Shipping leaks $22B a year.
We built the machine that gets it back.
Demurrage & detention overcharges go unfought because auditing one invoice takes an expert an hour. Our AI does it in seconds, drafts the dispute, and tracks the claim to the recovered pound — and we take a share of what comes back.
Why this wins
Self-funding sales motion
The free retro-audit turns a cold prospect into a customer with one number: what they could have recovered. The product pays for itself before we invoice.
A wedge that widens into oil
D&D disputes are the entry. The same engine extends to voyage demurrage for tanker and bulker owners — VLCC demurrage runs $45–52k/day in a normal market (Argus) and hit several hundred thousand/day in the 2026 Gulf crisis, when soaring freight added $5.4B to Shell's shipping costs in one quarter. Dry-bulk demurrage alone is an $8–10B/yr pool (Marcura), ~99% of port timesheets are still processed by hand, and the owner portal is already live in our demo.
Data compounds
Every audit teaches the system which carriers overcharge, where, and what wins. At scale that dataset is a product of its own — and a moat no entrant starts with.
AI-native economics
One founder and an AI stack shipped what a seed-stage team builds in a year. Headcount follows revenue, not the other way round.
Against the incumbents
The category leaders sell workflow software to the majors' claims departments. Marevo sells the outcome — recovered money — to the 95% of the market that has no claims department at all.
| Veson (IMOS) | Voyager Portal | Marevo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| You pay | Enterprise licence, results or not | Subscription, results or not | Mostly a % of money recovered |
| Who does the work | Your claims team, in their software | Your claims team, in their software | The AI drafts the claim; you approve |
| Container D&D + voyage demurrage | Voyage only | Voyage only | Both, one engine, two portals |
| Time to first value | Months of implementation | Pilot after workflow diagnosis | Free audit — a number in days |
| Built for | Majors (Cargill, Trafigura) | Traders' claims teams | The mid-market nobody serves |
Based on each vendor's public positioning, Oct 2026. Veson has processed $71B of claims in 20 years — the category is proven; the delivery model is what's stale.
Base-case trajectory
| Period | Customers | ARR |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 12 | £290k |
| Year 2 | 48 | £1.3M |
| Year 3 | 120 | £3.4M |
| Year 4 | 230 | £7.2M |
| Year 5 | 400 | £13M |
Blended subscription + success fees; funnel assumption of 350 accounts approached → 35 free audits → 10 customers in year one. Full model in the investor pack.
Team
Taimur Javaid
Operator across trade and manufacturing — ships containers out of South Asia and the Gulf for his own B2B apparel business, so he has paid these invoices himself. Built Marevo AI-native from day one: live product, two portals, near-zero run cost.
Najah Shehzad
Founder & CEO of PARALLAX, a property-media studio, where she owns client onboarding and relationships. Currently at IE in Madrid — bringing its venture programme and Gulf-heavy alumni network to Marevo's raise and pilot pipeline.
Walk the customer journey, live
Don't take the deck's word for it — log into the actual product with a demo book of 45 shipments. Watch countdowns tick, open a disputable invoice, read the audit findings, and generate a dispute letter yourself.
Cargo side — investor@marevo.app · MarevoTour2026Owner side — owner@marevo.app · MarevoOwner2026Raising £500k to compress time
The product exists and costs almost nothing to run. Capital goes to the first ten customers, the data integrations, and the two hires that turn a working product into a working company.