Founder's note
What happens next, and what happens after that?
Ed Stockman
Most market intelligence explains what has already happened. We are building a model of the physical economy to address a more consequential question: What happens next, and what happens after that?
Freight is where that question becomes practical. A storm, a tariff or a new kind of vehicle changes one part of the network, and the effect travels: to the lanes connected to it, to the carriers that serve those lanes, and to the shippers who depend on both. By the time it appears in a report, the people who plan around freight have already paid for it.
Why a model, not another report
A report can tell you what happened last quarter. It cannot tell you what a hurricane in Houston would do to lanes in Chicago, or what happens to the trucks that move construction freight into Phoenix. Those are questions about how the network connects, and answering them takes a model of the network.
Rodimus is that model: a digital twin of the U.S. freight network that you can question before a change arrives. Ask what happens next. Then ask what happens after that.
Where we are
It is early. Rodimus is a preview for early design partners, and we would rather show what the twin is built to do than make claims about results. If you plan around freight and have a question you wish you could answer ahead of time, ask it.