Connecting clients globally with verified personal shoppers, stylists, and vintage stores — through a single trusted platform.
Thousands of personal shoppers, stylists and vintage hunters advertise themselves on Instagram and TikTok — with no booking system, no payment protection, no trust layer. Clients wire money to strangers and hope for the best.
A woman in Warsaw sees the new Chanel Blazy collection go viral on TikTok. It's not available online. The Paris boutique doesn't ship internationally. She has no way to get it — unless she knows someone who knows someone.
Hundreds of thousands of vintage stores worldwide never upload their inventory online. Their best pieces sit unseen in cities across Europe while buyers search in vain on Vestiaire and Depop for exactly those pieces.
Post a sourcing request with a photo, budget and sizes. Browse a live trend feed of what shoppers are seeing in stores right now. Pay only when the item is found and approved — full escrow protection.
Create a verified profile with boutique access, brand specialities and locations covered. Post videos and photos from inside stores. Receive matched client requests. Earn a sourcing fee on every completed job.
Snap and upload stock on a phone. AI identifies the item automatically. When a client requests something matching your inventory — you're notified instantly. No e-commerce setup required. Just respond and ship.
Global luxury goods market in 2024. The pool FINDE operates inside — and grows with it every year.
Pre-loved and vintage luxury resale market. Expected to double by 2030. FINDE is built for both new and vintage in one platform.
TikTok views on #personalshopper. The demand already exists — organised nowhere. FINDE captures it.
Every existing player — Sourced By, The Floorr, Vêtir, In-Seam — serves the professional supply side only. None of them have built an open consumer marketplace. None combine boutique sourcing with vintage. None have escrow protection for strangers transacting for the first time. FINDE is the first to do all of it.
A client uploads any photo — screenshot, TikTok still, magazine page. FINDE's image AI identifies the brand, item and era instantly, matches it against open shopper offers and vintage store inventory simultaneously, and pre-fills the sourcing request automatically.
Image recognition AIThe result: posting a sourcing request takes under 60 seconds. The client's sizes, budget and preferences are auto-filled from their profile. Shoppers see a perfectly briefed job, not a vague DM.
The shopper finds the item, photographs it in the boutique — front, back, hardware, serial number, receipt. The client approves the exact piece before any money moves. Only on approval is the card charged. Funds go into FINDE's escrow — not the shopper — until delivery is confirmed.
Stripe Connect escrowThis is the trust engine that makes FINDE possible. Clients never pay for something they haven't seen. Shoppers never ship without confirmed payment. Both parties are protected by design, not by trust.
Shoppers post videos and photos from inside boutiques, fashion fairs, and vintage stores in real time. Clients browse a TikTok-style feed of what's actually available in stores right now — not just what brands choose to put online. Every post has a one-tap "Request this" button.
Content-to-commerce pipelineThis is the acquisition engine. Most clients won't come to FINDE knowing what they want — they'll come because they saw something beautiful and realised they could actually get it. The feed creates demand that the marketplace immediately captures.
Every shopper on FINDE is identity verified via government ID, selfie match, and linked bank account before their first job. Their boutique access, brand specialities, and covered locations are listed on their profile. Clients can see SA relationships, member client status, and sourcing track record.
Stripe Identity verification"Every shopper on FINDE is identity-verified" is a sentence that appears on the homepage and is worth a great deal in a market where people currently wire money to Instagram strangers with zero recourse.
| Platform | Open marketplace | Boutique sourcing | Vintage + new | Escrow payment | Image AI | Trend feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sourced By | — | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| The Floorr | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vêtir | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wishi | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vestiaire / Depop | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | — | — |
| FINDE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Charged on every completed transaction. Split roughly 8% from shopper's sourcing fee and 4% service fee from client. The core revenue engine — only charged when both parties are satisfied. A €4,000 Chanel sourcing job generates €480 in commission from one transaction.
Shoppers pay monthly for priority placement in the discovery feed, advanced analytics showing which items are trending, and the verified Pro badge unlocking higher-value client requests. Predictable monthly recurring revenue independent of transaction volume.
Clients pay for wishlist price alerts, priority shopper matching, duty-free airport mode — alerting shoppers travelling through CDG, LHR and DXB — and unlimited saved shopper favourites. Drives retention and deepens platform dependency.
500 monthly transactions · €900 avg value · 200 Pro shoppers · 300 Premium clients. Paris and Milan launch. Proving the model works.
8M GMV · Full European expansion · Vintage vertical live · Image AI in production · Seed round raised.
€300M+ GMV · 10,000 verified shoppers · 50 cities · Boutique partnerships with top luxury houses · Series A or acquisition target.
Build the MVP on Bubble.io — client profiles with measurements, shopper profiles with boutique access, the sourcing request flow, photo approval, Stripe escrow, and ID verification. Recruit 50 hand-picked verified shoppers in Paris and Milan personally. Run 5 real transactions end to end. Find what breaks. Fix it.
Target: First 5 real transactions completedOpen to clients across Poland, UK, Germany, Nordics and UAE. Launch the trend feed — shoppers post from inside boutiques and vintage fairs. Add vintage stores as the third user type. First press coverage. 500 completed transactions is the milestone that proves the model to investors.
Target: 500 transactions · €450K GMVWith 500 transactions and real revenue, raise a seed round to fund operations and marketing. Expand shopper recruitment globally — London, NYC, Tokyo, Dubai. Launch image recognition AI properly. Begin conversations with luxury boutiques about verified sourcing partnerships. Build native iOS and Android apps.
Target: Seed round · 2,000 verified shoppers · 20 citiesThe personal shopping industry is a multi-billion dollar market where transactions still happen via Instagram DM, payment via bank transfer to strangers, and trust via gut instinct. FINDE was built from a simple observation: the demand is enormous, the supply is scattered, and nobody has built the infrastructure to connect them safely.
"Every competitor chose to serve the professionals. I'm building for everyone else — the millions of people who want access to this world but don't know anyone inside it."
Looking for co-founders, early investors, and the first 50 verified shoppers in Paris and Milan. If you're a personal shopper, stylist, or see the opportunity — let's talk.
hello@findeapp.eu