Transporeon adds Natural Language Search for carriers
Trimble company Transporeon recently launched Natural Language Search, a generative AI feature designed to simplify how carriers find freight in Transporeon Autonomous Procurement.
The new capability allows users to type conversational queries like “bulk loads from Houston to Atlanta picking up in the next 48 hours” and immediately receive matching results with AI-powered Buy-It-Now offers, turning what was once a multi-step filtering process into instant booking, Transporeon reported.
For carriers and dispatchers scanning hundreds of customized AI-powered offers in Autonomous Procurement, every minute spent navigating lists and toggling through filters is time not spent booking profitable freight. Carriers usually know what they're looking for: a specific lane, equipment type or pickup window. Until now, they’ve had to translate that need into multiple clicks. Natural Language Search removes that friction entirely. Based on pilot data, the tool interprets user intent with over 90% accuracy and rapidly returns results, allowing carriers to surface the most relevant loads.
“We started this project because we kept hearing the same thing from carriers: they think about loads naturally, but traditional search tools required them to translate that into filters and menu selections,” Jonah McIntire, Trimble’s chief platform officer for transportation and logistics, said in a news release. “That translation gap was slowing people down and Natural Language Search eliminates it.
“You just type what you need and the AI does the rest, delivering a faster, more intuitive experience that helps carriers act on the right opportunities more quickly.”
The feature was piloted with a large U.S. brokerage serving 790 active carriers and is now available to all Autonomous Procurement users across Europe and North America, Trimble said. Seventy-nine percent of the carriers in the pilot used the AI tool to successfully complete at least one search. Usage was mostly desktop-based (72%), with 28% of searches coming from mobile devices, reflecting how carriers increasingly access freight marketplaces on the go. Early data also indicates the feature can increase query-to-booking conversion by as much as 25%.
“The new AI search is very quick and comfortable to use,” said Alice Kostandova, senior logistics coordinator at West Motor Freight. “It saves me a lot of time and is much faster than setting regular filters.”