Agentic AI for logistics & freight

In freight, the inbox is the operation. Aide puts governed AI agents on it.

Aide's AI agents run on the shared inbox your team already uses, resolving status checks, quotes, documents, booking changes, and billing disputes end-to-end, with the shipment context behind every answer. Your ops desk gets out of the check-call business and back to exceptions and relationships.Powered by the Agent Governance Engine: every word and action is bounded by approved procedures, tested on your real threads, and logged to the load. Aide acts only when it is certain, and hands the rest to your team.
Every intent on the freight inbox, resolved end-to-end
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Appointment schedulingBooking changesCustoms entry statusClaims intakeAR follow-upsRate confirmationsCarrier onboardingAppointment schedulingBooking changesCustoms entry statusClaims intakeAR follow-upsRate confirmationsCarrier onboardingAppointment schedulingBooking changesCustoms entry statusClaims intakeAR follow-upsRate confirmationsCarrier onboarding
30–45%
Of freight inbound is 'where is my shipment'
The single biggest automatable block in the vertical, at 8 to 15 manual minutes each
~60%
Of shippers book with whoever quotes first
Speed-to-quote is a revenue lever, not a service metric
6–10
Emails per load
A mid-volume broker sees 1,500+ weekly exchanges, most following predictable templates
Industry research figures for broker and forwarder operations. They describe the market, not a specific Aide deployment; your own numbers come from your real queue in the Agent Simulator.
Where Aide runs

Built for freight operations, front office to back

The same governed platform, configured to each desk's own intents, procedures, and rules.

Freight brokers

Status, quotes, and carrier coordination on the two-sided inbox.

Forwarders & customs

Entry status and document flows; determinations stay human-gated.

3PLs & warehousing

Multi-team ops desks: track-and-trace, billing, exceptions.

Agent-based networks

Agent and carrier inquiries recognized, enriched, and routed.

Supply-chain back offices

Dispatch, parts, service, and AR inboxes beyond freight proper.

Cross-border operations

International lanes and customs-adjacent flows, inside the rules.

AI agents for resolution

Built for the emails actually in your inbox

Every high-volume freight intent, resolved end-to-end by the exact procedure your team approved for it, lane by lane. Aide responds instantly, acts on the shipment, and logs what it did.

The status checks that dominate your inbound, answered from live visibility and TMS context: exception-aware, appointment-aware, not a tracking link. Your team stops taking check calls, and your shippers stop needing to make them.
Customer
Any update on container MSCU4821067 into Chicago? Our customer is asking.
Aide
MSCU4821067 discharged at LA last night and loaded to rail this morning. Current ETA at the Chicago ramp is Thursday 14:00, one day behind plan due to the vessel's late berth. Your Friday delivery appointment still holds.
Live status read from visibility feed · ETA updated · Appointment confirmed

Most shippers book with whoever responds first with a workable rate. Aide acknowledges instantly and drafts the quote from your rate context, inside the pricing bounds you set. It never invents a rate: the numbers come from your rules, not the model.
Customer
Need a spot quote: 2 pallets, 1,800 lbs, Dallas to Atlanta, pickup Thursday.
Aide
Quote QT-8841: Dallas to Atlanta, 2 pallets at 1,800 lbs, pickup Thursday, delivery Monday, $1,140 all-in. The rate holds for 48 hours. Reply 'book it' and pickup is scheduled.
Lane rate read · Quote drafted within bounds · 48h validity set

Proof of delivery, bills of lading, invoices, insurance certificates, customs documents. High volume, low judgment: Aide fetches the exact document with the shipment linkage and sends it in seconds.
Customer
Can you send the POD and invoice for load L-30219? Our AP team needs both to release payment.
Aide
Both attached: the signed POD from Tuesday's 11:42 delivery and invoice INV-30219 for $2,380. I've noted your AP reference on the file so the payment matches cleanly.
POD retrieved · Invoice attached · AP reference noted

Delays, missed pickups, OS&D, claims intake. Aide watches the exception signals, notifies affected shippers with your approved language before they have to ask, and opens claims with the documentation checklist already attached. One proactive touch instead of four reactive ones.
Customer
We've heard nothing since pickup and this was supposed to deliver tomorrow morning. What's going on?
Aide
You should have heard from us sooner, and I apologize. The carrier reported a mechanical hold in Memphis at 06:00; revised delivery is tomorrow by 17:00. I've flagged the delay to your account manager, and you'll get an update at every status change from here.
Exception read from carrier feed · Delay flagged · Status updates subscribed

A large share of D&D invoices contain errors. Aide explains accessorial charges from the shipment record, builds dispute cases from gate timestamps, and never concedes liability without your approval.
Customer
We're being charged 3 days of detention on order 55212 but the driver was unloaded same-day. This is wrong.
Aide
You're right to question it. Gate records show ingate 08:10 and outgate 15:40 the same day, inside free time. I've built the dispute case with both timestamps and the rate confirmation attached, and routed it to our billing team for filing. You'll receive written confirmation once it's filed.
Gate timestamps pulled · Dispute case built · Routed for filing

Freight inboxes are two-sided. Aide recognizes carrier and agent threads, enriches them with MC and DOT context, screens for fraud signals, and routes settlements, load documents, and onboarding to the right desk.
Customer
MC 882441 here. We submitted detention paperwork for load 8842 last week. When do we get paid?
Aide
Your detention invoice for load 8842 was approved yesterday and is in Friday's settlement run; funds land Monday under your quick-pay terms. The remittance summary is attached.
Carrier verified by MC · Settlement status read · Remittance sent
Aide is a governed agentic AI platform for logistics and freight customer experience. Every resolution path is pre-approved by your team, tested on your real threads, and deployed one intent at a time, at the automation level you choose: none, human-in-the-loop, or fully agentic.
The Agent Governance Engine

Freight has hard lines. Aide treats them as blocking gates, not suggestions.

Sanctions screening, dangerous goods, customs determinations, liability concessions: some things an AI must never freelance. Aide is built so the hard gates block, the approved language executes verbatim, and rollout happens lane by lane: none, human-in-the-loop, or fully agentic, per intent.

Rehearse before you deployWatch Aide work on your real historical threads in the Agent Simulator. Nothing goes live until your ops leads approve it.
Hard gates that blockSanctions and denied-party screening, dangerous goods, customs determinations, and liability concessions are blocking gates inside the procedure itself, never soft prompts.
Audit every action on the loadThe Action Trace records what Aide did and why on every thread: the intent, the procedure, the action taken. Ready for claims, accessorial audits, and account reviews.
Your ops team compoundsThe Continuous Learning Engine sharpens the intent taxonomy with every correction, and your team's lane knowledge grows with it: the check-call clerk becomes the exception manager.
Your team sets the bounds. The engine enforces them.
Getting started

Works with your existing stack

One click into the inbox you already run. Shipment context from your TMS and visibility stack. No migration, no replatforming, no engineering.

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Front

The natural home: live on the shared inbox and the marketplace integrations your ops desk already runs.

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Zendesk

Resolves and updates tickets inside your existing workflows.

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Salesforce

Grounds every answer in the account record you trust.

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Your TMS & visibility stack

Reads the shipment, rate, and gate context your TMS and visibility tools push to the inbox.

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Email & SMS

Shipper and carrier replies over email and SMS, answered in seconds, day or night.

Aide integrates with TMS, visibility, and custom systems via API.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Aide reads the live shipment context your visibility tools and TMS push to the helpdesk, so a status question gets the current milestone, the revised ETA, and the appointment state, not a tracking link. Industry research puts status checks at 30 to 45 percent of a broker or forwarder's inbound, which is why most teams automate this intent first.

It acknowledges the request instantly and drafts the quote from the rate context you connect, inside pricing bounds your team sets. It never invents a rate. Where you want a person on final numbers, the quote goes out human-approved; where a lane is fully governed, it goes out in minutes. Speed-to-quote wins bookings, and the first workable rate usually takes the load.

Those are hard lines, and Aide treats them as blocking gates rather than suggestions. Status lookups like entry state can automate; determinations such as HTS classification, valuation, dangerous-goods review, and denied-party screening always route to a person. The gate lives inside the procedure itself, and every action carries a trace.

No. A tracking-page chatbot answers what the tracking page already shows. Aide works the shared inbox where freight actually runs: it resolves status, quotes, documents, and disputes over email, executes the approved next action on the shipment, and hands anything outside its bounds to your team with context attached.

No, and that is not the goal. Aide absorbs the check calls and document requests so your people work the exceptions, the carrier relationships, and the accounts. The operation's knowledge compounds as it runs: every conversation feeds the intent taxonomy your team reads, and the role shifts from answering the same 1,500 emails to managing what actually needs judgment.

Shipment status and check calls, quote requests, document retrieval (BOLs, PODs, invoices, certificates), booking changes, exception notifications, billing and detention or demurrage disputes, and carrier or agent routing. Each intent is configured with your exact procedure, tested on your real threads, and deployed at the automation level you choose: none, human-in-the-loop, or fully agentic.

Aide runs inside the helpdesk you already use, and Front is the natural home for freight teams. Shipment, rate, and gate context flows in from your TMS and visibility tools, pushed to the inbox or connected via API, so every answer reflects the load as it is right now.

Aide is conversational AI for logistics that goes a step further: agentic AI. It converses naturally over email and chat, and it also acts: it pulls the POD, drafts the quote, updates the booking, and builds the D&D dispute case from gate timestamps. Answering questions is table stakes. Acting on the shipment is the difference.

Yes. Aide is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, and its model providers operate under zero-data-retention agreements. Every automated action is logged in the Action Trace. Security documentation is available at aide.app/security.

Most teams connect their helpdesk in a day and are live on their first intent within days. You start with shipment status, the biggest block in the queue, watch Aide handle it in the Agent Simulator on your own historical threads, and expand lane by lane as your ops leads sign off.

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Put governed AI agents on your freight inbox

Status, quotes, documents, and disputes resolved end-to-end on the stack you already run, governed by the rules you set.

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