The reliable spine
The non-AI spine is the source-linked workflow: clean records, rules, calculations, integrations, exception queues, approvals and reporting for Hire-bill and owner/broker audit.
Logistics & 3PL
Hire-bill and owner/broker audit
The mirror of the billing audit, pointed at what the firm pays out. The hired-owner and broker master is duplicated (the same broker entered three ways) and hire rates live in heads and old WhatsApp threads. Hire bills are paid against trips nobody matched to the agreed rate, so rate drift, duplicate hire bills, fuel-advance gaps and detention mismatches slip through and are paid on trust.
Who has it
It is core for fleet and part-load transporters, on hired-truck and broker bills, serves freight forwarders on carrier and shipping-line invoices, and reaches 3PL operators on subcontracted transport.
What we build
A clean hired-owner, broker and (for freight forwarders) carrier and shipping-line master with a standardised hire-rate card, and a match of every trip against the hire agreement and the bill the owner or carrier sent, flagging rate drift, duplicate bills, fuel-advance gaps and detention mismatches. For freight forwarders the same machinery extends to carrier and shipping-line tariffs.
What is automated, where AI helps, who signs off
Automation for the routine. A person on every decision that matters.
Where AI helps
AI is limited to bounded reading, extraction, matching, clustering or drafting from the firm's own data for Hire-bill and owner/broker audit; it never owns the number, the approval, the promise or the decision.
Who signs off
A named person signs off anything touching money, stock, a customer promise, a regulated filing, a payment, a price, a credit decision or a people decision.
What changes day to day
Hire and carrier overpayments are caught before payment instead of at audit; the duplicate-vendor mess is cleaned; buying out of capacity runs to a rate instead of to a relationship.
Illustrative outcome
Hire-bill and carrier-invoice overpayment caught and recovered each cycle; finance re-keying hours removed.
Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Path to the build
How this one gets built.
Book a free 60-minute call, then a free Blueprint on the firm's own records. Deep-dive and build, followed by run and govern so the workflow keeps paying back.
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