Document intake
Shipping documents arrive as PDFs and scans, then get keyed in by hand.
AI systems for freight forwarders, customs brokers & 3PLs
Phoenix World builds custom AI systems that read your shipping documents, enter the data, answer the routine emails, and hand your team only the work that needs a person.
Every forwarder we talk to has the same four fires. Skilled people spend the day copying data between documents, inboxes and systems.
Shipping documents arrive as PDFs and scans, then get keyed in by hand.
Cross-checking documents, chasing missing data and assembling entry packets before anyone can file.
Rate requests buried in inboxes, priced from spreadsheets, answered hours or days later.
Status updates copied from carrier portals into customer emails, one shipment at a time.
Hiring for data entry, documentation or dispatch, and hiring again when people leave? That job description is the map of what we can automate.
Show us yoursAt your estimate, $60,000 and 2,000 hours a year go back to work that needs a person.
50 working weeks a year. These are your inputs, not our claims. Watch the embers: the fire grows with the number.
Bring these numbers to the auditWe build systems around the tools you already run: your TMS, your accounting system, your inbox and your spreadsheets. A person approves anything that leaves the building.
Illustrative example with sample data.
Reads shipping documents, checks them against each other, and enters the data where it belongs.
Pulls rate requests out of email, prices them from your tariffs, and drafts the reply for your team to send.
Tracks shipments across carriers and keeps customers informed, escalating only the exceptions.
One live view of volume, bottlenecks and margins, pulled from the systems you already have.
You walk us through the task that eats the most hours. No pitch deck.
We put in writing what we'd build, what it connects to, and what it should save, before you commit.
Built around your systems, then run on real shipments next to your team for 4 weeks, measured against your baseline.
We maintain and improve it, then take on the next workflow once the first one pays off.
Shipping documents carry your customers' names, cargo values and routes. This is how we handle them.
Nothing goes to a customer, carrier or customs without a person on your team approving it.
Systems run in your company's own cloud account. You hold the keys and can see every connection.
We connect with the minimum permissions each workflow needs, and read-only wherever the work allows.
Every document read and every action taken is logged, so any entry can be traced back to its source.
Documents are processed with Anthropic's Claude under commercial terms that don't use your data to train AI models.
We sign a mutual NDA before every audit, so you can show us real documents.
Before we build, we record your hours, turnaround and error rate. Results are measured against that, not claimed.
We agree one target in writing. If the pilot misses it, you pay nothing for it.
Code, data and accounts are in your company's name. Leave anytime with full handover documentation.
The system runs next to your team on real shipments, and your team approves every output until the numbers hold.
Ask for my security pack before you share a single document.
If your industry runs on documents, inboxes and spreadsheets, there's a system in it. Below are blueprints of systems we can build, from logistics and beyond. Each one starts the same way: one workflow, proven, then grown.
Brokers rebuild every entry by hand from three documents that rarely agree.
Brokers review and file instead of retyping.
Build this for usRate requests wait in inboxes while someone prices them from spreadsheets.
Quotes go out while the customer is still shopping.
Build this for usDelays and holds surface when the customer calls asking.
Your team calls the customer first.
Build this for usPurchase orders arrive by email, PDF and WhatsApp and get keyed into the ERP.
Orders are in the system minutes after they arrive.
Build this for usTenant messages pile up across email, text and portals in two languages.
Emergencies rise to the top instead of waiting in line.
Build this for usRFIs and submittals live in email threads and get missed.
Nothing slips through a reply-all.
Build this for usStaff chase clients for the same missing documents every season.
Your team starts work on complete files.
Build this for usReviews and guest messages are spread across five platforms and three languages.
Every guest gets an answer the same day.
Build this for usNew products take days to list from supplier spreadsheets and photos.
New stock is sellable the day it lands.
Build this for usCertificate requests and renewals are handled by email, one at a time.
Agents spend time on clients, not paperwork.
Build this for usBlueprints are designs we can build, not past client projects. Every build is shaped around your systems and your data.
Phoenix World is taking on its first three logistics clients as design partners.
You get a reduced pilot price and the founder's full attention on your build. In return, once the pilot hits its target, you agree to a short case study with the real before-and-after numbers and one reference call. The same guarantee applies: if the pilot misses its target, you pay nothing.
I build automated systems for a living. For the past 18 months I've built and run automated data systems in Python: pipelines that pull, clean and check information around the clock, with AI agents doing the heavy lifting and a person approving what matters.
Phoenix World brings that same discipline to the paperwork that slows down Miami's logistics companies. You work with me directly, from the first audit to handover. No account managers, no hand-offs.
Twenty minutes, free. You leave with a written outline of what we'd automate and what it would take, whether or not you work with us.