Logistics & Supply Chain
Margins this thin don’t survive re-keyed data.
Freight runs on exceptions. The plan is fine until a driver is delayed, a dock is full, a partner sends a 214 with the wrong stop, or a customer changes an appointment window at 4:55pm. The systems that matter are the ones that surface the exception early and let a human resolve it in one screen; everything else is spreadsheet and phone call.
What we hear
The problems that actually show up.
Not a market overview. These are the specific failures that bring people to us in this sector.
Visibility that stops at the company boundary
You know where your own trucks are. Your customers are asking about the ones you brokered, and the answer currently involves three phone calls and a guess.
EDI onboarding measured in months
Every new shipper brings its own interpretation of X12. Without a mapping platform, each one becomes a project and the sales cycle absorbs the delay.
Settlement that leaks
Accessorials go unbilled, detention isn’t documented, and driver pay disputes take days to resolve because the evidence lives across four systems.
Appointment and dock chaos
Detention and demurrage are large, avoidable costs. They persist because scheduling, yard status and carrier communication are three disconnected processes.
What we build here
Systems we’ve shipped in this sector.
Some of these are whole products; some are one screen that removed a week of manual work. Both count.
- Transportation management and dispatch consoles
- Carrier and shipper portals with real-time load status
- Dock scheduling, yard management and gate systems
- Driver mobile apps with offline capture, ePOD and HOS awareness
- Rating, quoting and accessorial settlement engines
- Track-and-trace aggregation across telematics and partner feeds
- Warehouse task management and slotting optimization
- Freight-spend analytics and lane profitability models
Integrates with
The estate you already have.
We work through supported interfaces, not screen-scraping that breaks at the next upgrade.
Built to
The standards this sector answers to.
Engineered in from the start. Retrofitting conformance costs several times as much and produces a worse result.
Case studies
Work in this sector.
Further reading
Written up at length.
- Systems7 min read
EDI 214 in practice: why your ETAs are wrong
The status feed is not a truth feed. Almost every bad ETA we have been asked to fix comes from four failures that are visible in the message itself.
- Engineering5 min read
What building a compiler teaches you about modeling anything
Pick the wrong intermediate representation and every later stage pays for it. That is not a compiler problem; it is the problem.
- Engineering5 min read
The shortest path is usually the wrong one
A routing problem taught us more about requirements gathering than about geometry. The algorithm was never the hard part; the objective was.
Services most used here
Sources
- 1.49 CFR 395.8: Driver’s record of duty status, Electronic Code of Federal Regulations
- 2.X12 Transaction Sets, X12
Next step
Working in logistics & supply chain?
Bring the specific failure, not a requirements document. Forty-five minutes and we’ll tell you what we’d do about it.