ApplyNexcade is a London team building AI agents for freight forwarders. We’re looking for people who want to work close to customers, understand freight properly and help build the future of global trade.
Nexcade started in London in 2025, when Dan Bailey and Tasho Kjosev came together around a shared belief: the people who keep global trade moving deserve much better tools.
Dan had seen the problem up close as COO at Sedna. Critical freight work was still happening across inboxes, spreadsheets and disconnected systems, held together by the experience of individual operators.
Tasho had spent his career building software for complex, high-stakes environments, most recently as a technical lead at Palantir, following earlier AI and data work at Oracle Labs, Meta and Unlikely AI.
Nexcade brings those worlds together: deep supply chain experience and serious technical ambition. We build AI agents that work alongside freight teams, taking on repeatable work while people stay in control of the decisions that matter.
We announced our $6M Seed, led by Project A, in July 2026. We’ve raised $8.5M since founding, with backing from Connect Ventures, MMC Ventures and logistics operators.
We’re still early. The people joining now won’t inherit a finished playbook. They’ll help shape the product, the company and the way agents fit into freight forwarding work.
Freight forwarders sit in the middle of global trade. They coordinate customers, carriers, agents, warehouses and customs teams, often under real time pressure.
A quote is rarely just a quote. A customer might send a request with missing dimensions. The relevant rate might be in a carrier portal. The latest surcharge might be in a spreadsheet. The customer’s usual preference might be buried in an old email. The operator still needs to answer quickly, price correctly and protect margin.
Nexcade agents help with the work around that decision.
They read requests, extract shipment details, compare rates, follow up with suppliers, draft replies, prepare quotes, update tenders and create bookings. People stay in control of the important decisions.
Every customer does this work slightly differently. The product has to handle incomplete requests, changing rates, customer rules and the systems teams already use. That is what makes it worth building.
Nexcade started with a simple belief: the people moving goods around the world deserve better tools.
Freight forwarding is detailed work. It depends on customer context, supplier responses, operating systems and judgement built over years. We believe AI can help, but only if it is built close to the teams doing the work.
We’re building a team with high standards and strong learning velocity. If you care about building AI that helps keep global trade moving, we’d love to hear from you.
Dan + Tasho
We’re all very close to the customers and our product. You spend time with people who really know freight, then bring that context back into what we build. It means the work stays practical, and you can see the impact of small product decisions very quickly.May Fell · GTM & Operations
Deployment here is about helping shape the product. You can be looking at a customer workflow in the morning, finding the gap in the data or connector, and by the afternoon working with engineering on how we make it better for the next customer.Nabeel Alarakhia · Deployment
As an engineer, you get a lot of ownership very quickly. You’re doing more than picking up tickets from a roadmap someone else has fully decided. You’re close to the customer problem, you make technical calls, and you’re trusted to care about the quality of what goes out.Alejandro Pérez Gancedo · Engineering
Freight gives you engineering problems that look simple at first, then keep unfolding. A quote can depend on old emails, customer rules, rate sources, supplier replies and the TMS. Making an agent reason through that reliably is technically challenging in a way I find really motivating.John Afolayan · Engineering
We are building a technical company where everyone contributes, works directly with customers and helps improve how the team operates.
Founders included. The whole company is technical and runs on coding agents, whether you work in engineering or the commercial team.
Problems are yours end to end. If something is broken, unclear or missing, you have the freedom and responsibility to fix it.
We prefer fast cycles and rapid iteration. We debate properly, decide quickly and keep momentum.
We work with forwarders on live lanes and real documents. Product decisions come from that contact.
Freight is detailed and AI is changing fast. We need people who are curious, adaptable and quick to pick things up.
We communicate clearly, assume good intent and say the useful thing before small problems become bigger ones.
Our office is at 94 Lower Marsh (Waterloo), London, UK.
We work from our office in London 4 days a week, with Wednesdays remote.
Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and flexibility on the split.
Private healthcare is included.
Everyone gets one work-from-anywhere week.
We usually run a two-day company offsite each year.
Every role comes with competitive salary and meaningful equity, and you choose your own salary and equity split.
Own the full sales process from pipeline generation through close. Work directly with freight forwarding leaders, understand how their teams operate and help turn that context into a repeatable commercial motion.
This is an early commercial role with direct access to the founders, real input into the product and the chance to shape how Nexcade grows from its first customers.
Build, deploy and improve AI agents used by freight forwarders in live workflows. You’ll work across product, backend and integrations, with direct exposure to the operators using what you ship.
We’re looking for engineers who enjoy ownership, move quickly and care about making complex systems reliable in production.
Don’t see the right role? If you’re exceptional and want to build production AI for freight, we still want to hear from you.
A conversation about your background, what you want next, and whether Nexcade sounds like the right fit.
A conversation or practical interview focused on the skills and judgement the role needs. The format will depend on the position.
Meet more of the team and work through something close to the real job.
Clear expectations, salary, equity and start date.