Built on operational clarity

Verdant Relay was founded by operators who spent years managing fragmented logistics data. We built what we needed and scaled it for teams like yours.

Our story

Verdant Relay Technologies was founded in 2020 by operations leaders frustrated with spreadsheet logistics and endless system context-switching. We realized that every problem we faced—late visibility into shipment status, inconsistent exception handling, lost carrier performance data—had one root cause: operational data lived in silos.

We built the first version of the platform for a regional distribution network managing 200+ daily shipments across 15 carrier lanes. Within six weeks, they cut exception response time by half and recovered two percentage points of on-time delivery. Word spread.

Today, we work with operations teams across food distribution, industrial manufacturing, retail logistics, and third-party providers. Our mission is simple: help logistics leaders see their operations clearly and act decisively. Not with complexity. Not with promises of AI magic. With clarity.

We believe operational intelligence should be practical, adoptable, and grounded in the work people actually do. That's what we build.

Our approach

Operational Grounding

Every feature we build starts with a real problem someone faces in their daily work. We don't solve for templates; we solve for actual operations.

Practical Adoption

Technology only matters if people use it. We design for the shift supervisor and the warehouse manager, not just the analyst.

Measurable Discipline

We focus on outcomes teams can verify: faster triage, clearer accountability, more useful reviews. Not vanity metrics.

Leadership team

Maya Ellison

Chief Executive Officer

Former VP of Operations at a Midwest 3PL, Maya spent 12 years in logistics before founding Verdant Relay. She leads product direction and customer strategy.

"Operations leaders don't need another tool. They need one that works the way they think."

Daniel Mercer

Vice President of Product

Daniel comes from supply chain software at a major ERP vendor. He leads the product roadmap and platform architecture, focused on simplicity and data integrity.

"Good design is invisible. The platform should disappear; the operational insight should shine."

Priya Nanduri

Director of Operations Intelligence

Priya designed data platforms for supply chain analytics at a Fortune 500 retailer. She leads customer implementations and ensures deployments deliver measurable operational outcomes.

"Adoption is the metric that matters. The best platform unused is worthless."

Interested in working together?

Let's talk about your logistics priorities.

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