PRE-AI · LOGISTICS

Stop scaling operations with headcount. Start with AI that works inside your TMS.

We help 3PLs, freight brokerages, and carriers ship AI into the work that matters, exception handling, dispatch, and the back office, integrated with the systems you already run and built for your ops team to actually use.

60–90 Days First Deployment ROI Instrumented TMS-Integrated
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01 / THE PROBLEM AT THIS STAGE

Where Pre-AI logistics operators stall.

Most operators who haven’t yet deployed AI hit the same wall in the same place. The pattern is almost identical, operation after operation.

Typical Pre-AI cascade5 stages · 1 outcome
Stage 01

You know exactly where the problem is.

Your ops team is over capacity. Exception handling burns hours every shift, your best dispatchers carry too much in their heads, and the back office grows with the business.

Stall point 01

You’ve heard every AI pitch.

Every TMS vendor and AI consultancy has shown you a deck. The promises are big. The actual deliverables, and the cost to reach them, stay vague.

Stall point 02

Your team is skeptical.

Your dispatchers and ops managers have seen technology projects come and go. They want to see something working before they buy in, and until they do, no deployment takes hold.

Stall point 03

Your CFO wants the ROI math first.

Headcount cost avoided, hours saved, exception resolution time: those numbers need to be quantified and defensible before anyone signs a check.

Outcome

The decision stalls.

The pain stays. Headcount keeps absorbing the load. Another quarter goes by while competitors put AI into their dispatch and exception handling.

seen operation after operation3 stall points we exist to break it

We exist to break that cascade. →

02 / APPROACH

How we work.

A structured 60–90 day engagement built for ops-driven decisions: operations audit first, then TMS integration, then a shipped feature, with measurement and team enablement baked into every stage.

60–90 day engagement sequence5 stages · audit → operate
The sequence: hover a stage
01
Operations Audit & Mapping
Strategy
Wk 00
02
TMS Integration Design
Integration
Wk 02
03
First Production Deployment
Deploy
Wk 05
04
Ops Team Enablement
Adopt
Wk 08
05
ROI Measurement & Roadmap
Operate
Wk 12

Operations Audit & Mapping

Week 00 · strategy
W00
audit phase

We spend time on the floor with your ops team and dispatchers, find the highest-friction workflows, and score every AI candidate on operational ROI, integration effort, and how often the work actually repeats. You get a ranked list, not a wishlist.

At this stage
ROI scoringFloor timeDispatcher inputRepeatability
Ops-firstROI-scoredCFO-ready
audit → integrate → deploy → adopt → operate~60–90 days ops enablement included
03 / WHAT TO BUILD FIRST

Every candidate workflow, scored before a line of model code.

We map and prioritize opportunities against operational ROI, integration effort, and how often the work repeats, specific to your operation. You walk away knowing exactly what to automate first, and why.

AI use-case map: scored candidates9 assessed · 4 shown
UC-01Exception handling · delays & appointments0.86Prioritized
UC-04Dispatch assistance · load-to-carrier0.79Prioritized
UC-07Carrier coordination · status & capacity0.71Escalate
UC-02Freight bill audit · back office0.58Backlog
scored on operational ROIintegration · repeatability CFO-ready
04 / PROVING ROI

The panel that proves what the deployment is actually delivering.

Measurement systems and runbooks quantify the value to your operation and to your CFO, hours saved, exceptions auto-resolved, cost avoided, so the case for the next deployment makes itself. Evidenced, not asserted.

ROI panel: shipped deploymentvs. baseline
Exceptions auto-resolved92%
Ops hours saved / wk18
Annualized cost reduction$2.1M
shipped deploymentbaseline
measured vs. baselineexceptions · hours · cost evidenced
05 / DELIVERABLES

What you walk away with.

Concrete artifacts, a TMS-integrated deployment, and a trained ops team, not slides.

DELIVERABLES MANIFEST REF: PRE-AI / LOG-2026
06 ITEMS · CRYENX-LED
REFDELIVERABLEDESCRIPTIONSTATUS
D-01AI use case mapPrioritized use cases scored on operational ROI, integration effort, and repeatability, specific to your operation, with ROI projections.INCLUDED
D-0290-day roadmapExecution roadmap with measurable checkpoints at each milestone, CFO-ready and ops-ready.INCLUDED
D-03TMS integration foundationsLogistics-aware integration: the AI layered onto your TMS, dispatch console, and back-office tools, no rip-and-replace.INCLUDED
D-04First production featureTightly scoped exception-handling, dispatch, or back-office feature shipped to production with quantified outcomes, not a demo.INCLUDED
D-05ROI instrumentationMeasurement systems + runbooks that prove hours saved, exceptions auto-resolved, and headcount cost avoided to leadership and finance.INCLUDED
D-06Ops team enablementYour dispatchers and ops managers trained on the new tooling, with audit trails and observability that satisfy internal compliance.INCLUDED
CRYENX-LED DELIVERY · ROI-INSTRUMENTED · OPS ENABLEMENT INCLUDED
60–90 DAYS
06 / PROOF

A first production deployment, shipped, not piloted.

What a Pre-AI engagement looks like when it lands: an exception-handling agent live across facilities, instrumented from day one.

Case study: multi-region operator · exception handlingshipped, not piloted
THE CHALLENGE

A multi-region operator was triaging tens of thousands of inventory and shipment exceptions every week across stores, warehouses, and dropship partners. Manual reconciliation kept missing the SLA window, and the team was burning out.

WHAT WE DELIVERED

We deployed an exception-handling agent with a full audit trail, a real-time reconciliation pipeline, and an operations dashboard. The system handled routine exceptions end-to-end and escalated only the genuinely unusual cases to humans.

92%Inventory exceptions auto-resolved
$2.1MAnnualized cost reduction
18hManual ops time saved weekly
4Facilities running it in production
The same operational pattern applies to freight exception handling, dispatch automation, and back-office workflows in 3PLs and brokerages.
shipped to productionscoped · instrumented not a demo
07 / WHY CRYENX

Engineering under real-world load, before it was an AI problem.

Cryenx’s engineering legacy is in performance-critical, real-time systems for brands where reliability under load wasn’t optional: Disney, Coca-Cola, Apple, LEGO, Warner Bros, SXSW. Different industries, same posture: systems that work the first time, scale under real load, and integrate with what’s already there.

That experience, engineering under real-world constraints, integration with existing systems, observability discipline, is exactly what logistics AI requires. For your operation, that means AI your ops team can actually use, layered onto your TMS, with measurable ROI from day one.

BUILT FOR BRAND SCALE, LONG BEFORE AI WENT MAINSTREAM ↪ READ THE FULL ABOUT STORY
Disney Coca-Cola Apple LEGO Warner Bros SXSW L’Oréal Bristol Myers Squibb

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