Every system in the world has been rebuilt for the modern age. Transportation. Payments. Communication. Logistics. But one piece of everyday infrastructure never caught up: the restroom.
We still search anxiously for access. We nervously approach, hoping they are clean. And somehow, we have learned to accept that they often will not be.
There are places in the world — Japan — where restrooms are thoughtfully designed and deeply cared for by both staff and visitors alike. Almost everywhere else, they remain an afterthought.
Yedi is creating the system that will become the foundation for that change — a new layer bringing access, cleanliness, maintenance, and intelligence into one connected platform. Because when infrastructure improves, everyday life improves with it. And the most overlooked spaces are often the ones that matter most.
And on the other side of the same building, the same problem in a different costume. The supply closet that holds the alcohol, the cigarettes, the back-office files, the things that walk out the door without anyone seeing. The keys on a ring that nobody can quite account for. The code on a Post-it that's been there for two years. The fired employee who might still have access.
Where the restroom is a story of public neglect, the supply closet is a story of private erosion. Same building. Same operator. Same instinct that says we'll get to it eventually.
Yedi is the system that finally does.
These look like two different problems. They're the same problem in different costumes — the doors nobody designed for, the spaces nobody measured, the moments where operational reality and human dignity quietly fall apart.
The hardware is the same. The software changes based on what the door is doing. The dashboard ties it all together. The restroom that finally gets cleaned when it needs to be. The stockroom that finally has an answer to who was in the back. The fact that, somewhere underneath all of it, a real operator gets a few minutes of their day back.
That's the foundation. The doors are the wedge. The system is what comes next.
Founder & CEO
I spent years watching the same problem from two sides. As a customer, I'd hunt for a decent restroom that didn't make me regret stopping in. As someone who's worked closely with retail operators, I watched them try to manage their stockrooms, supply closets, and back offices with a clipboard, a Post-it on the wall, and a key ring nobody could account for.
Yedi started with a simple observation: every meaningful door in retail back-of-house generates data nobody captures, and every cost that lives behind those doors is invisible until it's too big to ignore. We're building the system that finally makes those spaces measurable, accountable, and a little bit more humane.
Before Yedi, I spent a decade building and scaling technology ventures — in robotics, computer vision, and IoT, across the US, Asia, and the Middle East. Different industries, different continents, but the same lesson every time: the people actually running operations are handed tools that were designed without them in mind. Yedi is the company built to close that gap, starting with the doors everyone else ignored.
The lock, the dashboard, the integrations. Or talk to us about putting it on the door that's been on your mind this week.