Full-lifecycle software development, built around the systems that move your freight.
Analysis through build, integration, modernization, and ongoing support — the full lifecycle of a software department, delivered to logistics operators who cannot staff one. Most engagements begin with the diagnostic; every one of them is scoped to a date and priced on outcome.
Every phase, in the order your project actually needs it.
Analysis & planning
Requirements, goals, constraints, and the specification your customer or regulator actually handed you — turned into scope, timeline, milestones, and the resources needed. For logistics accounts this phase is the Systems-Continuity Diagnostic.
Design
Wireframes and prototypes that dispatchers, warehouse staff, drivers, agents, and customers can use on the first day. Intuitive, brand-aligned, and built for the yard, the dock, and the cab — not just the office.
Development
Web, mobile, and back-office applications on Microsoft, open-source, and mobile technologies — new builds, and extensions to the customized systems you already run. Our developers average more than thirty years of experience and use AI-assisted tooling to move faster without cutting corners.
Integration
EDI X12 (204, 990, 214, 210, 997, 322, 315, 856, 940/945), shipper and carrier APIs, port community systems, terminal appointment feeds, customs interfaces, ELD and telematics data. Mapping, translation, testing, and partner onboarding — the permanent-demand engine of a logistics business.
Legacy modernization
Access, VB6, classic ASP, AS/400 and RPG, early .NET — modernized in phases while the business keeps running. Migrate in parallel, not in place: the legacy system stays in production until the new one has proved itself.
Testing & QA
Automated and manual testing against live operational data and edge cases — the odd tender, the split shipment, the re-rated load — so the system performs the way the floor expects, not just the way the spec reads.
Deployment & migration
Phased cutovers the operator controls, with minimal downtime and no crew learning a new system on the day the old one is switched off. Industry-standard tooling, rehearsed rollbacks, documented runbooks.
Maintain · Support · Grow
The custody retainer: we hold the documentation, respond to incidents, apply security standards, and take the next spec. Flat monthly fee. The relationship most of our clients are in for a decade.
Data & reporting
SQL development, ETL, Power BI and paginated reporting, data reliability and root-cause diagnostics across the systems that bill the loads. Database Development & Maintenance.
Three price forms. No hourly billing.
A fixed fee for the diagnostic. Milestone pricing tied to your go-live date for the project, typically $40K–$250K. A flat monthly retainer for custody. Our AI-assisted speed stays in our margin and your calendar rather than shrinking or swelling the invoice — and you always know what the next rung costs before you climb it.
Mission-critical modernization for mature companies has always been our work.
Long before we narrowed our focus to logistics, 3 Strand earned a track record of revitalizing older platforms for mature companies — meeting today’s expectations while preserving what made the original systems worth keeping. We still serve those clients fully and gladly. New relationships are built in logistics, where our experience, our proximity, and our deepest domain knowledge all are.
Azure, .NET, SQL Server
The platform most logistics back offices already run on, modernized and extended.
Angular and modern web stacks
Portals for customers and carriers, dashboards for operations, tools for the dock.
Driver, yard, and vessel applications
Field applications that keep working where the signal doesn’t — and sync when it does.
When is the next date on your systems calendar?
Tell us what your customer, port, or regulator has asked for and when. We will tell you, candidly, whether the system you have can get there, who can run it, and what it would take. No pitch deck.