Sample resolution
What UPS sees when they query @colt
One API call. $0.001. Always current. Logged for the owner's audit trail. The same call replaces 50 vendor address fields.
200 OK PUBLIC USPS_NCOA verified$0.001 charged · 47ms
@handle
@colt
123 Main Street
Apt 4B
Austin, TX 78701
United States
GET /api/address/resolve/colt?querier=UPS
{
"handle": "colt",
"visibility": "PUBLIC",
"line1": "123 Main Street",
"line2": "Apt 4B",
"city": "Austin",
"region": "TX",
"postalCode": "78701",
"country": "US",
"isVerified": true,
"verificationSource": "USPS_NCOA",
"addressId": "01h8j5..."
}
What the owner sees in their audit log
| Querier | Visibility | Fee earned | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPS | PUBLIC | $0.001 | 2 min ago |
| Amazon Logistics | PUBLIC | $0.001 | 8 min ago |
| FedEx | PUBLIC | $0.001 | 14 min ago |
| USPS | PUBLIC | $0.001 | 1 hr ago |
| DoorDash | MASKED | $0.001 | 4 hr ago |
| Comcast Billing | MASKED | $0.001 | 8 hr ago |
| UPS | PUBLIC | $0.001 | Yesterday |
| Walmart Spark | PUBLIC | $0.001 | Yesterday |
| … 27,400 more queries this year | $27.40 | passive income to owner |
The day Colt moves apartments
- Colt updates his @handle's primary address at
/address/setup— old one keeps history via effectiveTo. - His next package from Amazon: their backend scans a label, queries
/api/address/resolve/colt, gets the new address — package gets routed to new place automatically. - His subscription box from Birchbox: same thing. UPS scans the label, queries Hylaq, gets new address.
- The 47 other vendors that have his old address in their CRMs? They don't matter. The carrier is the source of truth at delivery time, and the carrier queries Hylaq.
- Total work for Colt: 2 minutes, done once. Compared to: 4 hours of forms, 2 lost packages, 3 missed bills, 6 vendors with stale data forever.
And while Colt sleeps tonight, UPS / Amazon / FedEx / DoorDash will query his @handle ~75 times. He'll wake up with $0.075 in passive income. Multiply by every package shipped to his address per year: ~$27 / yr / household. Multiply by 130M US households: $3.5B/yr in latent revenue Hylaq is collecting at the address layer.
One @handle. Infinite vendors. Move once, done.
This sample is hardcoded. The live product at /api/address/resolve/<handle>renders from real Postgres + the visibility tier engine.