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Freight claims automation that cuts cycle time without the chase.

Create complete cargo-loss and damage claim files, chase missing evidence, and draft correspondence while an examiner decides liability and settlement.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$16,000
fixed-scope pilot
Specialist opportunity
launch posture
Strong durable demand
market signal
freight-claims-automation
// classify loss type
input: Claim form
step: extract values and dates
citations: [ source ✓ ]   confidence: 0.93
HUMAN GATEawaiting review →

Nothing is finalized until a human approves it.

Built for
The buyer
Chief Claims Officer, 3PL COO, shipper CFO
The champion
Cargo Claims Director, Risk manager, Customer Operations leader
Day-to-day users
Claims examiners, customer service, warehouse and carrier relations teams

Designed, built, and evaluated by Alpesh Nakrani, VP of Growth at ViitorCloud, 14 years shipping software, writing on AI-Native engineering and evaluation.

Evals-first
built in from day one
Human-gated
judgment stays with you
The problem

Where the time and money actually go.

Claims stall because photos, invoices, PODs, inspection records, and notice deadlines are scattered; staff repeatedly request the same missing items.

Who feels it

Claims examiners, customer service, warehouse and carrier relations teams

Trigger to act: Claims cycle time is high, write-offs are increasing, customers lack status visibility, or a 3PL needs standardized claim quality across branches.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data
$5,200
per month, illustrative

Illustrative only: 400 claims/month × 20 minutes removed × $39 loaded hourly cost ÷ 60 = $5,200 monthly capacity, excluding recoveries or faster customer credits.

The outcome, plainly: Create complete cargo-loss and damage claim files, chase missing evidence, and draft correspondence while an examiner decides liability and settlement.

Complete-on-first-review
Claim cycle time
Examiner touches
How it works

Inputs in. A cited, review-ready result out. Your expert decides.

A Document AI + grounded RAG copilot. Every material fact is grounded in an allowed source and returned with its identifier, no invented data.

01
Classify loss type
02
Extract values and dates
03
Validate notice / deadlines
04
Build evidence checklist
05
Detect inconsistencies
06
Draft claim and status communication
07
Route settlement recommendation
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
Claims system
TMS/WMS
Document and image store
CRM/email
Carrier portals
Grounded reasoning core
Retrieve & extract
grounded on your sources, returns citations
Reason & draft
Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra
Human gateA claims examiner decides liability, reserve, settlement, denial, and legal escalation; image analysis is treated as evidence assistance, not proof.
Action · only after approval
Route settlement recommendation
Audit trace
sources, rules, confidence, reviewer
Tenant isolation
minimum data, never cross-tenant
Evaluation suite
baselined pre-launch, watched after
Observability
cost, latency & drift telemetry
Model strategy

Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra for evidence-aware extraction and reasoning; Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Claude Haiku 4.5 for high-volume classification and normalization. Amazon Textract or Azure AI Document Intelligence; PostgreSQL + pgvector; Pinecone only when scale/latency requires it.

Inputs
  • Claim form
  • BOL/POD
  • Photos
  • Commercial invoice
  • Inspection/salvage evidence
  • Correspondence
The human gate

AI-Native, not autonomous. Judgment stays with your people.

The machine does the work; the human’s role narrows to the one thing that matters, judgment. That constraint is what makes it safe to deploy.

Non-negotiable human gate

A claims examiner decides liability, reserve, settlement, denial, and legal escalation; image analysis is treated as evidence assistance, not proof.

What it will never do
No autonomous liability or settlement decision
No legal advice
No alteration of evidence
No guarantee of carrier recovery
The scorecard

A scorecard, not a demo. We baseline what breaks in production.

Every deployment ships with an evaluation suite. These are the numbers we baseline before launch and monitor after.

Primary
Complete-on-first-review
Claim cycle time
Examiner touches
Recovery rate
Missed deadline
Evidence extraction accuracy
Inconsistent-value detection
Appeal rate
Why this, not that

The category is crowded. Most of it isn’t built for your workflow.

The alternatives
CargoNetSedgwickMercuryGate claims modulesTMS-native claimsInsurer/TPA platformsManual claims teams
This implementation

Fixed-scope, tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in from day one. A price you own, not a subscription you rent.

✓ Fixed price, not a seat subscription ✓ Grounded in your data & rules ✓ Human approval on consequential actions ✓ Auditable decision trace
Systems & integrations

It plugs into the stack you already run.

No rip-and-replace. Access is scoped to the minimum data necessary, isolated per tenant, and fully logged.

Claims systemTMS/WMSDocument and image storeCRM/emailCarrier portalsPolicy/contract libraryPayment workflow
Pricing

Transparent by design. The build price buys the workflow and the proof.

A fixed implementation fee plus a monthly bill that scales with volume and governance. No hidden seats.

Pilot
$16,000
one-time · bounded proof of value
  • One process / scope
  • Live workflow on your data
  • Baseline evaluation suite
  • Measured vs. current process
Most chosen
Production
$37,000
one-time · full deployment
  • Full scope & integration
  • Human-review UI & audit trail
  • Write-back to your systems
  • Production evals & monitoring
Enterprise
$60,000
one-time · multi-entity / regulated
  • Multi-facility rollout
  • Advanced security & compliance
  • Custom control & escalation
  • Dedicated evaluation program
Monthly operating cost

8,000 to 30,000 pages per month plus retrieval, generation, vector search and evidence storage.

$1,000–6,200
usage (models, OCR, vector, storage)
$2,000/mo
managed evaluation & monitoring

Planning assumptions, not vendor quotations. Your Claims system and other platform licenses are separate and owned by you. Figures confirmed during scoping.

On working with Alpesh
“His vast knowledge of technologies and a natural problem-solving mindset consistently lead us through complex challenges with clarity and confidence.”
AM
Adil Multani
Senior Backend Developer
Why this is safe to try
01Baseline first. We measure your current numbers before we build anything.
02Fixed scope, fixed price. One process in the pilot. No open-ended engagement.
03Expand only if the scorecard earns it. You see the measured result before committing to production.
04Your people stay in control. The human gate means nothing consequential happens without a person’s approval.
FAQ

Questions serious buyers ask.

Does the AI act on its own?

No. A claims examiner decides liability, reserve, settlement, denial, and legal escalation; image analysis is treated as evidence assistance, not proof. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: no autonomous liability or settlement decision; no legal advice; no alteration of evidence; no guarantee of carrier recovery.

How do you stop it inventing facts?

Every material claim is grounded in an allowed source record and returned with its source identifier. The system separates observed facts, model inference, and missing information, and routes to a human whenever confidence is low, evidence conflicts, or an adverse outcome is possible.

What does it cost to run each month?

A usage bill of roughly $1,000–6,200 per month (8,000 to 30,000 pages per month plus retrieval, generation, vector search and evidence storage), plus a $2,000 per month managed retainer for evaluation, monitoring and maintenance. Your existing platform licenses are separate and already yours. Exact figures are confirmed during scoping.

Do we need a ChatGPT or Claude subscription?

No consumer ChatGPT or Claude subscription is required for the production workflow. The client needs an approved API/cloud billing account. Workspace seats are optional for internal prototyping and administrator access.

How is this different from CargoNet?

Tools like CargoNet, Sedgwick, and MercuryGate claims modules are broad platforms you adapt to. This is a fixed-scope implementation tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in, and a transparent price instead of a seat subscription.

How long until it is live, and how do we prove it works?

We baseline “Complete-on-first-review” first, then measure against that baseline. You see the scorecard before expanding scope: the evaluation suite ships with the system, not as an afterthought.

Book a scoping call

Bring your real numbers. Leave with a fixed-scope plan.

A 30-minute engineering-led working session, no slideware. You leave with a sized opportunity estimate, a fixed-scope pilot plan, and the integration & human-review path mapped.

VP of Growth at ViitorCloud · senior delivery owner confirmed before paid work

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