Case Studies

Real results for freight forwarders.

The receipts. Real systems. Real numbers. No hypotheticals.

Full-Stack Platform

Quote Manager Rebuild

Custom freight quoting platform, built in a weekend

$65K–$100K

equivalent build cost

3 days

Build time

$53K–$106K

Annual value

3.3x

Win rate lift

3–11 months

Payback period

Challenge

Legacy quoting system on a Shanghai VM ($5,400/yr). Slow, disconnected from CRM, invisible to leadership.

Solution

Built a full replacement: Django + Next.js, deployed to Cloudflare. Analyzed 33,992 quotes and discovered that response time under 16 hours produces a 25% win rate vs. 7% over 16 hours.

Result

Platform generates more annual profit value than an entire salary. Eliminated the Shanghai VM. Leadership has self-service visibility for the first time.

Response Time vs Win Rate

>16 hrs

25%

<16 hrs

3.3x

Django REST APINext.jsPostgreSQLCloudflareCargoWiseHubSpot

Data Orchestration

Atlas Platform

Enterprise data orchestration connecting every system

$150K–$300K+

equivalent platform cost

Systems connected

Modules planned

20–40 hrs/wk

Manual work eliminated

$40K/yr

Vendor cost absorbed

Challenge

CargoWise, HubSpot, Azure, and a dozen downstream systems, all disconnected. Manual data entry between every system.

Solution

Designed and built Atlas, a central data orchestration platform connecting all systems into a unified data layer.

Result

Foundation for all automation and visibility. Replaced $40K/yr in vendor costs. Automated 20-40 hours/week of manual work.

Manual Work Eliminated

40 hrs/wkBefore

0 hrs/wkAfter

DjangoPostgreSQLCargoWise APIHubSpot APIAzure

Power BI

Executive Dashboard Suite

15 dashboards from scratch, including full financial reporting

$30K–$60K

equivalent consulting cost

Dashboards built

188,000+

Records analyzed

2mo → 2d

Build time reduction

100%

Self-service reporting

Challenge

Leadership flying blind. Financial reporting was manual. Every report request went through a single bottleneck.

Solution

Built 15 Power BI dashboards including full executive financial reporting. Analyzed 188,000 rate records to surface pricing insights.

Result

Eliminated manual report requests entirely. Leadership self-serves every metric. The rate analysis changed the company's quoting strategy.

Dashboard Build Time

2 monthsBefore

2 daysAfter

Power BIDAXPower QuerySQL ServerAtlas API

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