurant keeps the customer and takes payment directly. When it needs a driver, the plan is to book one per trip through courier services like Uber Direct, which charge a flat fee rather than a share of the order.
Where it stands, October 2026
| MCP server: 9 tools, menu and policy resources, stdio and HTTP | Shipped, MIT licensed |
| Owner command line: setup, menu checker, readiness score | Shipped |
| Telegram and Slack ordering bots (Claude) | Shipped, not yet run with real customers |
| Menu setup by talking to an AI assistant | Shipped, tested with an MCP client |
| Stock updates by text message | Shipped |
| Hosted accounts: one secret URL for the owner, one for agents, Postgres | Shipped, not yet in production |
| Automated tests | 91 passing |
| Restaurants live | 0 |
| Paying customers | 0 |
| Revenue | $0 |
| Self-serve sign-up and billing | Designed, not built |
| Courier delivery (Uber Direct first) | Researched, not built |
Everything above is public. Read the code, run the live demo, or connect your own agent to the demo endpoint.
How it makes money
The software stays free and open source. The business is the hosted version: we run the server, connect the chat apps and couriers, and charge the restaurant a flat $29 a month after a free tier of 50 orders, with 1,000 orders included and $0.05 per order after that. Cancelled orders cost nothing. A flat price is easy to compare with delivery-app commissions. These prices are a starting point, not something customers have paid yet, and we're measuring what each order costs us to run before we fix them.
The next six months
- 25 restaurants in Halifax live, set up in person.
- Three offices ordering team lunch through Slack every week.
- Self-serve sign-up, then billing once a restaurant passes the free tier.
- Courier delivery through Uber Direct for restaurants without their own drivers.
We'll measure four numbers: completed orders, quotes that turn into orders, orders lost to stale stock, and time to set up a restaurant.
What could go wrong
- Delivery platforms could make agent ordering free for restaurants and keep them on their side.
- Owners may not keep stock current. Text updates are our answer; we don't know yet if it's enough.
- Agent platforms could restrict which outside tools their agents may use.
- There's one founder, working on this alongside school.
How you can help
- Introductions to restaurant owners or office managers in Halifax.
- Grants, cloud credits or AI credits.
- A small cheque, if you'd like to back this early. Write to us and we'll send terms.
- Advice from people who've built point-of-sale, restaurant or marketplace software.
Team
[FOUNDER NAME], solo founder. Computer Science co-op student at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Builds in public on GitHub.
Contact
[CONTACT EMAIL]. We reply to every message.