Built first in Lagos for everyone daily ride-hail leaves behind. Drivers heading your way pick you up, you agree the fare directly, and you pay only for your leg of the trip.
Riders overpay or suffer. Drivers waste empty seats. The same math punishes every emerging-market megacity. We're starting in Lagos because we know its streets.
30 routes researched, Nov 2024. Same start. Same destination. Same time of day. The gap is the market.
Drivers stay on their route. Riders walk to a parked driver or to a pickup point on a moving driver's route.
An Along driver enters a destination and available seats. TagRides maps the route and works out the pickup.
TagRides drafts a fare for the road shared with each driver. The rider can edit and send several offers; each driver accepts or counters once.
TagRides makes the first agreed match the pickup automatically. The rider can switch to another accepted driver until boarding confirms the seat and payment.
The full rider flow, end to end, in one app — already in the hands of internal testers across Lagos.
TagRides fills empty seats in cars, taxis, vans, minibuses, tricycles, and motorcycles where lawful, without creating a new driver trip. Lagos is the first launch market, not the limit.
TagRides scenario model. Planning assumptions, not a third-party market forecast.
Along does not pay drivers to approach. If a pickup fails, the driver stays on the original route. TagRides earns only when the rider boards.
Charged only when the rider boards. Driver and rider both see the fee up-front.
Route intelligence, driver verification, and fare-estimate tools for logistics, fintech, and mobility partners under TAG-ALONG LTD.
We don't try to be everywhere on day one. We pick the highest-density commute in Lagos, saturate it, prove unit economics, then unlock the next corridor.
Own the Yaba ↔ Lagos Island corridor — the iconic Mainland-to-Island commute. UNILAG, YabaTech, Computer Village, Sabo, Adekunle, Onike all feed into Marina across Eko Bridge.
300 verified drivers and route operators already travelling daily Yaba ↔ Island routes.
20,000 monthly active riders along the Yaba commute belt.
Lagos-wide → Abuja → Accra / Nairobi / Kigali. Then cities where daily private ride-hail prices out the working class — SE Asia, LATAM, the same corridor playbook ports.
Other services assign one car or sell one seat. Along lets riders send offers to several route-matched drivers, keep backups open, and confirm a seat only when they board.
| CAPABILITY | TagRides US | Uber / Bolt | InDrive | BlaBlaCar | Shuttlers | Danfo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supply journey exists without rider | ||||||
| No driver detour for Along pickup | ||||||
| Offers sent to several matched drivers | ||||||
| Multiple accepted options | ||||||
| Backups survive primary selection | ||||||
| Seat is confirmed when the rider boards |
VS · UBER / BOLTStrong dispatch, but the driver makes a new pickup trip and the rider is tied to one driver before pickup.
VS · INDRIVESeveral driver prices help riders compare options, but choosing one closes every other option and sends a whole car to the pickup.
VS · BLABLACARMonetises route-aligned seats, but booking removes inventory before physical pickup and alternatives do not remain live.
VS · DANFOThe closest offline comparison: fixed routes, shared seats, and payment on boarding. TagRides adds digital offers, backup options, identity, and trip records.
Live MVP. Real surveys. Capital and credits already secured.
Full-stack execution from one founder. Advisory weight from people who actually move things in Lagos.
Ships the full stack — Flutter rider + driver app, Go backend services, MQTT real-time geolocation pipeline, AWS infra. Built the production system independently. ALX Ventures alum; relocating from EC2 development to in-market Lagos lead.
Lagos tech-ecosystem operator. Apex Network introductions across logistics + payments + Lagos State partnerships.
Corporate operations + Lagos community gateway. Fuel-economics + driver-network access at scale.
Conservative — driver supply is the rate-limit, not demand. Cohort retention modeled at 35% by month 3.
Pre-seed on a SAFE. Eighteen months of runway. Non-dilutive backing already secured from Tony Elumelu Foundation, Ugwumba Enterprise Challenge, and $52K in cloud credits. We're now raising priced capital to launch the Yaba ↔ Lagos Island corridor, reach Seed-ready unit economics, and earn the right to do this in every city the math fails.