Five ranked carriers. One keystroke. Load covered.

AI load covering is the automated process of ranking inbound carrier replies by multiple signals — trust, offered rate versus market, historical lane fit, and response speed — and surfacing the best five for a coordinator to action in seconds. Keelway does this on every posted load, compressing 45–60 minutes of manual triage into roughly 90 seconds of human decision-making.

Keelway's composite ranking algorithm weighs four inputs: the carrier trust score (0–100, built from FMCSA authority, insurance, inspection data, and fraud signals), the offered rate expressed as a percentile against the trailing 90-day distribution on that lane, the historical lane-fit score (how often this carrier has successfully covered this corridor or equipment type with your brokerage), and response speed (time between load posting and email reply, as a proxy for carrier availability and urgency). The weights are configurable per brokerage and adapt over time based on your accept/decline history.

No. Keelway surfaces the top five ranked rows. The coordinator accepts, counters, requests more information, or declines from the row — one keystroke each. The ranking is a starting point, not an autonomous dispatcher. If a coordinator regularly overrides rank #1 for a specific carrier, Keelway learns that preference and adjusts the per-brokerage lane-fit weight accordingly.

In the Keelway load view, each ranked row has four action keys: Accept (A), Counter (C), Request Info (R), Decline (D). Pressing Accept on rank #1 confirms the carrier, triggers the rate-confirmation draft in your inbox voice, and queues the TMS write-back. The coordinator never leaves the ranked-list view. Keyboard shortcuts j/k navigate rows, Enter opens the carrier detail drawer, and / focuses search.

When a coordinator accepts a carrier, Keelway writes the accepted carrier name, MC number, offered rate, equipment type, and lane confirmation back to the connected TMS — Tai, McLeod, Aljex, Revenova, Turvo, or Rose Rocket. The rate confirmation is drafted in the coordinator's email voice and sent from the carrier-facing inbox. No double entry in the TMS. No copy-paste into a rate-con template.

Yes. Keelway's auto-accept rules let you define a trust score floor and a rate-vs-market ceiling for specific lanes or equipment types where your brokerage has high confidence. For example: on a Chicago–Atlanta 53' dry van lane where you've covered 200 loads, you might auto-accept any carrier above trust 75 quoting within 3% of the lane median. Auto-accept rules are opt-in, per-lane, and audited — every auto-accepted load shows in the coordinator's queue with a one-click override window.

Keelway indexes every carrier you've booked by lane and equipment type and builds a per-carrier coverage success rate on each corridor. A carrier who has successfully picked up and delivered 15 Chicago–Atlanta dry van loads for your brokerage with no service failures gets a high lane-fit score on that corridor. A carrier appearing for the first time on that lane gets a neutral score. Lane fit is one of four ranking inputs — it does not dominate, but it provides a meaningful signal for lanes your brokerage runs repeatedly.

Response speed is a positive signal, not a tie-breaker. A carrier who replies in 4 minutes but scores a 28 on trust will still rank low — trust and rate percentile carry more composite weight. Speed is useful for distinguishing between two similar carriers where one is clearly available and the other is testing the lane. The weight distribution is visible and adjustable in your brokerage's ranking configuration.

Not by default. Keelway is a decision-support layer, not an autonomous dispatcher. The auto-accept rules feature enables semi-autonomous coverage on tightly defined lane and trust parameters — but a coordinator is always in the loop unless they explicitly configure a rule to remove themselves. Full autonomous tendering is on the roadmap for 2027, gated behind enterprise contracts and shipper approval workflows.

Parade's CoDriver is outbound — it calls carriers to source capacity for loads you haven't covered yet. Keelway is inbound — it triages the 40 carrier replies that already landed in your inbox and ranks the best ones for the coordinator to action. Different wedge, complementary at the enterprise level. See the full breakdown on our Parade alternative page.