AI-powered quoting and operations platform for freight forwarders
Starboard builds agent-driven infrastructure for freight forwarding operations, with a tech stack centered on event-streaming (Kafka, SQS, Pub/Sub) and LLM integration (Claude, Codex). The project list reveals a company solving three connected problems: quote latency and accuracy (via AI agents), rate data ingestion at scale, and customer onboarding—all critical friction points in freight forwarding. Early-stage hiring (2–10 people, 50% sales) indicates a sales-led go-to-market targeting SMB and mid-market forwarders across North America.
Starboard provides a cloud-based operations platform for freight forwarders, centered on two products: Starboard OS (an agent-driven workflow engine) and Quote Tools (AI-powered quoting). The platform integrates live market data via APIs and uses large language models to automate quoting, rate management, and shipment execution. Founded in 2024, the company is based in Toronto and actively hiring across Canada and the United States, with current focus on sales expansion and core infrastructure scaling to support rapid North American growth.
AWS (compute/storage), Kafka and Google Cloud Pub/Sub (event streaming), PostgreSQL with PostGIS (spatial data), Next.js and Python (application layer), Claude and Codex (LLM integration), GitHub Copilot (development tooling).
Core infrastructure for real-time, event-driven agent workflows; high-scale CRUD APIs for rates, quotes, shipments, and marketplace data; quote latency reduction; and customer onboarding at scale targeting SMB and mid-market freight forwarders.
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