Perspective
Building the cross-border network.
Notes from RSA XB on cross-border logistics, AI tooling, and building software-first networks for freight forwarders, consolidators, and 3PLs.
PerspectiveThe weekend demo proved the wrong thing
A mailbox agent before Monday feels like proof you should go AI-first. It isn't. It proves extraction got cheap, not that your org chart should absorb every model release.
Denis Konoplev6 min read
PerspectiveThe best-funded logistics AI doesn't clear a single entry
Everyone assumes the hot money is building clearance and visibility agents. It isn't. It went to invoices, disputes and spend recovery, and the join on your desk still has no owner.
Denis Konoplev5 min read
PerspectiveLogistics doesn't need an AI TMS
Every incumbent is bolting agents onto the system of record. That's the wrong shape. The work that's actually painful sits outside the TMS, in the inbox and the attachments and the phone calls.
Denis Konoplev5 min read
PerspectiveCross-border still runs on four inboxes and a hope
Fragmentation is treated as inevitable. It is not. Here is the thesis behind RSA XB — and why the system of record is the wrong place to put the next agent.
Denis Konoplev3 min read
PerspectiveAsk who owns the middle mile. You'll get four answers, all wrong
Ask who is responsible for a parcel between the origin warehouse and the destination doorstep and you get four confident answers, none of which agree. That gap is where the cost lives.
Pavan Kumar TV5 min read