Every walk-inis a transactionyou can settle.
A local creator posts with a code. The customer redeems it at your counter. The redemption is the record — a source, a time, an amount, a commission. One invoice a week, nothing prepaid.
Local advertising is prepaid — and impossible to account for.
Instagram, Google, Yelp — spent before a single customer shows up. Which dollar produced which customer: no record exists.
Paid per post — flat fees, with agency and MCN cuts off the top. The customers they actually deliver earn them nothing.
Merchants overpay for attention; creators are underpaid for outcomes. That spread is the business.
What happens when a customer walks in
The post
A local creator publishes after visiting. The content carries a unique redemption code.
The counter
The customer redeems at checkout — one tap by staff; the mystery-box reward opens on the spot.
The bill
One customer on the merchant’s bill, one commission for the creator. Settled weekly.
Every visit writes one line — source, time, amount, commission. The merchant’s month-end bill is that record, added up.
Everyone is paid on the same event: a customer at the counter.
- Merchant keeps
- $85.00
- Creator earns
- $10.50
- Hibi
- $4.50
Pilot terms: 15% on a first visit, of which the creator keeps 70%. Nothing is charged to the customer.
Marketing becomes a cost of goodsA unit price per walk-in, a monthly cap, billed only on delivery. Customer acquisition is priced like inventory — not gambled like ad spend.
Influence becomes a sales forceEvery walk-in a creator sends is counted at the counter and paid as commission. Follower counts stop mattering; delivered customers do.
Discounts become a gameEvery first visit wins a mystery-box reward, up to the full bill. Return visits enter a sealed draw that keeps them coming back.
One commission. Three rates. Nothing else.
No subscription. No setup fee. You set the monthly cap and can pause anytime. Pilot pricing; final rates are set with the first cohort.
The model was validated at the top of the market — minus one layer.
QR redemption has no learning curve in North America. The open layer is Hibi’s entry point.
- 2024–25
Trust erodes
Merchant confidence in impression advertising is exhausted; “I paid and saw no customers” has become the default complaint.
- Jan 2026
Claim is acquired
Wonder, Grubhub’s parent, acquires Claim — pay-per-new-customer cashback, live in New York and expanding nationally.
- Today
One layer is missing
Claim counts visits but has no creators: origins stay unknown, and whoever drove the traffic is not paid.
Three models trained on the redemption record
Source, store, time, amount, repeat visit — joined at every redemption. It exists nowhere else, and it is the training input for everything below.
Precision grows with every transaction.
Which creator for which storeRedemption history selects the creators most likely to convert for each store — by category, audience, and daypart.
What to post, whenA trend agent tracks local platform signals and drafts topics and shooting notes, shortening booking-to-post.
What not to pay forOutlier detection across timing, amounts, device and location signals; high-risk transactions go to manual review.
New York. One neighborhood at a time.
Local creators, local merchants, one weekly bill. We prove the loop in one neighborhood, then repeat it in the next. The first cohort is being assembled now.
Get early access
The first cohort opens in New York. Tell us who you are and we will reach out when your neighborhood goes live.