Jayride launches B2B SaaS platform for ground transport operators, enhancing operations with AI tools and announces strategic board leadership changes.
Jayride Group Limited, a global ground transportation technology company, announce the launch of a new proprietary B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for the ground transportation industry. In addition to this strategic initiative, the Company advises of changes to its Board of Directors to support this next phase of growth.
Highlights:
- Jayride has launched a new proprietary B2B SaaS platform for the ground transportation sector, expanding beyond its traditional aggregator model.
- The platform provides end-to-end fleet, dispatch, pricing, booking, and payment management under a white-label “Powered by Jayride” offering.
- Key features at launch include an integrated payment gateway and wallet, API connectivity to Jayride’s marketplace, and a robust reporting dashboard.
- Future enhancements will introduce AI-powered tools, including a travel concierge, predictive demand analytics, and telemetry solutions.
- Jayride is initially targeting fragmented markets (e.g. Thailand, USA, Malaysia, Philippines) through strategic partner negotiations to drive early adoption.
Strategic Initiative Explained
Jayride Group Limited has unveiled its new Software-as-a-Service platform designed to transform how ground transport operators manage their businesses. The platform builds on Jayride’s established aggregator model and offers transport providers comprehensive tools to manage their fleets, dispatch, pricing, bookings, and payments, all under their own brand with the backing of Jayride’s technology stack. This move creates new scalable and higher-margin revenue streams for Jayride while addressing long-standing operational pain points in the industry, such as delayed payments and manual processes.
The launch includes key features like a payments gateway, driver/operator web and mobile interfaces, and a reporting suite. The platform integrates directly with Jayride’s existing marketplace, ensuring transport providers maintain access to global demand while gaining full operational control. Importantly, Jayride plans to progressively enhance the offering with AI capabilities later this year – including a virtual concierge, demand forecasting, and a white-labelled app option for larger operators.
Jayride is initially rolling out the platform via strategic partnerships in high-potential markets, including Southeast Asia and the US. The SaaS model allows for improved margins, predictable recurring revenues, and greater scalability without proportionate staffing increases. Technology for the platform is licenced from Fairyde Technologies Inc., a move that minimises development risks and speeds up deployment while ensuring Jayride retains flexibility as the platform scales globally.
Commenting on this launch, Randy Prado, Chief Executive Officer of Jayride said: “My first priority after becoming the Chief Executive Officer of Jayride was to engage with as many of our loyal, long-standing transport providers as I could across the globe. Through those engagements, a number of key points kept reappearing; the difficulty in receiving payments for work they have done in a timely manner, the complexities of managing their own operations, and – rather encouragingly for us – a continued desire to work with Jayride as an aggregator and ‘feeder’ of new business to them despite some of the current difficulties. Similarly, a primary issue within Jayride is the absence of automation and the significant reliance on manual processing of each booking.
Today, we are launching a new SaaS-based platform that will address these issues. The platform enables a transport operator of any size to operate on a ‘Powered by Jayride’ technology stack.This platform will provide an integrated payment and payout engine, direct API connectivity to Jayride’s aggregation platform and a fleet and dispatch management tool. We’re also preparing to launch later this year various AI-powered tools, including an AI-powered travel concierge support model, predictive analytics of travel demand for each operator and more.
A critical piece of this technology is the integration of a payments processing technology, which will allow Jayride to take payments from travellers and remit them to the transport provider through an automated, electronic process. For larger operators, the platform can alsobe used to make payments to individual drivers. I believe solving the payment processing problem in ground transportation could prove to be a core pillar of our success, and I intend to invest significant time in expanding our activities on this front.
I am excited to be launching this platform today, and I look forward to working closely with our existing and new transport providers on the progressive rollout of this project in the coming months.”
Board Changes
Jayride has announced changes to its Board of Directors, with the resignation of Chairman Rod Cuthbert, who has served since April 2020 and made significant contributions through his leadership and expertise in travel technology, particularly during the company’s 2024 strategic review. Mr Cuthbert is succeeded by Brett Partridge, who joined the Company earlier this year and brings extensive entrepreneurial and operational experience to the role. In addition, Jayride has appointed Mark Ward as a Non-Executive Director, with Mr Ward offering valuable experience in founding and scaling global e-commerce businesses, and strong capabilities in digital innovation and strategic systemisation.
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