FourKites

FourKites is a supply chain technology company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Chicago, with further offices in Amsterdam, Chennai and Munich. It provides a real-time supply chain visibility and orchestration platform, and describes itself as having pioneered real-time supply chain visibility. The company employs more than 500 professionals and serves over 1,600 global brands across supply chain management, logistics, freight and transportation, and shipping.

Its flagship product, Intelligent Control Tower™, builds digital twins of the entire supply chain and deploys AI-powered digital workers that autonomously resolve exceptions and handle routine work; the company states that these digital workers resolve 85% of exceptions. Around this sit several AI capabilities: agentic AI agents that turn manual work into automated action, visual AI applying computer vision to real-world operations, analytical AI that generates dashboards in response to natural-language questions, and conversational AI providing instant answers to supply chain queries.

The platform's technical work spans agentic AI, computer vision, visual AI, analytical AI, conversational AI, digital twins, real-time logistics data and supply chain orchestration. Scale is substantial: the network connects more than 1.1 million carriers and suppliers across over 200 territories and tracks more than 3 million shipments daily, which the company calls the world's largest real-time logistics and visibility network.

The stated operating philosophy is AI-first, aimed at automating routine work so that teams can concentrate on higher-value tasks. Business outcomes emphasised include preventing stockouts, reducing delays and cutting excess costs for the brands on the platform.