Updated 9 August 2026
AI quoting tools for freight forwarders in 2026: a field guide
Four types of freight quoting software and how they work together from inbox request to TMS record.
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Plain-language guides to the tools forwarders use to quote, and to the economics behind them. Each guide is dated, sourced, and reviewed when the market moves.
The record
Nexcade raises a $6M Seed round led by Project A
Nexcade has raised a $6 million Seed round led by Project A Ventures, with Connect Ventures, MMC Ventures and Entropy Industrial Capital joining, to build AI agents for freight forwarders.
NexcadeForwarding AI vendor lands funding to automate shipment coordination
Eric Johnson covers Nexcade's $6 million Seed round for the Journal of Commerce, with a focus on agents that automate shipment coordination for forwarders.
Journal of CommerceNexcade and Freightify announce a partnership
Nexcade and Freightify announced a partnership to strengthen the integration between trusted rate data and the agents that execute quoting, rates, and pricing workflows.
NexcadeWhat fixing your data for AI actually means
Founder Dan Bailey on cleanliness, completeness, and accuracy as three separate bars, and why the automation objective should set the bar for each.
Dan BaileyAI, cost, and where forwarders find a lasting edge
Dan Bailey on the market's cost conversation: efficiency gains get competed away, and the durable prize is time to reinforce service, turnaround, and exception handling.
Dan BaileyBuild or buy AI quoting: what the giants show
The public evidence on in-house AI quoting programmes at three giants, what those builds actually required, and a practical frame for forwarders weighing build against buy.
NexcadeQuoting across time zones, answered the moment it arrives
Founder Dan Bailey on the hidden cost of overnight gaps in international quoting, and how always-on agents close them.
Dan BaileyNexcade named in Europe's Top 100 Cloud Challengers 2026
Notion Capital's Cloud Challengers report selected 100 breakout companies from 200,000 European B2B software businesses.
NexcadeThe end of manual pricing? How AI agents are rewriting ocean freight
Eric Johnson talks to Dan Bailey on TPM Today about AI agents in ocean freight pricing, quoting, and procurement workflows.
TPM TodayAI automation and forward deployment with Dan Bailey
Brian Glick of Chain.io and Dan Bailey on forward deployment in logistics software and how AI automation lands inside freight forwarders.
Supply Chain ConnectionsNew automation provider emerges to tackle forwarder quoting inefficiencies
Eric Johnson covers Nexcade's launch for the Journal of Commerce: digital agents that automate pricing, quoting and procurement for logistics teams.
Journal of CommerceNexcade emerges from stealth with $2.5 million to transform freight
FreightWaves' exclusive on the pre-seed round led by Connect Ventures, and the mission to bring end-to-end AI automation to freight forwarding.
FreightWavesNexcade exits stealth with $2.5M to automate global freight forwarding
Tech.eu on the funding round: Connect Ventures led, with MMC Ventures, Entropy Industrial Capital, Inovia and angel investors participating.
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