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We raced Relay against the old way. It wasn't close.

The Relay team · 13 July 2026 · 3 min read

A landlord messages two tenants the same request: "I need your passport and home address to renew the lease." One tenant has Relay. One has the standard toolkit: Photos, Files, Notes and determination. We timed both.

The Relay run: 9 seconds

The request arrives in WhatsApp. Hold the globe key, and the Relay keyboard slides up where qwerty was. Tap Passport, and the scan and the details land in the chat as one message. Tap Address, and the full written address follows. Done. Three taps, one app, nine seconds, and the landlord replies "that was fast" because it genuinely was.

The old-way run: 2 minutes 47 seconds

The same request, without Relay, is a small odyssey:

  • Photos: scroll 3,000+ pictures hunting for the passport photo you took in 2024. Was it screenshotted? Was it the old passport?
  • Files: maybe it's passport_final_v2_NEW.pdf. Maybe that's in Downloads. Maybe it's in email.
  • Notes: the villa number is in a note somewhere between the wifi password and a shopping list.
  • Back to WhatsApp: attach, retype the address from memory, hope the typo doesn't matter.

Final score: 58 taps, 5 apps, 2:47, for information this person has sent dozens of times before.

18× faster isn't a marketing number. It's just what happens when the answer lives where the question arrives.

Watch it yourself

The features page runs this race live, side by side, with tap and time counters. Or skip the spectating and play the demo. You'll be the fast tenant in about thirty seconds.

Multiply those two minutes by every courier, clinic, client and KYC form in a year, and the maths gets loud. Get Relay and give yourself the time back.


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