About Banzai
From inside the industry, for the industry.
Banzai is based in St. Petersburg, Florida. Our team spent years at forecourt payment, back-office and c-store technology companies before starting Banzai to help stores get found, and chosen, by AI.
Why we started
Fuel is the most on-the-go purchase in retail.
Someone looking for gas is already in the car, often at highway speed, with seconds to decide. That search has always run on whatever technology is in their hand or their dashboard. Now it runs on AI assistants.
When AI assistants began shopping on people’s behalf in late 2025, fuel and convenience retail had no simple way to take part. Store data sat in POS and back-office systems that AI could not see, while assistants quoted stale third-party prices.
We started Banzai to close that gap properly, with people who understand how forecourts, price books and back offices actually work.
Our team’s prior experience
What our team built before Banzai.
These figures describe work our team members did at previous companies. They are not Banzai products or Banzai customers.
- 165,000+forecourt devices running an EMV-certified outdoor payment platform that members of our team built at a previous company
- 100+ yearsof combined experience across c-store, fuel payment and store technology, gained at previous companies
- $1B+in enterprise c-store and QSR technology deals our commercial leaders worked on in earlier roles
- 200,000+locations running petroleum back-office systems that our team worked on in previous roles
Industry standards
Involved in the standards this industry runs on.
Roles held by individual team members.
Conexxus
Members of our team have co-chaired Conexxus working groups on fueling protocols and forecourt data communication, the standards c-store technology vendors build to.
NACS
Team members have held NACS industry liaison roles for emerging technology, including AI and agentic commerce.
Fuel programs
Team experience with ethanol blending programs and the commercial and regulatory rules around them.
Where we are today
Honest status, stage by stage.
- CrawlAI visibility audits and AI agent monitoring are live.
- WalkListing clean-up and live store data on your website are live, done hands-on with your team.
- RunThe gateway is live with fuel prices and catalogue, and our AI agent connector is live for lookup. Google Merchant Center is launching.
- SprintAgent ordering works end to end in demo, with simulated payment.
Talk to the team.
We reply to every enquiry personally.