Autonomous Yard Intelligence

Your yard, running itself.

PortDwellr replaces the clipboard, the walkie-talkie, and whoever's working the gate that day with a closed loop of AI agents that check trucks in, sequence the queue, assign the dock, and settle every dispute — on their own.

Gate Manifest — Live LIVE
#CarrierTypeStatusWait
014Sandia FreightDry VanQueued—
015Coastal IntermodalFlatbedAt Dock 3—
016Rio Grande DrayDrop & HookQueued—
017Bluewater TransportDry VanChecked In—
  • 014 Sandia Freight—
    QueuedDry Van
  • 015 Coastal Intermodal—
    At Dock 3Flatbed
  • 016 Rio Grande Dray—
    QueuedDrop & Hook
  • 017 Bluewater Transport—
    Checked InDry Van
Sequenced automatically by arrival, appointment window & trailer type
4.3M
containers moved through Port Houston in 2025 — its busiest year on record
$50–100
typical detention cost per hour once free time runs out
~12,000
drayage carriers serving U.S. ports, most running on paper and radio
The Problem

Every yard runs on the same three things.

A clipboard. A walkie-talkie. And whoever happens to be working the gate that day. Drivers park on the street and wait to be waved in. Nobody can see their place in line. Appointment windows get argued about at the gate instead of enforced by the system. A container disappears into the yard for a week and there's no record of why.

None of this is a people problem. It's a tooling problem — and it's the default state for almost every small and mid-size yard in the country.

  • 01No digital check-in — drivers wait on the street for someone to notice them.
  • 02No visible queue — first-in isn't first-out, and there's no way to prove it either way.
  • 03Appointment windows enforced by negotiation, not by the system.
  • 04No timestamped record — detention and demurrage disputes have no evidence trail.
  • 05Dock doors and parking blocked because nobody owns the yard map.
How It Works

Five agents. One closed loop. Zero clipboards.

PortDwellr isn't a scheduling calendar with a chatbot bolted on. It's a native, autonomous loop — each agent hands its output directly to the next, and the last agent feeds what it learns back into the first. No dispatcher has to run it by hand.

01 — SENSE

Sense

Every truck checks in by QR code or text the moment it arrives. No app to download, no kiosk line to stand in.

02 — SEQUENCE

Sequence

The queue orders itself by arrival time, appointment window, and trailer type — fair, visible, and the same for everyone.

03 — ASSIGN

Assign

Dock doors and yard space are assigned in real time, so nobody blocks a bay or a parking spot again.

04 — RESOLVE

Resolve

Arrival, dock assignment, unload start and end, departure — every touch is timestamped, so detention disputes settle themselves.

05 — LEARN

Learn

The system studies its own throughput — bottlenecks, peak hours, staffing gaps — and feeds it back into tomorrow's queue.

LEARN feeds directly back into SENSE — the loop never stops running
What's Inside

Built from what actually happens at the gate.

QR / SMS Check-In

Drivers check in from the cab. No app, no account, no waiting to be noticed.

Live Queue Board

Every driver and every gate clerk sees the same queue, in the same order, at the same time.

Appointment Integrity

Windows are enforced automatically — no more fee disputes over who arrived early or late.

Dynamic Dock Assignment

Bays and yard space are assigned live, based on what's actually open right now.

Detention Timestamping

A defensible, timestamped record of every stage — from gate to departure.

Throughput Analytics

Trucks per hour, bottlenecks, staffing gaps — the numbers no operator currently has.

Who It's For

Built for the yards enterprise software skips.

Big distribution networks already have dock scheduling platforms — sold on multi-site contracts with month-long integrations. PortDwellr is built for the yard down the road from them: the family-run drayage lot, the port-adjacent cross-dock, the flatbed yard running five to fifty trucks a day on nothing but instinct.

Drayage yards Cross-dock warehouses Port-adjacent terminals Container drop-and-hook lots
Not built for
  • National 3PL networks needing WMS/TMS integration
  • Facilities that already run a full enterprise YMS
  • Anyone who needs a six-week sales cycle to get started
Pricing

Priced for a five-truck yard, not a national network.

Gate
$149/mo
1 location · up to 40 trucks/day
  • QR / SMS check-in
  • Live queue board
  • Basic appointment windows
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Terminal
Custom
Multi-site operators
  • Everything in Yard
  • Multi-site rollup reporting
  • API access
  • Dedicated onboarding
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Stop working the gate by hand.

See the loop running on your own gate manifest in under a week.