Founderwright for trucking & logistics
AI for trucking and logistics companies. Know what every load made.
Your TMS knows the loads. Your ELDs know the trucks. Your books know the money. We connect them into one AI brain and add the lane scorecards, settlement checks, and agents a carrier or brokerage needs, built in-house around how you move freight.
Private-equity-grade tools. Without giving up equity. Built by an operationally minded CFO, not a software vendor.
- Truckload carriers
- LTL carriers
- Freight brokerages
- Dedicated fleets
- Drayage
- Last-mile delivery
- Courier services
- Warehousing
Operator-CFO built
Not generic software. What a CFO would put in front of a fleet or brokerage.
Founderwright is built by an operationally minded CFO. The numbers that grow a company organically are the same ones that make an acquisition work and hold up when you sell. Every build starts there: surfaced before you ask and ranked by dollar impact.
Revenue per mile
Margin per lane after deadhead, fuel, tolls, and driver pay
An average rate hides the lanes you’re paying to run.
Loads delivered
Delivered loads not yet billed and detention not yet claimed
It’s cash you’ve already earned, still sitting in paperwork.
A truck count
Revenue lost to each down or unseated truck, per day
It tells you whether the next dollar goes to a mechanic or a recruiter.
The same numbers carry a fleet or brokerage through every stage: recovery, growth, acquisitions, and exit prep.
The morning brief
Surfaced before you ask. Ranked by what it’s worth.
Agents watch every connected system overnight. By morning, the issues that matter most are ranked, assigned, and drafted.
Monday, 5:30 a.m. · What the owner sees before dispatch picks up the phone
Ranked actions
From your own numbers, across every system- 1Reassign 2 loads off truck 214TodayDown for a turbo repair · pickups at 6 a.m. and 9 a.m.
- 2Bill $6,400 in unclaimed detentionThis week27 stops past free time last month · ELD times attached
- 3Southeast dedicated lane lost money 3 weeks runningThis week$2.18/mi rate vs. $2.31/mi cost · 24% deadhead
- 4Settlements ready for 46 driversOn trackAdvances and deductions checked · no open disputes
Illustrative data. Every build is designed around your company’s own systems and numbers.
Voice notes that take action
Or just say it.
Between jobs, on the drive, or walking the floor: record a thought and the platform drafts the tasks, schedule changes, and answers. Nothing happens until you approve it. How voice notes work.
“Reassign the two loads off truck 214, have billing chase last week’s detention, and which lane lost money this month?”
- Reschedule2 loads off truck 214 → reassigned for dispatch review
- New taskBilling: invoice $6,400 in detention with ELD times attached
- AnswerSoutheast dedicated lane lost money 3 weeks running · $2.18 rate vs. $2.31 cost per mile
Illustrative. Nothing changes until you approve it.
Sound familiar
Margin leaks one mile at a time.
Deadhead hides in the averages
Revenue per mile looks fine on the monthly report. Nobody sees the empty miles to the next pickup until the lane has lost money for a quarter.
Detention never makes the invoice
Your driver waited at the dock all afternoon. The timestamps sit in the ELD, but detention and lumper charges only get billed when someone remembers to chase them.
Settlements eat the whole Monday
Driver pay is built by hand from loads, stops, advances, and deductions. One mistake costs a driver’s trust, and good drivers are the hardest thing to replace.
Cash waits on paperwork
A load can’t be billed until the signed proof of delivery is in. Missing paperwork stalls invoices and factoring, while fuel and payroll come due on schedule.
What we’d build
What we’d build for a carrier or brokerage.
Each module starts from how you price, dispatch, and pay. It is built in-house by Founderwright, owned by you, and runs on your real loads, trucks, drivers, and customers from the start.
Owner’s command center
Revenue per mile, margin by division, cash, and trucks seated in one view, with today’s exceptions ranked by dollars at stake and every figure traced to the load.
Lane profitability
Revenue, cost, and deadhead by lane and customer, with fuel, tolls, and driver pay allocated to each load. See which freight pays and which only fills the truck.
Brokerage margin board
Every load’s buy rate against its sell rate, margin by rep and customer, and loads still uncovered close to pickup, flagged before they become a service failure.
Accessorial capture
Arrival and departure times from your ELD and telematics are matched to each stop. Detention, layover, and lumper charges are drafted onto the invoice with the proof attached.
Settlements and retention
Settlements built from delivered loads, miles, stops, and accessorials, with advances and deductions checked first. Pay and home time by driver flag who’s drifting toward the door.
Maintenance and downtime
Preventive maintenance due by unit and mileage, fault codes from the truck, and driver inspection defects on one board. Every down truck shows the revenue it’s missing.
Billing, factoring, and cash
Every delivered load tracked to a signed POD and a sent invoice. Factored and direct receivables by customer, with collection drafts ready when a payment runs late.
Fuel and cost per mile
Fuel card spend matched to units and routes, with MPG, idle time, off-route purchases, and cost per mile tracked by truck and by driver.
The compliance line
We build above the line. We connect to everything else.
For carriers, the line sits under your ELDs and hours-of-service records, fuel tax and registration filings, driver qualification files, payroll, and the books. Dispatch, billing, the shop, and every report you run sit above it.
Above the line
Built custom, in-house by Founderwright, around how you run. Owned by you.
Below the line
The regulated systems you’re required to keep. We read from them, and where they offer a write API, approved work is written straight back in.
Keep any tool you like. We integrate with it. Carriers often run on a TMS, an ELD and telematics provider, fuel cards, and a factoring company, and brokerages add load boards and carrier-vetting services. See the systems we connect.
The build
How we’d build it for a trucking or logistics company.
Map how freight moves
We start with one load, from the rate quote to the paid invoice: how you price lanes, dispatch and track, settle with drivers, and chase paperwork, plus the numbers you watch every morning and where margin leaks.
Connect the TMS
We connect your TMS or dispatch system first. The command center then runs on your real loads, trucks, and customers, with nothing re-keyed and nothing migrated.
Add ELDs, fuel, and settlements
ELD and telematics data, fuel cards, payroll and settlements, factoring, and the books come next, so cost per mile and lane margin run on the same numbers dispatch sees.
Replace the workarounds
Above the compliance line, we build what you’ve patched together with spreadsheets and email, starting where the most margin leaks. What we build is yours, and the subscriptions it replaces can go.
The numbers it runs on
Your definitions. Measured the same way everywhere.
Every metric is defined with you once, tied back to the source systems, and checked by agents before anyone makes a decision on it.
Questions
What owners ask us.
Do we have to replace our TMS?
No. Keep your TMS, your ELDs, and any other tool you like. We connect them in the first days and build lane profitability, settlements, and accessorial billing on top. When a tool above the compliance line stops earning its keep, we can retire it and build its replacement around how you move freight.
What stays below the compliance line for a carrier or a broker?
For a carrier running commercial motor vehicles: ELDs and hours-of-service records, fuel tax and registration filings, driver qualification files, drug and alcohol testing records, payroll, insurance, and the books of record, wherever the rules apply. A brokerage keeps a shorter list, mostly its books, payroll, banking, and insurance. We don’t replace any of it. We read from those systems, and where one offers a write API, approved work goes straight back in. A person approves every write, and each one is logged.
We run trucks and a brokerage. Can it keep them straight?
Yes. Asset freight and brokered freight each get their own board, margin, and scorecards, and you compare them on one set of definitions. When the brokerage books a load onto your own trucks, it’s counted once, and the revenue split follows the rule you set. Dispatchers are measured on the trucks they run, and brokerage reps on the margin they book.
What do the agents do day to day?
They watch loads, paperwork, and money, and turn what they find into tasks with an owner. An agent can flag a delivered load with no proof of delivery, draft a detention charge with the ELD times attached, or check a settlement against the loads behind it. Nothing is written to your TMS, settlements, or books until a person approves it.
Who owns the system once it’s built?
You do. The system is yours, from the tools we build above the compliance line to the load, lane, and settlement history inside them. Keep building with us, hand it to your own team, or run it as it stands. There is no lock-in, and nothing you depend on goes dark when a contract ends.
Start with one conversation.
Recovering, growing, buying, or getting ready to sell: tell us how your company runs. We’ll show you what it could run on.
Start a conversation logan@founderwright.com