Autonomous store platform

The store that runs itself.

One AI runs entry, security, inventory and checkout. No staff. A 21 m² unit, craned onto site and trading in under an hour, under any brand.

Why now

The staffed store stopped adding up.

Thousands of forecourts, campuses, hospital sites and small towns have real demand. But a clerk on every shift sinks the numbers before the first basket is scanned, so SmartNovo removes the line items that break the model.

55%

Labour breaks the model

Staff are half to two-thirds of a convenience store's running cost. Poland's minimum wage nearly doubled in five years.

9pm

Closed when demand peaks

Most small-format stores shut by 9pm and on holidays, exactly when an always-on format captures the demand that walks away.

2%

Theft keeps climbing

Shrinkage runs 1.5 to 2% of European retail sales, and small stores rarely have real-time loss prevention.

6 mo

Slow, costly to open

A conventional fit-out means a lease, a build-out and consent. That is months and six figures before you trade.

The technology

Vision that reads movement, never faces.

138-point skeletal tracking and behaviour recognition, built in-house over four years and running on commodity cameras at the edge.

Live · theft detection

Concealment, flagged in real time.

The model reads the gesture of a product going into a pocket or bag. In the same second the customer gets a message that an unpaid item was detected and should be returned, while the operator is alerted.

  • Behaviour recognition trained on theft gestures, not identities
  • Runs on commodity cameras at the edge, with no specialist hardware
  • Operator and deterrent alerts fire instantly
Live · fall detection

Person down. Help on the way.

The same skeletal model recognises a collapse and pushes an immediate medical alert. That is safety cover in an unmanned store, without a single camera ever identifying a face.

  • Identity-free by architecture, so it stays RODO & EU AI Act compliant by design
  • Critical for hospital, campus and late-night sites
  • One model, many jobs: security, safety, inventory and fleet
Traction

Already trading. Not a concept.

Lewiatan-branded units are live on Polish sites today. These are the first 90 days across three units, with a signed order for five more from our anchor partner.

3
units live and in testing
+5
on a signed order from our anchor
~1,200
registered customers in 90 days
~27k
transactions processed
99%
uptime over the first 90 days
PLN 1,800
average revenue per unit, per day
PLN 18
average basket
4 yrs
of in-house R&D behind the vision

Anchored by Lewiatan, with our CEO on the retailer's board, and protected by EU registered design #015135640.

One platform, any brand

Your brand. Any site.
Dropped anywhere.

Lewiatan SmartNovo unit on a hospital campus
Healthcare

Hospital campuses

Pharmacy

PharmaNow

WaveShop seasonal unit on a boardwalk
Beach & resort

WaveShop

Campus

Uni Store

Motorway

Forecourts & MOPs

Customer scanning to enter a SmartNovo convenience unit
Convenience

High street

Convenience, pharmacy, campus, forecourt or resort. The unit is the same, and the brand is yours.

Questions

Good to know.

The things operators and brands ask us first.

How fast can a unit open?
It is craned onto a prepared site and trading in under an hour. Because the unit is legally classed as a vending machine, there is no lease, no build-out and no six-month consent process.
Do you store faces or use facial recognition?
No. The vision system reads body movement through 138-point skeletal tracking, never a face. It is identity-free by architecture, which keeps it aligned with RODO and the EU AI Act by design.
What hardware does it need?
Commodity cameras at the edge. There is no specialist hardware to buy, and the same model handles entry, theft, falls, inventory and checkout.
Can it run under our own brand?
Yes. The 21 m² unit is the same underneath; the brand on the outside is yours. Convenience, pharmacy, campus, forecourt or resort.
Can we license just the vision, without a container?
Yes. Theft and fall detection can run on the cameras you already have, with no container required.
Can a unit be moved later?
Yes. A unit relocates to a new site in under an hour as demand shifts, so a slow location is never a stranded asset.
Deploy with SmartNovo

Put your brand inside a store that runs itself.

Tell us the site and the brand. We'll show you a unit trading in weeks, not quarters.