About 3PL Connect
The US 3PL market, still sourced by cold call.
There is no Zillow for warehouses. No LinkedIn for 3PLs. Shippers in the US third-party logistics market still find partners through broker referrals and six-week RFP cycles. 3PL Connect is the procurement layer that market never had.
The gap
Every market got its map. Except one.
Homes got Zillow.
Careers got LinkedIn.
Trucking got load boards.
Warehousing got a phone book.
Discovery layers rebuilt how homes, careers, and trucking get found. Warehousing kept the cold-call tax. Shippers overpay in time, and great independent warehouses lose deals to whoever has the bigger sales team.
The bet
AI-native from day one. Not bolted on later.
3PL Connect is built by Chris Razzuoli, founder of Vortex Ventures. Chris is a solo founder, not a solo builder. He runs a team of AI agents that design, write, and ship the platform alongside him. That is how a one-person company builds marketplace infrastructure that normally takes a funded team, and it is why the product is an AI-native logistics marketplace rather than a directory with a chatbot stapled on.
The thesis: matching shippers to warehouses is a structured problem software should have solved a decade ago. So Eleanor, our AI matchmaker, turns what you ship into a structured sourcing profile, and a deterministic engine scores subscribed providers on real fit. Matches arrive in minutes — and when subscribed coverage is thin, Eleanor flags the gap instead of inventing matches. Match quality is not a feature of the product. It is the product.
We are early and honest about it. The network grows warehouse by warehouse, vertical by vertical. What it will never do is fake traction, pad numbers, or sell placement.
The numbers
Real counts. Nothing padded.
- 2,849outreach records
the source-reviewed recruitment pipeline — not live search inventory
- 11US matching regions
the coverage taxonomy; live availability follows subscribed providers
- 7verticals
from apparel to cold chain
Principles
The marketplace only works if the matching is trustworthy.
Honest matching
Every match shows its reasons: geography, capacity, services, certifications. No black-box scores. If a number is on the screen, it is real.
Earned ranking
Providers rise by verified performance, not ad budgets. Paid placement never changes Match Score, and it never will.
No ad-driven results
Paid placement never changes Match Score. Featured visibility is separate and must clear relevance, verification, and subscription gates. Trust is the thing we refuse to sell.
Help build the map.
Whether you ship products or run warehouses, the marketplace gets sharper with you on it.