Actors

Driver

The human (or autonomous unit) that physically moves the order. Picks up, navigates, delivers, captures POD. The other side of every dispatch decision.

Where this fits

The people, brands, and counterparties Nash coordinates across. Operators set the rules, dispatchers run the live loop, drivers move the order, and merchants own the promise the customer paid for. Every actor sees the surface designed for their role.

Related terms

Dispatcher: The operator role focused on the live assignment loop: deciding which driver or carrier handles which job, re-routing on the fly, resolving exceptions in real time. Sometimes a dedicated person, sometimes a hat the operator wears.
Commerce: The broader system of buying and selling that logistics serves. Online, in-store, marketplace, social, conversational, and agent-mediated buying all run on physical fulfillment underneath. Logistics is the substrate beneath all of them.
Operator: Nash's word for the human running the dispatch console. Could be a retail operations lead, a restaurant manager, a fleet supervisor, a 3PL ops director. The person who sets the rules the platform optimizes against and intervenes when an exception fires.
Customer: The end recipient of the delivery. The person at the door, the curbside spot, the office desk. The party whose experience determines repeat purchase, NPS, and the rest of the post-purchase economics.
Brand: The consumer-facing identity that owns the relationship with the buyer. Different from the seller and different from the carrier: a brand is what the customer thinks they bought from, regardless of who picked, packed, or drove the delivery. Nash treats brand surfaces (tracking pages, notifications) as merchant-controlled, not carrier-controlled.