DONKEY TRADE · YC S26
Factory prices, delivered, one number.
Donkey is the AI-native trading company. Upload your buying list and see every landed price instantly, tariffs and delivery included.
Everything gets cheaper by the container. Big companies buy the box. Small businesses buy from the people who bought the box.
Donkey turns the container into a cart.
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps.
Upload your buying list.
SKUs, quantities, specs. Messy is fine.
See the landed price.
See every landed price instantly, tariffs and delivery included.
THE WHOLE CONTAINER, ONE NUMBER.Sign, and the price holds.
Our engine packs the order, and when the load needs a bigger box, a second container steps in. When you sign, the price holds.
WHO YOU BUY FROM
You buy from Donkey. One contract, one company responsible for everything between the factory floor and your door. If costs move under your locked price, that’s our problem. And our own people are on those factory floors, checking what goes into the box before it ships.
SHOT BY OUR FOUNDER ON FACTORY FLOORS.
THE ENGINE
Where the number comes from.
Our AI agents read public customs records to find the real factories and pull their quotes.
Duty gets stacked line by line.
The pricing math itself is deterministic, not AI, so the number you see is the number you pay.
Every container we run adds real factory prices to the lane, so the next quote starts sharper.
PROOF
SAVED VERSUS BUYING PIECEMEAL
A home builder in Oakland signed with us: 15 SKUs, one order, 38% saved versus buying piecemeal from distributors.
WE’RE STARTING WITH THE PEOPLE WHO BUILD.
FROM THE FILM · ANONYMIZED AS IT APPEARS THERE
WHO IT’S FOR
If your business buys inventory by the pallet, you should be buying it by the container.
FOUNDERS
We’re Ben and James. Ben grew up in his family’s industrial supply business and went on to advise Chinese industrial giants like Sany and Zoomlion on their overseas expansion. James built agent systems that ran nine figures of revenue. We’ve lived both ends of the container.