Build the rideshare platform drivers and riders actually deserve.
Flot replaces percentage-based commission with a flat subscription priced per $1,000 earned. The current model extracts too much from drivers and hides costs from riders. We think that is broken.
Driver supply is the product.
When drivers earn well, they stay and bring their best. When they don’t, the whole service degrades. We treat drivers as the core product, not interchangeable labour.
Commission was never fair.
At take rates averaging 40% and peaking at 65% (NELP, July 2025), drivers in Ontario often earn below minimum wage after gas, insurance, and HST. A flat fee fixes the incentive.
We earn only when drivers earn.
When a driver hits $1,000, they pay the subscription, and we split nothing else. Every reason to help them succeed, no reason to take more.
Math, not magic.
Because Flot takes less per ride, riders pay less on the same trip. The same logic that pays drivers more pays riders less.
I started Flot because the math didn’t work for the people doing the driving. Spend an afternoon with drivers in Kitchener-Waterloo and you hear the same story: they want to keep driving, but after gas, insurance, and HST, the take-home isn’t there anymore.
Flot replaces the commission with a flat fee per $1,000 earned. Drivers keep what they earn. The platform gets paid for the infrastructure it provides, not a percentage of someone else’s labour.
Nithin Natarajan, Founder