Know the fair price before you say a word.

Point your camera at anything in any market. Get the local price, your opening offer and the exact words to say.

1.2Mprices reported

312markets

48languages

"I paid 900 dirham for a bag my riad host bought for 350." Kemi, Marrakech, last spring

Where are you shopping?

In the full app GPS picks this for you.

Show prices in my home currency

Marrakech souk

Point at an item (demo: pick one)

Fill the frame with the item

What did the seller ask?Optional. Helps us tune your offer.

Upload Take photo

Reading the photo

What we saw

Your haggle plan

What people paid here

LocalsTravellersFair range

How it works here

First prices with room to move are normal here, not a trick. Bargain with a smile and walk away politely if it does not work.

Bought it? What did you pay?

Your price helps the next traveller. Anonymous, no seller names.

Where you landed

Trip savings, Morocco and Turkey

Badges

This trip

Next stop on your plan: Istanbul Grand Bazaar on Saturday. We pre-loaded Turkish phrases and fair prices so it works offline.

Home board . Lagos . week 43

Running savings since August

Against the usual first ask at Mile 12 and Balogun

This week's shop

Ranges you made sharper

Tomatoes, 1 paint bucket

Fair range at Mile 12, before and after 212 home reports (41 of them yours)

prices you reported

6Lagos ranges tightened

week streak

Next Saturday the board reminds you at 9:00 before the market run. Prices you log this week update the fair range for 3,400 shoppers nearby.

The world's honest price layer.

Every market, every item, a fair price anyone can check. In three years, travellers stop overpaying, locals stop being undercut, and good sellers carry a badge that brings customers to them.

Fair Verified sellers near you

Hassan's LeatherMarrakech souk. Posts prices, 96% of buyers rated fair.

Fair

Nok CeramicsChatuchak section 17. Fixed fair prices.

Fair

Adaeze FabricsBalogun. Price list in naira, Pidgin and English.

Fair

Year 1: the traveller's eye

40 big tourist markets, 6 item families, phrases in 20 languages, offline packs.

Year 2: sellers join

Stalls post honest prices and earn a Fair Verified badge. Buyers find them on the map and pay by QR.

Year 3: the price API

Guidebooks, tour operators and fintech apps license the crowd price layer. Sellers in Lagos and Hanoi get pricing data that used to cost big retailers millions.

Fair Price Eye blueprint

The mission

Build the world's honest price layer for every market. Travellers pay fair, locals are not undercut, and sellers who price fairly get a verified badge that brings them customers.

Why people can't resist it

Fear of being the sucker: nobody wants to overpay. A number from people like you removes that anxiety at the exact moment it peaks.

Winning feels great: "You beat 72% of travellers" turns shopping into a game you can win and brag about.

Confidence in a new language: one phrase said well changes the whole conversation and makes the trip story.

How it works for real

Photo goes to a vision model (Gemini Flash, GPT vision or Claude via OpenRouter) that names the item, material and quality cues as structured JSON.

Location from GPS snaps to a known market polygon.

Price engine: robust median and 25 to 75 percentile of crowd reports for that item class, market and quality tier, weighted by recency. Cold start uses web price data plus a frontier LLM estimate, clearly flagged as low confidence.

Offer logic: opening offer near the bottom of the fair range, walk-away at the top, adjusted by what the seller asked.

Phrase: templated in each language by native speakers, number inserted correctly (dong in thousands, Darija numbers). Audio from a multilingual TTS voice, cached per phrase and number band. The demo uses the phone's own speech engine.

Paid price reports go into the crowd table after outlier checks.

Cost per use

Vision call, 1 image

$0.002

Price lookup and offer logic

about $0

TTS phrase (cached after first)

$0.001

Per scan total

under $0.005

Free: 5 scans a day, phrases in text. Trip Pass ($4.99 for 14 days): unlimited scans, audio, offline market packs, savings tracker. Later: seller verification subscription and a B2B price API.

Growth loop

"I paid 320 MAD, fair was 340 to 420" share cards spread in travel groups and stories. Each price report makes the next scan better, so early users in a market pull in friends travelling there. Fair Verified sellers put a QR sign on their stall that installs the app. Back home, the Price board turns the weekly market run into a habit: log what you paid, watch running savings grow, and see your reports tighten the fair range for neighbours.

Risks and guardrails

No stereotyping: tips talk about market customs, never about sellers being dishonest. No seller names in public reports.

Fairness to locals: the fair range includes what locals pay, and the app never pushes offers below the local median.

Data quality: outlier filters, minimum sample size before a confidence label, clear "sample" labels.

Privacy: photos are processed then deleted, location is snapped to the market, not stored precisely.

Counterfeits: the app flags likely fake branded goods and does not price them.

MVP build order

Vision prompt that returns item, material and quality tier for 6 item families.

Seed price tables for 6 big markets from traveller forums and local helpers.

Result screen with offer, walk-away and phrase text in 6 languages.

"What did you pay?" reports and the percentile card.

TTS audio and the trip savings tracker.