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Ponte · Brokerage

The cover arrives already priced.

Not a board of bids to work through. "Book Crest Carriers at $2,820 — the lowest vetted offer on this load, against your $3,050 ceiling." Two buttons. Refusing costs exactly as much as approving, which is what makes approving safe.

See it on your book →What it does, step by step
OFFERS ON THIS LOADBolt Logistics$2,640VET FAILCrest Carriers LLC$2,820VET PASSVale Transport$2,960VET PASSthe cheapest bid failed the vet, so it was never the proposalAGAINST YOUR CEILING ON THIS LOAD$2,820$3,050 maxBook Crest Carriers LLC at $2,820APPROVE & RUNREFUSEOne tap covers the load. One tap sends it back. Both take the same second.
0unvetted carriers ever proposed
2buttons on every cover recommendation
3steps in the POD chase, named in advance
2independent checks on every carrier bill
0money or legal actions that auto-execute
12modules on one platform

These are things the platform does — not results a customer measured.

01

Cover

It never offers you a carrier that failed the vet.

The cheapest bid on the board can be two hundred dollars less and it still won't be the recommendation. What reaches you is the lowest offer that could legitimately haul the load, priced against the ceiling you set on it — so the justification travels with the proposal instead of living in a dispatcher's head.

You approve it, or you refuse it. Both take a second, and the record says which you did.

WHAT A CARRIER CLEARS BEFORE IT REACHES YOUoperating authority, activeinsurance at your minimumssafety rating not unsatisfactoryno open dispute or claimagreement and W9 on filefactoring notice verifiedELIGIBLE TO BE PROPOSEDFail any one of these and the carrier never appears in front of you at all.

02

Paper

Generated is not sent.

A rate confirmation that exists but never went out is the single most common reason a booked load doesn't move. So it's a state, it's visible, and it's why "send the rate con" is sitting on your desk with a named recipient rather than in somebody's memory.

Rate cons, bills of lading and proofs of delivery, versioned, each in a state that means one thing — and expiry tracked against the ones that have a validity window.

GENERATEDSENTSIGNEDit existsthe carrier has itthey agreed to itON YOUR DESKSend the rate con — booked at $2,620, nothing has gone outThe gap between the first two boxes is where booked loads quietly fail to move.

03

Chase

Three steps, named before you approve them.

"Chase the POD" could mean anything, which is why it usually means nothing. Here it means: ask the carrier by email, then by text, then call them. Written on the card, in that order, before you tap.

Delivered on the ninth, invoiced on the twenty-eighth, because settlement needed a document nobody was watching for — that's the gap this closes.

Chase the proof of deliverydelivered, nothing on file1email the carrier2then text them3then calla sequence you can read,not an intention you have to trust

04

Pay

When there's a notice of assignment, the factor gets paid.

Not the carrier. The payee on the release reads the factor's name, because that's who the money is owed to — and getting that wrong is how a broker ends up paying twice.

Quick-pay and net terms carried per row with the fee stated. And every release stops at a named person unless you've ratified a grant that says otherwise, with a ceiling, zero variance and a POD required.

Kestrel CapitalNOApaying the assignee, not the carrier$1,450.00QUICK-PAYNEEDS ATTESTTO LET IT RELEASE WITHOUT YOU, YOU RATIFY A GRANTA CEILINGZERO VARIANCEPOD REQUIREDUntil you do, every clean match waits here.And a release is recorded as a release — whether the bank confirmed it is tracked separately.

05

Audit

It won't accuse a carrier on one load.

Every carrier bill gets checked two ways — against the rate confirmation you agreed, with the dollar bands printed on the desk, and against what that carrier has actually charged you on that lane before.

If there's only one prior load to compare against, it says so and stops. One job is not a pattern, and a finding built on it is a fight you lose and a carrier relationship you spend.

A CARRIER BILLAGAINST THE CONTRACT$25 a line · $50 a loadprinted on the desk, not in settingsAGAINST YOUR LANE HISTORYthis carrier, this lane, this modewith the sample size on the rown=1cannot found a finding — and it tells you son≥2judged, with the evidence strength visible

Why this instead of what you have

Brokerage isn't a judgement problem.

Most of the day, your people already know what to do. They know which carrier to call, what it should cost, and what paperwork is owed. What eats the day is doing it — four screens per load, twenty times before lunch, and the one that gets skipped is the one that costs you.

The rate con never went out.

Generated on Thursday. Nobody sent it. The carrier arrived wanting paperwork nobody had, and the load sat while two people looked for it.

The cheapest carrier wasn't bookable.

You found out after booking, when the insurance check ran and the certificate had lapsed in June.

You paid the carrier, not the factor.

There was a notice of assignment on file. Now you owe it twice, and the conversation about which is not a good one.

A cover that arrives priced and pre-vetted, paperwork tracked as generated, sent and signed, and money that stops at a person and goes where it's actually owed.

06

Five reasons it wins

The judgement is in the proposal, not in a policy document.

01

A named carrier, at a price, against your ceiling.

Not "three bids received." Book this one, at this number, because it's the lowest that cleared vetting and it's under the max you set on this load.

02

Unvetted carriers never reach you.

Authority, safety rating, insurance at your minimums, no open claim, agreement on file. Fail one and that carrier isn't in the list — you never have to check.

03

Generated, sent and signed are three states.

The rate con that exists but never went out is the most common reason a booked load doesn't move. Here that's visible, and it's why an action is on your desk.

04

The factor gets paid when there's an NOA.

The payee on the release is the assignee, because that's who the money is owed to. Paying the carrier instead is how a broker ends up paying twice.

05

It won't dispute a bill on one prior load.

One job isn't a pattern. A finding built on it is a fight you lose and a carrier relationship you spend — so it says so and stops, with the sample size on every row.

07

What's in it

Six areas, one module.

Cover

6
  • Bookings arrive priced, with the evidence
  • Only vetted carriers proposed
  • Lowest that passed, not lowest outright
  • Priced against that load's ceiling
  • Approve and run, or refuse
  • The ceiling set per load, by you

Paper

5
  • Rate con, BOL and POD per load
  • Versioned, every one
  • Generated, sent and signed kept apart
  • Expiry tracked where it applies
  • Rate cons addressed to a named inbox

Chase

4
  • Missing PODs surfaced, not waited on
  • Email, then text, then a call
  • The sequence named before you approve
  • Settlement gated on a clean POD

Settle

6
  • Every carrier bill checked two ways
  • Dollar bands printed on the desk
  • No accusation on a single prior load
  • Sample size on every row
  • Underbilling flagged as well as over
  • Disputes with the carrier's own window counted down

Pay

5
  • Factored carriers paid to the assignee
  • Quick-pay and net terms, fee stated
  • Every release stops at a named person
  • Grants with a ceiling, zero variance, POD
  • Released and bank-confirmed kept apart

Governance

5
  • Nothing money or legal auto-executes
  • Autonomy set per operation, not globally
  • Some operations have no autonomous tier
  • Evidence steps run; commitments wait
  • Every action attested, with who and when

Thirty-one of them. There are more, but these are the ones that decide whether a load gets covered and paid without anyone chasing it.

Next step

See it on your book.

Ninety minutes on your brokerage: your lanes and ceilings, how you vet a carrier, which factors you pay, and which decisions you'd let it propose before you approve them. You keep the configuration.

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Ponte is the ELYON brokerage TMS module. Every capability described here runs on the ELYON platform today, across the dispatch, LTL and finance surfaces — the brokerage packaging is in build. No figure on this page is a customer outcome.