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Logistics & Air Freight · Dispatch Automation

Transforming Dispatch Operations with AI

80%
Less manual work
Faster processing
8 hrs
Saved daily

A five-agent AI system eliminated manual dispatch operations for a regional logistics company—classifying emails, extracting shipment data, managing driver coordination, and generating automated client status reports.

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Invoice Intelligence for a 1,300-Account Distributor

750+
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1,300+
Accounts served
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An AI-powered vendor invoice processing system that eliminates manual data entry into Business Central while capturing ingredient price trend data as a value-add for procurement decisions.

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Logistics & Air FreightDispatch Automation5 AI Agents

Transforming Dispatch Operations with AI

A regional air freight and logistics company was drowning in email-based dispatch requests. Dispatchers spent their entire day reading emails, extracting shipment data by hand, updating boards, coordinating drivers, and manually generating status reports. Volume was growing. Errors were creeping in. The team had no bandwidth for anything that actually required human judgment.

5
AI agents deployed
0
Missed details from email overload
100%
Accuracy on data extraction
8 hrs
Manual work eliminated daily

The Challenge

The dispatch team processed a high volume of inbound shipment requests via Microsoft Outlook every day. Each email contained unstructured AWB (Air Waybill) data, pickup details, and special handling instructions. Dispatchers had to read each email, manually extract all relevant fields, update a shared Notion dispatch board, assign a driver, send a confirmation, and follow up with status reports throughout the day.

As volume grew, this process became the primary constraint on the business. Critical details got missed. Assignments were delayed. The team was reactive instead of operational.

Why Traditional Automation Wasn't Enough

Standard workflow tools like Power Automate could handle structured data—but inbound emails from freight clients don't follow a consistent format. Every shipper sends information differently. Some embed AWB numbers in the subject line. Others bury them in a block of unstructured text. Some include special instructions in a P.S. A rules-based system would require constant maintenance and would still miss edge cases.

What the team needed was something that could read and understand—not just pattern-match.

The Five-Agent System

Agent 01

Email Administrator

Monitors the shared Outlook inbox, classifies incoming emails by type (new dispatch request, driver update, client inquiry, other), and routes each to the appropriate agent or human queue.

Agent 02

Spreadsheet Coordinator

Reads Excel attachments that accompany multi-shipment requests, extracts all shipment rows, normalizes the data structure, and passes clean records downstream for processing.

Agent 03

Dispatch Intake Agent

The core agent. Reads the classified email, extracts all AWB data, pickup details, special instructions, and deadlines. Validates completeness, flags missing information, and creates a structured record in the Notion dispatch board.

Agent 04

Driver Update App

A purpose-built mobile interface for drivers to check in and check out at airport pickup locations. Timestamps each event, updates driver status in Notion in real time, and alerts dispatchers of any delays automatically.

Agent 05

Status Reporting Agent

Pulls live data from the Notion dispatch board and generates professional HTML status reports for clients and internal stakeholders. Reports are formatted, timestamped, and distributed automatically—no manual assembly required.

Before & After

Before

  • Dispatcher reads every inbound email manually
  • AWB data extracted by hand, field by field
  • Notion board updated manually after each email
  • Driver status tracked via phone calls and texts
  • Status reports written and formatted by staff
  • Errors and omissions discovered at delivery

After

  • Email Administrator routes and classifies automatically
  • Dispatch Intake Agent extracts all fields with 100% accuracy
  • Notion board updates in real time, zero manual entry
  • Driver App captures check-in/check-out at each stop
  • Status reports generated and sent automatically
  • Exceptions flagged before they become problems

Technology Environment

We didn't ask the client to change a single tool. We built automation that connected the environment they already had—Microsoft, Google, and Notion—into a single seamless system.

Microsoft

Outlook email as the inbound request channel · Excel spreadsheet attachments processed automatically

Google

Google Sheets for customer data and reporting · Running seamlessly alongside the Microsoft environment

Notion

Central dispatch board and operational database · Real-time source of truth for the entire workflow

We work in your world, not ours. Most SMBs have a mix of Microsoft, Google, and other tools that have built up over years. We don't ask you to change that. We build automation that connects what you already have—so your team keeps working the way they know, and the repetitive work disappears.

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