Supply Chain Automation

The AI Freight Broker

Transforming logistics from manual "Dial-and-Smile" to autonomous orchestration. We built an intelligent system that ingests demand, matches carriers, and negotiates rates without human intervention.

Active Load Matching (Live)
ORD → LAX • 42,000 lbs
Chicago
Los Angeles
Matched
Rate: $1.95/mi
ATL → MIA • Reefer
Atlanta
Miami
Negotiating
AI Bid: $1,250
New Email Parsed
Extracted 12 loads from "Daily_Capacity.pdf"

The Logistics Bottleneck

Freight brokerage is historically low-tech. Our client was scaling, but their manual processes were acting as a parking brake on growth.

Manual Entry Hell

Brokers parsed 100s of unstructured emails daily. 40% of data was entered with errors, leading to wrong pickups.

Slow Quoting

Calculating a quote took 20-30 minutes of cross-referencing lane history. By then, the carrier was gone.

Compliance Risk

Manual vetting of carrier insurance was inconsistent, exposing the brokerage to massive liability claims.

From Inbox to Invoice

An end-to-end autonomous pipeline using Multi-Tenancy Architecture.

1

Ingest & Normalize

NLP models listen to Emails, APIs, and Web Forms. Unstructured text is converted to JSON load objects.

2

Smart Pricing

The engine pulls fuel indices and lane history to generate a "Buy Rate" and "Sell Rate" instantly.

3

Carrier Matching

Algorithms rank carriers by proximity, equipment type, and past performance score.

4

Communicate

The AI Agent negotiates via email/chat. If confidence is low, HITL (Human-in-the-Loop) is triggered.

The Pricing Algorithm

We didn't just automate data entry; we automated intelligence. The system calculates a Dynamic Volatility Score for every lane.

It handles multi-tenancy, meaning each client gets their own isolated environment with custom rules (e.g., "Never use carriers with < 98% safety rating").

Python / Pandas OpenAI GPT-4 API Redis (Caching) Twilio (SMS/Comms) PostgreSQL
services/pricing_engine.py Python 3.9
def calculate_spot_rate(origin, dest, miles): # 1. Base Rate from historical average base_rate = self.db.get_lane_avg(origin, dest)
# 2. Adjust for Real-time Fuel Index fuel_surcharge = self.api.get_doe_fuel() * 0.4
# 3. Apply Demand Multiplier (Seasonality) demand_factor = self.predict_demand(origin)
return (base_rate + fuel_surcharge) * demand_factor

Operational Impact

Metrics collected over Q3 2024 Pilot Deployment

0 % Manual Entry Removed
0 Minutes to Quote
0 % Broker Capacity Increase
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