U.S. Alvys Launches AI Platform in 2026, with $77 Million in Total Funding

en.Wedoany.com Reported - Alvys, a U.S. transportation management system (TMS) provider, launched its AI agent platform, Alvys Foundry, on August 17, 2026, allowing freight carriers, brokers, and carrier-broker hybrid enterprises to deploy pre-built or custom AI agents within their existing TMS, replacing third-party automation layers layered over sensitive data.

This launch fulfills the AI roadmap Alvys announced when it completed a $40 million Series B funding round in September 2025, led by RTP Global. Alvys also announced that its TMS is now available to fleets of all sizes, covering owner-operators and small freight carriers, while continuing to serve large trucking companies.

Alvys Foundry offers three adoption paths: customers build agents themselves, use pre-built agents, or have Alvys engineers custom-build them. The platform includes more than 20 pre-built templates covering common workflows; for more specific operations, Alvys engineers work directly with customers to build and tune agents, eliminating the need for customers to maintain in-house engineering teams. Customers can also build their own agents directly on the platform, controlling how automation operates within their workflows.

Carlos M. Llanes Jr., founder and CEO of Spartan Carrier Group, said: "Foundry isn't AI for show—it's AI with a clear job. For Spartan, it's like embedding our own R&D team into operations, helping eliminate manual friction in freight, and letting employees focus on judgment, service, and operational excellence."

Alvys CEO Nick Darman said that over the past year, the company observed how customers actually adopted AI and found that some areas were genuinely helpful, some stalled, and some hype only gave operators more tools and logins rather than more capacity. Foundry is a direct response to these issues: it aligns automation and AI with customers' existing SOPs, rules, and operational preferences, giving operators full control—"rather than being replaced by a black box."

Unlike most AI providers entering the logistics space that "build on behalf of customers," Alvys chooses to build with customers: handing building blocks, integrations, and business logic to operators and training their teams to assemble agents themselves. Darman noted that as a trucking company owner, he had experienced the vendor-built model: "They hold the keys, and leaving becomes difficult." Foundry is designed to put the keys in customers' hands—"users should have the power, not the vendor."

For agents to do real work, they need operational context such as lane history, customer rules, documents, margins, appointments, and exceptions. For most TMS platforms, opening this data to external platforms raises security and reliability concerns. Foundry is built in-house, leveraging Alvys' existing data infrastructure, more than 120 integrations, native EDI connections with hundreds of shippers, and a SOC 2-compliant security foundation, working alongside existing AI capabilities such as Insights (AI chat and report generator), Intel (real-time weather and load alerts), and AI-assisted load creation. Alvys has enterprise agreements with leading model providers, and customer data is not used to train public models.

Foundry also includes a governance layer, Agent Shield, which logs agent activity, keeps operations auditable, and routes high-impact decisions to human approval.

The platform targets manual work in freight teams, with early applications including automated check-call outreach, invoice and settlement preparation, and tracking exceptions. A built-in intelligent model selector chooses the most cost-effective large language model for each task, keeping compute costs in check. For companies that lack the time or technical capability to manage agents independently, Foundry offers a phased path: describe workflows, run safety tests, deploy under guardrails, and retain human approval at critical points; teams can start by validating value with templates and then scale as trust grows.

Alvys Foundry debuted at the Alvys Customer Advisory Board meeting on June 17, and initial customer slots filled quickly; the waitlist for the second cohort is now open.

Founded in 2020, Alvys is an AI-first TMS provider for carriers, brokers, and hybrid operations, integrating dispatch, tracking, native EDI, driver management, and accounting into one connected platform. Built by freight industry professionals, the company now powers some of North America's most advanced trucking companies, with the platform processing more than $7 billion in freight annually and $77 million in total funding raised.