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From five days to two hours.

Forward-deployed automation for a global logistics group, an air-cargo operation drowning in manual, twice-monthly reconciliation. I found the highest-ROI fix, quantified it, and shipped it, in under two months.

Air-cargo ground operations: a laptop and airway-bill paperwork on a desk
Client
A global logistics group
Sector
Freight forwarding
Engagement
Scope → pilot → deploy
Delivered
Under 2 months
The result
5d → 2h Per reconciliation cycle

A full-time, multi-day task, twice a month, now runs in an afternoon.

97% Reconciliation accuracy

A rule-based engine flags discrepancies the manual process missed.

1 FTE Redeployed to higher-value work

The person freed from data entry moved on to work that needs judgment.


The situation

Every month, twice a month, the accounting team processed a high volume of airway bills. They received scanned bills by email, hand-keyed each one into Excel, then reconciled them line by line, cross-checking the airway bills from airport operations against the operational cargo system to flag every inconsistency before reporting to the airlines.

The cost

It was slow, repetitive and error-prone: effectively a full-time person’s job just to keep up, with manual mistakes slipping through and a hard deadline at every close. The kind of work that quietly consumes a headcount without anyone deciding it should.

What I built

An automation pipeline that runs the whole flow. Upload the scanned airway bills, and the system extracts every relevant field into Excel, then performs the full reconciliation and cross-check automatically. A rule-based accuracy engine catches the discrepancies humans used to miss, holding the process at 97% accuracy.

The takeaway

This is what “AI for your business” should actually look like: pick the process that’s quietly costing you a headcount, quantify the saving, and ship a reliable fix in weeks. Not a rip-and-replace, not a science project.

Let’s find yours.

Book a free 30-minute ROI diagnostic. Bring one process that’s costing you time or money, and I’ll tell you whether it’s worth automating, and roughly what you’d save.