Personalized Recommendations

$256M Generated Using Recommendations for Food Delivery

How Southeast Asia's leading super app achieved +170% CTR improvement with personalized restaurant recommendations across 6 countries.

68M+

Users

200K+

Restaurants

+170%

CTR Improvement

6

Countries

The Challenge

With over 2 million drivers, 68 million users, 3.5 million daily rides, and 1 billion rides booked to date, this food delivery platform processes 2TB of data per day. Operating across 6 countries with 200,000+ restaurants, the company struggled with restaurant discovery. Users in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines had vastly different cuisine preferences. The existing recommendation system couldn't handle the cold-start problem in new markets or the diversity of local food cultures.

The Solution

We designed a three-band recommendation system tailored to user maturity. New users in each market received location-aware popularity recommendations reflecting local cuisine trends. Users with order history got personalized rankings based on their cuisine preferences, price sensitivity, and ordering patterns. The most engaged users received deep personalized suggestions that factored in time-of-day preferences, cuisine exploration patterns, and cross-market taste profiles. Each country's model adapted independently to local food culture while sharing learnings across regions.

Results

Measurable impact across key metrics

Click-Through Rate

Before

Baseline

After

+170%

+170%

Value Generated

Before

After

$256M

$256M

Data Processed

Before

After

2TB/day

real-time
The revenue generated by recommendations alone paid for the entire cloud infrastructure across all business units — turning AI from a cost center into the company's most profitable investment.

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