FAQ
project44 and LSP44
Two businesses, one carrier network. The questions operators and shippers ask most about how LSP44 and project44 relate, answered in full.
LSP44 is the AI agent and API infrastructure business for logistics service providers. Brokers, 3PLs, freight forwarders, carriers, 4PLs, and third-party warehouses use LSP44 for the intelligence, execution, and automation behind the services they deliver to their customers under their own brand.
LSP44 has its own leadership, engineering team, sales organization, and product roadmap, and it runs on the carrier network and logistics data graph project44 has been building since 2014.
project44 is the Decision Intelligence Platform for enterprise shippers. Shippers use project44 for transportation management, visibility, yard management, and last mile.
The company was founded in 2014 and its first customers were logistics service providers. Over the following decade the shipper side grew into the larger business and project44 became the category-defining platform for enterprise shippers.
No. LSP44 and project44 are separate businesses running on shared infrastructure. project44 sells applications to enterprise shippers. LSP44 sells AI agent and API infrastructure to logistics service providers (brokers, 3PLs, freight forwarders, carriers, 4PLs, and third-party warehouses).
Each business has its own leadership, engineering team, sales organization, and product roadmap. Both run on the same carrier network and logistics data graph.
The 2 businesses serve buyers who buy nothing alike. A shipper wants an application to log into and work inside, built and maintained by the vendor. A logistics service provider wants infrastructure it can build on: APIs, SDKs, data feeds, and agents that power its own products, under its own brand.
Serving both buyers from one product organization meant compromising both. LSP44 exists so the LSP buyer gets a roadmap written for how logistics service providers operate.
The infrastructure you run on today is the infrastructure LSP44 runs on. Your integrations and carrier connections keep working, and your data stays yours.
What changes is who serves you: an R&D team working only on LSP workflows, and forward-deployed engineers who write production code alongside your team.
project44’s first customers were logistics service providers. Worldwide Express wrote the first check. BlueGrace and DSV took the early bet and helped build the carrier network the industry now runs on.
Then enterprise shippers pulled the company in their direction, COVID accelerated the pull, and a long freight recession cut LSP technology budgets at the same time. project44 got very good at shipper digitalization and lost ground on understanding LSPs, on the product side and on the customer-facing side.
LSP44 is the dedicated focus, and it comes with a team that works on nothing else.
Yes. The same carrier network, carrier APIs, logistics data graph, and agent stack sit under both businesses. That network reaches more than 280,000 carriers and processes 1.5 billion shipments a year and 706 million carrier events a day.
What differs is the layer above: applications for shippers, infrastructure for logistics service providers.
If you move freight on behalf of your customers as a 3PL, 4PL, broker, freight forwarder, carrier, or third-party warehouse, LSP44 is the business built for you.
If you are a shipper moving your own goods, project44 is the business built for you.
No. LSP44 never competes with its customers, and never resells your data to shippers or puts it into project44’s shipper products.
LSP44 holds no freight brokerage authority, no motor carrier authority, no NVOCC license, and no IAC registration, and it does not train models that serve other providers on your data.
The business launched in 2026. The technology under it has been in production since 2014 and carries more than $1 billion of infrastructure investment.
LSP44 launched profitable, which is rare in a category where venture-backed competitors are still burning capital in pursuit of a product.
Jett McCandless is Founder and CEO. Vinay Mathur is Co-Founder and CTO. Manny Tayas is Chief Revenue Officer. Kait Peterson is Head of Marketing.
Jett founded project44 in 2014. He started in logistics in 1999 as a dispatcher and went on to own and operate a 3PL. Forward-deployed engineers work inside customer teams through deployment and after it.
A logistics service provider moves, stores, or manages freight for its customers rather than for its own goods. The category covers 6 kinds of business: 3PLs, 4PLs, freight brokers, carriers, freight forwarders, and third-party warehouses.
Armstrong & Associates put the US 3PL market at $323.4 billion in 2025. Full definitions for every term in this answer are in the Logistics Language Guide.