Nexcade AI Agents for Freight Forwarders

Nexcade AI Ltd is a London-based company founded in 2025 that develops AI agents for freight forwarders. It targets the repetitive work of quoting, tendering, rate refreshes and booking that forwarding teams handle through email, spreadsheets and tariff sheets.

The product set includes a quotation agent (Quinn), a coordination and communications agent (CASSIE) and an account memory layer (MEM). The agents work inside the forwarder's inbox, TMS, rate portals and spreadsheets, and a person reviews each output before it goes to a customer, carrier or TMS. Logos on the site include XPO, Zencargo and Cardinal Global Logistics.

• Quotation agent (Quinn): prepares freight quotes from incoming requests.
• Coordination agent (CASSIE): handles communications around shipments with customers and carriers.
• Account memory (MEM): retains customer and account context for agents.
• Tender and rate refresh: automates tenders and rate updates from portals and tariff sheets.
• Booking workflows: supports bookings with human review before release.
• Integrations: connects to inbox, TMS, rate portals and spreadsheets.

A Vietnamese freight forwarder can draft multi-carrier ocean and air quotes from customer emails. A forwarder's pricing desk can refresh rates from carrier portals and tariff sheets. An operations team can keep customers updated on bookings with human approval.

Automates quote preparation so forwarders can answer rate requests faster. Keeps a human review step before anything reaches a customer, carrier or TMS. Works with existing inboxes, TMS and rate sheets rather than requiring a system replacement. Reduces repetitive coordination work for operations teams.

Freight forwarders still quote and coordinate largely through email and spreadsheets, and the sector is adopting AI agents to cut that manual load. Vietnamese and Southeast Asian forwarders handling many small, rate-sensitive shipments face the same quoting bottleneck.

Founded 2025 in London. Announced a 6 million USD Seed round on 8 July 2026 led by Project A Ventures with Connect Ventures, MMC Ventures and Entropy Industrial Capital; 8.5 million USD total funding to date.