The AI-Native TMS for Freight Forwarders.
The Zavin platform is an AI-native TMS for freight forwarders: freight CRM, pricing and quote automation, shipment management, tracking, and reporting on one data spine — reading your email, quoting RFQs in under 30 seconds, and running connected to CargoWise and Magaya, with your team in approval control.
Last updated: July 2026
01 · Terrain
Why Forwarders Outgrew the Traditional TMS
80% of freight forwarding runs on email — rates, RFQs, bookings, pre-alerts, tracking requests. A traditional TMS never touched that inbox. It records what already happened, after someone reads the email, interprets it, and types it in. The real work still happens manually, in email, one thread at a time.
That architecture made sense when software could only store data. It stopped making sense when software became able to read, understand, and act. An AI-native TMS starts where the work starts — the inbox — and treats the system of record as the output, not the job. For the full definitional breakdown, read AI-Native TMS vs Traditional TMS and What Is an AI Operating System for Freight Forwarders?
02 · Spine
One Data Spine, Twelve Modules
Every module below works from the same records: the rate parsed from this morning's email is the rate the quote engine compares, the quote that wins becomes the shipment the tracking module updates, and all of it lands in reports delivered with an AI-written analysis. Nothing is re-typed between stages, and field-level access control governs who sees what — by role, branch, and country.
The Lifecycle
Inbox to Intelligence.
Five stations on one operating route. Watch a stage, then open the module that runs it.
Stage 01
Inbox
Every inbound email is read, classified, and acted on. Rates are parsed, documents filed, requests answered — around 50% of routine volume runs end-to-end.
AI Email AutomationStage 01 · Inbox
The Modules
Twelve Modules. One Spine.
Each chapter is a slice of the operating system — open a module for the deep dive forwarders ask for.
Inbox → Quote
Turn Inbound Email Into Sent Quotes.
RFQs parsed, rates collected, quotes branded and sent — in under 30 seconds.
Inbox
Email · pricing · rates
Branded quote drafted
Harbor selected · PDF attached
Best of 4 partner rates · Globex history on the reply.
Rate filed to company brain
SHA→LAX · reusable across desks
Thread filed to CRM
Globex account · quote Q-2841
AI Email Automation
AI email automation for freight forwarders is software that reads every inbound email — RFQs, bookings, rate sheets, tracking requests — classifies it, and acts on it: replying, quoting, filing documents, and creating shipments.
Pricing & Quote Automation
Freight quote automation software reads inbound RFQs, extracts shipment details, collects and compares partner and carrier rates against your target margin, and sends a branded quote with automatic follow-up.
Rate Intelligence
Freight rate database software stores your buy rates — carrier rate sheets, partner quotes, spot offers — in one searchable place.
Chapter · Win The Business
FAQs
The Platform: Common Questions
How freight forwarders evaluate an AI-native TMS. Still have questions?
Your Freight Business.
Running Itself.
Zavin handles the emails, quotes, documents, and follow-ups. Your team handles the customers, the relationships, and the growth. See it working on your own shipments.
Freight forwarders & NVOCCs · No migration · No IT project · Transparent pricing





