Now with Yard Management & Payments

From the gate to the yard.
One platform. No capital infrastructure.

MalcolmAI replaces fixed-camera OCR portals with an AI-powered mobile app that captures container IDs, chassis numbers, seals, plates, and driver credentials in under a minute. then tracks placement, inventory, and storage billing on the yard. and gets chassis flips and yard services prepaid before the truck arrives.

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Step 1 of 5. Container Door
Align Container Door
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Container
MSCU 482710 3
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Yard Slot
B12 · R4 · T2
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Driver CDL
Verified ✓
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Service Order
SO-00184 · Paid ✓
🤖 AI-Powered Extraction
🛡️ ISO 6346 Compliant
📦 Yard Inventory & Billing
💳 Stripe-Powered Payments
🔗 TMS / WMS / ERP Integration
One Platform, Three Modules

The gate scan is just the beginning.

MalcolmAI runs the whole gate-to-yard workflow from a single iOS app and web dashboard. Use Gate for automated check-in and check-out, add Yard when you're ready for full inventory and storage automation, and plug in Payments anytime to get flips and services prepaid before the truck arrives.

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Available
Capture
MalcolmAI Gate

A guided 5-photo workflow extracts every data point at the gate. container, chassis, plate, seal, and driver CDL. validated by AI in seconds.

  • ISO 6346 validation & check digits
  • Driver credential capture
  • Offline-first with auto-sync
  • TMS / WMS / ERP webhooks
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Available
Manage
MalcolmAI Yard

Know what's on the yard, where it sits, and what it owes. Placement, dwell tracking, capacity bookings, and automated storage invoicing. built on the same scan.

  • On-yard inventory & dwell
  • Location placement & retrieval
  • Capacity bookings
  • Rate cards & storage invoicing
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Available
Collect
MalcolmAI Payments

Prepaid service orders for chassis flips, tire changes, and other yard services. The carrier's office pays a Stripe link up front. the driver just shows a QR code at the gate.

  • Dispatcher-paid Stripe Checkout links
  • Branded public order page for carriers
  • Gate QR scan & fulfillment
  • Full & partial refunds
The Problem

Manual gate and yard workflows are
slow, error-prone, and hard to scale.

At many depots, gate data is typed by hand, yard activity is tracked in spreadsheets, storage billing is patched together later, and yard services are invoiced and chased after the fact. Fixed-camera portals try to automate one slice of that workflow, but are expensive and don't solve the whole operation.

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Manual Check-In Slows Every Truck

Container, chassis, plate, seal, and driver data are often typed in by hand, which creates delays at the gate and inconsistent records.

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Errors Force Rework

Missed digits, faded markings, and manual re-entry lead to exceptions, callbacks, and clerk cleanup.

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The Yard Is Disconnected

Knowing what is on site, where it sits, and how long it has dwelled often happens outside one live system.

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Fixed Cameras: Expensive and Incomplete

$200K to $500K per lane and months to install. yet they can't capture driver's licenses, seals, or SCAC codes, and 10 to 30% error rates still demand clerk re-keying.

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Manual and Fixed-Camera Systems Are Blind

Once it's in the yard, manual dwell calculation and rate-card lookups mean missed free-day expirations, mis-keyed tiers, and invoices that go out late. or never.

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Yard Services Mean Chasing Receivables

Drivers don't carry corporate cards, so chassis flips and maintenance get delivered first and billed later. paperwork, invoicing, and weeks of receivables for work already done.

MalcolmAI Gate · How It Works

Five photos. Less than 60 seconds.
Every data point captured.

A guided mobile workflow walks the operator through each capture step with smart viewfinder overlays and instant AI validation.

1
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Container Door

Capture ISO 6346 markings. owner code, serial number, check digit, size/type codes, and weight information.

2
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Chassis Number

Photograph chassis ID with format validation for BIC-standard numbers. alpha prefix, suffix letter, and serial.

3
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License Plate

Capture vehicle plate with state or province identification. auto-extracted and cross-referenced.

4
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Container Seal

Photograph security seal number and verify condition. confirming cargo integrity at the gate.

5
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Driver's License

Capture CDL credentials for operator verification. a data point completely invisible to fixed cameras.

Platform Features

Built for the realities of
intermodal operations.

Every feature is designed for the speed, accuracy, and ruggedness that container terminal and depot operations demand.

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AI-Powered Extraction

Advanced multimodal AI analyzes container images directly. no intermediate OCR step. Reads faded, dirty, or partially obscured markings that traditional OCR misses.

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Confidence Scoring

Every extraction is assigned a confidence score. Rare low-confidence items are automatically routed to a review queue for human verification.

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Parallel Processing

All five photos upload and process concurrently. The entire set of data can be captured and validated in under a minute.

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Offline-First Architecture

Network goes down? Keep scanning. Failed uploads persist on-device with automatic retry and background sync when connectivity returns.

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Web Admin Dashboard

Real-time container dashboard with review queue, image gallery, edit history, and comprehensive data management. accessible from any browser.

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Audit Trail

Complete edit history with timestamps, user attribution, and change tracking. Every correction and verification is permanently logged for compliance.

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GPS Geotagging

Every transaction is automatically tagged with GPS coordinates, creating a verifiable record of where and when each container was inspected.

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Enterprise Security

JWT authentication, HTTPS everywhere, CORS protection, and role-based access. All data encrypted in transit and at rest on AWS infrastructure.

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ISO 6346 Validation

Built-in check digit algorithm, owner code validation, and size/type code decoding. Automatic flagging of non-compliant container identifiers.

MalcolmAI Yard

Turn the gate scan into a
full yard-management system.

The same in-gate that captures a container can place it, track its dwell, draw down a booking, and start the billing clock. one record from arrival to invoice, with no double entry.

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On-Yard Inventory & Dwell

A live view of every container on the yard and exactly how long it has been there. Search, filter, and export. no more spreadsheet reconciliations at shift change.

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Placement & Retrieval

Assign each in-gated container to a Block / Row / Tier slot with a cascading picker, then stage placed boxes for a clean, pre-linked out-gate. Rename the hierarchy to match your yard.

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Capacity Bookings

Shippers reserve space ahead of arrival. Scan the booking QR at the gate and MalcolmAI draws the reservation down by container size, flagging over-balance and off-roster arrivals. Strict mode can reject unbooked in-gates outright.

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Rate Cards

Versioned, effective-dated rate cards for interchange, lifts, storage tiers, and modifiers. The card in effect at in-gate is frozen to the whole stay. back-dated changes never re-price a box already on the yard.

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Automated Invoicing

Generate storage invoices straight from on-yard activity, per shipping customer, on an immutable billing snapshot. so a finalized invoice never silently recalculates.

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Accounting Export

Push finalized invoices to your accounting system as structured sales vouchers, with a permanent delivery audit trail and retry. QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, or a generic endpoint.

MalcolmAI Payments

Get paid before
the truck arrives.

Chassis flips, tire changes, lift fees. prepaid service orders powered by Stripe. The carrier's office pays a secure checkout link up front, and the driver just shows a QR code at the gate. You're the merchant of record and you're paid directly.

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    Zero receivables

    Services are paid before they're delivered. No invoicing after the fact, no collections, no write-offs. cash lands the day the order is placed.

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    No friction at the lane

    The driver shows one QR and keeps moving. no cash, no cards, no phone calls at the gate. Your crew scans it in the same MalcolmAI app they already use.

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    Powered by Stripe (PCI SAQ-A)

    Card data never touches your servers or ours. Every order is re-priced from your catalog server-side, and receipts are emailed to the payer automatically.

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    Refunds & reporting

    Issue full or partial refunds and review complete order and transaction history in the web admin, with operator and device attribution on every fulfillment.

Harbor Point Yard
Service Order · SO-00184
Secured by Stripe
Chassis flip$75.00
Tire change$45.00
Total$120.00
Gate pass QR Driver presents this at the gate. scanned & fulfilled in the MalcolmAI app.
Paid · ready for the gate
The Workflow
1
Depot · or carrier

Order created

Your dispatcher creates the service order in the dashboard — or the carrier orders directly from your branded public order page.

2
Carrier office

Paid via Stripe link

The dispatcher receives a secure Stripe Checkout link by email and pays with a corporate card — before the truck is dispatched.

3
Carrier → driver

QR gate pass issued

Payment confirmed, the carrier gets the order number and a QR gate pass — emailed with a printable card — to hand to the driver.

4
Your gate

Scan. Verify. Fulfill.

Gate staff scan the QR in the MalcolmAI iPhone app for an instant PAID verdict, then mark the order fulfilled. Done.

The MalcolmAI Advantage

Why terminals are switching
from fixed portals to mobile AI.

MalcolmAI captures more data, costs less to deploy, and adapts instantly. with no civil works, no lane closures, and no gantries.

Capability Fixed OCR Portals MalcolmAI
Container ID (ISO 6346) ✓ Supported ✓ AI-validated with check digit
Chassis Number ~ Sometimes, depends on angle ✓ Dedicated capture with format validation
License Plate ✓ LPR supported ✓ With state/province extraction
Container Seal Number ✗ Not accessible to fixed cameras ✓ Close-range seal capture & verification
Driver's License / CDL ✗ Not accessible to fixed cameras ✓ Full credential capture & verification
Yard Inventory & Placement ✗ Gate event only ✓ Live on-yard location & dwell tracking
Storage Billing ✗ Separate manual process ✓ Rate cards & automated invoicing
Prepaid Service Orders ✗ Not supported ✓ Stripe-prepaid, QR-verified at the gate
Deployment Time 3 to 6 months per lane Same day. download and go
Cost Per Lane $200K to $500K+ Fraction of the cost. SaaS subscription
Infrastructure Required Steel gantry, cameras, cabling, concrete iPhone + cellular connection
Works Offline ✗ Requires network ✓ Queue & sync when back online
< 60s
Capture-to-validated-data time
1
Record from gate to yard to invoice
0
Infrastructure required to deploy
Integrations

Plugs into your existing TMS, WMS, or ERP.

MalcolmAI's integration service supports webhooks, REST APIs, and direct database adapters. pushing validated container data to your systems in real time.

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    Webhook Delivery

    Automatic push notifications with HMAC signatures, retry logic, and delivery audit logging.

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    Database Adapters

    Direct connectors for MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. ideal for on-premise TMS systems.

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    Event-Driven Architecture

    Subscribe to container.created, container.updated, and chassis.analyzed events via AWS EventBridge.

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    Accounting Sync

    Finalized storage invoices export as structured sales vouchers to QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, or any endpoint.

// Webhook payload. container.created event
{
  "event": "container.created",
  "timestamp": "2026-02-15T14:30:00Z",
  "data": {
    "containerId": "MSCU4827103",
    "chassisNumber": "TRLZ456789",
    "licensePlate": "OH-BXT-4219",
    "sealNumber": "ML-84521",
    "driverCDL": "[verified]",
    "confidence": 0.94,
    "yardLocation": "B12-R4-T2",
    "weights": {
      "maxGross": 30480,
      "tare": 3900,
      "payload": 26580
    },
    "location": {
      "lat": 41.4925,
      "lng": -81.6781
    }
  }
}
Get Started

Ready to modernize your gate and yard?

See how MalcolmAI captures every data point at the gate, tracks it across the yard, and gets you paid. We'll walk you through a live demo with real container images.

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