Univonest
A bilingual marketplace connecting cross-category procurement, negotiation, and real-time workflows. Selected for the Fuel Accelerator at the Johns Hopkins Pava Center; approximately 700 users.
The original idea
Univonest is an agentic marketplace for cross-category procurement. The product includes secondhand goods, storage rental, and US/China procurement in a bilingual marketplace.
Why I started it
The personal origin story has not yet been recorded here. This page begins with what was built rather than inventing the motivation behind it.
What we built
The marketplace combines seller verification, real-time chat workflows, and map-based spatial discovery. Its negotiation system includes a fine-tuned negotiation agent and deterministic guardrails.
Approximately 700 users. Univonest was selected for the Fuel Accelerator at the Johns Hopkins Pava Center.
Technical problems
The negotiation system includes stall detection and latency telemetry. Those are distinct concerns: one tracks whether a negotiation is making progress, while the other records how long system operations take. Deterministic guardrails constrain the negotiation process alongside the model.
What users taught us
Specific user observations have not yet been added. The user count alone does not establish what people valued or which workflows worked well.
How the idea changed
A verified account of pivots, experiments, and abandoned ideas remains to be added.
Current status
Current operating status not yet recorded.
AI negotiation · Deterministic guardrails · Fine-tuning · Real-time chat · Seller verification · Spatial discovery