Inbox to TMS

Inbox-to-TMS automation for freight forwarders.

A booking arrives. An agent reads it, finds the job, and pre-fills the TMS record. Pre-alert, B/L, carrier update, the same read every time. Your team reviews and approves. That is the whole workflow.

The problem

The gap between the email and the record is a person.

Today a team member reads the booking confirmation, opens the TMS you already run, finds the job, and types the fields in by hand. Then does it again for the pre-alert, and again for the B/L. Every booking, rate response, agent update, and shipper question hits the inbox first. Run real volume and the inbox stops being a mailbox and becomes the bottleneck.

What the agents do

Read, route, pre-fill, and wait for your approval.

Every email read and routed

Booking confirmations, agent updates, carrier responses, shipper questions. Each message is read, identified, and routed to the right job. No one sorts the inbox by hand.

Fields extracted, record pre-filled

A booking confirmation pre-fills the lot. A pre-alert stages the update. Every field carries a confidence score and the source text behind it, for your team to review.

A queue, not an inbox

Your team works a prioritized action list: pre-fills ready to approve, documents missing, deadlines approaching. The inbox is no longer the operating layer.

Ask anything, get an answer

Container status, quote history, document receipt, email threads. The agent answers from everything it has read, with the source cited. No TMS navigation, no inbox search.

How it works

From email in to reviewed record, step by step.

An email arrives

A booking, pre-alert, carrier rate, or arrival notice lands in your shared inbox. Nothing about how your team receives mail changes.

The agent classifies it

It identifies the email type and resolves the sender, including overseas agents writing in inconsistent formats.

It binds to the right job

The message is tied to the correct open lot, matched on booking reference, container, bill of lading, or shipper, with no manual sorting.

It extracts and pre-fills

The relevant fields are pulled with a confidence score and the source text for each, so review is a check, not a re-type.

Your team reviews

The operator checks the pre-filled fields against the source, corrects anything flagged low-confidence, and approves.

The approved data writes

It posts through the TMS API. The TMS stays the system of record. Nothing writes, and no customs filing submits, without a person approving it first.

It is not a document parser you feed one PDF at a time, and it is not a TMS replacement. It handles the flow of work between the inbox and the TMS you already run, and connects to any inbox on IMAP or Microsoft 365 in days, not weeks.

See it turn a real email into a record.

Twenty minutes, no setup. Bring a real document and watch an agent take it to a finished draft while you’re on the call.

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