For chains & programs

For chains & developer programs

This page answers, in one place, the questions a retailer or developer-program team asks before granting API access: what Desi is, exactly how it would use a store-inventory API, what it never does with retailer data, and who is legally behind it. Everything stated here is current practice, not aspiration.

What Desi is

Desi is a voice-first assistant for drivers who need a product now, mid-route. The driver asks by voice; Desi checks the stores that lie on the driver's active route through the retailers' own official developer programs, answers with the availability the store reported and the detour time, and navigates to the physical store. It is built for the road: the driver never has to type or browse while driving.

Status, in the exact words we use everywhere:

Desi is in controlled testing with professional drivers on real routes; it is not yet available for public download and is not on app stores. A production API connection is active with one national grocery retailer through its official developer program.

Public availability: not yet scheduled.

The flow

How the inventory query works

A driver asks Desi, by voice, for a product while travelling a route.
Desi selects the stores that lie on that driver's active route.
For one specific store, Desi sends a point query to the retailer's official store-inventory API: store number + the requested products.
The API answers with the on-hand quantity for that store and the time of its last update.
Desi reports what the store reported — as of that update time — and navigates the driver to the physical store.

[ This flow carries no prices, and no regulated pharmacy. ]

Final prices and the purchase itself are completed exclusively at the retailer's checkout. Desi does not sell, charge for, or hand off any product.

How we query

On demand only. A query exists because a driver on an active route asked for a product. There are no scheduled sweeps, no background polling and no bulk discovery of stores.
Route-bound and product-specific. We query only the stores on that driver's route, and only the products the driver asked for.
Program rules first. We respect each developer program's rate limits and quotas, its response headers, and the expiry the program assigns to its data.
Point-in-time answers. Every query is a single, live question to the retailer's own API — never a copy of the retailer's catalogue kept on our side.

What we do not do

Zero extraction. We do not scrape, crawl or otherwise extract data from retailer websites or apps. Zero scraping is an engineering commitment, not a legal minimum.
No resale, no redistribution. Retailer data is never sold, licensed, republished or passed to third parties.
No public inventory database. Query answers are not accumulated into a database of any retailer's stock, public or otherwise.
No invented totals. When a retailer's official channel provides availability but not price, Desi answers with availability and time only — it never computes a dollar total from an inventory-only API. A total is shown only when the retailer's own official channel provides the price.
No store is chosen for a commission. The store Desi recommends is the one that fits the driver's route and the reported availability. Retailers do not pay for placement or ranking.

Data policies

Our data policies

"As of", always. Availability is presented to the driver as of the retailer's last update time. We do not describe inventory data as "real-time".
Perishable by design. Inventory answers are treated as perishable: they serve the driver who asked, at the moment of asking, and are not stockpiled.
Minimum storage. We keep only the minimum information needed to provide the service. Our privacy policy is published, current, and governs location and personal data; nothing on this page overrides it.
Keys stay server-side. API credentials are held on our servers, separately for each service, with access limited to the systems that operate them. No credential is embedded in the app or published anywhere.
One driver, one answer. A retailer's data feeds only the experience of the driver who made the query — it is not republished as a database, a feed or a product.

Categories — and their limits

Desi looks up on-route convenience items, personal care and over-the-counter (OTC) products. It does not process prescriptions or controlled medications, it offers no health advice, and it is not intended for medical emergencies. Nothing on this site or in the app suggests the availability of prescription medication.

Inventory information is provided for information only. It reflects the retailer's last update and is subject to the physical stock in the store at the moment of arrival; availability is not guaranteed.

Who we are

Who we are — legal identity

Legal identity: DESIDERIUM LLC — a limited liability company of the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA. Registration active with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (Entity ID 12089048). Registered agent: Northwest Registered Agent — a matter of public record.

Official contact: [email protected] · (571) 530-3788 — the company's business line. Based in Leesburg, Virginia, USA. We reply from the company itself, in English or Spanish.

FAQ

Questions program teams ask us

What exactly would you use a store-inventory API for?

The flow above, and nothing else: one driver, one route, one specific store, the products that driver asked for — answered with quantity and update time.

Which categories?

On-route convenience, personal care and over-the-counter products. No prescriptions, no controlled medications, no health advice.

Do you store, resell or redistribute inventory data?

No. Answers are point-in-time, serve only the driver who asked, and are never accumulated into a database, sold or republished. See "Our data policies".

How do you treat rate limits and quotas?

Queries are on-demand and route-bound by design, which keeps volume low and purposeful. We honour each program's limits, response headers and data expiry.

Would you show our prices?

Only if your official channel provides them. If it provides availability only, that is all Desi shows — availability and time — and the price is whatever your checkout says. Desi never estimates or reconstructs a retailer's prices.

Will you use our brand?

No retailer logo or brand asset appears on this site or in the app unless that retailer's program grants it. We never describe ourselves as a partner, an approved integration or an official channel of a retailer that has not approved us.

Is the app available to the public?

Not yet. Desi is in controlled testing with professional drivers, and public availability is not yet scheduled.

Can we see it working?

Yes. We offer a guided demo to developer-program and retailer teams, on request — write to us at the address below.