From spreadsheets to autonomous trucks on the Gulf's trade corridors
CargoSurge is the AI-native logistics ERP built by operators who live the problem every day. The software is the wedge. The destination is autonomous trucking — we are building an autonomous-vehicle company for the Gulf.
Our story
We didn't study this market. We live in it.
We run a freight forwarder in Dubai. As it grew, so did the mess — quotes stitched by hand, driver dispatches living in WhatsApp, invoices reconciled from PDFs and screenshots. Margin was slipping into the gaps between tools.
We went shopping for an ERP. Everything was either too basic, too bloated, or a single module. Nothing fit a GCC SME forwarder. So our founder — a non-engineer with over a decade in GCC logistics — built CargoSurge himself, in a matter of weeks, with AI as a co-engineer.
Then fuel theft started bleeding our margins. The telematics vendors gave us GPS drift, dashboards from another era, and four disconnected apps. So we built our own hardware stack and wired it straight into the platform.
Customer Zero is our own freight business. Every quote, every shipment, every invoice, every dispatch runs on CargoSurge today.
We didn't research this market. We built our way out of it — and we're not stopping at software.
The CargoSurge founding story
But running our own business was never the endgame.
We're not building a tool.
We're building a ladder.
Each rung is a bigger company than the last.
And we've already built — and proven — the first rung.
The product
One platform. The entire operation.
Eight deeply-integrated modules — and an AI layer woven through every one of them.
Email Hub — an autonomous agent, live in production
Reads inbound customer mail, classifies it, pulls the right context, and drafts quotes for human approval — turning an inbox into pipeline.
Finance Agent — reconciling, live in production
Reconciles bank feeds against invoices, categorizes transactions, and drafts journal entries — the back office that runs itself.
And it isn't a demo. It's running a real company — right now.
Why now
Four forces, converging
Each trend is independent. The conjunction is what we're betting on.
The last great underserved market
The GCC runs one of the world’s largest logistics economies — on spreadsheets, WhatsApp, and decade-old ERP. Global vendors localize for the region last; local generalists never go deep on logistics. That gap is the opportunity.
Vision 2030 forces digitization
ZATCA e-invoicing, digital-by-default corridors, and mandates from the region’s largest shippers mean every forwarder needs a compliant, auditable platform — now, not later.
The AI inflection
AI finally automates the messy, manual core of freight ops — quoting, customs, reconciliation. We built CargoSurge AI-native from day one, not as a chatbot bolted on.
Cross-border modernization
GCC Customs Union digitization rewards connected platforms and punishes disconnected tools. The operator who shows up without a system loses the contract.
The window is open right now. It will not stay open.
The vision — an autonomous-vehicle company
We're not a SaaS company
that might dabble in hardware.
CargoSurge is on a path to operate autonomous trucks on Gulf corridors — built from the operator's seat, on a proprietary regional fleet dataset pure-software players can't match. The ERP is the wedge. The fleet is the data engine. Autonomy is the destination.
Concept — the autonomous fleet we're building toward
We built our own telematics stack and wired it into the platform: GPS, fuel, driver behavior, and trailer telemetry — the labeled operating data autonomy is built on.
This is where freight is going. We intend to be at the wheel.
Why we win
A moat that compounds
All-in-one, not point solutions
Forwarding, road, warehouse, courier, customs, and full double-entry finance in one system. Competitors solve one slice; we run the whole operation.
AI-native architecture
Every business object is an AI-callable tool, with autonomous agents already in production. The more it runs, the smarter and stickier it gets.
Regional compliance depth
GCC VAT, ZATCA, corporate tax, IFRS, AML/KYC, UBO, sanctions — built in. A hard, unglamorous barrier global players won’t cross for years.
A hardware data flywheel
Our own telematics bundle streams labeled fleet data into the platform — a proprietary operating dataset that software-only ERPs can never replicate.
So who's actually building this?
The team
Operators, not tourists
Decades of combined GCC logistics experience — inside the exact business we're building for.
Randika De Silva
Founder & CEO
Over a decade in GCC logistics. Built CargoSurge himself as a non-engineer, with AI as a co-engineer — and runs a live freight business on it.
Co-founder & Domain Advisor
Identity private — disclosed to investors under NDA
Deep GCC logistics operations experience — keeping every workflow grounded in how freight actually moves on the ground.
We're all in. The only question left is whether you are.
Build it with us
We've bet our careers that the GCC's defining logistics company hasn't been built yet — and that it starts here. If that's the kind of bet you make, request the deck and data room.