- Dallo has launched the world's first R-Commerce (Regulated Commerce) platform, a purpose-built system designed to help entrepreneurs start, manage, and grow businesses in regulated industries without requiring specialist compliance knowledge.
- R-Commerce is defined as any industry requiring a licence to operate — spanning healthcare, finance, education, construction, real estate, and essential care services — representing an estimated $68 trillion global economy, compared to $6.9 trillion for e-commerce.
- The platform removes the two primary barriers to entering regulated industries — compliance complexity and licensing friction — by guiding users through licensing and registration, ongoing compliance management, and business scaling.
- Dallo's founder, Kyle Hunt, positions R-Commerce as a genuine third pillar of entrepreneurship alongside traditional commerce and e-commerce, arguing it offers guaranteed demand and government-backed funding with less competition and capital intensity.
- The platform currently supports a broad range of regulated industries, including childcare, aged care, NDIS, pharmacy, medicinal cannabis, dental, real estate, construction, and many more, with the platform currently open for waitlist registrations.
For the first time, there's a name for the biggest business opportunity most entrepreneurs never consider: Regulated Commerce, or R-Commerce. Today, Dallo announced the launch of its R-Commerce platform, the first purpose-built system to help entrepreneurs start, manage and grow a business in a regulated industry without needing to become a compliance expert first.
For decades, first-time founders have been funnelled into one of two paths. Start a traditional commerce business - a café, a gym, a trade - and face high capital costs and thin margins. Or start an e-commerce business - a Shopify store, an agency, a dropshipping brand - and compete in one of the most saturated markets on earth.
Dallo argues there has always been a third option hiding in plain sight: industries where demand is guaranteed, funding is government-backed and customers are already waiting. It just never had a name.
"We didn't invent this economy - childcare, aged care, disability support and pharmacy have existed forever," said Kyle Hunt, Founder of Dallo. "What we did was name it, and then build the thing that makes it accessible. R-Commerce is what e-commerce was twenty years ago: an enormous, underserved opportunity that only looks hard because nobody's simplified it yet. The only thing standing between an entrepreneur and this economy used to be a licence and a mountain of paperwork. Now it's just dallo."
The opportunity, by the numbers
E-commerce is enormous, but it's a single, narrow slice of the economy, shared among a staggering number of competitors. R-Commerce isn't one industry. It's every industry where you need a licence to open your doors - and stacked together, it's one of the largest pools of commercial activity on Earth.
E-commerce, globally, generated an estimated $6.9 trillion in retail sales in 2026, spread across roughly 26.5 million active online stores worldwide.
R-Commerce, by contrast, spans every sector where entry requires a licence - finance, healthcare, education, construction, real estate, law, and essential care services like childcare, aged care, disability support and pharmacy. Sized sector by sector:
That's the scale of the opportunity Dallo exists to unlock: roughly a $68 trillion economy hiding behind paperwork most entrepreneurs never think to pick up.
What Dallo does
Dallo is the world's first R-Commerce platform - software built specifically to remove the two things that keep entrepreneurs out of regulated industries: compliance complexity and licensing friction. Where a first-time founder might once have needed a lawyer, a compliance consultant and months of red tape just to open their doors, dallo compresses that into a guided platform that helps users:
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Start - navigate licensing and registration requirements for regulated sectors like childcare, aged care, disability support and pharmacy
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Manage - stay compliant on an ongoing basis without hiring a dedicated compliance team
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Sell - scale a regulated business with the operational tooling previously reserved for large incumbents
"You don't need to be a compliance expert to be a great childcare operator or a great pharmacist," said Kyle Hunt. "You just need someone to handle the part that scares people off. That's Dallo's job."
A new path to entrepreneurship
Dallo positions R-Commerce not as a niche alternative but as a genuine third pillar of entrepreneurship - sitting alongside commerce and e-commerce as a distinct, nameable category for the first time. The company argues that as e-commerce growth slows under the weight of saturation and rising customer acquisition costs, R-Commerce represents the next frontier for founders who want the stability of guaranteed demand without the capital intensity of traditional bricks-and-mortar business.
"This is a trillion-dollar economy that's been sitting in plain sight, and it's now in the palm of your hand," said Kyle Hunt. "We're not just building a company. We're naming and opening up an entire category of entrepreneurship. R-Commerce is the next commerce - and dallo is leading it."
Industries Available on Dallo
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Childcare centres
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Family day care
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Kindergarten
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After hours school care
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Medicinal Cannabis Cultivation
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Online wagering & betting
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Gambling business
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Child protection
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Construction
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Drug and Alcohol rehab
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GP Clinic
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GP Telehealth
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GP Telemedicine
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Aged care (Home Care)
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Cosmetic Injectables - At Home or In Clinic
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Private Aged Care (doesn’t have a registration process)
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NDIS
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Unregistered NDIS (doesn’t have a registration process)
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RTO
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Online Pharmacy
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Pharmacy
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Compounding Pharmacy
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Pharmaceutical wholesaler
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Pharmaceutical Import
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Pharmaceutical manufacturing
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IVF clinic
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Residential Aged Care (Facility)
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Dental Clinic
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Medical Imaging
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Mental health telehealth
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Motor vehicle and workplace accidents (need to break these down e.g TAC, Icare, worksafe, etc)
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Medical Cannabis Wholesale
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Medicinal Cannabis Import
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Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary
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Medicinal cannabis telehealth
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Thriving kids
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Workplace accident care
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Traffic accident care
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CRICOS (international students)
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Pathology
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Laser
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Bottle Shop (Alcohol Retail)
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Nicotine retail
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Vet clinic
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Vaccines
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Dog daycare
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Dog walking
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Dog training
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Property management
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Tradies (Plumbing,
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Vending machines
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Real Estate Agency
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Airbnb management
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Nanny agency
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Labour hire (Recruitment)
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Allied Health
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Pet food subscription
Availability
Dallo's R-Commerce platform waitlist is available here.
About us:
Dallo is the platform built for regulated commerce, making it easier to start and operate businesses in industries that require licences, permits and regulatory approval. We break down the barriers of complex industries, giving entrepreneurs a simpler path from idea to operation.
Contact details:
Tom Rowland
0490 377 756
