Routing tools plan the ideal day. Axel runs the real one.
Your routing platform builds the plan. Axel helps your team decide what to do when traffic, delays, customer changes, and other disruptions make that plan outdated.
Where a decision layer fits in your stack
Routing software and a real-time decision layer solve different parts of the same operational problem.
- Routing Tool
Plan Built
- Axel
Watching, evaluating, recommending
- Traffic
- Driver out
- Late order
| Routing tool | Axel | |
|---|---|---|
| What it optimises | Routing toolThe planned route | AxelThe response to what is happening now |
| What it considers | Routing toolStops, capacity, constraints, travel time | AxelLive disruption, downstream impact, available recovery options |
| What it gives your team | Routing toolA route plan | AxelA recommended action, confidence level, and reasoning |
Axel doesn’t need to replace your routing platform. It adds the decision intelligence your team needs once the day is already in motion.
Keep your routing tool. Add Axel on top.
Axel connects to the systems your team already uses, adds a real-time decision layer, and helps dispatchers act when plans change.
Your routing tool
Axel Intelligence
- 1Detect
- 2Evaluate
- 3Recommend
Operations
- 1Dispatcher acts
- 2Routes recover
Already have routing software? Here’s where Axel fits.
Axel is designed to complement your existing operation rather than force your team into a completely new stack.
Isn’t this already in my routing tool?
Routing platforms are primarily built to create and optimise routes. Some also offer live tracking and rerouting features. Axel focuses on a different problem: understanding the operational impact of disruption and helping your team decide what to do next.
Does Axel replace our routing software?
No. Axel is designed to work alongside the tools you already use. Your routing system continues to handle route planning, while Axel adds a real-time decision layer for what happens as the day changes.
Will dispatchers need a completely new workflow?
No. Dispatchers keep working the way they do today. Axel adds a layer that surfaces what changed and recommends a response; the dispatcher reviews it, acts on it, or overrides it. Most teams are comfortable within the first few days.
What kinds of disruptions can Axel help with?
The ones that break plans every day: traffic and weather, driver delays and no-shows, vehicle issues, customer changes and cancellations, address problems, and new urgent jobs landing mid-route. If it forces your team to change the plan, Axel treats it as a disruption.
How does Axel decide what action to recommend?
Axel evaluates the downstream impact of a disruption across your whole operation, compares the available recovery options, and recommends the one with the least total damage to your delivery commitments. Every recommendation comes with a confidence level and the reasoning behind it, so your team always knows why, not just what.
How does Axel connect to our current tools?
Through the API of your routing platform, or through a spreadsheet or webhook fallback if your stack is custom. Setup takes minutes, not months, and nothing about your current system changes.
What does it cost to try?
A demo is free and takes 20 minutes. We map Axel to your real disruption scenarios, and you decide from there. No credit card, no commitment
See Axel on your operation.
Bring us a real disruption scenario from your operation. We’ll show you how Axel would detect the impact, evaluate the options, and help your team decide what to do next.