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Logistics SaaS operations platform

A fast-growing logistics SaaS company was running its operations on spreadsheets, chat threads and goodwill. We built the platform — and the offline-first mobile app — that turned a manual scramble into a workflow.

Client
Logistics SaaS company, Mumbai
Sector
Logistics & field operations
Services
Custom Software · Mobile App
Year / Result
2024 · 30% faster workflows

The company had product-market fit and a growing client base — and an operations process that couldn't keep up with either. Every new customer added friction the team absorbed by hand.

The challenge

Behind a polished customer-facing product sat a back office held together by spreadsheets and messaging apps. Jobs were assigned manually, status updates were relayed by phone, and the field team — drivers and on-site staff working in areas with patchy connectivity — had no reliable way to record what had actually happened. Data arrived late, sometimes wrong, and always after someone had re-keyed it.

As volume climbed, the manual overhead climbed with it. The founders could see the ceiling: growth was making the operation slower, not faster.

Every handoff lived in a spreadsheet and a phone call — and it broke a little more with each new client.

What we did

We ran a focused discovery to map the real workflow — not the one on the org chart — then designed a single operations platform to replace the patchwork. A senior team built it in weekly iterations, with the client steering priorities as working software landed.

  • A custom operations platform in React and Node.js, backed by PostgreSQL — job assignment, live status, scheduling and reporting in one place.
  • An offline-first mobile app in Flutter for field teams: capture jobs, proof and updates with no signal, then sync automatically when connectivity returns.
  • Automated the manual handoffs — assignments, notifications and status changes that used to be phone calls now happen in the system.
  • Dashboards and exports that gave the operations team, and their customers, a single source of truth.
"The custom platform streamlined our workflow by 30%. A perfect fit for our growth stage — senior people, no hand-holding." — Founder & CEO

The outcome

The team measured a 30% reduction in the time it took to move a job from request to completion — time that had been lost to re-keying, chasing updates and reconciling spreadsheets. The field app removed the connectivity blind spot, and for the first time the operation could take on more volume without adding more manual work.

  • 30% faster end-to-end operational workflows.
  • Offline-first field capture — no lost updates in low-signal areas.
  • Manual handoffs replaced by automated, auditable status flow.
  • One source of truth for the ops team and their customers.
  • Headroom to grow without growing the back-office headcount.
30%
Faster workflows
1
Source of truth, not many
100%
Offline-capable field app
0
Lost updates in low signal
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