ShipQ is shipAI's quoting assistant for small and mid-sized Canadian freight forwarders. It opens beside the inbox: it reads FCL and LCL details out of the customer email, leaves anything the email did not say open for your team, prices the quote from your own rate tables, and produces a formal quotation only after a person confirms it.
ShipQ prepares the quotation draft. Your rate tables, customer markups, and approval rules stay in charge of the final price.
ShipQ is the quoting assistant built by shipAI. The demo follows three sample inquiries: an FCL shipment with door delivery, an LCL shipment, and a lane with no delivery rate on file.
Concept animation with synthetic demo data. The inquiries, customers, carriers, and rates shown are fictional. Timings come from our internal tests on simple inquiries and will vary with inquiry complexity.
Most quote delay happens before a price is chosen: inquiry emails with partial details, container and CBM math, missing Incoterms or delivery addresses, and rate sheets spread across carriers and truckers. By hand, even a simple quote takes ten to fifteen minutes. ShipQ turns that into one reviewable flow.
ShipQ opens beside the email. Click Load, and it fills customer account, route, container type and count or CBM and weight, cargo ready date, and delivery address. In our tests a simple inquiry takes about five to eight seconds, and each value is tied to the text it came from.
The AI is not allowed to guess. If the email has no shipper or Incoterm, those fields stay open for your team instead of being invented. For LCL, each cargo line is converted to kilos and CBM and checked against the totals in the email, with any gap flagged before anyone looks up a rate.
Each leg shows carrier, validity, cost, markup, and selling price, starting from the customer's tier markup so every operator prices the same way. Edit a markup or fee and prices recalculate; negative markups are blocked. Ocean and fees stay in USD, delivery in CAD, with no invented exchange rate. If a destination has no delivery rate, ShipQ will not issue a door-to-door quote.
Nothing downloads until a person confirms. Each confirmed revision is locked, so later edits never change it. The PDF comes from that revision, with routing, validity, and remarks, and without your cost or markup.
shipAI is in private beta with a Canadian forwarding team. These services describe what the beta workflow covers today: read inquiries, normalize shipment details, flag gaps, price from your rate tables, and produce a quotation a person has confirmed.
Private beta in progress.
We are onboarding a small number of Canadian forwarders. Beta teams get a scoped setup on one trade lane and direct input into what we build next.
Map how inquiries arrive, where your team retypes details, which rate sheets they check, and where approvals slow down.
Turn customer emails and attachments into consistent shipment fields with unit normalization and source evidence.
Price each leg from your rate tables with the customer's tier markup, then adjust fees and markups before the price is confirmed.
Produce an itemized quotation your customer can read, from a revision a person has confirmed.
Start with one trade lane, one quoting group, and a few success metrics. The beta proves quote turnaround and review quality before a wider rollout.
Choose one inquiry inbox, FCL or LCL, and one trade lane with enough volume to give real feedback.
Quote real inquiries with a reviewer in the loop, tune extraction and rate matching, and log every correction.
Compare inquiry-to-quote turnaround, fields corrected per quote, follow-up questions to customers, and quotes sent per week.
shipAI sits next to the tools your team already uses instead of asking everyone to switch systems.
Start from the inquiry email in an inbox side panel, with attachments and your carrier and trucker rate sheets as sources.
Normalize the inquiry, match ocean and delivery rates, and route uncertain cases to a reviewer with the evidence attached.
Send the approved quotation to your customer and keep structured quote data and decision history for customer follow-up.
shipAI is in private beta. We describe what the product does today instead of listing certifications we have not completed.
Tell us how inquiries reach your team, how many quotes you send, and where the time goes: retyping emails, chasing missing details, checking rate sheets, or building the quotation. We will book a 30-minute walkthrough on an inquiry like yours and, if it fits, propose a private beta scope for one trade lane.
Best for Canadian freight forwarders quoting FCL and LCL ocean shipments, with a reviewer approving each quote.