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Everything Nexcade puts on the record, newest first: announcements, coverage in the trade and technology press, podcast conversations, highlights from LinkedIn, and our own articles. Evergreenguides to the quoting stack sit at the end of the page. For press enquiries, write tohello@nexcade.ai.

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Plain-language guides to the tools forwarders use to quote. Each guide is dated, sourced, and reviewed when the market moves.

Updated 11 June 2026

A field guide to freight quoting software in 2026

The five categories of freight quoting software explained: rate platforms, rate management systems, TMS quoting modules, AI quote-workflow agents, and in-house builds, and how forwarders combine them.

The record

22 June 2026Announcement

Nexcade and Freightify announce a partnership

Nexcade announced a Freightify partnership to strengthen the integration between trusted rate data and the agents that execute quoting, rates, and pricing workflows.

Nexcade
10 June 2026LinkedIn

What fixing your data for AI actually means

Founder Dan Bailey on cleanliness, completeness, and accuracy as three separate bars, and why the automation objective should set the bar for each.

Dan Bailey
28 May 2026Article

Build or buy AI quoting: what the giants show

The public evidence on in-house AI quoting programmes at three giants, what those builds actually required, and a practical frame for forwarders weighing build against buy.

Nexcade
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