U.S. Airport Coverage
Every airport · same problem
Every dot · a workforce running on empty
CrewEats
Flight-Linked Ordering™
AI enabled safety critical logistics infrastructure with embedded SaaS
- ▶Targeting BOS + DAL launch Q2 2026
- ▶13 additional airports in discussion
- ▶Nationwide labor LOI signed with PrimeFlight Aviation — MSA in review
- ▶Direct contract path at every airport — no RFP process, no competitive bid cycle.
You’ve Heard This Announcement
“Your flight is delayed — we’re waiting for the inbound crew.”
Inbound crew lands
Gate E47
Gate E47
12-minute terminal walk
to B12
to B12
Deplane · restroom · weather · brief · board
35 minutes. 180 passengers.
35 minutes. 180 passengers.
When do they eat? They don’t.
Behind every on-time departure is a workforce that hasn’t eaten.
This is not convenience
Hungry crews are a safety risk.
Operational reliability depends on food access
FAA incident reporting, union guidance, and peer-reviewed research all point to the same thing: meal access is not a perk. It is part of safe operation.
A peer-reviewed Nutrients study reported limited access to nutritious food during duty for roughly half of respondents.
Union guidance is blunt: eating is a necessity, not a privilege, for safe flight operations.
Not just a delivery problem
Why Not Just Use DoorDash?
Inside airports, gig delivery is physically impossible. Outside airports, it's economically impossible with hourly wages. Both walls hold.
The Access Failure
Gig delivery can't operate airside.Airport security (SIDA clearance), restricted zones, and real-time flight operations make consumer delivery apps structurally incompatible with aviation workforce food access.
All prior gig delivery attempts inside airports faced the same economic hurdles.
No one has solved delivery inside the terminal.
The Economics Failure
Even outside airports, the model breaks when workers are paid hourly.Seattle's PayUp ordinance (Jan 2024) mandated ~$26/hr minimum for gig drivers. The result:
−30K
DoorDash orders
in first weeks
in first weeks
−30%
UberEats order
volume drop
volume drop
3×
price markup
at delivery
at delivery
Meal cost breakdown
Base meal
$12–15
+ Platform fee
~$4
+ Local operating fee
$5
+ Delivery fee
~$5–7
+ Tip
$3–5
Total delivered
$35–40
A Carnegie Mellon/NBER study independently confirmed what the Seattle data showed: gig delivery economics are structurally broken when labor is paid hourly. The model doesn't survive hourly wages — which means airports, where SIDA-cleared labor commands a real hourly rate, cannot be served by any gig delivery platform.
Carnegie Mellon / NBER — January 2026CrewEats isn't a gig platform. Embedded SIDA-cleared labor, flight-linked logistics, direct concessionaire integration.
Different architecture entirely.
Why everyone failed
Wrong Architecture. Every Time.
Every prior attempt proved demand. Every design failed.
- Point-to-point fulfillment
- Gig labor assumptions
- Chaotic passenger demand
- High CAC, low LTV
- Outsider entering a closed ecosystem
- Secure zone access and badging
- Hourly labor, not gig labor
- Time-critical, node-based fulfillment
- Constrained movement and fixed paths
- Work with concessionaires, not against them
The blueprint
What If Meals Moved Like Baggage?
Baggage Claim Is An Efficient Infrastructure In Airports. It Works At Scale.
Imagine This:
One bag.
One handler.
Per passenger.
Underwater from day 1.
Baggage Claim:
Collect
Sort
Distribute
Efficient from day 1.
Point-to-point delivery doesn't work inside airports. Never has.
Its The Infrastructure That Makes Airport Logistics Profitable.
The harder question
So how does anyone get inside an airport?
Airports aren't open markets. They're controlled environments — and that's exactly what makes the opportunity defensible.
The fortress
You don’t enter airports. You survive them.
RFPs, approvals, politics, incumbents, and lawsuits block outsiders
Public ownership means formal procurement, multi-layer approvals, and long cycles. Even after solving labor and access, most companies still cannot get in.
The key
We bypass the fortress.
No lease. No buildout. No square footage. No tenant fight.
CrewEats™ uses existing concessionaires and solves a recognized workforce problem. We are logistics infrastructure, not a new food tenant. Pilot program to contract.
The kingdom
A high-density, time-constrained market.
In cities, you chase demand. In airports, demand is fixed — and trapped.
At BOS alone, ~100K+ passengers move through a single controlled environment daily — alongside ~21K+ workers operating under strict time and access constraints. Demand is concentrated into a fixed footprint with limited paths and no viable delivery infrastructure.
Boston Logan — BOS Pilot
Annual passengers
43.5M
Passengers per day
~115K
Workers on property
21K
All in one controlled environment. Every day.
The treasure
$15B trapped in motion.
U.S. market · airports are a global model
BOS Launch Airport — Penetration Sensitivity
| Penetration | Active Employees | Annual Revenue | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15% | 3,150 | $2.9M | |
| 40% | 8,400 | $7.8M | |
| 60% | 12,600 | $11.7M |
The TAM clocks in every morning. Demand is structural, not aspirational.
The fuel
We monetize frequency, not transactions.
Blended CrewEats™ revenue per transaction: $3.56
Subscriptions create predictable usage. Pay-per-use captures casual demand. Rev share aligns restaurants because we convert revenue they were otherwise losing.
Frequent users
$15/mo
Unlimited subscription that locks behavior.
Occasional users
$1–$3
Pickup or delivery without commitment.
Restaurant share
10%
Versus 30–40% consumer delivery commissions.
The engine
Every order makes the system smarter.
We do not deliver food. We route time.
1
User intakefrom · to · when
2
GateBrain™predict gate · arrival · ground time
3
Staff optimizerhow many runners
4
OrchestratorJIT prep · batch sort · route
The first flight
90 days to prove inevitability.
Boston Logan pilot • 100 users • 5 cohorts
60%+reorder rate
3x/wkorders per active user
95%+on-time fulfillment
85+NPS target
Expansion Plan
Flight plan
Already in motion.
Built product. Engaged airports. Signed labor access. Selected dual launch markets.
Completed ✓
Consumer app, runner app, restaurant dashboard fully built. GateBrain + orchestrator in final testing, launch-ready Q2 2026.
Active pilot launch discussions across the pipeline.
250+ airports. Pre-badged, credentialed runners. GAT acquisition unlocks catering trucks + airside infrastructure at scale.
BOS + DAL chosen for parallel launch. Two airport topologies — major international hub and municipal — proving architecture works across environments.
In Progress →
Massport + MarketPlace framework complete. DAL concessions in discussions. First signed agreement unlocks capital deployment.
100 users · 90 days · 5 cohorts per market. Two topology proof points in one pilot window.
Pipeline Converts — scaling constraints solved. Pipeline ready to activate.
Scale logic
One airport proves it. The network pulls it.
After BOS, the model templatizes and inbound replaces outbound.
✈️
Pilot proves workflow
BOS validates the full ops stack end-to-end
🤝
Same labor partner
PrimeFlight LOI covers 250+ airports nationally
⚙️
Same software stack
GateBrain + orchestrator deploy to every airport
📡
Airlines pull us in
Inbound demand replaces outbound sales after BOS
The crew
Built by the people living the problem.
This is not research. It is autobiography.
GT
Gaurav (GT) Tavatia
Founder & CEO
"Market research was easy. I just walked up and had conversations with the people I work with."
ATL-based airline captain. 9 years in the cockpit, 29 years in aviation, 5,500+ flight hours, BSc Aviation. Built CrewEats' flight prediction logistics engine from lived operational knowledge — not from a whitepaper.
LinkedInSS
Sonal Singh
Co-Founder
Leads CrewEats' product and design end to end.
Product and design leader with airport product experience — previously designed travel companion apps deployed at major airports. 6 years designing complex platforms across healthcare, travel, and B2B. Repeat founder. Took CrewEats from zero to production in 16 months — product, design, and engineering leadership.
TS
Tanuj Sanwal
Head of Engineering
Runs CrewEats' full-stack engineering team.
12 years building production systems across healthcare, travel, and B2B SaaS — seven of them leading engineering teams. Previously engineered travel companion apps deployed at major airports. Owns the engineering function behind CrewEats: web, mobile, and API systems.
Advisors
Founder, Hillside Advisors. General Partner, Alliance Technology Ventures ($250M AUM). Two-time venture-backed CEO. Former Director, Georgia-Pacific Ventures. Kauffman Fellow. Brings 30 years spanning venture capital, corporate innovation, and startup commercialization — with direct experience deploying technology infrastructure into airports.
LinkedInRetired Delta Air Lines Captain — A330, A350, 757/767 Line Check Airman across three fleets. Chairman, Delta MEC Training Committee. Now Adjunct Professor at Auburn University School of Aviation. Brings 30+ years of operational credibility and deep understanding of the workforce CrewEats serves.
LinkedInBoarding now
Ground Floor. Infrastructure Already Built.
Bootstrapped to date · Clean cap table · No institutional capital raised
Seed Round
$1.5M
We're not raising to build.
We're raising to launch.
Capital Allocation
BOS: launch to profitability43%~$650K
DAL: launch + Y1 ramp (incl. local ops)27%~$400K
Platform + non-provisional patents13%~$200K
Strategic reserve + Airport #3 optionality17%~$250K
$1.05M operational · ~$513K cash at Series A · reserve intact · Raise seed to expand, not to survive
Path to Series A · BOS launch Q3 2026 · Series A Q3 2028
NOW
Seed Raise Active · BOS Launch Imminent
Massport, MarketPlace, HMSHost, and concessions aligned post-April 17 stakeholder meeting · Draft agreements in legal review · Pre-launch operational planning underway · Target launch Q3 2026
→
Q3 2026
BOS Pilot Launch
First orders live at Logan · 90-day pilot ramp
→
Q1 2027
DAL Launch
Two airports operational · parallel playbook validated
→
Q3 2027
BOS Year 1 Complete
4,200 BOS users (20%) + 1,248 DAL users (16%) · $1.27M combined ARR · $106K combined MRR
→
Q1 2028
Dual Profitability
7,560 BOS users (36%) + 2,400 DAL users (30%) · $2.84M combined ARR · $237K combined MRR · BOS first monthly profit Month 19 · Combined monthly profit Month 21
→
Q2 2028
BOS Full Maturity
11,340 BOS users (54%) + 2,880 DAL users (36%) · $4.81M combined ARR · $400K combined MRR · DAL profitable · Airport #3 in BD pipeline
→
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Q3 2028 · Series A
Multi-airport playbook proven · Consecutive profitable months · Expansion capital for airports 3–5
Platform is built. Patents are filed. Boston is next. We're raising to turn the key.
Closing
2M airport workers. Zero food infrastructure. We built it.
Pilot launches Q2 2026. The playbook scales from there.
CrewEats™ is not another airport food app. It is the missing logistics layer inside one of the most valuable closed environments in the world.
Why now
The category has no incumbent. The infrastructure is built. The launch market is selected. This round funds activation, not exploration.
Don't miss
the flight.
Pilot launches Q2 2026 · BOS + DAL