Voice AI for booking freight

Lanesurf helps freight brokers book shipments with vetted carriers at the best prices by negotiating rates across multiple calls in parallel. Our self-improving voice AI stack is built for the messy reality of logistics - noisy calls, compliance checks, constant exceptions and turns them into faster bookings at better margins. With each booking, the AI learns from aggregated, anonymized lane and pricing data. As more customers use Lanesurf, this learning compounds, driving faster bookings at the best prices and powering a voice-driven freight marketplace.

Active Founders

Pratham Bansal

Founder

Pratham studied engineering at IIT Delhi, where he contributed to ML research at Caltech and Rice. He then deployed AI systems for F500 enterprises at Booz & Co He then built a 10x faster (than SOTA) inference application for compute-heavy ML models, that was sold to an NVIDIA-backed Bay Area company. At IIT, he also led Rendezvous, Asia’s largest cultural festival, drawing 150,000 attendees with sponsors including Coca Cola, Binance, and the NBA.

Pratham Bansal

Founder

Pratham studied engineering at IIT Delhi, where he contributed to ML research at Caltech and Rice. He then deployed AI systems for F500 enterprises at Booz & Co He then built a 10x faster (than SOTA) inference application for compute-heavy ML models, that was sold to an NVIDIA-backed Bay Area company. At IIT, he also led Rendezvous, Asia’s largest cultural festival, drawing 150,000 attendees with sponsors including Coca Cola, Binance, and the NBA.

Sarthak Singh Chauhan

Founder

Sarthak studied engineering at IIT Delhi. As an undergrad, he co-authored research on transformer-based ML models before LLMs were mainstream, with groups at University of Waterloo and Monash. He later built a 10x faster (than SOTA) inference application for compute-heavy ML models, pioneering an algorithm that was adopted by a Fortune 100 biopharma's research arm. His work on computational protein design at iGEM, an MIT research initiative, was awarded Gold amongst 3000+ teams globally.

Sarthak Singh Chauhan

Founder

Sarthak studied engineering at IIT Delhi. As an undergrad, he co-authored research on transformer-based ML models before LLMs were mainstream, with groups at University of Waterloo and Monash. He later built a 10x faster (than SOTA) inference application for compute-heavy ML models, pioneering an algorithm that was adopted by a Fortune 100 biopharma's research arm. His work on computational protein design at iGEM, an MIT research initiative, was awarded Gold amongst 3000+ teams globally.

Company Launches

Lanesurf: Voice AI for booking freight

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TL;DR:

Millions of shipments move across the U.S. every day, but booking carriers (trucking companies) to move them still happens over phone calls.

Lanesurf is a voice AI that helps freight brokers to book loads with vetted carriers at the best price, by negotiating rates across multiple calls in parallel.

Today, Lanesurf handles tens of thousands of carrier calls monthly for mid-sized US freight brokers, booking thousands of loads without human intervention.

ASK:

Know a Freight Broker or 3PL?

Refer them and if they become a customer, we’ll send you $3,000 as a thank you.

👉 Email: founders@lanesurf.com
👉 Book a call: Calendar

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❌ THE PROBLEM:

Freight still runs on phone calls. That’s where brokers lose deals, margin, and time.

To cover a single load, brokers often take 30–50 inbound calls from carriers.
On each call, they repeat the same load info, manually negotiate rates, and check compliance for each.

Brokers either use in-house reps or offshore teams but even then:

Missed calls from carriers offering better rates
Reps settle too quickly in negotiations just to close
High costs and churn

This is slow, expensive, and repeated 100s of times daily.

✅ THE SOLUTION:

Lanesurf is Voice AI for carrier sales that:

Answers every call
Shares load details and vets carrier compliance
Negotiates rates using fuel prices, lane preferences & market trends
Makes outbound calls if no inbound match is found

This helps brokers:

Book more margin per load
4x lower costs to book a load
Even win more shipper loads by quoting reliably

Our AI gets smarter with every call learning patterns across lanes, carriers, and seasons - creating proprietary pricing signals brokers can act on.

👥 TEAM:

We’re Pratham and Sarthak - engineers from IIT Delhi.
We've built scalable AI systems for Fortune 500 supply chain teams and previously sold a vertical AI product in biotech (six-figure ARR) to a Bay Area company backed by NVIDIA.

We saw the problem firsthand through family in the freight industry. We spent months embedded with broker teams, listening to live carrier calls and understanding the real-world edge cases that operations teams face daily.