What is TMF?
AI tools like Claude represent billions of dollars in research and development. They can reason through complex problems, analyze documents, write code, and learn from context.
But ask one to book a freight pickup and you'll get a polite apology.
Not because it isn't smart enough—because it doesn't have the tools.
The TMF layer changes that.
The Simple Answer
TMF (Transportation Management Functions) is a toolkit that lets AI do freight work.
- For humans: A clean API to rate, book, track, and manage shipments
- For AI agents: Tools that execute real freight operations—not simulations, not mockups
Same infrastructure. Two ways to use it.
Why This Matters
Your TMS works. Your carrier portals work. Your spreadsheets get the job done.
But they require you to do the work. Every quote request, every booking, every status check—that's your time.
AI could help. But right now, it has no way to connect to carriers, pull rates, or submit bookings. It can talk about freight, but it can't do freight.
The TMF layer is that missing connection.
The Opportunity
Instead of waiting for someone to build "freight AI from scratch," why not equip the AI that already exists?
Claude, GPT, and other large language models are general-purpose reasoning engines. They're incredibly capable—but they're missing the context and connections to do freight-specific work.
The TMF layer provides both:
- Carrier integrations that actually work
- Structured operations AI can execute
The result: your expertise, supercharged by AI that can finally do what you do every day.
What Becomes Possible
When AI has the right tools, the work changes.
Rating — Pull quotes from multiple carriers in seconds. Let AI compare against your criteria and surface the options that actually make sense.
Booking — Submit pickup requests without copying data between five different screens. The information flows; you make the call.
Document work — The tedious reconciliation, the invoice matching, the exception hunting. AI handles the grind so you can handle the judgment calls.
Exceptions — Problems surface before they become fires. AI monitors; you decide.
Your knowledge stays at the center. The busywork doesn't.
Who This Is For
- Freight professionals who want AI to actually help—not just chat
- Developers building applications that need freight capabilities
- Companies exploring what AI-native operations could look like
Where We Are
This isn't a pitch deck. It's working infrastructure.
- Live integrations with LTL carriers
- Real quotes, real bookings, real results
- API and AI-native interfaces ready for use
We're building toward broader carrier coverage and deeper functionality—but the foundation is here, and it works today.
Get in Touch
Questions? Want to explore what this could look like for your operation? Get in Touch here.