Stop Retail Shrinkage.
Before It Leaves The Aisle.
Numo combines multi-modal edge computer vision with autonomous smart carts to eliminate retail theft and eradicate checkout queues. Zero ceiling camera retrofits. Instant bottom-line margin recovery.
MENA Retail's $30B+ Operational Black Hole
Emerging market grocers bleed margins across three fatal vectors: checkout friction, unmonitored shrinkage, and erratic event-driven stockouts. Current tech ignores reality.
Self-Checkout Vulnerability
Theft at self-checkout registers is up to 4x higher than staffed lanes, causing billions in unmonitored ticket-switching and walkout leakage.
Global Shrinkage Crisis
Annual global shrinkage wipes out up to 50% of net grocery profits worldwide, hitting emerging markets hardest due to manual auditing.
Peak Demand Stockouts
Ramadan & peak holiday rushes trigger 15–40% stockouts of high-velocity SKUs with zero real-time shelf telemetry to guide store staff.
Checkout Queue Chaos
In-store checkout wait times have surged 61% since 2022, causing cart abandonment and permanent shopper churn to competitors.
"They Sell Construction Projects. We Sell Software Updates."
Incumbents (Amazon Just Walk Out, Caper, Trigo) require $200K–$1M+ per store, 6–12 months of structural building renovations, steel ceiling gantries, and constant cloud GPU streaming. They were built for predictable Western suburbs—not the vibrant, high-throughput reality of 99% of the world's retail stores.
From Insight to Prevention
Start with simple software using existing store cameras. Progress to smart carts without friction.
Simplified Mode active: retail-friendly terms, plain-language alerts, and clear business outcomes.
Store Camera Analytics
Connects instantly to your existing security cameras and registers. Spot checkout misses and walkouts in real time.
Loss Prediction & Reports
Receive automatic weekly reports showing exactly which items are going missing, where, and when.
Self-Checkout Theft Protection
Install a compact smart screen at self-checkouts to stop barcode swapping and fake banana scans before shoppers leave.
Aisle & Shelf Protection (NumoShelf)
Protect high-theft aisles like cosmetics and baby formula. Detect bulk shelf sweep thefts and notify staff instantly.
Autonomous Shopping Carts (NumoCart)
The ultimate store upgrade: shoppers scan and pay right on the cart screen, skip lines completely, with built-in anti-theft scales.
Interactive 3D Digital Twin
Explore our production-ready mechatronic architecture in real-time WebGL. Orbit, inspect 39 subassemblies, toggle exploded view, and verify sensory nodes.
Precision Mechatronic & Bisectional Schematics
Direct CAD-derived sectional drawings, dimensional tolerances, and structural callouts for high-volume retail cart manufacturing.
Authoritative Counting™: The AI That Knows For Sure
Multi-modal sensing replaces guesswork with mathematical ground truth. Never rely solely on easily fooled camera-only systems.
PERCEPTRON™ (The Brain)
Fuses vision, weight, and touch data simultaneously for >95% checkout accuracy, eliminating false positive alerts and shopper friction.
FastVLM Intelligence
Understands shopper behavior and intent directly from your existing CCTV cameras without requiring expensive infrastructure overhauls.
Edge-to-Cloud Architecture
Processes critical computer vision inference in real-time on low-cost edge nodes with sub-second POS synchronisation.
Privacy-by-Design
Anonymized feature vectors, strictly on-device processing, and zero biometric facial retention for complete GDPR and local compliance.
Mathematical Sensor Fusion Architecture
How Sight (POCE™), Touch (TACTILIA™), and Weight (SPINE™) fuse deterministically into a Validated Transaction Object (VTO).
Event-Driven Trigger
Cart sleeps to preserve battery. Optical flow motion vector or tactile impact registers instantaneously, waking the edge neural inference pipeline.
POCE™ 3D Clustering
4-way RGB + Depth cameras perform static background subtraction `|D - D_empty|`. DBSCAN clusters the 3D point cloud into candidate volume bounded entities.
SPINE™ Synaptic Handshake
Spatial-Physical Intelligence Network Engine cross-references POCE 3D hypotheses with TACTILIA capacitive contact grid and multi-axis load cells via the Android HAL.
PSL™ Cross-Modal Reconciliation
Synthesizes the unified object vector `[RGB | Depth | Mask | Pressure | Shape3D | ΔW]`. Nearest-neighbor search validates SKU identity before issuing the final VTO.
pressure[i][j] = normalize(cap[i][j]) × ( ΔWeight / Σ(cap) )
Each normalized cell on the cart bed acts as a software-defined load cell, mapping mass distribution across contact geometry.
V_unified = [ E_rgb(Top3) | E_depth | E_mask | E_pressure | E_shape3d | ΔW ]
Combines high-resolution visual embeddings with continuous pressure and mass patterns, making SKU classification invariant to lighting or occlusion.
{
"object_id": "C_009",
"temporal_tags": ["drop_event", "post_settle"],
"lifecycle_status": "stacked",
"stacked_on_id": "C_005",
"settling_metrics": {
"delta_weight_grams": 176.4,
"contact_patch_points": 14,
"cluster_volume_cm3": 248.6,
"inference_latency_ms": 84.2
},
"sensor_fusion_scores": {
"poce_vision_confidence": 0.962,
"tactilia_pressure_alignment": 0.984,
"spine_gravimetric_match": 0.998
},
"final_classification": {
"sku": "OREO-ORIGINAL-176G",
"price_cents": 249,
"financial_integrity_status": "VERIFIED_DISPATCH"
}
}Validated Vision, Clear Path
From algorithmic SaaS analytics validation to full hardware deployment and regional data dominance.
NumoInsights Launch & Pilot
- LOI Secured with major Algerian retail chain
- Multiple Tier-1 hypermarket pilots in contract discussion
- Global tech partner programs: NVIDIA Inception, AWS, Microsoft
- Zero-hardware CCTV shrinkage hotspot detection engine active
Smart Station & NumoShelf Deployment
- 50–300 Smart Stations & Cart pilot units deployed
- Target Metrics: 95%+ detection accuracy, 30%+ shrinkage reduction
- Payback period verified at <6 months per lane
- Commercial hardware BOM optimization for mass assembly
NumoCart Fleet & Shopper Intent Graph
- Full fleet deployment across MENA & international chains
- Autonomous frictionless checkout experience
- CPG retail data monetization platform (Shopper Intent Graph)
- Contextual dynamic advertising on 10.1" in-cart touchscreens
Building Retail-Specific AGI: The World Model for Physical Commerce
Most AI labs try to build general-purpose models, then struggle to adapt them to physical reality. Numo takes the opposite approach: master one complex, high-friction environment first. By grounding AI in the dense sensory physics of retail, we build the Operating System for autonomous commerce from the ground up.
Why General LLMs & Cameras Fail Retail
LLMs excel at text reasoning, but are completely blind to physical mechanics. Vision-only systems guess from pixels—failing on transparent packaging, occluded stacks, and physical compliance. They lack object permanence and tactile common sense.
Grounding Intelligence in Real Store Physics
To automate commerce, AI must feel, weigh, and understand physical interactions. By fusing Sight (POCE™) + Touch (TACTILIA™) + Weight (SPINE™), every Numo node collects the multi-modal interaction data needed to build the world's first mathematically verified Retail World Model.
Multi-Modal Sensor Nodes
Deploying smart carts and checkout terminals across high-throughput stores. Every shopper interaction becomes a real-world training step—capturing how human hands grip, deposit, stack, and inspect millions of SKUs.
The Physical World Model
Training proprietary Action-Outcome Models on physical store dynamics. The AI learns causal physics—predicting stock depletion, shrinkage vectors, and product damage before it happens (e.g. Heavy canned goods placed over fresh produce = crush risk).
NumoBot™ Autonomous Restocking
Deploying autonomous mobile manipulation agents equipped with TACTILIA™ tactile skin. Because they are pre-trained on the cart-generated World Model, they navigate crowded aisles, grasp delicate items, and restock shelves with human-level dexterity on Day 1.
What Could You Save? Calculate ROI
See what you're losing to shrinkage—and how much pure net profit Numo immediately restores to your bottom line.
Unit Economics: The Profitability Formula
How Numo achieves 63.8%+ blended margins on a hardware-enabled business model with an ultra-lean <$1,000 BOM.
Lease + software fees recover the sub-$1,000 BOM in under 120 days—eliminating balance sheet strain.
For every $1.00 invested in hardware manufacturing, Numo generates $6.95 in cumulative net profit.
$2,400/yr lease fee + $600 data telemetry + $150 contextual retail media ads per active cart.
Zero hardware CapEx ($0 deployment). $100–$500/mo subscription for existing CCTV streams funding physical AI R&D.
Building the Physical AI Layer for Commerce
Numo is not just a hardware company. We are building the foundational physical data infrastructure that powers the next generation of brick-and-mortar retail—grounded in rigorous mathematical modeling, not hand-waving speculation.
Convert Mandatory Corporate R&D into High-Yield Autonomous Store Infrastructure
A structured funding framework enabling Algerian supermarket conglomerates (Grandes Surfaces) and commercial operators to deploy sovereign AI checkout fleets while maximizing fiscal deductions under Article 147 quater CIDTA and fulfilling statutory obligations under Article 119 of the 2026 Finance Law.
Transform Mandatory Compliance into Defensible Retail Market Leadership
Rather than forfeiting statutory corporate R&D allocations to compensatory treasury penalty taxes under Article 119 ("Innovate or Pay"), retail leaders direct mandated funds to sponsor the initial Numo store pilot. Funding this first deployment secures priority smart cart fleet allocation, immediate shrinkage defense, and exclusive catchment territory rights—establishing the foundation for joint fleet scale and long-term co-development.
Strict Intellectual Property & Commercial Guardrails
To preserve Numo's global institutional roadmap and guarantee transparent, audit-proof fiscal validation for corporate boards, this pilot funding protocol operates under non-negotiable structural parameters:
100% Core IP Retention
All proprietary multi-modal perception models (PERCEPTRON™), sensor fusion firmware (SPINE™), mechanical unibody tooling, and CAD blueprints remain 100% the exclusive intellectual property of Numo Technologies. No shared IP, source code transfer, or patent encumbrance.
Zero Equity Dilution at Initial Stage
Structured as a bilateral commercial R&D sponsorship and pilot equipment procurement agreement. Corporate equity stakes and enterprise valuations are strictly excluded—protecting clean cap table mechanics for international institutional rounds while scaling into fleet-level co-funding.
Registered National Open Innovation Mandate
Each collaboration is executed via a formal, minimum 6-month bilateral contract registered on innovation.gov.dz under the supervision of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and Startups, ensuring seamless tax authority audit clearance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Essential intelligence on our $1M pre-seed round, multi-modal physical AI architecture, and commercial execution roadmap.
We are raising a $1M Pre-Seed round to execute our 18-month commercial roadmap. This capital directly funds three mission-critical objectives:
Deploying NumoInsights across initial 100–300 retail locations with zero upfront hardware overhead.
Completing production tooling and deploying 50–300 Smart Stations & NumoCart v1.2 pilot units.
Converting our signed LOI with a major Algerian supermarket chain into a multi-lane paying pilot.
The timing is strategic: we have de-risked the multi-modal sensor fusion technology, validated clear market demand, and are ready to prove unit economics at scale.
We are offering a standard SAFE note (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) structured for investor alignment:
$5M – $8M
Post-Money SAFE Note
Milestone-based disbursements aligning capital release directly with execution de-risking.
The initial capital release funds core mechatronics hiring and pilot hardware finalization upon round close.
Our 18-month execution roadmap delivers 4 tangible value-creation milestones:
Numo operates an enterprise hybrid SaaS & HaaS (Hardware-as-a-Service) model engineered for high lifetime value and CPG data upside:
Our long-term defense is structured across three self-reinforcing moats:
Authoritative Counting™ fuses vision, load-cells, and capacitive smart skin. It is 1000x cheaper and more reliable than ceiling-camera retrofits.
A proprietary in-store behavioral graph across emerging retail markets that is impossible to synthesize without on-cart sensors.
Our zero-hardware CCTV analytics GTM embeds Numo software into retail operations before selling hardware, creating high lock-in.
Mitigation: Lab-validated watertight CAD prototype (v1.2) with dual-architecture fallback (v0.5 bolt-on retrofit kit).
Mitigation: Free 24-hour CCTV shrinkage assessment creates instant value before requiring capital expenditure.
Mitigation: Capital-efficient HaaS model partnered with established regional certified contract fabricators.
The founding team unites technical systems architecture, high-volume enterprise commercial sales (PepsiCo, United Nations), and intrinsic MENA market retail networks.
Transitioning the validated CAD and pilot prototypes into certified mass-manufacturing production lines.
Expanding enterprise commercial pilots into Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the UAE hypermarket sector.
Numo is engineered as the essential physical AI layer for brick-and-mortar commerce, commanding three distinct M&A acquisition avenues:
Global retail hardware and POS stalwarts (NCR, Toshiba, Diebold Nixdorf) acquiring autonomous checkout tech.
Consumer analytics leaders (Nielsen, IRI/Circana) acquiring real-time shopper telemetry.
Enterprise hyperscalers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google) expanding edge-AI footprints into global retail.
We actively seek strategic investors who bring targeted leverage:
Direct access to C-suite leadership at major supermarket and hypermarket chains across MENA & the GCC.
Operational experience navigating BOM cost reduction, supply chain scaling, and enterprise HaaS contracts.
Fast-track incorporation and commercial operational licensing in Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the UAE.
Clean cap table with 100% founder control. This $1M pre-seed round targets an optimal 15%–20% dilution.
An allocated 10% Employee Stock Option Pool (ESOP) reserved for executive engineering and mechatronics hires.
The $1M pre-seed round will be allocated across four prioritized operational pillars: