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Shipment tracking voice agent that gets your desk off the phone.

Automate routine status requests and carrier check calls, update the TMS, and escalate exceptions with a concise shipment history.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$16,000
fixed-scope pilot
Validate next
launch posture
Strong durable demand
market signal
shipment-tracking-and-check-call-voice-agent
// authenticate carrier/driver
input: Shipment and stop details
step: request structured status
citations: [ source ✓ ]   confidence: 0.93
HUMAN GATEawaiting review →

Nothing is finalized until a human approves it.

Built for
The buyer
Brokerage COO, 3PL President, VP Customer Operations
The champion
Track-and-Trace Director, Carrier Operations leader, Customer Service Director
Day-to-day users
Carrier reps, dispatchers, customer service, shippers

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.

Teams spend hours calling drivers and carriers, answering “where is my freight,” and re-keying status while exceptions still surface late.

Who feels it

Carrier reps, dispatchers, customer service, shippers

Trigger to act: Check-call labor is high, customer status volume is growing, nights/weekends are weakly covered, or tracking data quality is inconsistent.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data
$5,500
per month, illustrative

Illustrative only: 10,000 routine call minutes/month × $0.65 human cost/minute minus estimated $0.10–$0.22 platform usage = roughly $4,300–$5,500 monthly gross capacity.

The outcome, plainly: Automate routine status requests and carrier check calls, update the TMS, and escalate exceptions with a concise shipment history.

Automated check-call rate
status freshness
exception recall
How it works

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

A Voice AI + workflow agent. Every material fact is grounded in an allowed source and returned with its identifier, no invented data.

01
Authenticate carrier/driver
02
request structured status
03
reconcile with tracking feed
04
update TMS
05
answer approved customer queries
06
detect late/missed milestones
07
warm-transfer exceptions
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
Telephony/SMS
TMS
tracking/telematics providers
customer portal
email
Grounded reasoning core
Retrieve & extract
grounded on your sources, returns citations
Reason & draft
OpenAI Realtime 2.1 mini or an evaluated equivalent
Human gateHumans handle safety incidents, cargo loss, detention disputes, abusive callers, identity uncertainty, and any operational commitment outside policy.
Action · only after approval
warm-transfer exceptions
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

OpenAI Realtime 2.1 mini or an evaluated equivalent for low-latency conversation; Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra for post-call verification and structured summaries. Twilio Programmable Voice; ElevenLabs only where voice quality or speech tooling wins the eval.

Inputs
  • Shipment and stop details
  • carrier contacts
  • GPS/ELD feed
  • appointment windows
  • status codes
  • customer communication rules
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

Humans handle safety incidents, cargo loss, detention disputes, abusive callers, identity uncertainty, and any operational commitment outside policy.

What it will never do
No driver surveillance beyond contractual/legal basis
No safety instruction
No false ETA commitment
No automated closeout of a high-risk exception
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
Automated check-call rate
status freshness
exception recall
customer self-service
call transfer precision
minutes per shipment
late-update rate
data accuracy
Why this, not that

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

The alternatives
project44FourKitesMacroPoint/DescartesTrucker ToolsHighwayTurvooutsourced track-and-trace 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.

Telephony/SMSTMStracking/telematics providerscustomer portalemailhuman exception queue
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

3,000–15,000 connected voice minutes/month, telephony, speech, model and recording storage.

$800–5,800
usage (models, OCR, vector, storage)
$2,200/mo
managed evaluation & monitoring

Planning assumptions, not vendor quotations. Your Telephony 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. Humans handle safety incidents, cargo loss, detention disputes, abusive callers, identity uncertainty, and any operational commitment outside policy. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: no driver surveillance beyond contractual/legal basis; no safety instruction; no false ETA commitment; no automated closeout of a high-risk exception.

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 $800–5,800/month (3,000–15,000 connected voice minutes/month, telephony, speech, model and recording storage), plus a $2,200/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 project44?

Tools like project44, FourKites, and MacroPoint/Descartes 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 validate next. We baseline “Automated check-call rate” 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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