The reality
The problem we solve
Onboarding a new carrier today is weeks of operations work: someone parses the PDF, someone keys the rates into a spreadsheet, someone else checks the surcharges, and a month later the rates go live. Then the carrier issues a GRI and the cycle restarts. AI Tariff Loading is how forwarders break that cycle without hiring an army of analysts.
Outcomes
What you get
Continuous freshness
Tariff updates — new GRIs, surcharge changes, validity extensions — are detected, parsed, and queued for review automatically. Stale rates do not silently linger in the library.
Carrier-aware templates
Common ocean carrier formats are recognized on first ingest. NVOCC and forwarder rate cards are handled too, with low-confidence fields flagged for ops review.
Source-clause traceability
Every extracted value links back to the source clause it came from. Operations review is a side-by-side, not a re-key.
Auditable change history
Every change to a tariff is linked to the document version that produced it. Six months later you can defend the price you quoted.
Mechanics
How it works
- 1
1. Onboard once
Drop the carrier's current tariff in. The system extracts lanes, validity, equipment, surcharges, and transit times, linked to the source document.
- 2
2. Approve the structured record
Operations reviews in a side-by-side viewer. Most clean tariffs approve in under ten minutes; complex bundles take longer because they should.
- 3
3. Stay current automatically
When the carrier issues an update — by email, portal, or new PDF — the system detects what changed, queues the affected fields for review, and snapshots the prior version.
- 4
4. Track and report
Leadership sees which carriers are current, which have pending updates, and which agreements are nearing expiry — replacing the monthly Excel from operations.
FAQ
Frequently asked
- How is this different from Tari?
- Tari is the in-product feature your team uses. AI Tariff Loading is the service line around it — covering format support, ongoing change management, and the operations process for keeping a forwarder rate library current at scale.
- What carrier formats work today?
- Native PDFs, scanned PDFs, Excel/CSV, and emailed quote attachments. Major ocean carrier templates are recognized; air and road formats are supported with broader review effort. Specific carrier coverage is reviewed on demo calls.
- What happens to existing tariff data we already have?
- Existing structured tariffs can be imported. The point is not to redo your work — it is to continue it inside a system that keeps the data alive as carriers update.
Talk to a freight engineer
Ready to see AI Tariff Loading in your environment?
Send us one supplier tariff before the call. We'll show how we structure it and how it would surface in your operational flow.
Book a demo →Related
Adjacent products
Tariff Intelligence
Tari
Tari is AI tariff extraction built for forwarders — it turns carrier tariff PDFs, contracts, and Excel sheets into structured data your team can actually quote from.
Tariffs, contracts, surcharges
Rate Management
Rate Management is freight rate management software that acts as the system of record for every contract, surcharge, and customer-specific markup your team applies — feeding Miles and Instant Quote so quotes are always built from the current valid rules.
AI Quoting Engine
Miles
Miles is freight quote automation that turns your loaded tariffs into accurate, on-margin quotes for ocean, air, road, and rail — freight quoting software for any inquiry that hits your inbox or portal.