Document ai
Freight document automation
Forwarding still runs on documents: carrier rate sheets in Excel, invoices as PDFs, the odd photographed tariff page. Fretie's document AI reads them so your team does not re-key them.
Drop in a rate sheet and get quote-ready rates (lanes, container types, validity, buy and sell), reviewed by a person before anything is committed. Drop in a carrier invoice and it is parsed, matched to the shipment, and checked against what you quoted.
Inside the app
Quotes
Every quote shows where its price came from.
Open any quote and you see the contract rate it matched, the surcharges it added, the margin rule it applied, and the run that produced it. If a customer asks why the number is what it is, the answer is already on screen.
Agent runs
The agent works in the open.
Each request goes through the same steps: screen the email, read the request, match rates, build the quote, check the margin, draft the reply. Every step is logged with its result and timing, and you can replay any run later.
How Fretie handles it
Rate sheets to rate ledger
PDF, Excel, CSV, or an image: the extractor normalizes carrier rate sheets into structured lanes with mode, container type, currency, unit, validity, and buy and sell rates. Your team reviews the extraction and commits it to the ledger in one step. Nothing enters your pricing unreviewed.
Invoices straight into reconciliation
Carrier invoices are parsed for carrier, reference, currency, and total, then matched to the shipment by your own booking reference. The invoiced cost is compared to the quoted buy automatically, and a cost overrun raises an exception in the operations queue before it becomes margin leakage.
Guardrails on every upload
Uploads are validated server-side: file types are allowlisted to freight paperwork, sizes are capped, and files are stored and served so that nothing executable can masquerade as a document. Boring, and exactly what you want near your operational records.
What you get
- Extracts carrier rate sheets from PDF, Excel, CSV, and images
- Normalizes lanes, container types, currencies, units, validity
- Human review before extracted rates are committed
- Parses carrier invoices, matches shipments by reference
- Flags invoiced cost above quoted buy as an exception
- Strict upload validation: allowlisted types, size caps
Questions
What document formats can Fretie read?
PDF, Excel (XLS and XLSX), CSV, and common image formats. That covers the rate sheets, invoices, and photographed tariff pages forwarders actually receive.
Does extracted data go straight into my rates?
No. Extractions land in a review screen where your team checks lanes, prices, and validity before committing them to the rate ledger. The AI does the typing; a person keeps the judgment.
How does invoice extraction connect to reconciliation?
A parsed invoice is matched to its shipment by your booking or quote reference, and the invoiced amount is compared to the quoted buy cost. If the carrier billed more than you quoted, Fretie raises a cost-overrun exception so your team can dispute it before it becomes margin leakage.
Can AI extract rates from a carrier rate sheet PDF?
Yes. A contract PDF with lane tables, container types, surcharge columns, and validity dates extracts into structured rates ready for review. The same applies to Excel spot sheets and even a photographed tariff page, which beats re-keying forty lanes by hand.