{"id":92373,"title":"Lanesurf: Voice AI for booking freight","tagline":"We help freight brokers book loads with vetted carriers at the best price, by negotiating rates across multiple calls in parallel.","body":"# **TL;DR:**\n\n**Millions of shipments** move across the U.S. every day, but booking carriers (trucking companies) to move them still happens over phone calls.\n\n**Lanesurf** is a voice AI that helps freight brokers to book loads with vetted carriers at the best price, by negotiating rates across multiple calls in parallel.\n\nToday, Lanesurf handles **tens of thousands of carrier calls** monthly for mid-sized US freight brokers, booking thousands of loads **without** **human intervention**.\n\n# **ASK:**\n\n# **Know a Freight Broker or 3PL?**\n\nRefer them and if they become a customer, we’ll send you **$3,000** as a thank you.\n\n👉 Email: [founders@lanesurf.com](mailto:founders@lanesurf.com)\\\n👉 Book a call: [Calendar](https://calendly.com/pratham-lanesurf/30min)\n\nhttps://youtu.be/eSij3SDkBy0\n\n### **❌ THE PROBLEM:**\n\n**Freight still runs on phone calls. That’s where brokers lose deals, margin, and time.**\n\nTo cover a single load, brokers often take 30–50 inbound calls from carriers. \\\n**On each call**, they repeat the same load info, manually negotiate rates, and check compliance for each.\n\nBrokers either use in-house reps or offshore teams but even then:\n\n* **Missed calls from carriers offering better rates**\n* **Reps settle too quickly in negotiations just to close**\n* **High costs and churn**\n\nThis is **slow, expensive**, and repeated **100s of times daily**.\n\n### **✅ THE SOLUTION:**\n\nLanesurf is Voice AI for carrier sales that:\n\n* **Answers every call**\n* **Shares load details and vets carrier compliance**\n* **Negotiates rates using fuel prices, lane preferences \u0026 market trends**\n* **Makes outbound calls if no inbound match is found**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=92373\u0026key=user_uploads/1284872/41aa3566-4261-46d4-8bb2-bbdfb96dc3a0)\n\nThis helps brokers:\n\n* **Book more margin per load**\n* **4x lower costs to book a load**\n* **Even win more shipper loads by quoting reliably**\n\nOur **AI gets smarter** with **every call** learning patterns across lanes, carriers, and seasons - creating proprietary pricing signals brokers can act on.\n\n### **👥 TEAM:**\n\nWe’re **Pratham and Sarthak** - engineers from IIT Delhi.\\\nWe've built scalable AI systems for **Fortune 500 supply chain teams** and previously sold a vertical AI product in biotech (six-figure ARR) to a Bay Area company backed by **NVIDIA**.\n\nWe saw the problem firsthand through family in the freight industry. We spent months **embedded with broker teams**, listening to live carrier calls and understanding the **real-world edge cases** that operations teams face daily.","slug":"O1t-lanesurf-voice-ai-for-booking-freight","created_at":"2025-07-23T15:43:51.808Z","updated_at":"2026-05-24T18:47:22.261Z","total_vote_count":62,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O1t-lanesurf-voice-ai-for-booking-freight","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":30615,"name":"Lanesurf","slug":"lanesurf","url":"https://www.lanesurf.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4d37647098f0e48b82775e4aeffec72627577735.png","batch":"Summer 2025","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","B2B","Logistics","Supply Chain","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30615"}}