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Rate request: 2 pallets HKG → LHR, air
Hi team, can you quote air for 2 pallets, 120 × 100 × 110 cm, 480 kg total, ready Thursday in Hong Kong? Door delivery to our Reading site, please.
CASSIE Classified: quotation · routed to Quinn
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02 09:14:11 · Assembly
A request lands. The rate is in a portal, last month’s surcharge is in a spreadsheet, the customer’s preference is in someone’s head, and the request itself is the ninth unread email of the morning. Forwarding has an assembly problem: every quote means stitching seven sources together.
Nexcade agents are built for the assembly. They read the inbox, the rate sources, the TMS and the house rules in one pass, do the legwork, and give your team one thread to review and approve.
Q-2384 · One thread
03 09:21:36 · Review
Agents do the legwork, and your experts make the judgement calls. Every step is logged, and anything bound for a customer, a carrier or your TMS waits for a person. Pick a job. When the agent holds for review, you make the call.
04 09:24:03 · Memory
Every request leaves useful memory behind: customer preferences, house rules, who replied, what won, what missed, and where margin slipped. Nexcade carries that forward so the next file starts with the know-how your desk already earned.
05 What you get
How we measureMeasured on live Nexcade Quote deployments after Q1 2026, above 50% of in-scope volume, against the prior period. Figures vary by forwarder, mode, and lane.
+50%
faster quote turnaround · LCL
A complex request can arrive overnight and be ready for review by morning. Tenders, rate refreshes and bookings follow the same pattern: the agent handles the legwork, and your experts make the judgement calls.
>2×
files per quoting head · Air
Agents chase rates, rekey fields and check supplier portals. Your team can spend that time on customers, suppliers, and the service that makes you stand out.
+40%
rate benchmarks per quote · Road
The memory from every request (who replied, what won, where margin slipped) gives the next quote more to benchmark against.
Most teams have their first transport mode running reliably within 3 months of starting implementation.We start on your highest-volume lanes, prove the numbers, and roll out from what already works.
At Cardinal, automating spot quoting was a top priority so our account managers could spend more time with customers and less time chasing rates. We went with Nexcade because they understand how our business works and back it up with leading AI. The team have been hands-on from day one and move faster than any other software partner we’ve dealt with.
Rick WhiteNexcade are quickly becoming the experts in agentic pricing for freight. Nexcade integrates into our platform, and lets us price faster with more accuracy. It feels like a real partnership.
Richard Fattal