What CargoAI does

CargoAI is a Singapore-headquartered digital platform for air cargo booking, rate discovery, and shipment visibility, founded in 2019 and serving freight forwarders, airlines, and charter carriers across global air cargo corridors. The company's core product is a digital booking platform that aggregates real-time pricing, capacity, and schedule data across 105+ airlines, 680+ schedules, and 2.5 million dynamic rates, enabling freight forwarders to quote, compare, and book air cargo capacity electronically rather than through manual or fragmented channels. The platform is delivered through multiple integrated surfaces: a self-serve digital booking portal for forwarders, a CargoCONNECT API suite (including the Quote & Book API) for embedded integrations into partner platforms such as Dafret's NaviRate, and the CargoMART Model Context Protocol (MCP) server launched in June 2026 that exposes CargoAI's booking and quoting capabilities to external AI agents.

The technology stack combines API-first distribution with AI-driven workflow automation. AI agents are deployed across booking, capacity access, shipment visibility, and exception management, delivering documented 20-30% productivity gains for users. AI-powered milestone forecasting, launched in February 2026, moves tracking from reactive status updates to predictive alerts. Adjacent modules extend platform scope: Cargo2Zero provides CO2 tracking for sustainability reporting, and CargoWALLET handles payment settlement. The company maintains a global footprint with offices across 10 cities spanning North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia, supporting enterprise customers that include Delta Cargo, Qantas Freight, Jetstar, and Euroairlines on the carrier side, and integration partners such as Dafret and Aerios on the forwarder and tooling side.

CargoAI's business model combines recurring subscription/API access revenue with transaction fees on bookings processed through the platform. Go-to-market is primarily API-first and partnership-led, with distribution through direct enterprise integrations (e.g., Delta Cargo white-label deployment), embedded API integrations into forwarder platforms, and direct digital portal access. CEO and founder Matt Petot leads the company, which operates with 11-50 employees and remains privately held with no disclosed funding rounds to date.

Name

CargoAI

Legal name

CargoAi

Website

https://cargoai.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CargoAI operates a digital air cargo booking and visibility platform connecting freight forwarders to 105+ airlines, 680+ schedules, and 2.5 million dynamic rates via API, portal, and AI-agent integrations across global offices.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Air Cargo Digital Booking Platform

NAICS

Freight Transportation Arrangement (488510), Freight Transportation Arrangement (48851)

SIC

Arrangement Of Transportation Of Freight & Cargo (4731)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Freight Brokerage / Freight Marketplace Platforms (TLADAMAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

Dedicated Lanes & Mini-Bid / RFP Marketplace Platforms (TLAEAJAG)

Keywords

• Air cargo booking
• Freight forwarding platform
• Air cargo API
• Rate visibility software
• Cargo digital platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Singapore

HQ country

Singapore

HQ region

Asia

Offices10 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. API and Booking Platform Services: CargoAi provides digital booking platform access and API services enabling real-time pricing, instant booking, and rate visibility for freight forwarders across airline networks.
2. Platform Transaction Fees: Revenue generated through booking transactions processed via the digital platform across 105+ airlines and 2.5 million dynamic rates.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

CargoAI operates an AI-powered digital platform that enables freight forwarders to search real-time air cargo rates, quote, and e-book capacity across more than 105 airlines and 680 schedules, with 2.5 million dynamic rates accessible via direct portal or API. The platform extends to shipment visibility, AI-driven milestone forecasting, CO2 tracking, payment settlement, and an MCP server for AI agent integrations.

Product overview

CargoAI offers a unified digital platform for air cargo logistics with a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core CargoAi Digital Platform provides booking and rate visibility, augmented by specialized modules: CargoCONNECT (API integration suite), CargoMART (MCP server for AI agents), Cargo2Zero (CO2 sustainability tracking), and CargoWALLET (payment processing). The platform connects freight forwarders to 105+ airlines and offers AI-powered predictive capabilities for shipment visibility.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CargoMART: MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for freight, launched June 5, 2026
• CargoCONNECT
• Cargo2Zero

Products and services

• CargoAi Digital Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• 20-30% productivity gains for companies deploying CargoAi's AI agents

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability5 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Delta CargocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 April 2026Delta Cargo partnered with CargoAi to integrate its digital platform, enabling e-booking capabilities and enhanced rate visibility for freight forwarders globally. The agreement was signed at the IATA World Cargo Symposium in Peru by Delta Cargo president Peter Penseel and CargoAi CEO Matt Petot. The partnership is part of Delta Cargo's broader technology modernization initiative.
• DafretcoreTechnology or Integration · 11 December 2025Dafret partnered with CargoAi to integrate the Quote & Book API from the CargoCONNECT suite into Dafret's NaviRate multimodal quotation platform. The integration enables freight forwarders to access real-time pricing and instant booking capabilities across 105+ airlines, 680+ schedules, and 2.5 million dynamic rates directly within their workflow.
• Qantas FreightcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 March 2025Qantas Freight and partner airline Jetstar partnered with CargoAi to place capacity on select international flights from Australia to the US, UK, and South Africa onto CargoAi's digital booking platform. The partnership gives CargoAi's freight forwarder users access to real-time rates and a streamlined booking process for the airlines' passenger and freighter services.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

• Envirotainer: Envirotainer is a leading provider of temperature-controlled air cargo containers (cold chain). While not a direct platform competitor, it is an adjacent ecosystem participant in air cargo whose digitization needs intersect with platforms like CargoAi.

Broad incumbents

• CHAMP Cargosystems: CHAMP Cargosystems provides IT solutions and community platforms to airlines and freight forwarders, including cargo management, e-booking, and traceability. It is a long-established incumbent in air cargo technology and a broad competitor to CargoAi's platform.
• Flexport: Flexport is a digital freight forwarder offering ocean, air, and ground forwarding with proprietary technology. While it operates as a forwarder rather than a neutral platform, it is a broad incumbent pursuing digitalization across air freight and an adjacent comparator to CargoAi.
• Descartes Systems Group: Descartes provides broad logistics technology including customs, routing, and visibility solutions for freight forwarders and carriers. It is a broad incumbent whose forwarding and customs offerings overlap with parts of CargoAi's platform capabilities.
• IBS Software (iCargo): IBS Software's iCargo is an established air cargo management platform used by major airlines for reservation, operations, and revenue management. It competes with CargoAi on the airline-side platform layer and represents a legacy incumbent in air cargo IT.

Direct peers

• Freightos (WebCargo by Freightos): Freightos operates WebCargo, a digital air cargo booking platform serving freight forwarders and airlines with real-time pricing, e-booking, and rate visibility. It is publicly listed and a direct competitor in the air cargo marketplace space alongside CargoAi and cargo.one.
• Kale Logistics Solutions: Kale Logistics operates digital cargo community platforms that connect airlines, freight forwarders, and ground handlers for e-booking and shipment visibility. It serves a comparable customer base in air cargo digitalization and competes directly for enterprise airline and forwarder accounts.
• cargo.one: cargo.one is a direct competitor operating a digital air cargo booking platform that connects freight forwarders with airlines for real-time pricing and e-booking. It is the most comparable peer to CargoAi in product scope, customer base, and technology approach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cargoai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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