eCapital · Logistics · Fintech
An enterprise digital ecosystem for logistics management
eCapital is a corporation that helps small and mid-sized businesses with funding solutions. Its brand, Five Star, offers a suite of products that equip small and mid-size transportation businesses with the tools for success. One of them is the Five Star Load Board — a shipping and logistics marketplace where carriers and brokers can find, post, and factor truck loads. eCapital engaged Agilno to upgrade the product with new features that make it easier for both drivers and freight brokers to manage their loads.
What we built
A Five Star Load Board for the logistics industry
An enterprise-grade shipping and logistics marketplace where carriers and brokers find, post, bid on, and factor truck loads — built on scalable, reliable infrastructure with enterprise-level search that ingests millions of loads per day.
Challenge
Finding the right partner to build at enterprise scale
eCapital needed a partner with deep experience building digital products in the industry, who could provide a full-fledged team across the entire process — from software planning to release management. They also needed a new channel to generate leads for their factoring services, and an in-house product that could generate income and add value for existing customers.
Our approach
Enterprise infrastructure built to scale
We built the infrastructure from scratch using AWS and Kubernetes for networking, deployment, scaling, and application management. Solr powered enterprise-level search — ingesting millions of loads per day and returning results in under two seconds. PC Miler generated truck-optimized maps for mileage, drive time, and lane analysis. A range of tools automated continuous deployment and monitoring across the app lifecycle.
Project flow
How we structured the team and delivery
The team consisted of a product owner, project manager, two full-stack developers, a backend developer and team lead, a QA engineer, and a product designer. We tracked requirements and roadmap in Smartsheet, work in progress and delivery in Jira, and documentation in Confluence — running SCRUM with daily standups, grooming, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives alongside eCapital's release-management cycles. A dedicated quality plan tracked code reviews, defects, test executions, and support-reported bugs, and we segmented work into CapEx and OpEx timesheets to support finance.
Core features
Everything carriers and brokers need to manage loads in one marketplace
Flawless Onboarding
A smooth path to get carriers and brokers set up and transacting quickly.
Load Ingestion
High-throughput ingestion of millions of loads per day from multiple sources.
Enterprise-level Search
Solr-powered search returning results across huge load volumes in under two seconds.
User-friendly Load Acquisition
A streamlined way for drivers to find and acquire the right loads.
Bidding System
Carriers and brokers negotiate loads through a structured bidding workflow.
Cost-per-mile Calculator
Helps carriers price loads accurately using mileage and lane data.
Factoring Invoices
Integrated invoice factoring that ties the marketplace to eCapital's funding services.
Lead Generation
A new channel that surfaces qualified leads for eCapital's factoring services.
Customers
Faster time-to-market
A new revenue stream for eCapital
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