Simão Marques

Your team types loads in by hand. My software does it for you.

Rate cons into your TMS. Check calls. Chasing PODs. No setup fee for my first 3 clients, and the monthly fee starts only once it saves your team 100 hours.

Get your free hours breakdown Pick a time for a 20-minute video call. Your page in 48 hours. Free. Or email me.

The work that eats your team's day.

Every load needs the same few manual touches. None of them move more freight. My software does them inside the TMS you already run: McLeod, Tai, Turvo, Aljex, Revenova or another.

  • Rate cons into your TMS

    Read the rate con from the email or PDF and enter the load. No retyping.

    10 min a load
  • Check calls

    Get the status from the carrier and update the load and the customer.

    15 min a load
  • Chasing PODs

    Ask for the POD, follow up, and file it on the load when it lands.

    5 min a load
  1. 1A rate con lands in your inbox.

    Fromdispatch@shipper-example.com
    SubjectRate confirmation #48213
    RateCon_48213.pdf
  2. 2The software reads it.

    Pickup
    Dallas, TX · Oct 22
    Delivery
    Atlanta, GA · Oct 24
    Equipment
    53' dry van
    Rate
    $2,150
  3. 3The load is in your TMS. Your team approves it.

    Load 48213Dallas, TX → Atlanta, GA$2,150 · 53' dry van
    Ready for reviewApprove
How a load moves. Illustration with example data.

Here's what it costs you now.

Put in your own numbers. Check calls, typing in rate cons and chasing PODs take most brokerages about 30 minutes a load.

Change the numbers in the boxes to match your brokerage.

loads a month × minutes a load300hours
× $ an hour, loaded$10,500a month
Over a year$126,000a year
My software, flat (founding price)$1,500a month

That's 300 hours a month. Worth 20 minutes to find your real number.

Send me these numbers

Estimates. Your free breakdown measures the real ones.

Start with a free page about your team.

Give me 20 minutes on a video call. Bring whoever runs ops day to day. They know where the hours go.

Within 48 hours I send you one page. It shows how many hours each task costs you, in dollars, and which ones a computer can do.

It's free. If the number is big, you may want me to fix it. If not, you keep the page.

Book my 20 minutes

Hours breakdown

EXAMPLE

A 600-load brokerage, 6 people in ops

TaskEach monthHoursCostComputer?
Check calls15 min a load600150$5,250Mostly
Rate cons into the TMS10 min a load600100$3,500Yes
Chasing PODs5 min a load60050$1,750Yes
Total300$10,500

How it works.

Four steps. You only pay once the numbers say it's worth it. Prices shown are for my first 3 clients; standard prices are below.

  1. 1. Free breakdown

    $0

    A 20-minute video call, then one page on where your team's hours go.

  2. 2. Audit

    $500 founding

    I measure the real hours from your real documents. Full refund if I find less than 100 hours a month a computer can take.

  3. 3. Build

    $0 setup, first 3 clients

    Built around your TMS. Running on real freight within 45 days. You keep your TMS and your people.

  4. 4. Monthly

    $1,500 a month founding

    Starts the month it first saves your team 100 hours. Not before.

100 hours, or I keep building.

If it isn't running on real freight within 45 days, you get your money back.

If it isn't saving your team 100 hours a month by day 90, I keep building at no extra charge until it is.

Hours are counted from your own TMS and the system's log, so you can check them every month. Full terms in your agreement and on the refunds page.

Who builds it.

Simão Marques
Simão MarquesLinkedIn

I'm Simão, a lead software engineer. I build software that makes a business run better: less busywork, fewer mistakes, more done by the same team.

I start with how your team works today, then build around it, so nobody has to learn a new system. And I sweat the details: the odd rate con, the load that doesn't fit the pattern. That's where most automation breaks, so that's where I spend my time.

I work from Portugal with US teams, over video. You see who's building it, and every number I give you can be checked in your own TMS.

Pricing.

One flat monthly fee for the work we scope in the audit. No per-load meter. At $18,000 a year, the founding price costs about a third of one ops hire. AI and hosting run on your own accounts, at cost, with no markup.

Founding client

3 of 3 spots open
$1,500a month

Starts the month it first saves your team 100 hours.

Free breakdown
$0
Audit, refunded if under 100 hours
$500
Setup
$0
Term, from the first paid month
6 months

The $500 is credited to your first month. If it isn't saving 100 hours by day 150, either of us can walk away and nothing more is owed. In return: you share your monthly numbers, and once it hits 100 hours, a short case study with your company name.

Standard

$2,500a month

After the 3 founding spots are taken.

Free breakdown
$0
Audit, refunded if under 100 hours
$1,500
Setup, audit credited
$15,000
Term
12 months

Setup refunded in full if it isn't running on real freight within 45 days. All prices in US dollars.

Questions.

Anything else, email me. I answer the same business day.

Do I have to change my TMS?

No. The software works around the TMS you already run, whether that's McLeod, Tai, Turvo, Aljex, Revenova or another. Your team keeps working the way they do, minus the typing and chasing.

What if it gets a load wrong?

Anything it isn't sure about goes to your team to check first. Nothing that commits money, like a rate or a carrier booking, goes out without a person approving it. Every action is logged, so you can see exactly what it did and why.

What do I need for the free breakdown?

20 minutes on a video call, ideally with whoever runs ops day to day. No documents, no logins, nothing to sign.

Who sees our data?

Only me, and only what the work needs. The AI and hosting run on your own accounts, so you keep the keys. Your data is never used to train AI models. Details are in the privacy policy.

Why are you in Portugal?

It's where I live. I work US hours for US clients, over video. Contracts and prices are in US dollars.

What if I want to stop?

The term is in your agreement: 6 months for founding clients, 12 for standard. After that it runs month to month and you can stop any time. See the refunds page.

Want to see where your hours go?

Pick a time for the 20 minutes, and you get your page within 48 hours.

Pick a time

Rather write? simao@simaomarques.com