Self-evaluation

Are you evaluating Chain.io? Use your own AI to decide.

Download a file, hand it to ChatGPT, Claude, or whatever you use. It'll walk you through whether we're right for you — with honest criteria and a clear answer.

These guides are written to tell you no when the answer is no. We built them that way on purpose.

Flow

Evaluate Flow — for connecting your systems, partners, and integrations

For freight forwarders, 3PLs, and shippers trying to replace manual re-keying, brittle one-off integrations, or middleware that wasn't built for logistics.

Checks

Evaluate Checks — for catching data quality, exception, and compliance problems

For freight forwarders, customs brokers, and logistics teams whose operating rules live in PDFs and SOPs — and where an experienced person is doing the catching today.

No email required. No form. Just the file.

How to use these guides

Four steps, about five minutes

Download the guide

Pick the one that matches what you're evaluating — Flow for connectivity, Checks for data quality and compliance. Or grab both.

Open your AI of choice

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — whichever you already use. These guides are tested across all of them.

Attach the file and describe your situation

Upload the .md file as an attachment, then tell the AI who you are, what you're trying to solve, and roughly how much volume you're dealing with.

Get a verdict

The AI will ask a few questions and give you a clear fit, not a fit, or not yet — with the reasoning behind it. If it's a fit, it can draft an intro email to our sales team so you don't have to start from scratch.

What it looks like

The AI will give you a straight answer

Realistic examples drawn from verdicts the guides actually produce. The "no" and the redirect are intentional — that's the point.

ChatGPTChecks evaluation

You

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We're a freight forwarder, about 4,000 shipments a month. Our SOPs are split across Word docs and PDFs — nobody's really reading them. Our senior coordinator has been here 12 years and just knows what to look for. He's retiring in two years and we're terrified.

ChatGPTVerdict: fit.Your situation maps directly to what Checks is built for. The retiring coordinator risk is exactly the failure mode it addresses — the rules stay after the person leaves. At 4,000 shipments a month, the per-shipment cost is easy to justify if even a handful of catches prevent penalties or re-work. The fact that your SOPs live in documents no system enforces is the specific gap Checks fills.

ClaudeChecks evaluation

You

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We're e-commerce outbound — about 80,000 small parcels a month, average value around $8–12 per shipment. Thin margins. We do have data quality issues but want to know if Checks makes sense.

ClaudeVerdict: not a fit.The math doesn't work. Checks is priced around $1 per shipment — at 80,000 shipments a month with $8–12 margins, that cost doesn't make sense. Checks is built for operations where one missed shipment costs hundreds or thousands of dollars. You may have a real data quality problem, but this isn't the right tool for it at your margins.

ChatGPTChecks evaluation

You

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Our agents still send us spreadsheets by email. We manually re-key everything into our TMS. We're drowning in that work and want to automate the data flow. Would Checks help?

ChatGPTVerdict: wrong product.What you're describing is a connectivity problem, not a data-quality one. Checks audits data you already have — it won't fix a pipe that isn't connected. Manual re-keying and spreadsheets by email is exactly the job Chain.io's other product, Flow, is built for. Look at the Flow evaluator. Checks doesn't belong in this conversation yet.

Why we built this

The best thing we can do is give you an honest picture of what we're good at and what we're not — and then get out of the way. These guides exist because you deserve a straight answer early, not after weeks of back-and-forth.

We're confident enough in Flow and Checks to let your AI run an honest evaluation. If the answer is yes, you come in already knowing why it's the right fit. If it's no, you found out before spending a month going in the wrong direction — which is also a good outcome.

Give you the information. Trust you to decide. That's how we want to work.