The quote desk for freight forwarders
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The forwarder who quotes first — accurately — wins the shipment. AI Quote Desk reads any RFQ, prices it on your rates, and drafts the reply in 21 seconds. Your team approves every send.
Live in production · 7,000+ quotations · TMS or none
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INDUSTRY: FREIGHTOS MYSTERY SHOPPER STUDIES · MANUAL SPOT QUOTES · TOP-20 FORWARDERS
Every RFQ eats another morning.
One arrives as a forty-line Excel. One as a photo of a packing list on WhatsApp. One buried in an email thread from last Tuesday. Your best pricing head untangles them — while two more land, and one quietly goes unanswered.
Industry mystery-shopper studies put the median manual spot quote at 57 hours — and found most RFQs to large forwarders never get quoted at all.
median time for a top-20 forwarder to produce a manual spot quote
Freightos Mystery Shopper, 2018
of quote requests to top-20 forwarders never got a quote at all
Freightos Mystery Shopper, 2018
of forwarders who quoted ever followed up on the quote
Freightos Mystery Shopper, 2021
The desk works first. Your team decides.
RFQ arrives — email, PDF, Excel, WhatsApp. Any format, any hour.
Parsed into shipment lines and priced across your rate sources in 18 seconds.
Reply composed. Margin floor checked. Risk flagged before anyone sits down.
Held for approval. The send never leaves supervised mode — by design.
On the customer's own thread, minutes after they asked. Then the chase begins.
Full walkthrough — every rate source, every guardrail, the 14-day deployment.
How the desk works →Approve from anywhere.
Every draft holds at the gate with its margin math and risk flags attached. Approve from the desk — or from your phone at 2 a.m., when the RFQ that lands wins or loses on speed.
THE 02:14 RFQ · APPROVED 02:16 · SENT 02:29
The desk doesn’t keep office hours.
It notices a fuel surcharge change at 01:07 and re-prices your open drafts. It reads the 02:14 RFQ before your competitor’s desk opens. It remembers which rate cards expire this week. Nobody assigns it any of this — noticing is the job.
EVERY ROW BELOW: UNPROMPTED · THE HUMAN APPEARS ONCE — AT THE GATE
One desk. Twelve months. 7,000 quotations.
“It’s like having many more pricing experts with perfect memory who never take a day off.”
Wherever your rates live, the desk reads them.
Contract cards, five carrier portals with five passwords, air and express APIs, partner networks for the lanes you don’t serve, and every quote your desk ever sent. Different desks run different mixes — the chaos is the same.
Contract & named-account rates
Your carrier contracts, read from your rate cards — freshness and validity tracked.
Carrier spot portals
Maersk Spot, SpotOn, Quick Quotes, myMSC — one desk over every login.
Air & express APIs
Live platform and integrator rates, pulled at quote time.
Partner & agent rates
No direct service on the lane? The desk fires partner requests and assembles the response.
Your own history
Every quote your desk ever sent, remembered perfectly — the pricing head who never takes leave.
NEXT DEPARTURE · YOUR DESK
Bring a real RFQ. Watch it quoted.
We scope your rate sources, configure your margin logic, and the first quote goes out under supervised approval inside 14 days.