Every shipment checked against its own paperwork before a broker sees it.

Freight is a document problem before it is a tracking problem.

A forwarder, a 3PL or a haulier handles the same handful of document types thousands of times, from dozens of carriers, agents and brokers, as PDFs, scans and phone photographs. The costly mistakes are small and specific: a weight on the packing list that disagrees with the bill of lading, a demurrage day the delivery order does not support, a consignee's tax number left blank on your invoice.

That mix of high volume and wide variety is what document automation is for. Layouts you see every week go through cheap deterministic rules, and the long tail goes to a model that scores every field it reads. A doubtful field reaches a person with the scan open beside it.

Six systems for forwarders, 3PLs and hauliers.

• Shipment document capture. Bills of lading, airway bills, commercial invoices, packing lists, certificates of origin and delivery orders read into fields and attached to the right job.
• Cross-document checks. Weights, piece counts, container and seal numbers, consignee details and HS codes compared across one shipment's documents, with any disagreement queued before it reaches a broker or a customer.
• Proof of delivery on a phone. Drivers capture the signed delivery note in the browser, with no app to install, and a missing signature or stamp is flagged the same day.
• Freight invoice matching. Carrier and agent invoices matched against the agreed rate and the job, so a surcharge nobody approved waits for a person before anyone pays it.
• Counting and condition at the dock. Cameras count pallets and check seals and visible damage, with the model running on a small machine on site. Computer vision & OCR.
• Customer updates from the record. Status, documents and invoices in a customer portal, so customers stop phoning to track a shipment.

Customs and port systems stay where they are.

We connect where they offer an API or a structured export, and we say which on the first call. You or your licensed broker file declarations in the customs authority's own system, Mirsal 2 in Dubai for example. We read the documents that come back, link them to the job and put the figures in your books.

Carrier and shipping-line portals are treated the same way: a structured feed where one exists, the emailed PDF where it does not. The document pipeline reads either, and workflow automation moves the result into your transport or accounting system.

In the UAE, mandated e-invoicing reaches freight invoices too.

Invoices between businesses are in scope of the UAE mandate, so freight invoices too must leave your system as PINT AE, through an Accredited Service Provider. The Ministerial Decisions carry transport-specific exclusions, among them international transport on airway bills for a temporary 24-month period. Which of your invoices fall inside is your tax adviser's call.

We make your system produce what they conclude, and clean the customer and supplier records first, because the state of those records decides how many invoices an ASP rejects. UAE e-invoicing readiness has the dates.

Judgement calls stay with a person.

Releasing a shipment, disputing a carrier invoice, accepting a damage claim, and anything sent to a customer for the first time. Every read below its confidence threshold waits as well, and the software enforces that line in code.

From a sample set to the first posted document.

• Sample set. A few hundred of your real documents, including the bad scans and the photographs taken in a cab.
• Baseline. A measured accuracy for each field on each document type, taken before we commit to a number.
• Rules and thresholds. What must agree across a shipment, what may post, what always goes to a person.
• The correction screen. Reviewers see the scan beside each doubtful field and confirm it from the keyboard.
• Integration. Into your ERP or transport system by API or scheduled export, with an audit trail for every posted document.

Traders who also buy and sell the goods should read the trading page. The work is quoted as one fixed price and carries our standard warranty while we host it.