{"id":111184,"title":"Donkey — the AI-native trading company","tagline":"The AI-native trading company: factory prices, delivered, one number.","body":"Everything gets cheaper by the container. Big companies buy the box. Small businesses buy from the people who bought the box.\n\nDonkey turns the container into a cart. Upload your buying list and see every landed price instantly, tariffs and delivery included. Our engine packs the order, and when the load needs a bigger box, a second container steps in. When you sign, the price holds.\n\nYou buy from Donkey. One contract, one company responsible for everything between the factory floor and your door. If costs move under your locked price, that's our problem. And our own people are on those factory floors, checking what goes into the box before it ships.\n\nOur AI agents read public customs records to find the real factories and pull their quotes. Duty gets stacked line by line. The pricing math is deterministic, not AI, so the number you see is the number you pay. Factory pricing and terms improve with volume, and Donkey's volume grows with every container.\n\nA home builder in Oakland put 15 SKUs into one container with us and saved 38% versus buying piecemeal from distributors. We're starting with the people who build.\n\nWe're Ben and James. Ben grew up in his family's industrial supply business and helped Chinese industrial giants like Sany and Zoomlion sell into Western markets. James built agent systems for industrial supply chains at InstaLILY. We’ve lived both ends of the container.\n\nIf your business buys inventory, bring us your buying list. [donkey.trade](http://donkey.trade)\\\n\u003chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De03vZOgJuU\u003e","slug":"SvI-donkey-the-ai-native-trading-company","created_at":"2026-08-19T18:00:00.190Z","updated_at":"2026-09-19T06:53:06.437Z","total_vote_count":9,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SvI-donkey-the-ai-native-trading-company","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":32122,"name":"Donkey","slug":"donkey","url":"https://donkey.trade","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8bacc206e6479ad9ca5809a5242ecdf78c6f5535.png","batch":"Summer 2026","industry":"B2B","tags":["Logistics","Manufacturing","Supply Chain","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/32122"}}