CARPET PLUS
- Pre-Seed
Carpet plus is a creative solution that offers the possibility of composing its own carpet with new trendy designs, while preserving the ancestral craft of weaving. It aims to satisfy an ever-evolving market and demanding customers.
Thanks to our editor, the client can pass a command after creating his design.
Rural women are suffering from many problems related to commercialisation. It is becoming more and more difficult for her to sell her out of trend stock. This affects her annual income and her dignity per consequence.
They get low prices comparing to their efforts and the high quality of the hand made carpet. Even worse, sometimes, we notice a lack of selling comparing to the productivity.
Rural women are not up to date, however, clients, today, want modern products that show their personality and lifestyle. Sadly, The ancestral know-how isn’t enough to survive in the market.
Carpet plus platform connects rural craftswomen to clients, from anywhere in the world, who will be able to create their own designs and get inspired from their own decoration and environment. The distance and the culture won’t matter any more.
Then, The craftswomen won’t have any unsold stocks while they will produce for the exact needs of their clients.
In addition to that, the Carpet plus platform helps customers to create modern designs without any courses or trainings.
Carpet plus helps rural women to get new markets. The solution connects both the distant client with craftswomen. We presented a simulation of our solution that can be generalized in other countries in the whole world.
We'll work with associations to reach rural women who have difficulties to get in touch with client and who ignore completly the trend.
We'll help them raise their incomes and live with dignity
2000 personalised Carpets ordered within a year
- Track Sales Stream
Track the number of users of the platform - 15000 people in the world use our platform (for the first year)
Track feasibility and validity of the personalized design
- 650 valid models (for the first year)
- Adult
- Lower middle income economies (between $1006 and $3975 GNI)
- Secondary
- Female
- Rural
- Europe and Central Asia
- Middle East and North Africa
- US and Canada
- Consumer-facing software (mobile applications, cloud services)
- Management & design approaches
Carpet plus is a platform that helps rural women improve their skills without being obliged to take any training or courses. They won’t produce any unwanted product. The customer will create his own design and order commands. Before proceeding to production, rural woman should confirm the validity of the client’s model.
The solution includes a unique editor that helps carpet customers create their own designs, it runs on any recent internet browser. No installation or training is needed to start using it.
Carpet plus is a solution for rural women in isolated regions. It will help craftswomen, there, improving their skills. It will make them get new clients and connecting both sides all over the world thanks to our platform. The editor contributes to create personalized products so no more difficulties of selling.
Carpet plus are for rural women who haven’t a sufficient income to survive. These women are not well educated. They‘re isolated in their regions. They can’t reach clients. The platform will help them get new customers easily. The client orders his production command which contains his own model created. He can edit and personalize his design as much as he wants to. Then, the rural women will check the feasibility of the customer creation.
Their are ambassadors between both sides. The women who have associations will transfer the model to the appropriate ones who can produce it.
- 4-5 (Prototyping)
- Not Registered as Any Organization
- Tunisia
Beyond the intrinsic characteristics of a product, customers want the purchased product to reflect their way of life and personality.
By allowing buyers to customize and personalized their art and craft handmade product.
The custome will become our commercial by sharing his personalized product with his network. Our website, then, benefits from free advertising.
By producing a unique product, which 100% meets the wishes of the customer, loyalty and buyback will be more important.
So, we need seed funding in the first round to be sustainable.
The factors limiting the ability of our solution to succeed are :
- Marketing cost
- Perceived product quality
- Customer trust
- Market access
- Less than 1 year
- 3-6 months
- 3-6 months
- Technology Access
- Human+Machine
Carpet plus is a human-centered and innovative technology. Through our application, we’re looking for any kind of empowerment like partnership, financial help, mentorship,... Pitching in MIT, one the most prestigious university in America, is such a honor and a big opportunity, to let the world hear us. We want to transmit our message. Technology can serve tradition and keep it alive.
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Our competitors are the carpets manufacturers at industrial level.


