Your coffee van. Financed, stocked, coached — from day one.

Nocturnal Lab onboards you, finances the van through Chase, matches you with local roasters and bakeries, and hands you an AI game plan at 5:45 every morning.

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Two streams, one cup Coffee beans from roasters and croissants from bakeries stream into the Nocturnal Lab owl eyes; a fresh cup steams below.

60-SEC PRE-QUAL · VAN IN 5 DAYS · 47 FOUNDING SPOTS

ECOSYSTEM
  • Chase Business
  • Stripe
  • Square
  • QuickBooks
  • BizCover
  • AWS

Five barriers keep good operators off the street.

Banks reject 89% of first-time van applicants. Supply runs through 8+ disconnected vendors. 72% of new operators fail in year one — with no training, no permit map, and no software built for a van. One platform closes all five gaps.

Capital desert 89% rejected
Supply chain chaos 8+ vendors
Zero training 72% fail yr 1
Permit maze 47 zones
Technology gap 0 van-first tools

Application to first pour in four moves.

1

Apply in 60 seconds

Chase pre-qualification with a soft credit check — no paperwork, no branch visit.

2

Get financed + equipped

Pick a van tier — $18K, $28K or $42K, financed. Delivered in 5 days with 3 roasters + 2 bakeries matched.

3

Launch with a plan

The 5:45am AI brief queues your top 3 zones, prep counts and pricing before you turn the key.

4

Operate + scale

POS, books and reorders run themselves. At 90 days, your report unlocks van #2.

$4–6K — ALL THE DAY-1 CASH YOU NEED · VAN FINANCED BY CHASE · SAAS $149–299/MO

Seventeen modules. One login.

FINANCING

Banking built in

Chase Business accounts, van loans and BizCover insurance — opened from inside the app.

OPERATIONS

POS to books, automatic

Square at the window, QuickBooks in the background, revenue share split without a spreadsheet.

SUPPLY

Beans + bakes on tap

Wholesale roasters and fresh bakeries, matched to your route. One-tap reorder, morning delivery.

INTELLIGENCE

A plan every morning

Six AI models read weather, events and your history — zones, prep and pricing at 5:45am.

TRAINING

NL Academy

Six modules from eSpresso basics to fleet math, plus Barista Coach AI on call all day.

COMPLIANCE

Permits, mapped

All 47 Arizona zones live in the app — where you can park, when, and what it costs.

Local roasters and bakeries, wired into your van.

Coffee roasters

Wholesale beans and custom blends with co-branded packaging. A stock alert becomes a one-tap reorder; the AI sets the quantity and your ETA arrives by SMS.

8 ROASTERS AT LAUNCH · 48-HR STRIPE PAYOUT

Local bakeries

Fresh pastries, sandwiches and dietary options delivered before your first stop — baked to an AI forecast sent 48 hours ahead, so nothing is wasted.

6 BAKERIES AT LAUNCH · ZERO OVERPRODUCTION

Apply to operate

Sixty seconds, soft credit check only — no paperwork, no branch visit.

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