Lighthouz AI

Freight bill audits, AP, AR automation for freight brokers with…

Y CombinatorSummer 2024ActiveB2BArtificial IntelligenceSaaSWorkflow AutomationLogistics

What they do

Problem

Freight brokers lose time and money on manual back-office work like freight bill auditing, disputes, invoicing, and collections, which delays billing and payments.

Solution

Lighthouz AI is an AI-powered back-office automation platform that audits FTL/LTL freight bills, files disputes, and automates AP/AR and collections workflows from email and documents.

Who it's for

Freight brokerage companies (especially leading freight brokers) use it to automate AP, AR, invoicing, and collections.

Founders

Srijan Kumar

CEO & Co-founder

I'm an award-winning AI professor-turned-entrepreneur. Over the last 14 years, my AI systems have been used at Meta, Wikipedia, The Home Depot, and Flipkart. I have been a Georgia Tech professor and worked at Google, Stanford, CMU, and UMD, and IIT. I pioneered dynamic graph neural nets. I have written 60+ AI publications w 6000+ citations. Awards won: NSF CAREER, Forbes 30u30, Kavli Fellow. I'm building AI agents to do AP and AR in logistics, powered by dynamic knowledge graphs.

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Sonali Pattnaik

COO & Co-founder

Sonali is the CTO and Co-founder of Lighthouz. Previously, she has led AI teams at enterprises such as Progressive, American Family, and Halliburton, where she spearheaded innovative AI solutions. With experience in building and deploying AI technologies, she holds multiple US patents and papers. Working across multiple industries, Sonali has gained expertise in tackling business problems from inception to full implementation using AI solutions.

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