Meet Manifold.
The operational data layer for breakbulk terminals.
Find the work. Price the work. Record what happened on the dock. A system of record under the commercial side of the terminal.
Cost model · Aluminum ingots, berth transloadPrice the job.
Defend the number.
Pricing lives in one person’s spreadsheet — until the customer asks why it’s $42 a ton. Manifold answers that question, six months later, line by line.
A rate book of record
Labor, equipment, tariff services, facilities: cost and bill, straight time and overtime, stored verbatim. Overtime is never derived; if a rate isn’t known, it isn’t stored.
Numbers that hold still
A line copies its rate the moment it binds. The quote you sent in March still computes the March number in September. Drift is flagged with a one-click re-sync, never rewritten silently.
Checks, not silence
The engine flags what’s off: a missing driver, storage cost that isn’t recovered, a price below break-even, a rate flagged for review — instead of quietly producing a number.
Ask the model itself
A copilot that sees the whole model: your rates, your drivers, your terminal. Your numbers come only from the model; if a value isn’t there, it says so rather than estimating.
Know who to call and why now.
Three mornings a week, a research agent scans your markets and hands you a short, sourced list of who to call.
Grid operator awards 12 large power transformers for 2027 delivery
Units ship from overseas fabrication and will need a heavy-lift berth, laydown, and rail transfer within reach of the substation corridor.
When the paper still shows up
Photograph the handwritten tally or relocation sheet. It comes back as editable rows: correct what’s wrong, export CSV, generate the mate’s receipt.
Every number traces back to the rate that produced it.
Every lead traces back to a source that’s actually live.
If a link is dead, the signal never reaches you. If a rate isn’t known, it isn’t stored.
Questions we actually get.
Your own rate library is the source of truth. Manifold flags rates that drift or need review, and backs market questions with cited checks you can open. You always see where a number came from before it goes in a quote.
Once your rates are loaded, a full breakbulk job assembles in minutes. The model binds your rates and drivers, applies your markup, and produces a sourced, sendable quote.
Yes. Your rates, quotes, and records are yours alone, isolated per terminal. We never pool your pricing into a shared dataset.
No. Cost Models lives with your commercial team. Capture, if you use it, reads the paper your crew already writes. No new tablet, no retraining.
We do the setup for you, working from your existing rate card and forms. You'll be quoting real jobs quickly, and we'll walk you through the exact timeline on the first call.
Put a system of record under the deal.
Manifold runs in production at breakbulk terminals today.
Tell us about your facility and we’ll take it from there.