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moves revenue

Quoting. Margin-aware quotes in minutes, not days.

The problem

The quote that takes two days loses to the one that takes ten minutes. Most desks price from tribal knowledge and a stale rate sheet — so fast quotes leave margin on the table, and careful quotes arrive after the customer has moved on.

What we deploy

Eridian deploys quoting systems that price from the Ontology — each account’s history, live market rates, current capacity, contract terms — and return a margin-aware quote in minutes, with the reasoning attached.

01

A quote engine that prices from account history, live market rates, capacity, and contract terms — with the reasoning attached to every number.

02

Win/loss and margin telemetry on every quote, so pricing tightens with each cycle instead of drifting.

03

Approval rails built in: discounts past your threshold route for sign-off inside the tools the desk already uses.

In the Ontology

The objects this use case reads and writes — stood up during the diagnostic, shared with every use case that follows.

CUSTOMERCONTRACTORDER HISTORYRATECAPACITYQUOTE
Field result
+5.2%

contract revenue, Class I railroad intermodal desk

Near-instant quoting for a Class I railroad’s intermodal desk — priced against each account’s historical moves, live over-the-road rates, and lane competitiveness.

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