Road Freight & Parcel Visibility Platform, Engineered to Scale
Two purpose-built agents. One unified intelligence and execution layer. Real-time visibility, proactive risk detection and autonomous exception handling across LTL and parcel today, truckload in production — built from direct carrier APIs, not licensed from anyone.
100+
Carriers Monitored
2
Freight Modes Live — LTL / Parcel
24/7
No Human Required
Architecture
Sentinel and Optimus are purpose-built for different roles and designed to operate together. Neither one alone is the product — the integration between them is. Every carrier connection runs through a modular adapter — the same architecture that lets us go deep on truckload, LTL and parcel today is what lets Crucible expand into new freight modes without a rebuild.
Sentinel
Sentinel watches every active shipment across your entire carrier network — continuously, without gaps. It detects route deviations, scores risk severity and generates recommended corrective actions before a disruption becomes a problem.
Optimus
When Sentinel flags an exception, Optimus acts — not creates a ticket. It executes carrier intercepts, reroutes shipments and initiates carrier changes autonomously, within your defined business rules. It also notifies your clients before they have to ask.
Platform Architecture
Sentinel
Most visibility platforms show you what has already gone wrong. Sentinel is built to find it before your client does — and before the situation is out of options.
The carrier network is built from direct API integrations with FedEx, UPS, DHL and USPS for parcel, plus XPO Logistics and Old Dominion (ODFL) for LTL freight — backed by EasyPost for coverage across 100+ additional carriers. Route intelligence pulls from GeoApify for baseline ETA calculation, TomTom for live traffic and road incidents, and Visual Crossing for weather forecasts up to 10 days out.
For JIT manufacturing operations, Sentinel includes Buffer Erosion detection. Clients define their safety stock buffer and alert threshold when registering a shipment — Sentinel then fires a critical alert if ETA slippage erodes into that buffer before the shipment arrives.
24/7 Shipment Monitoring
Every active shipment tracked continuously — no downtime, no polling gaps, no manual checks.
100+ Carrier Network
Direct APIs: FedEx, UPS, DHL, USPS for parcel; XPO Logistics and Old Dominion (ODFL) for LTL freight. EasyPost fallback for 100+ additional carriers — one platform, complete coverage.
Route Deviation Detection
GeoApify baseline ETAs cross-referenced against live carrier data — deviations flagged the moment they register.
Weather & Traffic Intelligence
Visual Crossing weather forecasts and TomTom live traffic — risks scored against active shipment routes before they materialize.
Buffer Erosion Detection JIT
Client-configured safety stock thresholds applied to every inbound shipment. If ETA slippage erodes into your buffer window, Sentinel fires a critical alert before a line-down event occurs.
3-Path Exception Resolution
Carrier intercept → route rerouting recommendation → carrier change. Optimus evaluates and executes the best available path automatically.
Carrier Intercept
Direct intercept capability with FedEx (live) and UPS (active). Redirect in-transit shipments before they reach the wrong destination.
Autonomous Carrier Change
Shippo and EasyPost power real-time rate comparison across carriers. Optimus books the best option and generates the new label — no human in the loop required.
Proactive Push Notifications Differentiator
Automated, personalized exception updates via email (SendGrid) and SMS (Twilio). Your clients know what's happening before they think to ask — and before they call you.
Rules-Based Autonomy at Scale
Every action executes within your predefined business rules — carrier intercept, reroute or carrier change — autonomously, without human intervention, deployed exclusively for your operation.
Optimus
The majority of enterprise visibility platforms stop at the alert. They tell you there's a problem and leave the resolution to your team — a phone call to the carrier, an email to the client, a manual search for alternatives.
Optimus closes that gap entirely. When Sentinel identifies an exception and generates a recommendation, Optimus evaluates it against your business rules and executes — autonomously, instantly and without escalation unless your rules require it.
The result is a supply chain that resolves its own disruptions, communicates proactively with your clients and updates its own records — while your team focuses on work that actually requires human judgment.
End to End
Five steps. No ticket queues. No 2AM phone calls. No manual triage.
Sentinel
Sentinel watches every active shipment across your carrier network, 24/7. Route baseline, carrier status and risk indicators are tracked continuously in real time.
Sentinel
Route deviations, weather threats, road closures and carrier delays are flagged the moment they register — often before your client's system reflects the issue. For JIT operations, Buffer Erosion risk is calculated against client-configured safety stock parameters and surfaced in parallel.
Sentinel
Risk severity and probability are scored. A corrective action recommendation — intercept, reroute or carrier change — is generated automatically and passed to Optimus for evaluation.
Optimus
Optimus evaluates the recommendation against your business rules and executes — carrier intercept, alternate route or carrier change. Autonomous by default. Human-in-the-loop when your rules require it.
Optimus
Your client receives a proactive, personalized update via email or SMS — before they ask. The shipment record is updated, Sentinel resumes monitoring the corrected route and the loop closes.
Competitive Advantage
Enterprise visibility platforms charge $50,000+ a month to show you what's happening. We built what comes next.
Most platforms alert you and stop there. Optimus doesn't wait for a human to pick up the phone — it intercepts, reroutes and executes the resolution autonomously, within seconds of detection.
Automated, personalized exception communications — via email and SMS — sent to your clients before they ask. A capability most enterprise platforms either charge extra for, bundle poorly or don't offer at all.
Every client gets their own isolated deployment — not a shared SaaS platform where your operational data sits alongside a competitor's. Your instance, your data, your configuration. Full stop.
Universal Shipment Intake API
One of the most significant hidden costs of enterprise visibility platforms isn't the monthly fee — it's the integration timeline. Weeks of scoping, middleware configuration and data migration before you see a single live shipment.
We designed our Universal Shipment Intake API specifically to eliminate that barrier. It sits on top of whatever ERP or TMS your operation already runs — SAP, NetSuite, a proprietary TMS, a spreadsheet — without replacing any of it.
A single POST request with four fields registers any shipment for Sentinel monitoring. From that moment, the full Crucible platform — carrier tracking, risk intelligence, exception detection and Optimus execution — is active on that shipment.
POST /api/v1/shipments/register
Content-Type: application/json
{
"tracking_number": "1Z999AA10123456784",
"carrier": "ups",
"origin": "Chicago, IL",
"destination": "Atlanta, GA",
// Optional — enables JIT Buffer Erosion alerting
"buffer_days": 2.0,
"critical_threshold_days": 0.5
}
→ 201 Created
Sentinel begins monitoring immediately.
No middleware. No migration. No waiting.
1
Endpoint
4
Fields Required
< 1 day
To Go Live
Limited Availability
We're onboarding a limited number of pilot partners. If your operation moves freight and has exceptions to manage — let's talk about what Crucible looks like deployed on your network.
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