WMS/TMS integrations, EDI pipelines, dispatch automation, tracking portals. Send us the agency's proposal and your operational requirements — in 48 business hours you'll know the real market price, whether the architecture survives your peak volume, and where the change orders are buried.
Proposals we audit every week
They promised an easy WMS/TMS integration. What you got was a pipeline that drops loads, duplicate 214s, and a support thread nobody answers. You still have budget left — you cannot afford to get it wrong twice.
Two proposals, same problem, wildly different numbers. One feels like it's padded with hours you'll never see. The other feels too cheap to be real. Nobody in the building can tell you which instinct is right.
"Middleware layer." "Event-driven architecture." "Custom EDI mapping engine." You have no in-house engineer to tell you which of those is real work and which is billable padding — and the agency knows it.
No discovery calls, no pitch decks, no sales process. Send it, get the truth, decide.
Send the agency's PDF proposal plus a short brief on what the system actually has to do — load volume, carrier count, which systems it has to talk to, and what breaks today. Paste it or upload it. No preparation needed.
A senior architect runs an independent five-point check: price against US market rates, architecture under your real peak volume, EDI/API feasibility, scope gaps, and the change-order traps sitting in the assumptions section.
You get a scorecard: fair market cost, red flags ranked by dollar exposure, the exact questions to put to the vendor, and your negotiation levers — written so you can forward it straight to your CFO without translating anything.
What this build actually costs, benchmarked against current US integration and middleware rates. We check the other direction too — a low bid engineered to be recovered later through change orders is the more expensive mistake.
Will it hold at your actual peak, or fall over at month-end? We check the integration design against your load volume, trading partner count, retry and acknowledgement handling, and what happens when a partner's endpoint goes down.
The work that isn't in the quote but will be on the invoice. Partner onboarding, data migration, UAT cycles, production support, label and document generation — we list every gap and what it will cost you when it resurfaces.
One page your CFO can approve or reject without a translator. The recommendation, the dollar exposure, and the reasoning — so the decision is documented and defensible whichever way you go.
No dev services. No referral fees. No preferred-vendor list. We are never the company that gets hired if the project goes ahead — our only incentive is protecting your capital.
You already insure your trucks, your cargo and your warehouse. A custom software build is one of the largest uninsured line items most 3PLs sign all year.
Because whoever wants to win the rebuild can't be the one auditing the bid.
Start free to see whether it's worth going further. The full audit is a flat fee, quoted before we start.
Automated first pass, no card required
Flat fee by build size · 48–72 business hours
Quoted per engagement, after the audit
No. We audit the proposal document and your written requirements. No system access, no credentials, no integration with anything you run. That is deliberate — it keeps the engagement fast and keeps your operational data out of it entirely.
Then that's what the report says, and you sign with confidence instead of anxiety. We get paid the same either way — that's the entire point of a flat fee. A clean bill of health is a valid outcome, and it's the one we deliver most often on proposals from specialist logistics shops.
Not from us. We never contact your vendor, and everything you send is covered by NDA. Most clients use the findings as their own negotiation questions — the agency just experiences a client who suddenly asks very specific things.
Both, and the combination is the job. Anyone can review code architecture. What matters for a 3PL is whether the design survives your peak season, handles partner onboarding at your carrier count, and acknowledges EDI properly when a trading partner's endpoint goes dark at 2am. That's what we check.
Because references are selected by the vendor and we have nothing to win from your decision. We don't build software, we don't take referral fees, and we're not on anyone's preferred-vendor list. If the project goes ahead, we don't get the work — so there is no version of this where padding your scope pays us.
Usually not. Most damage in these builds happens at change-order time, not at signature. If you're mid-project and the invoices have started drifting past the quote, an audit of the original scope against what's being billed is often the fastest way to get the conversation back under control.
Send the proposal and your requirements — the red flag scan is free.
In 48 business hours you'll know exactly what you're buying.