Captain Cargo AI Quoting for Air Freight

Aircon, also styled Aircon AI, is a Texas-based air logistics technology company founded by air transportation and global logistics veterans. The leadership listed on its site includes Chris Condon (CEO and founder), Irl Wakefield (COO and founder) and Dennis Oleksyuk (CTO). It targets the slow, manual quoting that leaves most air freight quotes unconverted.

Its Captain Cargo product is an AI agent system for freight forwarders. It reviews quote requests, checks routes, rates, service feasibility and margins against the forwarder's own rules, and returns quotes in under 2 minutes, while the team keeps commercial decisions. Forwarders can book across carriers, consolidators and marketplaces in one workflow.

• Quote automation: AI reviews requests, routes, rates and service feasibility.
• Margin rules: quotes are checked against the forwarder's own margin rules.
• Instant pricing: quotes returned in under 2 minutes.
• Multi-carrier booking: booking across carriers, consolidators and marketplaces in one workflow.
• Human control: the team keeps service selection, customer and commercial decisions.

A Vietnamese air freight forwarder can automate replies to routine quote requests for lanes to the US and Europe. A sales team can apply margin rules per customer before sending quotes.

Returns quotes in under 2 minutes, according to the website. Checks margins and service feasibility against the forwarder's own rules before a quote goes out. Addresses the problem that over 87% of air freight quotes never convert, as stated by the company. Lets smaller forwarders book across carriers, consolidators and marketplaces from one workflow.

Air freight quoting is dominated by email and spreadsheets, and AI agents are being adopted to answer rate requests faster. Small and midsize Vietnamese forwarders handling a high volume of requests from exporters can use quote automation to respond sooner and protect margins.

Texas-based, per the June 2025 funding announcement. $5M seed round co-led by Blumberg Capital and Las Olas VC (30 June 2025), bringing total funding to $8M. Website cites 35+ customers and testimonials from Skynet, ArcBest, F2F International and IGL Logistics.