Series Seed · Open SAFE round · Confidential investor summary

We're rebuilding the freight brokerage for operators who actually answer the phone.

ORISEI pairs a 13-year founder with an operator-grade TMS — margin-aware load queue, auto-stamped BOLs, dock-photo PODs, and same-day quick-pay — built to take share from the mega-3PLs that have forgotten what shippers want.

Pre-revenue · Pre-launch · all figures forward-looking
Oliver Cummins · FounderMinneapolis · Saint Paul, MN oliver@oriseifreightsolutions.com
Year-1 success probability
90%
STRONG
Top-quartile setup — capital, experience, and tooling all aligned. Inherent freight-market volatility still applies.
Methodology + sources in the full deck.
The opportunity at a glance

A $210B industry where 32% of new entrants fail because of solvable problems.

$210B
TAM
US freight brokerage · TIA 2024
$38B
SAM
Midwest TL/LTL property freight
$3.6M
Year-3 SOM
Twin Cities + upper Midwest
32%
Y1 broker failure
SBA + TIA 2023 baseline
Why this wins

What we're solving — and why operator-grade tooling changes the math.

One named broker on every load

No call-center roulette. No pod-based shipper accounts. A direct cell phone answered in person — the way freight ran before brokerage scaled into anonymity.

Auto-stamped paperwork, every load

BOLs render in your shipper's inbox within seconds of booking. Photo PODs hit within seconds of delivery. Compliance hardened into the workflow — not bolted on after.

Same-day quick-pay → best carriers

2% quick-pay on every clean POD attracts the A-team owner-operators in our region. That carrier quality cascades straight back to shipper service.

3-year forecast · forward-looking targets

From pre-revenue today to $2.6M revenue and 6.1% EBITDA by Year 3.

Year 1
$277K
Revenue
Loads
129
EBITDA
$-59K
Year 2
$1245K
Revenue
Loads
579
EBITDA
$6K
Year 3
$2556K
Revenue
Loads
1,189
EBITDA
$155K
Y1 M01Y1 M05Y1 M09Y2 M01Y2 M05Y2 M09Y3 M01Y3 M05Y3 M09$0K$70K$140K$210K$280K
Sources: TIA Annual Report 2024 · FMCSA Pocket Guide 2024 · Armstrong & Associates 3PL Market Report 2024 · FreightWaves Sonar 2024 Trucking Industry Outlook · SBA Small Business Survival Statistics 2023
The ask

$500K SAFE at a $4.0M cap with a 20% discount.

First paying shipper within 30–60 days of close. Carrier network of 300+ by Day 90. EBITDA break-even by Month 22 on the honest bootstrap baseline. Operating control retained.

Use of funds
Authority + bond + insurance
$50,000
Carrier-vetting + monitoring tooling
$45,000
Load board subscriptions
$36,000
Founder runway (12 mo)
$120,000
Marketing + outbound (6 mo)
$60,000
Working capital / quick-pay float
$110,000
Contingency reserve
$79,000
TOTAL
$500,000
Built, not theorized

Things that already exist in production today.

TMS Command Deck shipped and operating in production today.
Brand-aware document engine: BOLs, PODs, and compliance forms render in < 800ms.
Connections vault wired for DAT, Truckstop, Convoy, Resend, RMIS, Carrier411, QuickBooks (Fernet-encrypted) — credentials pending activation.
Marketing pack live: carrier + shipper sell sheets, 3 LinkedIn posts, 3 cold-email sequences with follow-ups.
13-year operator-founder edge — references available on request.
Zero loads booked yet · pre-launch · the raise is what turns the platform into a brokerage.
Key risks · radical transparency

What can go wrong — and what we're actively modeling.

No spin. These are the dominant risks baked into the financial model. Every investor will ask; we'd rather you see our answers up front.

Customer acquisition: Y1 model assumes first paying shipper at Month 4. A 2-month slip drops Y1 loads by ~25%.
Gross margin: Y1 modeled at 10% — new brokers often run 8% as they pay up to win lanes. -1 pt margin = -$3K Y1 EBITDA.
Carrier liquidity: Quick-pay attracts A-team carriers but ties up ~$30-50K of working-capital float in steady state.
Freight-market cycle: Modeled at 2026 mid-cycle rates. A 10% RPM drop (recession scenario) reduces gross profit ~15%.
Concentration risk: Y1-Y2 likely 3-5 anchor shippers. Losing one anchor in Y1 = -30% revenue.
Authority timing: Y1 model assumes MC + bond in hand by Day 30. A 60-day FMCSA delay pushes break-even to Month 11-12.
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