What Lighthouz AI does

Lighthouz AI operates a vertical AI platform that automates back-office workflows for U.S. freight brokers and third-party logistics providers (3PLs). The company targets the manual processes that dominate freight billing, AP, AR, invoicing, and collections in an industry where 15-25% of freight invoices contain errors and brokers still operate largely on email, PDFs, and spreadsheets. Customers include mid-market freight brokerages such as Southern Reins Logistics and NAD Logistics, alongside freight-tech startups like Hoplite.

The platform is built on a multi-agent AI architecture organized into three modules: Collections (Email Collections Agent, Portal Collections Agent, Collections Work Queue, AR Risk Dashboard), Accounts Payable & Receivable (Shipper Invoicing Agent), and Accounts Payable (Freight Bill Processing & Audit Agent, Rate Verification Agent, Payment Status Response Agent, Dispute Agent). It supports both Full Truckload (FTL) and Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) freight billing modes. The agents process multimodal inputs (PDF, EDI, email, customer portals), perform 45+ audit checks per document, and integrate natively with major TMS platforms (McLeod, MercuryGate, Brokerware, Revenova, Sunnybrook, TaiTurvo, Turvo), ERP/accounting systems (QuickBooks, NetSuite, Sage Intacct), and customer payment portals (Cass, Uber Freight, RMIS, OpenInvoice, AlchemyTMS, E2Open). The system is SOC 2 Type II compliant and ships documented performance metrics including 70-85% no-touch carrier bill processing, 91% no-touch LTL audit rate, 104 collections emails per agent per day, and sub-60-second per-bill audit processing.

The company monetizes via a SaaS subscription model sold primarily through a sales-led, demo-based motion targeting enterprise and mid-market freight brokerages. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and requires booking a 30-minute demo with the CEO. Lighthouz AI is privately held, backed by Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch with an approximately $500,000 seed round, and operates from San Francisco with a 1-10 person team led by co-founders Srijan (CEO) and Sonali (COO).

Name

Lighthouz AI

Legal name

Lighthouz AI, Inc.

Website

https://lighthouz.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Lighthouz AI provides AI-powered back-office automation for U.S. freight brokers and 3PLs, using a multi-agent platform to automate freight bill audit, AR invoicing, and collections across FTL and LTL shipment modes.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Freight Broker Back-Office Automation Software

NAICS

Freight Transportation Arrangement (488510), Support Activities for Transportation (488), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Brokerage/3PL TMS (Freight Brokerage Operations) (TLAEAAAB)

Keywords

• Freight bill audit
• Freight broker automation
• AR collections software
• LTL FTL billing
• Logistics AI agents

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription for AI Freight Back-Office Automation: Lighthouz AI charges subscription fees for access to its AI agent modules covering freight bill audit, AR automation, and collections. The platform is modular with separate collections, AP, and AR modules. Pricing appears enterprise-focused with demo-based quoting.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Lighthouz AI provides a multi-agent AI platform that automates freight broker back-office operations across freight bill audit, customer invoicing, collections, and dispute management. The platform is delivered as modular SaaS covering FTL and LTL freight modes, ingesting documents (PDF, EDI, email, AP portals), validating them against TMS load data, sending collections communications, and integrating natively with TMS, ERP, and accounting systems. Target customers are U.S. freight brokers and 3PLs seeking to reduce manual AP/AR work and improve cash flow.

Product overview

Lighthouz AI offers a platform-plus-modules architecture providing AI-powered back-office automation for freight brokers. The core platform consists of three main modules: (1) Collections Module with Email Collections Agent, Portal Collections Agent, Collections Work Queue, and AR Risk Dashboard; (2) Accounts Payable & Receivable Module featuring Shipper Invoicing Agent; and (3) Accounts Payable Module with Freight Bill Processing & Audit Agent, Rate Verification Agent, Payment Status Response Agent, and Dispute Agent. The platform supports both FTL (Full Truckload) and LTL (Less-Than-Truckload) freight billing modes, achieving 70-85% no-touch carrier bill processing and automating invoice creation, payment status responses, and collections dunning with AI agents that learn from SOPs and operate without human intervention.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Collections Module Subscription module that automates freight broker collections via portal monitoring, personalized email dunning, AI-prioritized work queues, and risk dashboards — designed for freight broker controllers and AR teams.
• Accounts Payable & Receivable Module Subscription module that creates and sends customer invoices with no human touch, automatically ingesting proof of delivery and pushing formatted invoices to accounting systems like NetSuite; targets freight broker AR teams.
• Accounts Payable Module Subscription module that ingests and audits carrier bills from PDF, EDI, email, and portals, validates against TMS load data, verifies rates, responds to payment-status inquiries, and auto-files disputes — designed for freight broker AP teams.
• Email Collections Agent AI agent that sends personalized collections emails on a customer's standard operating cadence, auto-responds to basic customer queries (PoD requests, statement re-sends, payment confirmations), and logs all communications back to the TMS — handles approximately 104 emails per agent per day.
• Portal Collections Agent AI agent that continuously monitors customer AP portals (Cass, Uber Freight, AlchemyTMS, E2Open, RMIS, OpenInvoice, and others), pulls live status for every open invoice, detects exceptions such as short-pays, disputes, missing docs, and holds, and surfaces only those invoices that need human review — reducing portal review time from 4 hours to 20 minutes per collector daily.
• Collections Work Queue AI-prioritized work queue that surfaces invoices needing human attention with full account context and one-click next actions (call, email, escalate, snooze), automatically recording interactions — delivers a 2x collector productivity improvement and replaces multiple spreadsheets of record.
• AR Risk Dashboard Daily-updated dashboard that computes credit utilization across every customer account, flags high-risk accounts, escalates way-overdue invoices, and turns freight broker controllers from data-generators into analysts.
• AR Command Center Real-time cashflow and collections dashboard for freight brokers, providing aging snapshots, daily-updated credit utilization, high-risk account flagging, way-overdue invoice escalation, and drill-down from KPI to invoice to email thread.
• Shipper Invoicing Agent AI agent that automatically ingests proof of delivery documents and creates and sends customer invoices with no human touch, formatted for direct push to accounting systems like NetSuite — enabling earlier customer invoicing (5 days earlier per company claims).
• Freight Bill Processing & Audit Agent AI agent that ingests carrier bills from PDF, EDI, email, and portals, audits them against TMS load data with 45+ audit checks per document (linehaul, FSC, detention, lumper fees, duplicate detection), and auto-resolves 70-85% of bills with zero human touch.
• Rate Verification Agent AI agent that auto-replies to factoring rate-verification (RV) emails with TMS rate details, contracted lane rates, and accessorial breakdowns — eliminating manual rate confirmation work for freight broker AP teams.
• Payment Status Response Agent AI agent that reads carrier and factor payment-status emails, pulls live status from ERP and TMS systems, and replies 24/7 with payment date, method, and reference number — providing 85% auto-resolution and continuous carrier coverage.
• Dispute Agent AI agent that cross-references email and AP portals to detect short-pays and chargebacks, auto-generates dispute responses with backup documentation (PoD timestamps, signed BOLs, accessorial proof), and tracks dispute lifecycle end-to-end — achieving 85%+ no-touch rate on open disputes.
• FTL (Full Truckload) Audit Mode Specialized audit mode for full truckload freight bills, performing linehaul validation, fuel surcharge (FSC) validation, accessorial verification (detention, lumper, layover), duplicate bill detection, and automated dispute filing — per-bill audit processing in under 60 seconds.
• LTL (Less-Than-Truckload) Audit Automation Specialized audit automation for less-than-truckload freight bills, performing accessorial-level validation (residential, liftgate, limited access), reweigh/redimension/reclass checks, contract and tariff matching via internal rating engine, and automated dispute packet creation — 42.8% of LTL errors are accessorial-related.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces invoice processing time from 2.11 days to 0.47 days (78% reduction)
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration19 records

AI capability7 records

Feature11 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• NAD LogisticsflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 December 2025NAD Logistics partnered with Lighthouz AI to automate invoice audits and streamline shipment paperwork. The automation significantly reduced manual work and improved cash flow by reducing invoice processing time from over 2 days to less than half a day. NAD is expanding AI use to manage emails from factoring companies to support increased freight volumes.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• McLeod Software: Dominant TMS provider for North American freight brokers and 3PLs. Highly relevant because Lighthouz plugs into McLeod as a complementary layer, and McLeod is also the most likely incumbent to ship native AI audit/AR features that would directly compete with Lighthouz.
• Turvo: Cloud-native TMS purpose-built for 3PLs and freight brokers with collaboration, billing, and AR functionality. Comparable because it operates in the same broker back-office workflow Lighthouz automates, and has the scale and customer base to bundle AI agents natively.
• MercuryGate: Enterprise TMS serving freight brokers, 3PLs, and shippers with rate, carrier, and document management. Comparable as an integration partner and potential competitor whose existing broker customers overlap Lighthouz's target market.
• Triumph Business Capital: Large freight factoring provider with broker-facing technology and back-office services. Comparable as an incumbent already embedded in broker back-office workflows that could add AI capabilities to defend share against Lighthouz.

Direct peers

• Eden (formerly Vector.ai): AI platform automating document processing and back-office workflows for freight forwarders and logistics providers. Closest direct peer to Lighthouz in applying AI agents to freight document workflows, though Eden skews toward ocean/forwarders vs. Lighthouz's trucking-broker focus.
• Bill.com: Leading AP automation platform for SMBs and mid-market, with bill capture, approval workflows, and payments. Comparable as a direct competitor for Lighthouz's AP module in the broker back-office, with much broader scale and brand recognition.
• Stampli: AI-driven AP automation platform with bill capture, coding, approval, and payments, marketed to mid-market and enterprise. Direct overlap with Lighthouz's AP/freight-bill-audit use case, with significantly larger scale and capital base.

Emerging players

• Greenscreens.ai: AI-powered pricing and RFP automation for freight brokers and carriers. Comparable as a fellow AI-native vertical SaaS targeting freight broker workflows, though focused on pricing rather than back-office billing and collections.
• Optimal Dynamics: AI decision automation for trucking and logistics operations, including load planning and network optimization. Comparable as a fellow AI-first freight technology company targeting brokers and carriers, with adjacent rather than overlapping workflows.
• Outgo: Freight factoring and carrier payments platform with automation for brokers' back-office payment workflows. Comparable because NAD Logistics cited expanding Lighthouz use into factoring-company emails, putting Outgo in an adjacent competing space.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/lighthouzai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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