InfraStreet

An agent-powered infrastructure layer that onboards offline food vendors via voice and photos, making local street food instantly discoverable and orderable.

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Inspiration

My sister and I once opened a small street food business. We failed not because the food was bad, but because people didn’t know we existed. No website, no delivery apps, no marketing — we were invisible. This project was inspired by that experience and the realization that millions of street vendors fail due to lack of digital access, not lack of quality.

What it does

InfraStreet uses autonomous AI agents to bring offline street vendors online in minutes. Vendors onboard using just a phone number and a photo of their menu. Agents extract and structure menu data, create instant digital storefronts, and make vendors discoverable through voice and location-based search. Customers can find nearby street food, view menus, and place orders that are routed directly to vendors via SMS or messaging.

How we built it

InfraStreet is built as a multi-agent system orchestrated through a central workflow engine. Specialized agents handle vendor onboarding, menu extraction and normalization, customer discovery, geo-ranking, voice ordering, and order routing. Agents share memory and state to manage multi-step workflows, confirmations, and retries. Voice AI, multimodal OCR, and messaging APIs enable low-friction interaction for non-technical vendors.

Challenges we ran into

  • Extracting clean menu data from low-quality photos
  • Handling ambiguous vendor responses over SMS and voice
  • Designing reliable multi-step agent workflows
  • Managing real-world edge cases like missing items and slow responses

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Zero-tech onboarding for vendors using voice and photos
  • Fully agent-driven menu extraction and normalization
  • Voice-based local food discovery
  • Real-time order routing to offline vendors
  • A scalable architecture for the informal economy

What we learned

Offline businesses don’t need more apps — they need invisible infrastructure. Voice, photos, and autonomous agents are the most natural interface for bringing the informal economy online. We also learned how powerful it is to build from lived experience and real operational pain.

What's next for InfraStreet

  • Expanding beyond food to pop-ups, home kitchens, and micro-merchants
  • Adding flash deals and surplus food discovery
  • Improving vendor trust and reliability scoring
  • Integrating payments and pickup coordination
  • Growing a living map of local informal commerce
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