LIVE TODAY
The brokering freight forwarder
This is where we grew up — and it is today's core: inquiries, costing, awarding, execution, margin. Plenty of quotes on both sides, one system to run them in.
What will your company be worth in ten years?
Today what sets you apart is your team: who calls faster, negotiates better, keeps more in their head. In ten years the machine will do that — at your company and at everyone else's.
What remains is the trail: who drove where and when, at what price, with what result. Whoever does not own that trail ends up working for whoever does.
A TMS on top. A data foundation underneath.
Yes — BAILOS is a TMS. What you buy today is a sales module and a transport system, with a price, a login and support. The difference sits underneath: both run on one shared data foundation that was built from day one to carry more than a single company — eventually everyone who touches a transport.
Why that is needed: a single load is ordered, passed on, driven by subcontractors, moved through third-party trailer pools — and at every handover, meaning, visibility and proof fall away. The industry has strong muscles but a severed nervous system. We are not taking anyone's business away; we are laying the pathways that let it all think as one.
One tool, four participants
Today for forwarders. Built for the whole chain.
IN DEVELOPMENT
The groupage forwarder
Capture many small shipments, bundle them into full loads, invoice and track each shipment separately — utilisation measured against real vehicle capacity.
IN DEVELOPMENT
The carrier with its own fleet
Offer free cargo space, take on loads, subcontract them out — against empty runs. Your own view of tours, documents and invoices.
IN DEVELOPMENT
The shipper with its own goods
No carrier network of your own required — post a load, compare quotes, award it. Assigning directly to your regular carriers stays possible at any time.
From the dispatch desk. Not from a lab.
“11 years of dispatching ourselves. Then we built the tool that never existed.”
BAILOS is not a tech product that went looking for an industry — it is the industry that went and got itself the technology. Every process in the system comes from a real dispatch desk: the search that starts from zero, the paper chaos, the margin nobody can see. We lived through all of it ourselves.
That is why we build hands-on: close to operations, in short loops, with people who know what a backhaul is. Whatever does not work at the desk does not go into production here — no matter how good it looked on paper.
Software architecture, development, product vision
Marketing, finance, organisation
MINDSHIFT IT SOLUTIONS OG · KUFSTEIN, TYROL
- The founder who did the dispatching. 11 years of spot business — he runs your demo and your rollout, not a sales rep.
- The development team in Kufstein. No offshore ticket system — your feedback lands straight on a developer's desk.
- Support that speaks your industry. No call-centre script — people who know the operation.
We help shape European data harmonisation.
DOITS — Data Openness in Transport Solutions is the forum where truck manufacturers, trailer manufacturers, telematics providers and suppliers work on one shared question: how does European road transport speak a common data language? Because there is no global standard for the flow of information — proprietary solutions create confusion, and users never get the potential out of them.
We are part of that harmonisation work: twice a year we stand on that stage and lay open how we build — data model, event layer, interfaces. For us, openness is not a risk but the strategy: an open layer is something you plug into; a closed one is something you are delivered into. Whoever helps write the common standard does not have to buy it from someone later.
WHO WE ARE IN THE ROOM WITH
VOLVO
TRATON · SCANIA
KRONE
SCHMITZ CARGOBULL
GEOTAB
WEBFLEET · BRIDGESTONE
ZF DIGITAL SOLUTIONS
MICROLISE
ADDSECURE
SAF HOLLAND · HALDEX
WABCO
ACEA FMS GROUP
BLOCKCHAIN IN TRANSPORT ALLIANCE
Everyone listed is a member of the DOITS forum — not a customer, partner or reference of BAILOS. It is the room in which it is decided which data the road will speak together in future. Member extract according to doitsorg.com, as of 08/2026.
Four things we want to change.
Not a mission statement for the lobby. These are the four sentences we measure every feature against before it gets built.
Out of the dependence on the big system vendors.
If you cannot switch systems because switching would cost more than standing still, you are not a customer any more — you are tied down. We build so that you stay because it works: your data belongs to you, the export is ready, the commitment is monthly.
Lower the mental load of dispatch.
A dispatcher carries dozens of open threads in their head every day: yesterday's commitment, the callback at three, the load that still has no truck. Whatever a system can remember, no human has to keep carrying around. The goal is a calmer desk, not just a faster one.
Real automation — dialled in by you, not a black box.
Not “the AI will sort it out”, but: you see every step, you approve, you step in. We build agent capability into the foundation — how much of it you switch on is your call. The price that goes out is always released by a human.
The load-bearing nervous system of European road logistics.
Companies work together today without a common language: email, phone, PDF, the same information three times over. We are building the layer underneath — a data foundation on which freight forwarder, carrier and shipper see the same truth. Without anyone handing over control of their own house.
From vision to live environment.
Between vision and product sits the part you cannot present: building it. This is what runs today — in production, at forwarding companies that get through their day with it.
● LIVE
BAILOS Spot
Inquiries, internal marketplace, broadcast along your lanes, partner hub. Runs alongside your TMS.
See the module →
● LIVE
BAILOS TMS
The whole operation: orders, transport control, driver app, documents, invoicing, reports. Spot is included.
See the system →
● CHECKED LIVE
System status
You do not have to take our word for it that everything is running: your browser checks the same endpoints your app uses.
View status →
FRANKFURT DATA CENTREDatabase and application run in Germany.
GDPR-COMPLIANTEuropean data protection law, data processing agreement included.
TENANT-ISOLATEDEvery company sees only its own data.
99.99 % UPTIMERedundant cloud infrastructure, regular backups.
EXPORT AS CSVYou can take all of your data with you at any time.
Think big.
2020
The idea
11 years in dispatch turn into a concept: not another tool, but the foundation underneath it.
2025
The foundation
The event layer takes shape — from inquiry to invoice, designed to be agent-ready from the start.
2026
Go-live
BAILOS goes into production. Forwarding companies dispatch with it every day — every piece of feedback flows back into the next release.
UP NEXT
The ecosystem
Shippers, groupage and carriers join as roles of their own — connected by the shared marketplace.
LONG TERM
The proof layer
Handovers and conditions become provable — for shipment, trailer and vehicle. Why, is right below.
Long term · roadmap, not scope of delivery
Three places where the road is blind today.
These three gaps are not everyday annoyances — they are the reason the road cannot award transports automatically yet. All four participants pay for it: the shipper in uncertainty, the freight forwarder in disputes, the carrier in cash. And in the age of AI, manual work is shrinking — and with it what makes a forwarding company distinguishable today. What remains is the trail: who drove where and when, at what price, with what result. Whoever does not own that trail will sooner or later be working for whoever does.
So there is no misunderstanding: nothing in this section is part of the product yet. We write it down because that is where we are building — not because you can book it today. What is live is further up the page.
The principle underneath · Data ownership · planned, not available
The data of the road belongs to those who drive it.
The most valuable data in the transport chain is created on the move: who was where and when, what a vehicle really achieves, what a lane really costs. Today it is captured by telematics portals, platforms and corporate systems — and analysed by whoever owns those portals. The people driving get nothing out of it.
We want to hand that ownership back. To do so we are building a proof of origin: every record created in BAILOS is to carry a cryptographic signature — unalterable after the fact and attributed to the company that produced it. A transport record usually concerns several parties, so we are planning rights per party and per field: your selling price is yours, your carrier's buying price stays theirs.
How it is meant to work
PROVE
Who created a record becomes technically provable — as evidence that supports our contractual commitment rather than replacing it.
GRANT
You decide who sees what: per partner, per purpose, per period. We name one exception openly — we use aggregated, non-traceable market figures to improve the platform.
REVOKE
Access is meant to end when you say so, including after your contract ends. For that to be more than a promise, the key has to sit with you. That is exactly how we are planning it.
As the concept stands today, only checksums are to be written to the chain, never plain text — that stays in your database in the EU. We treat checksums as pseudonymous, not anonymous, data. Before we build it we will carry out a data protection impact assessment and disclose what kind of chain we use.
The three gaps below show where this missing data ownership costs the most today.
GAP 01 · THE CHAIN OF PROOF
At the port gate, the chain breaks.
A transport passes through many hands: the shipper places the order, the freight forwarder brokers it, the carrier drives it — and sometimes that carrier's subcontractor drives it. If the truck waits four hours at the ramp, or the goods arrive damaged, the search starts backwards through the chain, by email and phone. In the end it is one person's word against another's — and the freight forwarder sits right in the middle as the broker.
Ocean freight has solved this: a container is documented without gaps from Asia to the EU port — and at the port gate the chain breaks. We extend it onto the road instead of inventing a new one: pickup, stops, driver changes, delivery, each one a signed event in the same format. The shipper sees the proof from plant to ramp, the carrier substantiates its demurrage — and the freight forwarder no longer has to arbitrate something it never saw.
WHAT THAT MAKES POSSIBLE
- End-to-end shipment tracking from the container at the port to the final consignee — across every resale and every subcontractor
- The shipper gets one truth instead of twelve answers from twelve systems
- The precondition for transports to be awarded automatically at all: an agent may only award what can be proven
GAP 02 · TRACTOR UNIT AND TRAILER
Nobody knows which trailer was coupled to which tractor unit, and when.
For the carrier this is everyday life: one tractor unit pulls 8 to 15 different trailers a month, one trailer sees 4 to 6 tractor units — and afterwards nobody can say reliably which combination was on the road when. The carrier is left with damage nobody can attribute and argues with the insurer. The freight forwarder loses sight of the shipment at the trailer swap. And the shipper asks where its goods actually are.
We bring three sources together — vehicle telematics, trailer electronics and the driver app at the coupling point — and turn them into a signed pairing event with a confidence score. Not “coupled or not”, but: how certain, from which sources. The carrier documents its fleet with it, the freight forwarder follows every shipment across every swap, the shipper gets an answer instead of a guess.
WHAT THAT MAKES POSSIBLE
- Truck and trailer manufacturers see for the first time how their vehicles are really used — the basis for aligning service levels and maintenance with actual operations instead of flat mileage assumptions
- A precondition for autonomous fleets: a vehicle without a driver has to know what it is pulling — and the network has to know which unit is hooked up where
- Shipment tracking that survives the trailer swap — and real loading from the axle weight instead of booked figures
- Damage, theft and insurance become calculable instead of contested
GAP 03 · THE ELECTRIC TRUCK
The electric truck knows its own condition. Nobody else gets to.
This gap hits the carrier first: an electric truck costs a multiple of a diesel, and what it is still worth after a few hundred thousand kilometres depends on the state of the battery — which nobody can substantiate at the point of sale. There is practically no second-hand market, so lessors price in risk premiums. That slows the switch more than any charging point does.
We keep an asset ledger per vehicle: charging cycles, consumption, battery health, kilometres driven — recorded continuously and signed. The carrier gets a documented residual value instead of an estimate, and a better hand with the lessor. The forwarder's dispatch gets an answer to the question that is gut feeling today: which drivetrain fits this tour, at this weight, on this route? And when the shipper asks for CO₂ per shipment, the answer comes from real driving data.
WHAT THAT MAKES POSSIBLE
- A second-hand market for electric trucks comes into existence in the first place — today it effectively does not, because nobody can prove the battery's health
- Leasing and insurance calculate with data instead of risk premiums — the switch becomes financeable, not just eligible for subsidies
- Manufacturers get real usage profiles back: better vehicles, more fitting services, range promises that hold up
- Dispatch can pick the drivetrain to fit the tour instead of hunting for a tour to fit the drivetrain
THE BIG PICTURE
Three gaps, one goal: fully automated dispatch.
Anyone talking about autonomous fleets and self-dispatching systems is really talking about these three preconditions. No agent can award what cannot be proven. No driverless truck moves if nobody knows what it is pulling. No fleet switches to electric while the residual value stays an estimate.
The vehicles will come — the manufacturers are working on that. What is missing is the data layer underneath, on which they can be ordered, tracked and invoiced. That is exactly what we are building, together with the people who build the vehicles.
WHAT THAT MEANS IN DAY-TO-DAY BUSINESS
One shipment, one thread
In B2B traffic a shipment often changes carrier several times before it arrives. On a shared chain it stays one shipment all the same: every handover an entry, every stop documented. The customer asks once and sees the whole route — not just the first link.
A chain of proof instead of word against word
Commitment, price, pickup, proof of delivery, damage photo — captured unalterably and in chronological order. In a pallet dispute or a damage claim, the record decides, not the better memory.
Route data nobody can massage
Real driving times, real waiting times at the ramp, real kilometres — maintained per lane and unalterable after the fact. That becomes a costing basis that holds up in a tender, too.
Check partners before anything is loaded
Licence, insurance, permits — stored in tamper-resistant form and verifiable in seconds. The wrong carrier is spotted before the goods are on its trailer.
CO₂ per shipment, provable
Shippers have to report their emissions and pass the question down the line. Answering it from documented driving data instead of estimation formulas puts you in a different position in the tender.
Payment on proof, not on chasing calls
Proof of delivery arrives, approval starts running: invoicing and pre-financing rest on a documented delivery instead of on promises. Fewer cases to clear up, shorter receivables.
Technology follows the business. Never the other way round.
BAILOS is a product of mindshift IT Solutions OG, based in Kufstein, Tyrol. Everything is developed and operated in Europe. Small enough that you talk to the people who build the system. Close enough to the industry that we know what you are talking about.
BASE & OPERATIONS
mindshift IT Solutions OG
Kufstein, Tyrol · Austria
Frankfurt data centre
GDPR-compliant, tenant-isolated
German · English · Italian
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