DoozaAI Employees
Dooza CrewBuild your team of AI employeesPhone callsCrew answers your calls, included in your planBy industry
Insurance AgentsPortals, inbox, renewalsTruck DispatchersLoad boards, brokers, billingAccountantsClient documents, statements, deadlinesLaw FirmsIntake, client updates, records, docketsOwner-OperatorsInvoices, PODs, detention, IFTADone for you
Custom AI agentsWe build and run an agent for one jobPricingAboutBlogNine AI tools a small freight brokerage can use in 2026, from carrier sourcing and vetting to quoting, track and trace and TMS, with prices read on each vendor page, who each fits, and one honest limit for each.
Checked October 26, 2026. Prices were read on each vendor's own pricing page. Several broker-specific tools publish no price at all; we say so rather than guess. Prices change: re-check before you buy. Dooza Crew is our product and our top pick for small brokerages on a small budget; we say why, and where the others fit better.
Our top pick for a small freight brokerage is Dooza Crew: AI employees that draft carrier replies, chase paperwork and answer the phone, $49 a month for the whole organization, and they ask before they send anything. If you have a bigger floor and a demo budget, FreightScout, Vooma and Parade are built only for brokers. For carrier identity checks, Highway. For load posting and rates, DAT One. For the TMS itself, Alvys. For free call notes, Fathom.
Roughly four in ten, according to the one broker survey we could quote. Truckstop's 2026 broker trends guide describes "The widening technology and freight broker software gap between businesses (41% are deploying AI tools, 48% are not)". That figure comes from the 2026 Freight Brokerage Operations Report by Bloomberg Intelligence and Truckstop, a late-2025 survey of 187 freight brokers, forwarders and 3PL professionals.
Two cautions. Truckstop sells to brokers, and 187 respondents is a small sample. The useful reading is that AI in brokerage is no longer unusual, and the split runs between brokerages that have put it to work and ones that have not. This post is about brokers' work: posting loads, sourcing and vetting carriers, quoting, tracking and the TMS. (If you are on the carrier side, see our AI tools for truck dispatchers.)
| Tool | Broker job it helps with | Price (vendor page, Oct 26) | Free option |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dooza Crew (ours, top pick) | AI employees for carrier emails, paperwork, calls and forms | $49/mo per organization, unlimited users and agents, AI usage included | 7 days free (card required) |
| FreightScout | Agents that call carriers, track trucks, build loads, chase paperwork | $1,500/mo with three seats; $349 per extra seat; implementation from $5,000 | Demo only |
| Vooma | AI workers for quoting, building loads, covering and tracking | Not published (demo) | Demo only |
| Parade | Carrier capacity management and CoDriver for carrier calls and emails | Not published (demo) | Demo only |
| Highway | Carrier identity verification and load monitoring | Not published (demo) | Demo only |
| Trucker Tools | Load tracking, smart load board, carrier sourcing | Not published (demo) | Demo only |
| DAT One | Load posting and truck search with rate data | Broker plans $159, $319 and $449/month | Not stated |
| Alvys | TMS with AI load creation and AI agents | "Quoted based on volume of loads" | 14-day trial on Foundations |
| Fathom | AI notes for video calls with shippers | Free; paid from $16/user/mo | Free forever plan |
Most small brokerages are won or lost in the gaps around a load: a carrier email nobody answered for an hour, a rate confirmation that never came back signed, proof of delivery that sits in someone's inbox, a carrier setup packet half-filled. Crew gives your company AI employees, each with its own computer and browser and its own job. They work around the clock, work with your team in one chat, and pass work to each other. Before one sends an email or clicks Send, Submit or Pay, it asks you to Approve, Edit or Reject.
Example jobs you could give it: you could give one agent the job of drafting replies to carrier emails asking about a lane, for you to approve; another the job of emailing carriers for missing paperwork after delivery and listing who still owes you a document; another the job of answering the phone and taking a message when a carrier calls back; another the job of filling a fillable PDF, Word or Excel form you upload, such as a carrier setup packet. Crew works in web-based tools you log in to with a browser, and you type passwords and 2FA codes yourself.
Try Dooza Crew free for 7 days.
FreightScout is the rare broker AI platform that publishes its price. It calls itself "The AI execution layer for freight brokerages" and says "It calls the carriers, tracks the trucks, builds the loads, and chases the paperwork, on the TMS you already run." You can run it from supervised to autopilot.
Vooma describes "AI workers that email, call, text and log into systems to get your tedious work done, every time, 24/7." For brokers it covers "quote and build loads, schedule, cover and track."
Parade is built around the carrier side of brokerage. It says capacity management "helps freight brokerages and 3PLs source and reuse carriers, automate bookings, and win more business." Its CoDriver agent "answers inbound calls and emails from carriers, qualifies the fit, captures quotes, and syncs everything into Parade."
Vetting is where a brokerage loses real money, and Highway focuses on it. It describes itself as the provider of "Carrier Identity® solutions, helping freight brokers verify identity, authorize participation, and enforce their carrier standard throughout the lifecycle of every load." Its argument is that "Phone numbers change. Insurance expires. Drivers change. Operating authority evolves."
Trucker Tools covers two broker jobs: knowing where freight is, and finding carriers. Its home page promises you can "know where every load is — in real time, from beginning to end" and describes carrier sourcing "from our network of over 350k unique MCs". Its smart load board lists "automated negotiations, and Book-It-Now".
DAT is where many brokers post loads and find trucks. Its broker plans let you "Post your loads and search for carriers." with market rates "Powered by DAT iQ".
Alvys is a TMS for carriers, brokers and hybrids, with a banner reading "Alvys Launches AI Agents". Its Foundations plan lists "AI load creation", and an Insights AI analytics add-on is on the comparison table.
Fathom records and summarizes video calls. Its free plan has "Unlimited recordings, instant call summaries, integrations with LLMs & more." Useful for rate reviews and onboarding calls with shippers.
For a small brokerage, our top pick is Dooza Crew (our product): AI employees for the office work around each load, such as drafting carrier replies, chasing paperwork and answering the phone, each with its own computer and browser, for $49 a month for the whole organization after a 7-day free trial. It asks before it sends anything. If you want a platform built only for brokers, look at FreightScout, Vooma or Parade, but expect a demo and, for FreightScout, a $1,500 monthly platform fee.
A Bloomberg Intelligence and Truckstop survey, as quoted in Truckstop's 2026 broker trends guide, found that 41% of respondents were deploying AI tools and 48% were not. The respondents were 187 freight brokers, forwarders and 3PL professionals in late 2025, and Truckstop sells to brokers, so treat it as one data point.
Tools can help check identity, authority and insurance, but the decision stays with you. Highway sells carrier identity verification to brokers and says carrier data changes daily, so a one-time onboarding check can go stale; its pricing is demo-only. Dooza Crew is not a carrier-vetting service and no vetting tool is integrated with it: you could give an agent the job of collecting a carrier packet, and you approve every send.
Vooma, Parade and FreightScout all describe agents that handle quote emails, carrier calls or load building, but all three are demo-led, and FreightScout publishes $1,500 a month plus implementation. Rates, margins and who you tender to stay your call. Dooza Crew does not set rates; it can draft replies for you to approve.
Fathom has a free forever plan for video-call notes. DAT One broker load board plans run $159, $319 and $449 a month. Dooza Crew is $49 a month for the whole organization after a 7-day free trial (card required). The broker-specific AI platforms in this list are priced by demo or start at $1,500 a month.
No. It is not a broker of record or a legal advisor, and no TMS, load board or carrier-vetting tool is certified or integrated with it. It works in web-based tools you log in to with a browser, fills fillable PDF, Word and Excel files you upload, and asks you to Approve, Edit or Reject before it sends an email or clicks Send, Submit or Pay. Carrier vetting, rates and contracts stay with you.
A lead AI agent plus helper agents that browse the web, write files and ask you before they send or pay. 7-day free trial (card required), then $49/month with AI usage included and a hard spending cap.
Ten AI tools an independent agency can use in 2026, from AI receptionists to AI inside your AMS, with prices read on each vendor page, who each fits, and one honest limit for each.
Ten AI tools an accounting firm can use in 2026, from document capture and AI bookkeeping to tax research and practice management, with prices read on each vendor page, who each fits, and one honest limit for each.
Got busywork? Dooza it.
Try Dooza Crew, AI agents that do your busywork: 7-day free trial (card required), then $49/month with AI usage included and a hard spending cap. Want a custom agent built for you instead? A Dooza engineer scopes it on a free 30-minute call and it starts as a refundable pilot. See pricing.
Crew: 7-day free trial · Custom agents: refundable pilot, 100% refund within 14 days
Dooza builds AI products and services for small businesses. Custom Dooza agents start with a refundable pilot: 100% refund within 14 days.
Or start now: Dooza Crew, AI employees you chat with from web or phone, watching every step live in chat: free for 7 days, then $49 a month for your whole organization (unlimited users and agents, no per-seat fee) with AI usage included and a hard spending cap. Want it done for you instead? Dooza Managed, $200/month.