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ForwardQuote

Stop logging into carrier portals to build a quote.

ForwardQuote turns RFQ emails into priced quotes in under 3 minutes — using your negotiated rate cards, not market averages.

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Built for domestic LTL forwarders · No carrier integrations required

RFQ-0041 · LivePROCESSING

RFQ Email

Chicago, IL → Dallas, TX

AI Extraction

Parsing 12 fields...

Confidence Router

10 high · 2 medium · 0 low

Human Review

Dispatcher reviewing 2 fields

Rate Engine

Running Estes · OD · FedEx Freight

Quote Sent

$2,431.20 · Estes Express

Avg. cycle: 2m 47svs. 38 min manually

The status quo

00:00 elapsed

00:00

You get an RFQ email. You open Estes. Then Old Dominion. Then FedEx Freight. Then you do the math in a spreadsheet.

08:23

You spent 40 minutes building that quote. The shipper never replied. You'll never know if you were $40 high or just slow.

38:47

You do this 20, 30, 40 times a day. Every one of those quotes is a manual process. The margin leak is invisible until it isn't.

How it works

RFQ to sent quote in 3 steps.

01

RFQ arrives — fields extracted instantly

ForwardQuote reads the email. Origin, destination, weight, dimensions, freight class, pallet count, hazmat flag, and special requirements — all pulled without copy-paste.

OriginChicago, IL 60601
DestinationDallas, TX 75201
Weight2,400 lbs ✓
Freight Class70 ⚠ medium
Pallets4
HazmatNo

02

Rate engine runs the math — your rates, not spot

Your negotiated carrier rates, accessorials, and margin rules. First-mile, line-haul, last-mile. EIA fuel surcharge applied weekly. No market rates.

03

Quote sent — in under 3 minutes

Review the priced options, select the lane, and send. The full cycle — intake to sent quote — in under 3 minutes. The shipper hears back before the competition has opened their first portal.

What's under the hood

Your rate cards, not market rates

Upload your negotiated carrier contracts. ForwardQuote uses actual rates from your relationships — not spot market averages. Your margin lives in the delta.

Freight class and accessorial logic

Classes 50–500, NMFC standard. Automatic stacking of liftgate, inside delivery, appointment, and residential fees. EIA fuel surcharge updated weekly.

Human review queue built in

Low-confidence extractions go to a review queue, not a sent quote. The AI handles the clear ones. A dispatcher handles the edge cases.

Multi-tenant from day one

Each forwarder runs in an isolated environment. Rate cards, margin rules, and RFQ history are never shared across accounts.

Built by operators

We built the tool we needed.

Most quoting software is built by engineers who have never dispatched an LTL shipment. We have. The people behind ForwardQuote have worked inside Amazon and Walmart, run logistics operations at startups, and built the tools freight teams actually rely on.

Eddie Valdez

AI Product & Engineering

Ex-Amazon. PM at Walmart and eBay. Building AI products.

Rohit Mulgund

Operations & Strategy

20 years in operations. $600M+ digital P&L. Deployed AI at 4,000+ Walmart stores. Customer zero and co-founder.

ForwardQuote is built in partnership between Barael LLC and IMPACT AI Advisory. Built by people who've moved freight. For people who still do.

Early Access

Tell us about your operation.

We review every request manually. If it's a fit, we'll be in touch within one business day.

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