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Warehouse document automation that ends the manual keying.

Convert receiving packets, packing lists, delivery receipts, and value-added-service evidence into validated WMS and billing events.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$12,000
fixed-scope pilot
Validate next
launch posture
Emerging specialist demand
market signal
warehouse-document-automation
// classify and extract
input: ASN
step: match to PO/ASN
citations: [ source ✓ ]   confidence: 0.93
HUMAN GATEawaiting review →

Nothing is finalized until a human approves it.

Built for
The buyer
Warehouse COO, 3PL President, Distribution Center VP
The champion
Warehouse Operations Director, Inventory Control leader, Billing manager
Day-to-day users
Receiving clerks, inventory control, billing, customer service

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.

Paper and emailed documents are keyed after the work occurs, mismatches delay receipt, and billable services are missed because proof is not connected to the transaction.

Who feels it

Receiving clerks, inventory control, billing, customer service

Trigger to act: Dock-to-stock time is high, billing leakage is visible, acquisition formats vary, or seasonal labor makes data quality unstable.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data
$6,667
per month, illustrative

Illustrative only: 8,000 packets/month × 2 minutes removed × $25 loaded hourly cost ÷ 60 = $6,667 monthly capacity, before any validated billing capture.

The outcome, plainly: Convert receiving packets, packing lists, delivery receipts, and value-added-service evidence into validated WMS and billing events.

Dock-to-stock time
Field accuracy
Receipt exception rate
How it works

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

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

01
Classify and extract
02
Match to PO/ASN
03
Compare quantities and SKUs
04
Flag over/short/damage
05
Create receipt draft
06
Attach evidence
07
Trigger billable event
08
Route discrepancy
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
WMS
ERP/billing
Scanning/mobile capture
Customer portal
Document repository
Grounded reasoning core
Retrieve & extract
grounded on your sources, returns citations
Reason & draft
Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra
Human gateWarehouse staff confirm physical quantities, damage, ownership, and inventory adjustments before posting.
Action · only after approval
Route discrepancy
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
  • ASN
  • Packing list
  • Receiving tally
  • Delivery receipt
  • Photos
  • Labels
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

Warehouse staff confirm physical quantities, damage, ownership, and inventory adjustments before posting.

What it will never do
No inventory posting without verification
No image-based damage conclusion as final
No substitution for physical count or safety inspection
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
Dock-to-stock time
Field accuracy
Receipt exception rate
Billing capture
Manual keying minutes
Inventory adjustment
Missing-document rate
Why this, not that

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

The alternatives
ManhattanBlue YonderKörberDeposcoExtensivWMS document modulesABBYY/Rossum builds
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.

WMSERP/billingScanning/mobile captureCustomer portalDocument repositoryException 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
$12,000
one-time · bounded proof of value
  • One process / scope
  • Live workflow on your data
  • Baseline evaluation suite
  • Measured vs. current process
Most chosen
Production
$27,000
one-time · full deployment
  • Full scope & integration
  • Human-review UI & audit trail
  • Write-back to your systems
  • Production evals & monitoring
Enterprise
$44,000
one-time · multi-entity / regulated
  • Multi-facility rollout
  • Advanced security & compliance
  • Custom control & escalation
  • Dedicated evaluation program
Monthly operating cost

10,000 to 40,000 document pages per month; OCR/form extraction, model verification, storage and workflow compute.

$700–4,600
usage (models, OCR, vector, storage)
$1,600/mo
managed evaluation & monitoring

Planning assumptions, not vendor quotations. Your WMS 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. Warehouse staff confirm physical quantities, damage, ownership, and inventory adjustments before posting. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: no inventory posting without verification; no image-based damage conclusion as final; no substitution for physical count or safety inspection.

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 $700 to $4,600 per month (10,000 to 40,000 document pages per month; OCR/form extraction, model verification, storage and workflow compute), plus a $1,600 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 Manhattan?

Tools like Manhattan, Blue Yonder, and Körber 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 dock-to-stock 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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