Shippers

Market-proof your freight plan.

Reliable capacity, better service, lower spot exposure, and sustained cost improvement, regardless of where the market cycle goes next.

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1–3%immediate cost reduction, typically identified in the first analysis

10%+value unlocked over time as patterns are captured

50%+spot risk reduction as the long tail of low-volume lanes is clustered

Working with Leaf

Support at every phase of your procurement cycle.

Leaf is not a once-a-year event. Whether you are building the bid, running it, awarding it, or living with last year's awards, there is a place to start.

Pre-bidPower lane clustering
BiddingCarrier digital twins
Analysis & awardsScenario stress tests
Post-bidAdapt monitoring

1 Pre-bid

Build lanes carriers want to win

Leaf's proprietary power lane clustering improves the density and predictability of your bid items. That enables higher-quality proposals from carriers, and substantially reduces the long tail of low-volume lanes that drives spot exposure.

Point-to-point lanes into one market become a single, denser bid item
Volume that carriers can plan assets and drivers around
Fewer lanes left to the routing guide and the spot market

Power lane clustering: the long tail of low-volume lanes into one market becomes a single dense, predictable bid item.

2 Bidding

Drive improved pricing and stability with packages

Carrier digital twins are matched to your network to identify where your freight benefits the carrier's operations. Carriers can then propose packages of volume with dedicated-like economics, driving cost and service stability.

Invite-only, with the asset-based carriers you choose
Proposals built as constellations of correlated lanes, not one lane at a time
Dedicated-like economics without managing a fleet

A carrier's digital twin finds where your lanes complete its network, and proposes them as one package.

3 Analysis & awards

Stress-test awards before you make them

Understand the market expectations implicit in carriers' proposals, evaluate packages against lane-by-lane bids, and stress-test your award scenarios under a variety of market trajectories.

Bid distribution and composition for every bid item
Incumbent, asset and broker positions at a glance
Award scenarios you can defend when the market moves

Bid item page for Mobile, AL to Gary, IN showing the bid distribution, bid composition by incumbent and carrier type, and the ranked carrier bids

Every bid item, with the market it implies

4 Post-bid · Adapt

Catch risk early, and explain variance to budget

Monitor emerging cost and service risks before they become critical misses, and understand the sources of variance to budget. Adapt continuously monitors carrier digital twins to propose solutions to pain points in your network.

Leading indicators: volume volatility, carrier churn, spend instability
A recommended action for every at-risk lane
Budget variance split into volume, mix, price, fuel and fixed

Adapt risks dashboard showing load volatility, carrier churn and spend volatility by origin

Emerging risks, before they reach the budget

Freight spend: budget to actuals

Volume
Network mix
Same-lane price
Fuel
Fixed (dedicated)
Plan total

Illustrative. Adapt separates volume, network mix, same-lane price, fuel and fixed costs, so a budget miss comes with its explanation.

Results

Lower cost, and far less volatile.

A Fortune 500 shipper moved a lane onto coordinated contract plans. Cost volatility fell 90%; average linehaul cost fell 20%. Across a portfolio, Leaf's approach has delivered 10%+ linehaul savings and up to 76% fewer empty miles.

Case study chart of linehaul cost per load without and with Leaf

Our customers

Shippers across the country.

“We’ve been working with Leaf since 2018, enhancing service to our customers and increasing predictability for our carrier partners. Using Leaf as a “logic layer”, we plan to further automate transportation decision making, systematically reducing manual effort and eliminating empty miles across our network as we work towards our goal of a carbon-neutral supply chain.”
Loren Foster, Senior Director of OTR and Dedicated Transportation at AB InBev, AB InBev

What to expect.

Is Leaf a TMS, an RFP tool, or a broker?

No. Adapt is a neutral platform that sits between a shipper and its carriers. You keep your TMS and your carriers. Adapt finds the risk and opportunity in your network and keeps both sides on a coordinated contract plan.

Can we keep working with our existing carriers?

Yes. Leaf works with the carriers you already have, and invites your preferred asset-based carriers to build a digital twin so they can propose freight packages that fit their networks. All we ask is that at least five of your preferred carriers participate.

What data do you need to start?

Shipment history. We share our data guidelines, protect your data under a non-disclosure agreement, and run it through Adapt to identify immediate, medium and long-term opportunities. The initial assessment is complimentary.

How quickly do results show up?

Clustering and spot reduction typically identify 1–3% in the first two months. Early-warning risk actions add 4–8% by month six. Fleet strategies and power lanes approach 10% or more from there.

Can Leaf work with our existing carriers?

One of the benefits of working with Leaf is being able to use your preferred carriers. We’ll optimize your freight portfolio for your current carrier network and then fill any gaps.

Why does Leaf need our freight spend data?

Leaf offers shippers lower rates and better service by building multi-shipper circuits. In order to see how your freight can fit into these circuits, we need to analyze your historical freight data.

Getting started is easy, no matter where you are in your procurement cycle.

Share your data under NDA. We run it through Adapt and review the portfolio plan with you.

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