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Become my associate! Cofounder CTO · Paris · Q2 2026
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In European industry, transport and logistics account for 5% to 15% of total revenue. It is the second-largest expense after raw materials, yet it is still managed on Excel.
An average mid-sized industrial company works with around fifteen carriers, pays its invoices without the ability to audit them line-by-line, and unknowingly overpays by 5% to 10% of its transport budget.
Mikado is the first logistics intelligence platform that consolidates data scattered across existing tools, detects discrepancies between negotiated rates and final invoices, and gives supply chain teams the operational control they have never had before.
European market
industrial targets
10-15% recoverable over-payment
Real ROI. Resilient and Sustainable European industry in a high volatility market. With measurable carrier performance, decisions are based on multiple criteria including carbon emissions.
Not a GPT wrapper
Building an agentic AI system that ingests all kind of non-standardized documents, emails, spreadsheets, cost matrices and produces an auditable decision across five dimensions.
This is not another GPT wrapper: this is a distributed system with a normalisation layer, scoring models, bills and contract matching, proprietary data gathering for performance and carbon emission of European carriers.
TECH SIDE → You’ve scaled complex data systems in production → You’re familiar with LLMs in production, unstructured data, AI agents → You love solving real-world industrial challenges
HUMAN SIDE → You want to build the company as a partner, not just execute a roadmap → You’re comfortable with uncomfortable decisions, ambitious hiring, pivots → Real impact matters to you, and you put the user at the core of your work
Maya Khalifé · 2026