Every ride home leaves the car behind. Ours doesn’t.
One request sends a two-driver team. One driver takes the wheel of the client’s own vehicle with the client in it; the second follows the whole way. Client and car reach the same door at the same time.
Getting you and your car home safe.VALET Technologies, LLC
The car is the reason people drive when they shouldn’t.
A ride home has never been easier to get. Getting the car home is still unsolved. So the vehicle sitting in the lot becomes the argument for driving — after a drink, after a procedure, after an evening that ran longer than planned. Every alternative asks the client to abandon it and come back for it in the morning.
Deaths in crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver in the United States in 2024.
NHTSA · 2024 dataShare of all United States traffic fatalities that year involving an alcohol-impaired driver.
NHTSA · 2024 dataEconomic cost of alcohol-impaired crashes in 2019 — $296 billion once quality-of-life valuations are included.
NHTSA · 2019 dataRiderThe morning after
A ride home is easy to get, and it solves tonight. The car is still downtown. Retrieving it means one more paid ride, a trip back across town, and often a favor owed to whoever drives. By then it may have collected a ticket, or be sitting behind a garage gate that locked at two in the morning.
So the rationalization arrives — I only had two, I’m probably fine. That is not bravado. It is logistics. The vehicle in the lot is the argument for driving, and every alternative asks its owner to abandon it and solve its retrieval tomorrow, at their own cost, on their own time.
The same calculation runs with no alcohol involved at all: after a procedure, after a new prescription, after an evening that simply went longer than planned.
VenueThe lot that has to be clear
Cars left overnight in a lot that has to be empty by morning. The call at nine asking whether the car is still there. Towing a patron’s vehicle buys one furious customer and one bad review.
And closing staff end up judging whether a guest is fit to drive — a conversation they were never trained to have and carry no authority in.
EmployerThe policy nobody uses
Most duty-of-care policies already say to take a car service. They are ignored for an entirely practical reason: the employee drove in, and the garage closes at eleven.
Holiday parties, late shifts without transit, client dinners. A benefit nobody uses is not a benefit — and the gap between the written policy and the actual behavior is exactly where the exposure sits.
DriverWorking the night alone
The supply side of the same problem. On solo-driver apps the work means carrying strangers in your own vehicle, absorbing the mileage, the wear and the cleaning, and finishing a shift at two in the morning with nobody to call.
Recruiting against those conditions is its own constraint, and it is the half of this market nobody markets to.
Leaving the car behind is not a detail. It is the thing that makes the safe choice inconvenient.
Two drivers. One coordinated journey.
The service has a single canonical definition, and every screen, graphic and line of copy is measured against it. This is the rider-facing form of it.
Request a ride
Book VALET from wherever you are. One request sends a two-driver team.
Hand over your keys
Your team arrives together and meets you where you are.
Ride home in your own car
One driver takes the wheel of your car with you in it. The second follows the whole way.
You and your car arrive together
Nothing is left behind. Your team leaves together too.
VALET supplies no vehicles. The car the client rides home in is their own, so it carries no badge, wrap or livery. The car that follows belongs to the trail driver. There is no fleet to finance, insure, park or depreciate — and after the drop-off both drivers leave together, ready for the next request.
The difficulty is the moat.
Nothing about this model is secret. All of it is operationally awkward, and the awkwardness compounds — which is why a solo-driver platform cannot simply add it as a feature.
Drivers ship in pairs
Supply is not a pool of individuals. It is a roster of matched teams. Recruiting, vetting, scheduling and payout all operate on the pair, and a partner who quits takes a working unit with them.
Dispatch is a unit, not a person
The assignment problem is two drivers and one trail vehicle against a single request, then returning both drivers to availability together, in the same place. Solo-driver dispatch does not reduce to this.
A higher floor on who qualifies
The trail driver brings their own registered, insured vehicle. That is a harder bar than a license alone, and it selects for the kind of driver a client is handing their keys to.
Asset-light by construction
No fleet, no depots, no vehicle financing, no livery. Every car in a VALET ride is already owned by the client or by the driver.
Prove it in a college town, then run the ladder.
Greenville, North Carolina is the launch market. College towns concentrate the problem into a few square miles: a compact entertainment district, a dense resident population, and an academic calendar that makes demand legible months in advance.
Students enrolled at East Carolina University for fall 2026 — its largest total since 2021, and a third consecutive year of growth.
East Carolina University · September 3, 2026
Greenville is treated as proof of concept, not as the business. The cities above it are stated expansion targets, chosen for the same density and nightlife characteristics. VALET does not operate in them today.
Two ways to put VALET in front of the people who need it.
Both are partnership tracks rather than advertising. In each case VALET removes a problem the business is already absorbing.
Venue partnerships
For bars, restaurants, breweries and event venues.
- Guests leave with their car instead of leaving it in your lot.
- Closing staff stop managing an overnight parking problem, and you stop fielding the morning-after retrieval call.
- The responsible choice no longer costs your guest a second trip across town.
- Co-brandable at the point of sale — table, tab, door or ticket.
Employer duty of care
For companies with holiday parties, late shifts and client dinners.
- An employee who drove to the office or the event still gets home — with their car.
- Billed to the company, used by the employee, and defensible as risk reduction rather than a perk.
- Removes the awkward middle ground where someone judges their own fitness to drive because the alternative is losing their car overnight.
- Scales to a single event or a standing policy.
Built once, for every surface.
The service model is easy to describe incorrectly, so it is defined once in machine-readable form and everything else is checked against it. Marketing copy, process graphics and application screens are validated by build tooling that fails when any of them drift from the canonical seven-step specification.
That is an unusual amount of rigor for a company at this stage. It exists because a service where two drivers and two cars have distinct roles goes wrong quietly, and a wrong diagram teaches a customer the wrong product.
Flutter monorepo covering iOS, Android and the administrative surface
React marketing site and rider web entry
Firebase, with Stripe payments proxied through Firebase Functions
Google Maps with go_router navigation
Dual test and production Firebase configuration, toggled at runtime
Two founders, funding it themselves.
Adam Epley
Chief Executive Officer
Twenty-two years in military service and aviation. Based in Greenville, North Carolina, and leads the launch market, driver recruitment and the venue partnership program.
Eric Rodriguez
Chief Technology Officer
Full-stack engineer across React, Firebase, Next.js and Flutter, and founder of a software consultancy. Owns the platform, the brand system and the canonical service specification the rest of the company is built against.
Stated plainly.
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