The Science Behind the Search

How We Find Your Perfect Match

We use advanced AI to understand carriers the way you do - by looking at the whole picture, not just individual numbers.

The Problem

Numbers Alone Don't Tell the Story

Imagine two carriers, both with 3 trucks. Are they similar? Not necessarily.

A
Local Delivery Co.

3 trucks, serves 2 states, no sleeper cabs, mostly day routes

B
Cross-Country Hauler

3 trucks, serves 15 states, all sleeper cabs, long-haul routes

Traditional search would say these are identical. But you know they're completely different businesses.

Two carriers with 3 trucks - one local delivery, one long-haul
Our Solution

We Teach AI to See the Whole Picture

Our AI doesn't just look at one number at a time. It understands how all the pieces fit together - just like an experienced broker would.

Carrier profile data being collected from multiple sources
1

Take a Snapshot

First, we collect everything we know about a carrier - over 60 different data points.

  • Fleet size and equipment types
  • States and regions they serve
  • Safety scores and inspection history
  • Cargo types and specializations
2

Add Context

Here's where the magic happens. Each data point "talks" to every other data point to understand what it really means.

Think of it like this:

When you see "3 trucks," you instantly look at other clues - states served, equipment type, cargo - to understand the business. Our AI does the same thing, but across millions of carriers.

The AI learns that "3 trucks + 2 states + no sleepers" means something completely different from "3 trucks + 15 states + all sleepers."

Neural network showing Fleet, States, Safety, and Cargo nodes connected
Unique carrier identity fingerprint visualization
3

Create a Fingerprint

All this context gets compressed into a unique "fingerprint" - a mathematical signature that captures everything about how a carrier operates.

We call this an "embedding"

It's like a carrier's DNA. Two carriers with similar fingerprints operate similarly - even if their raw numbers look different.

4

Find Your Match

When you search for a carrier, we compare their fingerprint against 2.3 million others to find the closest matches.

  • Results ranked by how similar they truly operate
  • Finds hidden similarities humans might miss
  • Returns results in milliseconds
3D sphere showing carrier data points clustered by similarity

Trained on the Entire Industry

Our AI has learned patterns from every registered carrier in the country.

2.3M+
Carriers Analyzed
60+
Data Points Per Carrier
<100ms
Search Time

For the Technically Curious

Under the hood, we use a transformer architecture with self-attention - the same technology behind ChatGPT, but specialized for structured carrier data.

The model is trained using masked column reconstruction - we hide random data points and ask the AI to predict them from context. This forces it to learn deep relationships between all carrier attributes.

The result is a 128-dimensional embedding for each carrier that captures their operational DNA. Similarity is computed using cosine distance, enabling sub-100ms searches across millions of carriers using vector indexing.

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For Developers & Data Scientists

Build with Our Embeddings

Want to power your own models with carrier intelligence? Our pre-trained 128-dimensional embeddings capture the nuanced relationships between carrier characteristics that traditional features miss. Perfect for churn prediction, risk scoring, market segmentation, and more.

  • 128-dimensional vectors
  • 2.3M+ carriers covered
  • Weekly updates
  • Bulk API access
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