Pi - AI agent for freight procure-to-pay recognized alongside Samsung, Google, and GitHub for revolutionary approach to global supply chain management by FAST Company.
In February 2025, we launched Pi, an AI agent designed to tame the chaos of global logistics. By March, we won our first customer. April brought Gartner's recognition as a "Visionary". In May, the G2 Spring Grid Report named us a Leader in logistics. August delivered dual honors: Supply Chain Brain's Great Supply Chain Partner 2025 award and inclusion in Inc. 5000's America's Fastest Growing Companies list. September saw TIME name Pi among the Best Inventions of 2025.
Now, in October, Fast Company has crowned this remarkable eight-month run by naming Pi to its prestigious "Next Big Things in Tech" list in the Applied AI category, placing it alongside technology giants including Samsung, Google, and GitHub.
This isn't just a collection of accolades. It's validation that Pi represents a fundamental shift in how enterprises manage supply chain complexity in an era of unprecedented volatility, from geopolitical upheaval to trade policy disruptions.
Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech award highlights technology breakthroughs that will define industries' futures. The Applied AI category recognizes practical applications of artificial intelligence that solve real-world problems across sectors, and Pi exemplifies this mission with precision.
The Russia–Ukraine war reshaped shipping routes. The Trump administration’s tariffs forced enterprises to reimagine supply chain strategies. Traditional platforms built for stability couldn't adapt to constant volatility. Companies needed intelligent agents capable of understanding context, making informed decisions, and executing complex workflows autonomously, all while maintaining transparency and human oversight. That's exactly where Pi features in.
Pi represents a fundamental departure from conventional logistics software. Unlike generic AI tools retrofitted for supply chain use, Pi is powered by proprietary Logistics Language Models™, trained specifically on logistics operations, terminology, and decision-making patterns.
Built on a comprehensive supply chain knowledge graph that normalizes real-time data across products, suppliers, customers, shipments, carriers, and freight contracts, Pi doesn't just automate tasks, it thinks like a logistics professional, understands industry nuances, and makes decisions that balance multiple competing priorities, especially in two of logistics' most intractable challenges: freight procurement and freight audit & payment.
Most logistics software automates repetitive tasks through rigid rules. Pi does something fundamentally different; it applies genuine intelligence to complex decision-making across the entire freight lifecycle.
Consider freight procurement, historically a weeks-long process requiring coordination between logistics teams, carriers, and finance. Pi doesn't just speed this up; it transforms it.
The results: Significant freight cost savings, procurement cycles compressed by weeks, and superior lane-carrier allocation, freeing teams to focus on strategic relationships rather than administrative drudgery.
If procurement is complex, freight audit and payment is where enterprises silently hemorrhage money and manhours. Every invoice requires validation, every rate update demands manual entry, every discrepancy needs investigation.
Pi eliminates this not by making manual processes faster, but by making them autonomous. When a carrier's rate card arrives via email, Pi extracts it, analyzes changes, calculates impact, and updates the rate master in under sixty seconds with one approval click.
Organizations report eliminating duplicate payments while achieving 100% audit coverage benchmarks impossible with manual processes.
Within weeks of Pi's launch, Fortune 50 brands including Meta and Cardinal Health onboarded the platform, a remarkable vote of confidence from companies managing some of the world's most complex logistics operations. For enterprises orchestrating thousands of simultaneous shipments and managing dozens of carrier relationships, this rapid adoption demonstrates that Pi delivers fundamental transformation in managing logistics complexity.
Pi's recognition signals a pivotal moment for applied AI in logistics. For years, the industry discussed digital transformation while remaining dependent on manual processes. Pi represents the actualization of that promise, AI that doesn't merely assist human operators but actively manages the complexity that has made modern logistics so challenging.
The Fast Company award validates what Pi's enterprise users already experience daily: bringing order to logistics chaos in ways that seemed impossible just months ago. Our eight-month journey from launch to Fast Company recognition, with stops at Gartner, G2, Supply Chain Brain, Inc. 5000, and TIME along the way, confirms that Pi is helping define the future of how the world moves goods. In an industry where every efficiency gain and every dollar saved multiplies across millions of shipments, that's everything.
As global trade continues to evolve and face new challenges, AI agents like Pi that combine deep industry expertise with cutting-edge intelligence will increasingly define competitive advantage. Pi's recognition is leading the way in applied AI for logistics.