We study where innovation changes what is possible for drivers, for the companies that move the freight, and for the communities it runs through.
Lanework is an applied AI research lab for logistics, based in Columbus, Ohio. We test promising ideas against real carrier data, publish what we find, and build software to prove the findings hold.
Freight is fragmented across carriers, systems, and markets, and the same failures recur in every network. We map the problem across six domains and follow the evidence to where the leverage is.
We run independent research on the operational data operators already hold, and publish what we find.
We test findings with partner carriers, on their real lane and dispatch data and alongside their planners and dispatchers, to see whether they hold on the ground.
Not every finding needs software. When one does, we build it and stand behind it. Research is the moat; software is the evidence.
Where the research met a real operation, what moved, and the software we built to prove it holds.
Plus 7 more in the pipeline.
All researchEveryone else optimizes inside the architecture that creates the problem.
We test what happens when you redesign it, and we need industry partners to do it. Every ask is small, and none needs a budget line.
Anyone running 550–600 mile lanes who would talk about how they schedule them.
Whatever your TMS already exports, anonymized.
Researchers, operators, and founders working the same problem from another side.