Just north of Stockholm, in the quiet residential town of Rotebro, Thomas Kednert, or Kedde, as everyone in town knows him, runs a groundworks business.
He has been running his own company for more than two decades, and business has always been good. But as he drove his truck around Stockholm, one thing kept bothering him: the inefficiency of the adjacent industry responsible for delivering construction materials and collecting waste.
The industry traditionally relies on a zone-based pricing and logistics system. In practice, that can lead to situations where a fully loaded truck drives across Stockholm to deliver a single bag of soil and then returns empty. At the same time, another empty truck might be dispatched to collect a bag of construction waste from a site just around the corner.
To Kedde, it looked like an enormous waste of time, money, fuel, truck capacity and not good for the environment.
“I kept thinking: couldn’t you create some kind of pool for the bags? Like an Uber Pool for collecting demolition waste and delivering building materials, gravel, and soil?” says Kedde. “Why can’t different customers share the same ride?”
The idea stayed in the back of his mind for nearly ten years, and he discussed it with various people along the way. In 2025 one of his tech savvy friends started using Lovable and together they now saw a way forward and decided it was finally time to turn the idea into a working business.
They set two ambitious targets:
- Reduce the price for the end customer by 50%
- Increase business margins by 50% compared with industry peers
Over the Christmas break of 2025, the architect started building the solution with Lovable.
Three weeks and roughly $500 in Lovable cost later, the first version was ready.
The result is a fully integrated logistics platform built around live data.
Customers place an order through www.kbag.se and can follow it in real time, including seeing the approaching truck on Google Maps.
Drivers and dispatchers have their own mobile views showing planned routes, vehicle locations, and the queue of incoming customer orders.
But underneath the relatively simple customer experience is a much more sophisticated logistics engine.
“This whole puzzle is built around the algorithm our architect developed,” Kedde explains. “We scrapped the zone-based system and switched to real-time, address based pricing.”
A critical part of the system is its API integration with Volvo Connect Fleet Management.
The pricing and routing engine continuously receives data from the vehicles. It can account for how long a route takes, fuel consumption, the load on the truck bed, available capacity, and the driver’s remaining driving time under applicable regulations.
“All of this is calculated in the background to provide the right price for the right delivery to the end customer, in real time,” says Kedde.
The concept might sound simple. Building it before Lovable wasn't.
“An algorithm on a piece of paper doesn’t move bags of soil,” Kedde says. “When real-time data from Volvo Connect, available truck capacity, customer purchases, pricing, and route optimization all have to work together, you’re suddenly building a very complex system.”
That is where Lovable changed what was possible for the small team.
“Without Lovable, bringing this to life with the resources we had would have been incredibly difficult. We had my understanding of the industry, our architect’s vision and calculations, and all this live vehicle data. Lovable allowed us to turn those pieces into a working logistics platform in record time.”
From one truck to five in three months
Kbag launched in spring 2026 with a single crane truck handling deliveries and pickups around Stockholm.
Three months later, the operation had grown fivefold, from one truck to five.
The business also expanded beyond its original B2C model and began serving B2B customers.
Most importantly, the two targets Kedde and his architect had set over Christmas, dramatically lowering customer prices while improving margins, had been achieved.
And customers noticed. Kedde says the company has received strong feedback both directly from customers and through its Google reviews.
For Kedde, however, the bigger lesson goes beyond logistics.
“To everyone who wants to transform their industry but thinks the technology is too complicated: look at us,” he says.
“With the right architecture and Lovable behind you, even a crane truck driver like me can help revolutionize an entire industry.”
