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// For freight brokers

RFQ IN, QUOTE OUT,
BEFORE THE COMPETITION OPENS THE EMAIL.

You're juggling 40 carriers, four spreadsheets of rates that go stale every week, and a stack of invoices nobody had time to audit. Marapone builds private AI that quotes from your live carrier panel in seconds, audits every invoice against the original quote, and tracks carrier performance without anyone updating a scorecard. You own the model. You own the data. No subscription.

Built for asset-light brokers and brokerage desks running multi-modal North America and trans-Atlantic lanes · Toronto + Rome

// The four things eating your margin

WHERE BROKERS LOSE

PAIN 01

Rates live in 40 spreadsheets

Carrier A emailed updated FAK rates Tuesday. Carrier B updated their fuel surcharge model last month and you forgot to refresh the sheet. Every quote is a guess on whether the rate you're using is the rate you'll pay.

→ FIX: Freight Rate AI ingests every carrier rate sheet, surcharge update, and contract addendum, and quotes against the live picture in seconds.

PAIN 02

Invoice audits never happen

200 carrier invoices a week. Detention, accessorials, fuel adjustments, weight reweighs. Manually checking each against the quote is two days of someone's life — so it doesn't happen, and 3-5% of the invoice spend is wrong in the carrier's favour.

→ FIX: Invoice Auditor reads each invoice line against the quoted rate and the contract, surfaces every discrepancy with evidence, and lets you dispute in batches.

PAIN 03

Carrier scorecards are six months stale

A carrier's on-time rate dropped to 62% over the last quarter and nobody noticed because the scorecard hasn't been updated since April. By the time you catch it, your shipper customer already has.

→ FIX: Carrier Tracker pulls performance data from your TMS, EDI feeds, and POD records continuously — the scorecard updates itself.

PAIN 04

RFQ turnaround is losing you bids

A shipper sends a 30-lane RFQ. Your competitors quote in two hours. You quote in two days because pricing each lane is a manual lookup. The fast broker wins the test load, then the relationship, then the contract.

→ FIX: The build prices the full lane list against your live carrier panel and pulls margin recommendations in minutes — you respond same-hour.

// What we build for freight brokers

THREE SYSTEMS, ONE BUILD.

Most broker builds bundle these three modules. Each one is trained on your carrier panel, your shipper agreements, and your historical lane pricing. Not a generic chatbot.

Freight Rate AI

BUILD 01

Freight Rate AI

Ingests every carrier rate sheet, surcharge update, and contract addendum. Quotes against the live panel in seconds, with margin recommendations from your historical wins. RFQ replies go out same-hour.

Invoice Auditor

BUILD 02

Invoice Auditor

Reads every carrier invoice line against the quote and the contract. Flags duplicate accessorials, wrong fuel base rates, missed discounts, and invalid detention. Recovers the 3-5% you've been quietly leaving on the table.

Carrier Tracker

BUILD 03

Carrier Tracker

Pulls performance from your TMS, EDI, and POD records continuously. On-time rate, claim rate, billing accuracy — the scorecard is always current. You catch the slipping carrier before your shipper does.

// A day in the life

HOW IT SHOWS UP IN YOUR WEEK

08:20 AM

RFQ in, quote out before coffee.

A shipper sends a 22-lane RFQ at 8:14. By 8:20 the system has priced every lane against your carrier panel, suggested margin tiers based on similar wins last quarter, and produced a clean quote sheet. You add a personal note and send. Your competitors are still copy-pasting from the rate sheet.

11:45 AM

Yesterday's invoices, audited overnight.

Eighty-three invoices arrived yesterday. The auditor flagged eleven discrepancies — six wrong fuel surcharge calcs, three duplicate detention charges, two missing volume discounts. You batch-dispute them in twenty minutes and recover $4,200 you would have paid.

04:30 PM

Carrier scorecard alert.

The tracker flags that one of your top-volume carriers has dropped from 94% to 81% on-time over the last 30 days, mostly out of Memphis. You call your rep at the carrier before the shipper notices, get a root cause and a recovery plan, and keep the relationship intact.

// What brokers say after the build

"The invoice auditor recovered $38k in the first quarter — money we'd have paid without thinking. And RFQ turnaround went from same-day to same-hour. We've won three new shippers we wouldn't have got into bid finals on before."

// Not a broker? We build for these too:

// Free, real, no obligation

SEND ONE FREIGHT INVOICE BATCH.
GET A REAL AUDIT BACK.

Pick one week of carrier invoices plus the matching quotes. We'll run them through the same audit system we'd build for you and send back a written discrepancy report plus a short walkthrough — usually within 24 hours.