Map the market
Know every producer, agent and buyer — and track each product’s path across the floor in real time.
Market mappingCape Town Fresh Produce Market · New Project
The market never sleeps — and now the system does not either.
01 · The Problem
Today, produce flows through a handful of agents who prefer large buyers. Small and medium buyers are skipped, and some produce never reaches the floor. Wakker Slaap maps every producer, agent and buyer — and matches them directly.
Illustrative simulation — real numbers will follow once the database is live.
02 · Core Principles
Know every producer, agent and buyer — and track each product’s path across the floor in real time.
Market mappingWhat buyers want, when they want it, and in what quantities — before the truck is loaded.
Demand intelligenceProduce reaches every buyer — large or small — without preference blocking the path.
Bypass bottlenecksA highly autonomous trading environment: the system matches supply and demand through the night.
Drive autonomy03 · Spatial Insight
Every parcel on the market floor becomes a measurement point: tonnes per square metre, rand per square metre, with the electrical system, GridBrain and GridView layered over it. Built on Willie’s CAD drawings of the market — expansion drawings to follow.
Illustrative layout and figures — the real floor plan comes from the CAD drawings.
Open the real market map04 · The AI Layer
AI sits as a strategic layer over the data — available to agents and LLMs through MCP, behind strict verification. First task: the financing pitch for the market expansion.
A clean interface so AI agents and LLMs can query the system safely — no screen scraping.
Strict verification and role-based access from the first code version — data stays with those allowed to see it.
A hardware roadmap that balances local serving and cloud models — this server is the first brick.
05 · The Road Ahead
Server is up, repo initialized, and the cleaning data copy is 90% clean and ready to use.
Finish GridBrain and GridView with Ben and Graham; bring in Willie’s CAD expansion drawings.
All producers, agents and buyers recorded; product flow and floor positions tracked in real time.
Tonnes/m² and R/m² (revenue and cost) as visual layers, with the electrical system over the map.
Secure AI access in production — and the financing pitch for the market expansion, built on real data.
Rhythm: weekly online · in person every two weeks.