Lori Systems

Lori Systems is a Nairobi-headquartered, pan-African digital freight platform that matches cargo owners with vetted transporters to coordinate long-haul trucking across the continent. Founded in 2016 by Josh Sandler, Jean-Claude Homawoo, and Ernest Gichini Ngaruiya, the company is now led by CEO Uche Ogboi and runs operations from offices in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, moving cargo across roughly 12 African countries with a network of 20,000+ trucks and over $10B of cargo facilitated. The platform offers shippers instant rate estimates, load matching, real-time shipment tracking, electronic proof of delivery, and integrated payments, while giving transporters access to cargo orders, truck-availability management, and prompt payment on delivery. Lori operates a public rate-card tool at ratecard.lorisystems.com, but does not publish a public developer API, SDK, or open OpenAPI specification; its GitHub organization is limited to small internal-tooling repositories (a Singer.io tap for Freshsales, a BambooHR Python client, a Kubernetes Terraform provider, and similar utilities) rather than a customer-facing API surface.

Lori Systems is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Logistics, Freight, Trucking, Cargo, and Supply Chain.

Lori Systems’ developer surface includes GitHub presence and 6 more developer resources.

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5.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

0 APIs

Logistics Freight Trucking Cargo Supply Chain Transportation Marketplace AfricaEast AfricaWest Africa Kenya Nigeria Uganda Digital Freight Last Mile

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 5.7/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Lori Systems Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 1

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GitHub

GitHub

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DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 4

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Website

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Other 1

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RateCard

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: lori-systems
name: Lori Systems
description: Lori Systems is a Nairobi-headquartered, pan-African digital freight platform that matches cargo owners with
  vetted transporters to coordinate long-haul trucking across the continent. Founded in 2016 by Josh Sandler, Jean-Claude
  Homawoo, and Ernest Gichini Ngaruiya, the company is now led by CEO Uche Ogboi and runs operations from offices in Kenya,
  Nigeria, and Uganda, moving cargo across roughly 12 African countries with a network of 20,000+ trucks and over $10B of
  cargo facilitated. The platform offers shippers instant rate estimates, load matching, real-time shipment tracking, electronic
  proof of delivery, and integrated payments, while giving transporters access to cargo orders, truck-availability management,
  and prompt payment on delivery. Lori operates a public rate-card tool at ratecard.lorisystems.com, but does not publish
  a public developer API, SDK, or open OpenAPI specification; its GitHub organization is limited to small internal-tooling
  repositories (a Singer.io tap for Freshsales, a BambooHR Python client, a Kubernetes Terraform provider, and similar utilities)
  rather than a customer-facing API surface.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/lori-systems.png
tags:
- Logistics
- Freight
- Trucking
- Cargo
- Supply Chain
- Transportation
- Marketplace
- Africa
- East Africa
- West Africa
- Kenya
- Nigeria
- Uganda
- Digital Freight
- Last Mile
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lori-systems/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lori-systems-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://lorisystems.com
- type: RateCard
  url: https://ratecard.lorisystems.com
- type: Careers
  url: https://lorisystems.bamboohr.com/jobs/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Lori-Systems
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://ke.linkedin.com/company/lori-systems
- type: Crunchbase
  url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lori-systems
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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