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See your freight operation
like never before.

Know exactly where your team’s time goes, why your error rate is what it is, and which problems are fixable in weeks vs. months.

Backed by leaders from:

CMA CGMDHLNetflixEvansCobli

Where does your team’s time actually go?

Thousands of hours on tasks that could be automated. You just can’t see which ones.

How much revenue leaks through the cracks?

Billing delays, missed charges, manual errors. You know it’s happening — but how much?

Which fixes would actually move the needle?

Without a baseline, everything feels urgent. Nothing gets fixed.

We map every inefficiency. In as little as 48 hours.

AI maps every connection across your systems — emails to shipments, charges to rate cards, conversations to decisions — and surfaces exactly where time and money go.

30-minute read-only setup with your IT team. 12 months of data. A full assessment delivered.

Operational Assessment

CargoWise
Email
Slack

28,412 shipments · 138,844 emails · 4,120 Slack threads · 12 months

120to160

hours/month recoverable

$280Kto$400K

in delayed receivables

~8%

error rate on manual charges

4

priority automations identified

Top Findings

1

Document Collection Is Your Biggest Time Sink

2

Someone Adds Fuel Surcharges Manually Every Monday

3

$340K Sits in Delayed Receivables Because Invoicing Waits for Documents

+ 4 more findings with evidence and recommended actions…

Illustrative output for a fictional freight forwarder. Your report uses your data.

Now turn those inefficiencies into margin you keep —and service improvements your customers feel.

AI that works across every stage of the shipment lifecycle.

Rates Expired
Best Rate Found
Maersk$1,240
MSC$1,450
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Today

Your competitors are
quoting faster.

5–15carrier portals searched per quote

With Tandom

Respond first. Win more.

5–151 searchacross all portals

Deploy AI to deliver real ROI —build it yourself, or let us handle it.

Tandom is a platform to build, own, and run automations — powered by AI that deeply understands logistics. Natural language, visual workflows, or code — the platform meets your team where they are.

Your team builds automations in minutes — or we build them for you…

…and every operator gets AI at their fingertips.

AssessmentBuilderChatSettings
Connected to CargoWise
FSC Auto-AddREADY TO BUILD
AI

I’ve drafted an FSC Auto-Add automation:

Trigger: New LCL booking from China ports → US

Action: Add $125 Fuel Surcharge automatically

Validation: Skip if FSC already present

Impact: Eliminates 45 min/week manual entry + 8% error rate

FSC amount — Your current FSC is $125 per LCL shipment. Confirm or adjust?

$125 (current)Custom amount
$125 (current)

Building automation…

Trigger configured: On LCL shipment save
Trade lane filter: China ports → US
Duplicate check: Skip if FSC present
Charge amount: $125 USD
Mode: Preview — weekly report
Automation built. Test results:

89

shipments

$11,125

total FSC

0

duplicates

7

missing today

AssessmentBuilderChatSettings
Connected to CargoWise
AI
Understanding request…
Querying shipment records…
Generating CargoWise XML…
Running pre-flight checks…

Here’s what I’ll do:

Charge: FSC - Fuel Surcharge
Amount: $125.00 / shipment
Total: $1,625.00
ShipmentCustomerOriginAmount
SHP-44821Pacific Trade CoShanghai$125.00
SHP-44835Orient Express LtdShanghai$125.00
SHP-44847Global Import IncShanghai$125.00

+ 10 more shipments

ApproveCancel

Everything you build is yours. Forever.

Most platforms rent you workflows — stop paying, and they disappear. Tandom is different. Every automation, every workflow, every integration you create is yours. Cancel tomorrow and take it all with you. No lock-in. No hostage data. Just tools that make your team better — and assets that stay with you.

No black boxes. Just glass ones.

Every automation is fully inspectable — workflow logic, triggers, query patterns, XML formats. Nothing deploys without IT review.

Builder
Connected to CargoWise
Document Follow-UpREADY TO BUILD

Automated document collection: detect missing documents by trade lane, send personalized follow-up emails to shippers with escalating urgency, track responses.

Workflow

⚡ On booking confirmed
⇅ Has required docum…
Yes
⇅ Missing documents …
Yes
⇅ Under escalation limit
Yes
✦ Check trade lane do…
✦ Send personalized fo…
✦ Log follow-up activity
OverviewTechnical (IT/Admin)

⚡ Trigger Configuration

Type:event
Event:BOOKING_CONFIRMED

· Query Pattern

Target:ForwardingShipment
Method:EventFilter

Conditions:

documents.required greater_than 0

documents.missing greater_than 0

followup.count less_than 3

▶ Actions (3)

Internalcall webhook

Method: HTTP.POST

SMTPsend email

Method: SMTP.Send

CWlog activity

Method: CW.LogActivity

Read-only start

Nothing writes to your TMS until you approve.

Preview everything

See exactly what will happen before it executes.

Human-in-the-loop

AI handles routine work. Humans make judgment calls.

Adapts to your data

Your terminology, your systems — even the messy parts.

Built for Logistics…

Reads & writes your TMS

Works with the major platforms freight forwarders use. Full audit trails.

Understands the domain

Trade lanes, charge structures, customs rules, document requirements — built in.

Test before you deploy

Run every automation against historical data first. Zero risk.

…by founders from logistics and enterprise tech

Backed by leaders from:

CMA CGMDHLNetflixEvansCobli

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about Tandom and how it transforms freight forwarding operations.

Tandom is an AI platform purpose-built for freight forwarders. It connects to your TMS, email, and carrier portals, then automates the manual work that slows your operation down — quoting across portals, entering shipment documents, validating compliance filings, tracking milestones, and triggering invoices. Your team stays in control; the repetitive work disappears.

Your IT team gives us read-only access to your systems — a 30-minute setup. We ingest 12 months of operational data and use AI to map every workflow: emails to shipments, charges to rate cards, conversations to decisions. You get back a detailed report showing exactly where your team’s time goes, where revenue is leaking, and which automations will deliver the highest ROI — prioritized and quantified.

Tandom is built to work with the major TMS platforms used by freight forwarders, and we’re always expanding coverage. Integration typically involves a combination of API connections, workflow configurations within your TMS, and pulling data from email and carrier portals. We work with your IT team to find the fastest path to live data — and nothing writes to your systems until you explicitly approve it.

TMS automation handles structured tasks inside one system. Tandom works across systems — it reads emails, pulls from carrier portals, cross-references rate cards, and coordinates between your TMS, docs, and billing. It automates the work that happens between your tools, which is where most of the manual effort actually lives.

Tandom starts read-only. During the assessment, nothing is changed in any system. When automations go live, every action is previewed before execution — your team sees exactly what will happen and approves it. You own the logic, you control what runs, and everything is fully auditable.

Tandom builds a unified data lake from your operation — pulling in data from your TMS, emails, carrier portals, rate sheets, and documents. Once everything lives in one place, AI can trace connections that no single system can see on its own: which emails led to which shipments, which charges map to which rate cards, where the same data is being entered multiple times. That’s what powers both the assessment and the automations.

Our target is to deliver the initial assessment within 48 hours of connecting your systems. In practice, timelines depend on how complex your operation is — how many systems are involved, how clean the data is, and how much configuration your TMS requires to expose the right data. For straightforward setups, you can be looking at live automations within the first week. For more complex environments, it may take longer to get the data flowing, but you’ll have a clear roadmap from day one.

Get your assessment — 48 hours, no cost.

Connect your TMS. Get a full operational analysis. No commitment.

We’ll schedule a 30-min setup call with your IT team to connect read-only access.

Want to talk it through first?

Book a 20-Minute Intro Call

Or reach us at hello@tandom.ai