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Freight RFQ and quote response that wins without the wait.

Read inbound RFQs, gather lane and service context, produce a margin-guarded quote draft, and respond fast enough to win time-sensitive freight.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$13,500
fixed-scope pilot
Launch now
launch posture
High current buying momentum
market signal
freight-rfq-and-quote-response-agent
// extract shipment requirements
input: RFQ email or spreadsheet
step: validate missing details
citations: [ source ✓ ]   confidence: 0.93
HUMAN GATEawaiting review →

Nothing is finalized until a human approves it.

Built for
The buyer
Brokerage CEO, Chief Commercial Officer, VP Pricing
The champion
Pricing Director, Brokerage Operations leader, Sales Operations lead
Day-to-day users
Account executives, pricing analysts, carrier sales 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.

Pricing teams parse free-form emails and spreadsheets, search historical lanes, collect capacity signals, and miss opportunities while customers wait.

Who feels it

Account executives, pricing analysts, carrier sales teams

Trigger to act: Quote response time is losing business, inbox volume is spiky, the brokerage is scaling without proportional headcount, or pricing consistency is weak.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data
$10,133
per month, illustrative

Illustrative only: 2,000 RFQs/month × 8 minutes removed × $38 loaded hourly cost ÷ 60 = $10,133 monthly capacity. Incremental win-rate value must be tested against a control group.

The outcome, plainly: Read inbound RFQs, gather lane and service context, produce a margin-guarded quote draft, and respond fast enough to win time-sensitive freight.

Median quote time
quote coverage
win rate
How it works

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

A Tool-using workflow agent. Every material fact is grounded in an allowed source and returned with its identifier, no invented data.

01
Extract shipment requirements
02
validate missing details
03
retrieve comparable lanes
04
call rating sources
05
apply customer and margin rules
06
draft quote
07
route exceptions
08
log response
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
Email/CRM
TMS
rating engine
historical shipment warehouse
carrier capacity feeds
Grounded reasoning core
Retrieve & extract
grounded on your sources, returns citations
Reason & draft
Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra
Human gateA pricing owner approves rates below margin floors, unusual commodities, constrained capacity, contractual exceptions, and high-value bids.
Action · only after approval
log response
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 complex grounded work; select by task-level evaluation; Gemini 2.5 Flash, GPT-5.4 mini or Claude Haiku 4.5 for high-volume routing and drafting. PostgreSQL + pgvector or managed vector store; policy rules and evaluator service.

Inputs
  • RFQ email or spreadsheet
  • origin/destination
  • equipment
  • dates
  • commodity
  • accessorials
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 pricing owner approves rates below margin floors, unusual commodities, constrained capacity, contractual exceptions, and high-value bids.

What it will never do
No autonomous quote outside approved lanes/margin rules
No guarantee of capacity
No hidden surcharge
No pricing collusion or use of prohibited competitive data
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
Median quote time
quote coverage
win rate
gross margin variance
exception rate
price-within-approved-band
missed-RFQ rate
customer response SLA
Why this, not that

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

The alternatives
C.H. Robinson internal toolsParadeGreenscreens.aiBanyanTMS rating modulesDAT/Truckstop workflowscustom pricing 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.

Email/CRMTMSrating enginehistorical shipment warehousecarrier capacity feedspricing rulesapproval 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
$13,500
one-time · bounded proof of value
  • One process / scope
  • Live workflow on your data
  • Baseline evaluation suite
  • Measured vs. current process
Most chosen
Production
$31,000
one-time · full deployment
  • Full scope & integration
  • Human-review UI & audit trail
  • Write-back to your systems
  • Production evals & monitoring
Enterprise
$50,000
one-time · multi-entity / regulated
  • Multi-facility rollout
  • Advanced security & compliance
  • Custom control & escalation
  • Dedicated evaluation program
Monthly operating cost

10,000–35,000 workflow runs/month with modest document and model usage.

$400–3,100
usage (models, OCR, vector, storage)
$2,000/mo
managed evaluation & monitoring

Planning assumptions, not vendor quotations. Your Email 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 human’s approval.
FAQ

Questions serious buyers ask.

Does the AI act on its own?

No. A pricing owner approves rates below margin floors, unusual commodities, constrained capacity, contractual exceptions, and high-value bids. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: no autonomous quote outside approved lanes/margin rules; no guarantee of capacity; no hidden surcharge; no pricing collusion or use of prohibited competitive data.

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 $400–3,100/month (10,000–35,000 workflow runs/month with modest document and model usage), plus a $2,000/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 C.H. Robinson internal tools?

Tools like C.H. Robinson internal tools, Parade, and Greenscreens.ai 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’s live, and how do we prove it works?

This is a launch now. We baseline “Median quote time” 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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