Built around a chauffeur operator's working day.

Kairo Engine Ltd is a Manchester software company. Kairo was designed with working chauffeur operators from its first version and runs live jobs every day: airport runs, account work, driver briefs, passenger updates and month-end billing. The first brief was simple: stop turning one booking into four versions of the truth.

One flight delay, one booking. On the left the office retypes the new pickup time into each place it lives and misses the driver. On the right the record changes once and every permitted view moves with it.

One booking had become several versions of the truth.

Without one shared record, the same booking gets copied between email, dispatch, driver messages and accounts.

When a client changes a pickup, the office hears about it, but the driver or the invoice sometimes does not. Missed extras and thin margins turn up after the journey, when it is too late to act on them.

Kairo keeps the office, driver, passenger and account client connected to the same permitted live record. Account rates, airport work, returns, partner jobs and waiting time are part of the operation rather than another hand-off.

More than 5,000 jobs have gone through Kairo so far. When you switch, we start from your own historic jobs, data and rate cards, so any difference between your operation and the way Kairo works shows up before you go live.

When the office, the driver and the invoice each hold their own copy of a booking, the copies drift. The office has one version, the driver has another, and the invoice sometimes tells a third story. That gap is what Kairo is built to close: one booking, one record, visible to everyone who is permitted to see it, from the first enquiry through to the paid invoice.

Built for pre-booked work, not hail-and-ride.

Kairo is built for pre-booked chauffeur work: airport transfers, as-directed hire, corporate account clients and event transport that are arranged ahead of time. It keeps one live record for each booking as it moves from enquiry through quote, dispatch, driver, passenger, invoice and account billing.

It is not built for high-volume hail-and-ride taxi dispatch, where jobs are accepted and assigned in real time with no advance booking. Operators running that model need a different kind of system.

The product decisions follow the work.

Three decisions that came out of running real jobs, and what each one replaced.

The booking is the record.

Before

The office copied a change into driver messages, passenger updates and accounts, by hand, one at a time.

With Kairo

Kairo keeps those permitted views connected to the same live piece of work.

Difficult work belongs in the system.

Before

The office handled airport timing, account rates, waiting time and partner work as exceptions.

With Kairo

They are part of the operating model, where the team can see and act on them.

A switch has to work before the old system leaves.

Before

A tidy import is not enough if real quotes, jobs and rate cards do not behave correctly.

With Kairo

Managed Launch runs Kairo beside the current system for a live week before handover.

Run on live work before it is sold.

Quoting, dispatch, driver workflows, passenger updates, invoicing and driver pay all run on Kairo every day on real journeys, so the features you would use are already in daily use before they reach you.

Built in
Manchester, United Kingdom
Jobs run so far
More than 5,000
Switching
Free import of your bookings, clients, drivers and vehicles
From live work to an invoice without reconstructing the journey. Demo data shown.

Details, plainly.

Legal name
Kairo Engine Ltd
Founder
Louis Herbert
Company number
17127596
Registered in
England and Wales
Registered office
61 Lyne View, Hyde, SK14 4ND

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