HERMES · Buy · Buy & Book
Finds, negotiates, and books the best capacity at the best price-risk balance.
HERMES owns procurement end to end: it forecasts where capacity will be tight, sources and benchmarks options across your carriers and channels, negotiates, consolidates where it pays, books once approved, confirms, and watches for changes before departure.
HERMES
Buy · Buy & Book
Finds, negotiates, and books the best capacity at the best price-risk balance.
- Forecast capacity
- Source & benchmark
- Negotiate
- Consolidate
- Approve
- Book & confirm
- Monitor & hand off
What it changes
Three outcomes, owned end to end
HERMES watches, acts, and reports inside your existing systems, with every action on the record.
Lower buy rates
Every shipment is benchmarked against lane history and live market signals before booking, not just the first three replies.
Capacity secured early
Demand forecasts surface gaps weeks ahead, so space is bought before the market prices the squeeze in.
Fewer wasted miles
Backhauls, consolidations, and better equipment fit lower unit cost without touching service.
Capabilities
What HERMES does all day
Forecasts gaps, sources and ranks options on price and risk, negotiates within your rules, consolidates loads, and books once approved.
Capacity forecasting
Projects demand by lane and week and sizes the gap between need and secured allocation.
Multi-channel sourcing
Collects options from carrier portals, email, rate platforms, and load boards into one comparison.
Lane benchmarking
Scores each offer against your lane history and the current market spread.
Structured negotiation
Counters within your guardrails on shipments where the spread says there is room, and logs every exchange.
Risk-weighted ranking
Ranks options on price, reliability, transit, and insurance, not price alone.
Capacity matching
Finds backhauls, consolidations, and equipment swaps that cut empty miles and unit cost.
Forward buying
Recommends securing capacity ahead of rate rises when forecasts and market signals justify it.
Booking & change watch
Books the approved option, files confirmations, and detects changes before departure.
Collaboration
HERMES never works alone
Clear ownership, clean handoffs. These are the connections you will see most often.
PEITHO · Quote & Win
PEITHO’s accepted quotes tell HERMES exactly what capacity to secure, and on what economics.
THEMIS · Margin & Cash
THEMIS’s margin thresholds are applied before any booking is recommended.
ARGOS · Execute & Recover
HERMES hands ARGOS a confirmed, structured booking to take into execution.
Integrations
Works inside your existing stack
HERMES reads from and acts in the systems your operation already runs, no migration required.
TMS & forwarding systems
Shipment, quote, and milestone data, read and written in place.
Email & communication
RFQs, carrier replies, and customer threads, understood in context.
Spreadsheets & rate files
The rate sheets and trackers your operation already runs on.
Controls
Accountable by design
You define what HERMES may see, do, and spend. Everything else routes to a person, with evidence attached.
Permissions
Each agent has explicit scopes: which systems it may touch, which actions it may take, and where its authority ends.
Approvals
Monetary thresholds and sensitive workflows route to people, with evidence, reasoning, and expected impact attached.
Audit trails
Every action records its agent, trigger, source data, and result. The operation stays explainable end to end.
Guardrails
Margin floors, rate limits, and restricted workflows are hard boundaries agents cannot cross, and are tested continuously.
Exception handling
When reality misbehaves, agents stop and route to a person with full context. Nothing fails silently.
Human control
People set the rules, approve the consequential, and can pause any agent at any time. Autonomy is always granted, never taken.
FAQ
About HERMES
Will HERMES book without asking?
Only inside the thresholds you configure. Above them, it prepares the booking and routes it to a person with full evidence. Sensitive carrier relationships stay human.
Which carriers can HERMES work with?
Any carrier you already work with, through portals, email, EDI/API, or rate platforms. No new carrier relationships are required.
What did HERMES bring together?
HERMES now owns the full buy side: demand forecasting, carrier procurement and negotiation, and capacity matching, unified in one agent.
Harpie · Agentic workforce
Put Hermes to work
Five agents. One operating intelligence. No migration, no long onboarding.