Most content on AI in freight forwarding stays abstract: automation as a trend, a buzzword, a future state. Averroes isn’t that. It’s the AI built directly into the Logistaas TMS, and it already handles five specific tasks forwarders do every day: reads shipping documents, reads vendor invoices, flags shipment risks, checks internal compliance, and answers questions while you work.
What Is Averroes AI?
Averroes is Logistaas’s answer to AI in freight forwarding: an AI assistant built into the TMS forwarders already use. Rather than a separate tool that requires its own login or workflow, Averroes works inside the platform itself, reducing the manual work that comes with processing shipment paperwork, invoices, and compliance checks. There’s nothing extra to set up and nothing new for a team to learn how to use. It sits where the work already happens.
That matters because freight forwarding runs on a huge volume of unstructured information: PDFs, scanned documents, invoices in different formats and languages, emails, and constant shipment updates. Most of that information still gets typed in by hand somewhere in the process. Averroes is built to take on that specific bottleneck.
What Averroes AI Handles Today
Reading Shipping Documents Automatically
Typing shipment data out of a PDF has always been part of the job. B/L and AWB documents arrive in dozens of formats, from dozens of carriers, and someone has to get the details into the system correctly. Averroes reads Bill of Lading and Air Waybill documents and imports the extracted data straight into the shipment record inside Logistaas. That includes handling documents that aren’t in English, since the tool can work across translations as part of extracting the data. The result is one less manual step between a document landing in someone’s inbox and the shipment being accurately represented in the TMS.
Reading Vendor Invoices
Vendor invoices are a constant, high-volume part of freight forwarding operations, and entering them by hand takes real time from finance and ops teams, time that adds up across hundreds of shipments a month. Averroes reads vendor invoice documents, extracts the key financial details, and imports that data into Logistaas. It reduces the repetitive entry work that typically falls on finance teams and helps invoices move through the system faster and with fewer transcription errors.
Flagging Shipment Risks Before They Become Problems
Not every shipment is routine. Some involve requirements that are easy to miss: a country with a documentation rule that changed recently, a missing attachment, a detail that doesn’t line up with how similar shipments have moved before. Averroes Risk Assessment reviews shipment information the way an experienced ops person would, checking for unfamiliar scenarios, possible missing details, and risks tied to changing country requirements. It then organizes what it finds by severity, so the team knows what needs attention first instead of finding out about a problem after the shipment is already in motion. It’s designed to work like having a second set of expert eyes on every shipment, without needing to pull in someone senior for every unusual case.
Checking Shipments Against Your Own Compliance Rules
Regulatory compliance is only part of the picture. Every forwarder also has its own internal rules on top of that: approval steps, required documentation, standard operating procedures that vary by client, by route, or by shipment type. Keeping every shipment aligned with those internal rules usually depends on someone remembering to check. Averroes assesses shipment information against a company’s own compliance rules and flags whether it meets the required policies, documents, approvals, and procedures, catching gaps before the shipment moves forward rather than after.
Ask Averroes While You Work
Beyond document processing and risk checks, Averroes is also built to help users navigate the system itself. Instead of searching through menus or waiting on support, a user can ask Averroes directly: how a feature works, what a specific workflow step does, why the system is asking for a particular input. It functions like a knowledgeable teammate built into the TMS, and it’s particularly useful for getting new users productive on the platform faster, without needing someone else to walk them through it.
What Does AI in Freight Forwarding Actually Do?
AI in freight forwarding means using tools like Averroes to automate the document-heavy, repetitive parts of the job: reading shipment documents such as B/Ls and AWBs, extracting vendor invoice data, assessing shipment risk, and checking compliance, all inside the TMS a forwarder already uses. It’s not about replacing the judgment of an experienced ops or finance team. It’s about removing the manual, repetitive work that slows that team down, so their time goes toward moving shipments and serving customers instead of retyping information that’s already sitting in a document.
Why This Matters
Freight forwarding generates an enormous amount of data every day: documents, shipments, invoices, emails, and constant updates. Managing all of that manually slows teams down and increases the risk of errors creeping into shipment records or financial data. AI helps a TMS process that information faster, cut down repetitive work, and support better operational decisions in the moment they’re needed, rather than after something has already gone wrong. That’s the practical version of “AI in freight forwarding”: not a future state, but a set of specific tools already doing specific jobs inside the system forwarders use every day.
FAQ
What is AI in freight forwarding?
AI in freight forwarding refers to software like Averroes that automates manual, document-based tasks (reading shipping documents and invoices, flagging shipment risks, and checking compliance) inside the TMS a forwarder already uses.
What is Averroes AI in Logistaas?
Averroes is the AI assistant built into the Logistaas TMS, handling document reading, invoice processing, shipment risk assessment, compliance checks, and in-app guidance.
Does Averroes require a separate tool or login?
No. Averroes works inside Logistaas itself, with no additional platform to manage.
Can Averroes read both B/L and AWB documents?
Yes. Averroes reads Bill of Lading and Air Waybill PDFs, and imports the extracted data directly into the shipment.
Does Averroes check for regulatory compliance or just internal rules?
Both. It can flag risks tied to changing country requirements, and separately check shipments against a company’s own internal compliance rules and approval steps.
Can Averroes help new users learn Logistaas faster?
Yes. Users can ask Averroes directly inside the system for guidance on features and workflows, rather than relying on support or documentation.