Introducing Dockware

For the last 6 months the Dockware team has been huddled in a warehouse cooking up breakthrough freight tech. Time to let in some light and show you just how fast this team can execute.

Moving Freight is Error-Prone

Every day millions of people scan, measure, inspect, and move millions of shipments, and it should surprise no one that they make all sorts of mistakes. Measurement errors, forgotten labels, accidental damage, poor counting, etc... Just think how hard it is to measure and hang a damn painting in your living room, and then imagine that someone is telling you to do it faster and faster so that you can get to the other 200 waiting for you upstairs. Now scale that up to the eye-watering 30 billion tons of freight that humans will move in 2025. Even small error rates cause mayhem at scale, and freight error rates aren't that small.

Dockware automates the capture of shipment data – no extra steps, no guessing, no excuses.  To be clear - we don’t just suck in data from other software platforms, we use computer vision to capture accurate data directly.   

Trust Companies That Use Dockware

With our product on your dock there should be no misrouted freight, no reclass fees from bad measurements, no discovering damage late or paying spurious claims.  In short  - we want to eliminate the time and money our customers spend identifying, counting, inspecting, and measuring freight, and let them focus on getting it where it needs to go.  Doing this well drives higher asset utilization, lower claims rates, and more customer satisfaction. Down the line we have our sights on eliminating even more error prone parts of the transportation industry! 

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Dockware Vision

Dockware Vision is a fully autonomous sensor suite, The  screen shot here is taken from a live commercial deployment in a top LTL carrier service center, and shows the system autonomously detecting, identifying, and dimensioning shipments. We are currently backordered for these systems given demand, but new units are already being manufactured and install windows open up again starting in August.   Get in touch here to lock down a system.

Dockware Scan

Dockware Scan is a mobile app designed for dockworkers and/or drivers on the move. We want our scanning tech in your pocket or on your belt. You can sign up for an account and download Dockware on iOS right now. If you’re an Android user, sign up here and we’ll text you as soon as we’re on the Play Store.

Why Now? 

The pandemic and subsequent trade disputes demonstrated how critical the freight industry is to our modern lives. However, the physical nature of transport and logistics resisted the earlier wave of digital transformation driven by pure software.  Over the last five years – in large part thanks to the billions of dollars poured into self-driving cars – the sensor technology capable of transforming these physical sectors has become cheaper and more performant. These sensors – combined with rapid advances in artificial intelligence – allow Dockware to capture data faster and at higher accuracy than would have been possible even 3 years ago. Those secular trends are of course meaningless without the best tech team in the industry. 

Dockware Founders, Team, and Investors 

Josh, Conor, and Tarek have worked all over the world, with decades of experience at SpaceX, Relativity, ABL, Lockheed, and the U.S. State Department, but regrouped in Tulsa, OK where the team has roots. We have since added phenomenal former colleagues like Greg Katz (ex-SpaceX, ex-Waymo), as well as more great talent in the industrial Midwest.

We are also thrilled to have a fantastic set of investors with long track records of backing breakthrough companies.  Grateful to Esteban Reyes and Zenda Capital for leading this $2.5 mm pre-seed round, and excited to partner with Four-More Capital, Karman Ventures, Cortado Ventures, Starframe Capital, Hustle Fund, Operator Stack, as well as a fantastic set of strategic angels with deep industry experience.

Over the next few weeks and months expect to see some exciting partnership announcements and feature launches, as well as our thoughts on building tech that works for normal humans and solves real problems.