Not a courier company, but the shared infrastructure of courier companies.

Volume in courier operations is never flat: one day the roster is too big, the next it is not enough. Branches usually close that gap off the books — parcels are handed to a familiar courier over the phone, who took what is written in a notebook, and a week later nobody can say where a lost parcel went.

Kovan brings that hand-off inside the software. The bag is sealed, the driver shows an identity QR, the hand-off cannot start before the branch scans it, delivery is proved at the door, and the day is reconciled in the evening. A hand-off done around the app is the one thing this product exists to prevent.

The business model

• A courier company registers on the platform and runs its branches, staff and parcels from its own panel.
• An independent driver joins the network from the mobile app, takes a bag that fits and delivers it.
• The company pays its driver from its own pay statement. The money never passes through Kovan.
• Kovan charges the company a platform fee per counted delivery.
• Senders arrive with two needs: urgent courier for today’s parcel and regular shipping for the everyday ones. In the second the tariff is not ours but another carrier’s — there they are our supplier and you are our customer.

The name and the mark

Kovan is Turkish for a beehive. Our mark is three honeycomb cells touching each other: the picture of a shared network rather than of a single van. Colour was part of the choice too — the yellow and black a bee brings to mind already belongs to other carriers in Türkiye and clashes with our own warning colour. That is why the accent is cyan.