Boxcar fits a grid of locked compartments to a delivery car. The boxes resize and stack to match whatever is riding, and yours stays sealed until you open it at the curb.
Not open to the public yet. We'll email you once when Boxcar reaches your neighborhood — nothing else.
Same rail, different boxes. Switch the load and the grid is built to fit it — every door stays shut but the one assigned to your phone.
01 — The problem
A courier drives across the city, hands over a single package, and drives back. You pay for the whole trip. That's why same-day couriers start around twenty-five dollars, and why most things you'd like to send across town never get sent at all — the trip costs more than the thing.
The other half of the problem is what happens at the end of it. Your package gets handed to a stranger, then left on a step, and everyone involved just hopes it's still there when you get home.
02 — How it works
A shop or a sender loads your package into an open compartment. The door locks itself and is assigned to you.
The car runs one route across the metro with a full load of other deliveries. No handoffs, no sorting facility, no second truck.
You get a message with the curb location. Tap the link or scan the code on your door and your compartment opens. No app to download.
03 — The box
Boxcar is hardware: a rail of steel compartments that mounts to a vehicle. It's the part of delivery that nobody has built yet — the piece between a car arriving and a package actually reaching the right person.
The grid isn't one fixed shape. Compartments come in different depths and stack together on the same rail, so a car running document racks in the morning can run cold boxes in the afternoon.
04 — Where this goes
Today a trained driver runs each route. The grid is designed to mount on autonomous vehicles as they're licensed for public roads — the same steel, the same locks, the same tap to open.
That's deliberate. Nothing about your delivery changes when the driver goes away. What changes is the cost of the trip — and that's the part we're actually building toward. When crossing the city costs about a dollar, the things people never bother sending start moving.
05 — Coverage
We're starting with a small group of local businesses on a handful of routes, then opening up neighborhood by neighborhood. Where we go after that depends on where the list is.
06 — Questions
No. Boxcar is a private pilot and isn't open to the public — the first routes run in San Francisco with a small group of local businesses. The list is currently the only way in, and we'd rather tell you that plainly than imply otherwise.
That's the point of the box. Your compartment stays locked and stays yours — nothing gets left on a step and nothing goes back to a depot. You open it when you get to the curb.
Nobody. Each door has its own latch and releases for the phone it was assigned to. Opens are logged, and the rest of the boxes on the car have nothing to do with yours.
Anything that fits a compartment and stays under 40 lbs — documents, clothes, electronics, keys, groceries, the charger you left at a friend's place. Compartment sizes are matched to the run, so a document rack and a cold box can ride the same car. No liquids in bulk, nothing hazardous, nothing illegal.
Pricing isn't final and we'd rather not invent a number. The reason batching matters is that one car running a full route costs a fraction of what those same drops cost as separate courier trips, and the price is meant to reflect that. People on the list get founding pricing when we launch.
A small team in San Francisco. We previously built and sold a batched delivery company, which is where this idea came from: batching brought the cost of everything down except the driver, and that's the piece Boxcar is designed around.
One email when we reach your neighborhood. Founding pricing for early members.