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Industry 03
Industries we support

Export & Logistics

Documentation-heavy workflows, automated end to end.

Export and logistics run on documents. One wrong field on one document holds a container, so people check everything twice by hand. We automate the reading, the matching, and the chasing.

How this business runs today
  • Every shipment generates a stack of documents that must agree with each other exactly.
  • Coordinators re-key the same details into invoices, packing lists, and forms.
  • Status updates come from emails, portals, and phone calls to the CHA.
  • Customers email to ask where their shipment is, repeatedly.
  • Detention and demurrage charges appear after the fact, unexplained.
  • Compliance documents are filed in folders that only one person can navigate.

If that reads like your business, none of it is unusual — and none of it has to stay that way.

What it costs you

The frustrations we hear most in this sector

Every one of these is a symptom of information being captured more than once, or not captured at all.

The same shipment data re-typed across eight or more documents
Discrepancies between documents discovered at the port, not at the desk
No single live view of where every shipment currently stands
Constant customer status enquiries consuming coordinator time
Demurrage and detention charges that nobody saw coming
Document retrieval for an audit taking days of searching
Task by task

How we transform export & logistics operations

No abstractions. For each task your team does today, here is what changes, and exactly which capability does the work.

01

Export documentation

Today

Commercial invoice, packing list, certificate of origin, and shipping instructions are each prepared separately, re-typing the same shipment details every time.

With Udyat

Shipment data entered once generates every document from one source, so the details cannot disagree, with format rules validated before anything is issued.

How: Document generation engine over a single shipment record.

02

Incoming document processing

Today

Bills of lading, airway bills, customs documents, and supplier invoices arrive as PDFs and scans, and are read and keyed by a coordinator.

With Udyat

Documents read automatically, key fields extracted, cross-checked against the shipment record, and discrepancies flagged before they cause a hold.

How: Vision AI extraction with automated cross-document reconciliation.

03

Shipment tracking

Today

Status is assembled from carrier emails, portal logins, and calls to the CHA, then relayed to the customer by hand.

With Udyat

One live tracking view per shipment, updated from carrier feeds and milestone events, with exceptions raised automatically when a milestone slips.

How: Integration with carrier and port data plus milestone-based exception alerting.

04

Customer status enquiries

Today

Customers email and call for updates. A coordinator answers each one individually, several times per shipment.

With Udyat

A customer portal shows live shipment status and documents, and a Voice AI agent answers status calls instantly, including outside office hours.

How: Customer visibility portal plus Voice AI grounded in live shipment data.

05

Compliance and regulatory filing

Today

Compliance data is compiled manually per shipment and per destination, with rules held in someone's head.

With Udyat

Destination-specific requirements applied automatically as a checklist per shipment, with missing items blocked before dispatch rather than discovered at customs.

How: Rule-based compliance checklists driven by destination and commodity.

06

Demurrage and detention exposure

Today

Free-time expiry is tracked informally. Charges become visible when the invoice arrives.

With Udyat

Free-time clocks tracked per container with escalating alerts as expiry approaches, so action is possible while it is still free.

How: Automated milestone tracking with threshold-based alerting.

07

Proof of delivery and condition

Today

Delivery proof is a signed paper document that may take weeks to return, and damage disputes rely on recollection.

With Udyat

Drivers capture signature, photographs, and geo-stamped timestamps on a phone; images are read and attached to the consignment automatically.

How: Photo-driven field workflows with Vision AI capture and auto-filing.

08

Freight cost reconciliation

Today

Carrier invoices are checked against quoted rates manually, when there is time — which often means not at all.

With Udyat

Every carrier invoice read and automatically reconciled against the agreed rate card, with variances flagged for dispute before payment.

How: Vision AI extraction with automated rate-card matching.

09

Document archive and audit

Today

Documents are filed in folders by shipment. Retrieval for an audit means someone searching for days.

With Udyat

Every document indexed by shipment, party, commodity, and date, fully searchable, with statutory retention applied automatically.

How: Digitized archive with full-text search and retention policy automation.

10

Job costing and profitability

Today

Profit per shipment is estimated, and rarely revisited once the file is closed.

With Udyat

Revenue and every cost component accumulate against the shipment as they occur, so per-shipment and per-lane profitability is visible continuously.

How: Custom platform with live cost accumulation and margin reporting.

Typical outcomes

What businesses in this sector get back

Indicative ranges from comparable programmes. Your assessment produces numbers for your own operations.

80%
less document keying
entered once, generated everywhere
3x
faster document processing
with automated extraction
60%
fewer status enquiries
after portal and Voice AI rollout
0
surprise demurrage
free-time clocks tracked and alerted
What we build

Solutions we deliver for this sector

Each is a real, scoped piece of work — usually delivered one at a time, starting with whichever pays back fastest.

Single-entry documentation suite

Enter shipment details once and generate the commercial invoice, packing list, shipping instructions, and certificates — consistent by construction.

Automated document reading and reconciliation

Bills of lading, airway bills, customs documents, and carrier invoices read automatically and cross-checked against the shipment record.

Customer visibility portal

Customers see live status, milestones, and documents for their own shipments — removing the majority of routine status enquiries.

Voice AI shipment desk

An agent that answers status calls in seconds at any hour, reading live milestone data and escalating exceptions to a coordinator.

Free-time and exception alerting

Automated tracking of demurrage and detention clocks with escalating alerts, so charges are avoided rather than explained.

Systems we connect to

Your existing systems stay

We integrate rather than replace wherever it makes sense. These are the platforms we most commonly connect to in this sector.

Carrier and NVOCC portalsICEGATEDGFTTallySAPPort community systemsGPS and telematicsWhatsApp Business API
Compliance and evidence

Audit evidence as a by-product

When the workflow captures the work properly, the evidence an auditor asks for already exists.

  • Consistent documentation across commercial, customs, and carrier paperwork
  • Destination and commodity-specific compliance checklists per shipment
  • Statutory retention of export documentation with searchable archives
  • Complete audit trail on document generation, amendment, and approval
FAQ

Export & Logistics — questions we get asked

We already use a freight forwarding software package. Is this a replacement?

Usually not. Most forwarding packages handle the core file and accounting well but leave document reading, customer visibility, and exception alerting to people. We add those layers and integrate.

Carrier documents come in dozens of formats. Can extraction cope?

Yes. We use multimodal models rather than per-carrier templates, so a new carrier's first document is handled without configuration. Anything below the confidence threshold routes to a coordinator instead of guessing.

Can you connect to carrier and port tracking?

Where the carrier offers an API or EDI feed, yes. Where they do not, milestone updates can be captured from structured emails or portal data, and coordinators update the exceptions rather than everything.

Our customers are used to emailing us for updates.

Most keep emailing at first. The portal and Voice AI agent absorb the routine questions over time, and coordinators end up handling the genuinely complex ones — which is where their expertise is worth paying for.

Next step

Let's look at your export & logistics operations

A short discovery gives you a written picture of where time and money are leaking, and a phased plan to fix it. No obligation.