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AI teammates for logistics

We're building for the people that keep the world moving. Freight brokers and forwarders operate on razor-thin margins in a relationship-driven business — yet most of their teams spend the majority of their day on manual, repetitive work. We help freight brokers and forwarders build AI teammates that handle their repetitive, manual tasks so teams have time to focus on customers, carriers, and growing the business.
Active Founders
Bobby Zhong
Bobby Zhong
Founder
Co-Founder & CEO at Burt Studied CS at UCI before dropping to join Pirros (YC W23) as their 2nd engineer. Then joined Replo (YC S21) to build coding agents and wrangle LLMs. Grew up in a logistics family and now trying to help in the space.
Kurt Sharma
Kurt Sharma
Founder
Co-Founder & CTO at Burt Studied EECS at UC Berkeley. Previously @ Replo (YC S21) building high-throughput data pipelines and sandboxed code manipulation systems. Now building AI teammates in logistics.
Company Launches
Burt - AI Teammates for Logistics
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We're Bobby and Kurt, co-founders of Burt (W26).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7XKdMwE1Q 

TL;DR

We help freight brokers and forwarders build AI teammates that handle their repetitive, manual tasks so teams have time to focus on customers, carriers, and growing the business.

Whether it’s tracking loads or chasing and processing documents, teams can build AI coworkers that follow their specific processes and work on top of their existing systems.

The Problem

Freight brokers and forwarders operate on razor-thin margins in a relationship-driven business — yet most of their teams spend the majority of their day on manual, repetitive work.

Problems like

  • Shipment tracking and check calls
  • Document processing and data entry
  • Chasing PODs and rate cons
  • Finding and booking carriers
  • Invoice auditing and billing reconciliation
  • Quoting and building loads

As volume grows, so does the headcount required to manage it. Teams burn out, service suffers, and growth stalls.

Our Solution

We help freight brokers and forwarders build AI teammates that handle their most repetitive workflows end-to-end — check calls, document processing, covering loads, invoicing, and more — pulling in the right person only when they're actually needed.

Our AI teammates work the way a human operator would: reading emails, making calls, logging into portals, and updating their TMS — following their specific processes and living on top of their existing systems

Teams can take on more business without burning people out, cut down on costly mistakes, and get their best operators back on the relationships that actually drive growth.

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About Us

We both grew up in logistics families so we know how hard the people in the industry have to work and we genuinely want to be able to make an impact on the space. Bobby spent weekends at his dad's 3PL warehouse and Kurt grew up watching his uncle sell on Amazon FBA — where half the stress was always coordinating shipments and chasing freight.

We know how hard freight is and there’s no one else we’d rather build for than the people in it.

Our Ask

We’d really appreciate any intros to anyone in the logistics space. Primarily freight brokers, forwarders, and carriers but we’re relatively new to the space so talking to anyone in the industry would be helpful!

Feel free to reach out to us at bobby@trainburt.com or find a time to chat here

Previous Launches
Build models that outperform general, closed source alternatives at a fraction of the cost and latency
Burt
Batch:Winter 2026
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Primary Partner:Ankit Gupta