LTL Freight Quote Coordinator
Build an internal tool with AI that requests, captures and compares LTL freight quotes from multiple carriers - class, dims, and accessorials in one place - so you book the cheapest quote with a clean audit trail.
Enter a shipment's specs, request and log quotes from every carrier, compare them apples-to-apples with accessorials included, have a logistics lead approve the winner, and export a CSV booking record plus a carrier confirmation email.
Before you start
- A free Supabase account
- A free Vercel account
- A free Resend account
- Your carrier contact list and a recent batch of freight quotes (email or spreadsheet)
The problem this kills
Booking an LTL (less-than-truckload) pallet shipment means pinging three or four carriers, waiting for quotes to trickle back by email, and then trying to compare numbers that are never quite comparable. One carrier quoted with a liftgate, another forgot the residential surcharge, a third assumed a different freight class. The real numbers live in your inbox, a sticky note, and a half-finished spreadsheet.
So you pick a carrier under time pressure, you can't remember why three weeks later, and when finance asks "why did we pay $90 more for this load?" there's no answer. Worse, the same shipment sometimes gets quoted twice because two people were working it.
What you'll build
A single workspace where you enter a shipment once - weight, freight class, dimensions, and every accessorial that changes the price (liftgate, residential delivery, appointment, inside delivery) - then log the quotes that come back from each carrier against it. The tool normalizes everything to a true all-in total, lays the quotes side by side, and lets a logistics lead approve the winning carrier with one click. Out the other end comes a clean CSV booking record and a confirmation email to the chosen carrier.
What's inside the Implementation Plan
- It interviews you first. Before it builds anything, the plan has the AI agent ask you about your actual freight process - your carriers, how you name shipments, your freight-class conventions, your accessorial list, your typical and peak volumes, and your approval rules. It reflects a short tailored spec back to you and waits for your thumbs-up. You get a tool shaped around how you ship, not a generic template.
- A step-by-step build, where every step ends with a ready-to-paste prompt for your AI coding agent.
- A data model tuned to LTL: shipments, carriers, quotes, accessorials, and an all-in comparison view.
- The "No API yet?" fallback so it works today: paste quotes from email into a form or import a sheet, and export the comparison as CSV - no carrier API integration required.
- A verification checklist so you know it actually works before you trust it with a real load.
The governance it includes (this is the point)
- Login so only your team can open the tool.
- Row-level security so each organization only ever sees its own shipments and quotes.
- A full audit trail - who entered which quote, who approved the winner, and exactly when.
- A hard human-in-the-loop approval gate - the tool compares and recommends, but no shipment is marked booked until a logistics lead reviews and approves the winning quote.
- Duplicate guards so the same shipment-plus-quote can't be logged or processed twice.
Who it's for
Freight and logistics coordinators, shipping leads, and purchasing teams who book palletized LTL freight and are tired of comparing apples to oranges across a cluttered inbox.
You've got this - paste the first prompt and let the agent interview you.