The Freight Pod
The Freight Pod
Andrew Silver
Ep. #82: Alan Holland, Founder & CEO, Keelvar
1 hour 25 minutes Posted Mar 25, 2026 at 9:00 am.
Sponsors And Quick Show Start
Meet Alan And Keelvar
From AI Research To Freight
Mechanism Design For Fair Bids
Sponsor Break CloneOps
Toward Machine Led Freight Negotiation
Linking TMS Data To Sourcing
Pricing Risk Under Uncertainty
What ChatGPT Changed In AI
Sponsor Break Rapido
Compute Power And Broken Rules
Fear Jobs And The Real Upside
Rebuilding Software Work With Claude
Sponsor Break Genlogs
Leading Change Inside A SaaS Team
The Next Keelvar Products
Five Year Future Of Procurement
Multi Shipper Exchanges And The Holy Grail
Career Advice And Starting Again
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Freight buying has a dirty secret: most bids do a great job of finding the lowest number and a terrible job of finding the best outcome. When shippers reward price without measuring service, good carriers get punished, bad actors slip through, and procurement teams spend weeks in spreadsheets trying to guess what suppliers actually want. We sit down with Alan Holland from Keelvar to break down a better approach using sourcing optimization, mechanism design, and AI agents. Alan explains how i...