Consulting
Expert analysis, interpretation, and implementation guidance for your parcel shipping — engaged as custom work, alongside or before your Parcel Optimizer subscription.
Where the software stops, expert work begins
Parcel Optimizer is software for working with your parcel shipping billing data — rate analysis, carrier bill audit, and billing workflows you run yourself on transparent monthly plans, with no salesperson handoff. The consulting practice is the expert layer around the software: custom work outside the included features, for the questions and projects that benefit from a person in the loop.
Parcel Optimizer’s expertise comes from production-scale parcel billing work: 13 years leading the design, development, and operation of a national carrier’s complete parcel billing system — covering carrier rating, invoicing, reconciliation, and reporting — and more than 25 years leading software, data, and business systems. Read our story for the full background.
What consulting takes on
Expert analysis
A close, contextual examination of your parcel-shipping situation and the data behind it — the kind of expert work the self-serve product does not provide on its own.
Interpretation
Clear explanations of results and calculations, so the numbers behind your shipping spend make sense and you can act on them.
Implementation guidance
Practical direction for turning analysis and decisions into working operational changes — including bespoke integrations and custom reports outside the included features.
Consulting and the software subscription
Self-serve software
Monthly plans with transparent pricing: build your plan on the site, sign up, and use the software directly — rate analysis, carrier bill audit, and billing workflows. No salesperson handoff, no long-term contract.
Expert custom work
Custom engagements outside the included features: analysis, interpretation, implementation guidance, bespoke integrations, and custom reports. Engaged separately, and quoted before work starts.
Consulting doesn’t gate, replace, or change the subscription — you can subscribe and run the software on its own at any time. And the same rule holds across both: Parcel Optimizer is software, not a broker — no carrier steering, no rate resale, no label margin.
Who this is for
- Shippers in Parcel Optimizer’s core band — businesses moving fewer than 2,000 parcels a month, with roughly $60,000 to $250,000 in annual parcel spend at a $10 to $12 blended cost. Larger shippers remain eligible on the published pricing ladder.
- Buyers evaluating Parcel Optimizer who need expert analysis, interpretation, or implementation guidance before or alongside subscribing.
- Existing subscribers who want custom work outside the included features.
How an engagement works
Reach out
Send a note with the site’s contact form or email Go@ParcelOptimizer.AI, and describe what you’re trying to solve.
Scope and quote
Every engagement is scoped and quoted before it starts, so you know what the work covers before it begins.
Delivery
The work is delivered under the accepted quote as custom work — analysis, integration, or custom report, depending on what you scoped.
Common questions
Do I need a subscription first?
No. Consulting serves shippers who need expert work alongside or before a subscription — and existing subscribers who want custom work outside the included features.
What does it cost?
Every engagement is custom work, scoped and quoted before it starts. Tell us what you’re trying to solve and we’ll put together the scope and quote from there.
Will you guarantee savings or outcomes?
No — and we won’t claim otherwise. Parcel Optimizer doesn’t offer guarantees of savings or outcomes. What expert analysis provides is a clearer, defensible picture of your parcel spend; your carrier relationships and the decisions stay yours.
Is this a brokerage or a rate service?
No. Parcel Optimizer is software, not a broker — no carrier steering, no rate resale, no label margin. Consulting follows the same rule: independent work on your data and your decisions.
Ready to talk it through?
Tell us about your parcel operation and where you’d like expert eyes. Send a note with the contact form, or email us directly.
Get in Touchor email Go@ParcelOptimizer.AI