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We're excited to announce that Portcast has been selected to join the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First (Singapore) 2025 — an initiative supporting high-potential companies using AI to solve real-world challenges. Backed by Singapore's IMDA, this partnership gives us access to state-of-the-art infrastructure, mentorship, and credits to accelerate the next phase of AI innovation in supply chains, with a sharp focus on the automated freight audit solution.
As part of this program, we're applying advanced document understanding models to our AI-powered freight audit solution, enabling the detection of invoice errors, reduction of overbilling, and recovery of lost costs — solving a critical pain point for global shippers and logistics teams.
Why Freight Audit, and Why Now?
Carriers often issue invoices with discrepancies, from billing errors to mismatched contract terms. As freight rates become increasingly dynamic and invoice volumes increase, the need for reliable, automated freight audit solutions has become urgent, as manual audit processes can no longer keep pace with the changing environment. Freight invoice inaccuracies often go unnoticed, resulting in financial leakage, operational inefficiencies, and missed savings opportunities. The cost is real: Shippers in recent high-profile disputes have reclaimed millions in overcharges.
We're solving this head-on.
Our AI-driven freight audit solution automates invoice processing, matches line items against contractual terms, and flags overbilling — accurately and at scale. This means logistics teams can now see exactly how much they were overcharged and what they can recover, turning documentation into measurable outcomes.
👉 We'll have more to share on this soon—stay tuned for an official launch.
"Freight audit is a high-stakes problem—complex, slow, and expensive, where traditional systems often fall short. Through Google's AI-First Startup Program, we're harnessing the power of AI to tackle longstanding inefficiencies in freight auditing. We will provide our customers with the accuracy, speed, and scalability they need to effectively manage freight costs and achieve a seamless, touchless supply chain." — Urvesh Devani, VP of Technology, Portcast
What the Google AI Startups Program Enables
Our selection into the Google AI Startups Program specifically supports this automated freight audit initiative. Through deeper collaboration with Google, we aim to:
- Fine-tune advanced models tailored to the complexity of freight documentation
- Access world-class mentorship and tooling to scale faster and smarter
This collaboration enables us to deliver faster, more accurate, and scalable AI-powered freight audit capabilities to the market.
We're onboarding early adopters for the Freight Audit Solution. Want in?
