Freight Friends: EDI Fees, AI Hype vs. Reality, and Toto's Ceramics That Secretly Power Chip Manufacturing

Most EDI contracts never get shopped, and legacy providers price like they know it. Grace Sharkey walks through what that actually looks like on an invoice: a few thousand a month for the service, then a separate managed fee to make sure the service does not break. Orderful just raised $35 million to go after that second line item. We also cover what eight freight tech vendors are really building with AI, why nobody has this figured out yet, and how a Japanese toilet maker ended up inside th...