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€2.4M
releasable working capital found on a single lane
€500M
in purchase orders handled to date
EP 4544475
granted European patent — running in production today

Visibility tells you where your materials are.Meridian tells you what it's costing you.

It knows what's inside it, what every day of dwell costs, and what to do about it: priced, ranked, and settled against what actually happened.

Meridian, built into Epoch

Keeps score on itself dismissals included

Meridian snapshots the do-nothing world. Sixty days later: where you were, where you'd have been without us, where you landed.

It learns your network, statistics decide

New detectors proposed from your own history, then five gates test them before bringing a recommendation to you.

Scenario planning your network real hubs, real impact

Close a port or forwarder from your in-transit book. See what strands, and where it breaks first.

Speaks only when it pays silence is the feature

Moves are ranked on expected value minus the cost of your attention. Most never reach you.

We don't need clean data. We need real data. Those are different things.

Your inbox. That's the integration.

Everything Epoch needs already lands in your mailbox every day. One person can connect it, alone, before anyone else needs to be involved.

Read as it arrives

Epoch reads the mail exactly as it arrives. A forwarder's forwarded thread. A supplier writing in their second language. A PDF scanned crooked. A spreadsheet with the part number in the wrong column. An ETA buried in the fourth paragraph of a reply-all.

Nothing to install no IT queue

No connectors, no EDI project. Connect your inbound mailbox in ten minutes. On Microsoft 365 that includes one two-click approval from IT; we give you the exact text.

Nothing to onboard suppliers keep emailing

Your suppliers don't log in and don't change how they write. Epoch adapts to them, not the other way around.

Nothing to clean real beats clean

No master-data project first. Epoch works on the mail you actually get, not the data you wish you had.

Already run a TMS? keep it

Epoch reads what structured systems never see: the exceptions, revisions, and reply-alls where the buffer hides.

One inbox. No integration. Start free today.

How the cash gets released

Your buffer isn't sized against demand. It's sized against doubt.

Most teams assume their safety stock exists because demand is volatile. It usually doesn't. It exists because nobody can say, line by line, when goods will actually land — so the buffer is set against the worst case, and the cash sits there financing an uncertainty problem.

Epoch reconstructs real arrival dates from the supplier and forwarder emails you already receive. No portal for your suppliers to log into. No EDI project. No integration before you see a number.

When arrival dates become trustworthy at line level, the buffer can safely shrink. The cash it was holding is released. That's an operational change, not a financing one — you're not borrowing against the inventory, you no longer need to hold it.

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Reconstructed, not predicted

Arrival dates rebuilt from what suppliers and forwarders actually wrote, then measured against what actually landed.

Line level, not shipment level

Consolidations, mixed shipments, blanket POs, part numbers that don't match across systems. The exceptions other platforms round off.

Patented, and running today

EP 4544475. €500M in purchase orders handled to date.

Proof
Working capital identified in a single lane
They were holding buffer against Asia inbound because arrival dates couldn't be trusted. Epoch reconstructed the real dates from emails already in their inbox and measured them against what actually landed. The buffer came down. The cash came back.

€2.4MOne lane

Working capital identified

€10B+Revenue

European industrial manufacturer

8Weeks

From start to number
Live today. Proven in six weeks.
Start on your own in ten minutes. If you want the audited number on one lane, the six-week pilot is one click away.

Sign up, free¹

Work email in, verified, personal signup link out, usually within a couple of hours. Nothing to install and your suppliers never know.

Connect one mailbox ²

Connect your inbound mailbox: ten minutes on Google Workspace, ten minutes plus one two-click approval from IT on Microsoft 365 (we give you the exact text). No ERP integration. Your first real shipments appear the same day.

Get your number ³

Meridian prices every day of dwell as it happens. Want it audited against what actually landed? That's the six-week pilot, on one lane, and you keep it only if it pays.

One platform. Clarity that compounds

Epoch begins with the truth hidden in your inbound: real arrival dates, and the working capital they release, in weeks. From that foundation, Holocene extends into planning and foresight as you grow.

EPOCH

EPOCH reconstructs real arrival dates from the supplier and forwarder emails you already receive. Connect one mailbox, see your first real shipments today, and let Meridian price every day of delay. Free to start.
  • No supplier logins or integration overhead
  • AI agents automate reminders, validations, and delivery checks
  • Catch delays and mismatches before they create disruption
  • Reduce admin load without adding new systems
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What teams sayabout working with Holocene

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"Holocene increases the bandwidth of our team members - so they can focus on negotiation and order management instead of documentation management."

Jaguar Land Rover
Manager, Supply Chain

"Holocene untangles the supply chain information web and makes our entire supply chain searchable."

LivaNova
Vice President - Global Supply Chain

"Holocene offers a total overview of our shipping documents and communication - so anyone from any department can look them up."

Hoya
Global Supply Chain Management

"Holocene has moved closer to our upstream operations. Now we can track information across the supply chain and - in the event of a product recall - identify individual manufacturing batches and trace them back to the exact batch of components produced by our supplier."

SwordHealth
VP of Supply Chain

“Holocene helps us think tactically and avoid wasting time on operations activities and firefighting, which are not core competencies for our operations.”

Ethan Carter
Director of EMEA Logistics

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How to Release the Working Capital Trapped in Your Inbound Supply Chain

The buffer you hold against unreliable arrival dates is working capital you are financing. Reconstruct real arrival dates from the supplier emails you already receive, hold less safely, and release the cash. Operational, not financing.

How to Release the Working Capital Trapped in Your Inbound Supply Chain

Visibility That Thinks

Today we are launching Meridian, the Working Capital Advisor inside Epoch. It is the first supply chain intelligence that not only shows where goods are, but understands what they are worth, recommends what to do next and backs every recommendation with traceable mathematics.

Visibility That Thinks

Your Buyer Is Already Living the Case Study

A planner opens their inbox to 73 exception alerts. Three suppliers shifted delivery dates overnight. Two shipments show delivered but never arrived.

Your Buyer Is Already Living the Case Study

Closing the Gap from Supply Chain Awareness to Decisive Action

Over the past decade, the industry invested heavily in tools that promised transparency across complex, multi-tier networks. Those investments paid off.

Closing the Gap from Supply Chain Awareness to Decisive Action

Answers with structure

Working capital
How does this free up working capital?
Your buffer stock isn't sized against demand. It's sized against the worst-case arrival date, because that's the only number anyone trusts. When arrival dates become reliable at line level, the buffer can safely come down and the cash it was holding is released. No borrowing, no factoring.
What is the ROI?
Start free and Meridian shows you the working capital on each shipment as it arrives. If you want a formal, audited number, that's the six-week pilot: one lane, your own inbound, what the buffer can safely release, proven against what actually landed. You keep it only if it pays.
Isn't this just supply chain finance?
No. Supply chain finance changes who pays and when. You still hold the inventory, and someone charges you for the privilege. Epoch removes the reason the inventory is there. No borrowing, no factoring, no cost of capital attached. The buffer shrinks because it no longer needs to exist.
The mailbox
What does Epoch read in our mailbox?
A dedicated mailbox or a scoped connection, never anyone's personal inbox. Supplier confirmations, forwarder notices and shipping documents on defined threads; everything else is ignored. You set the scope yourself during setup and can change or revoke it at any time. On Microsoft 365, IT grants consent to the Epoch app once (two clicks; we give them the exact text). On Google Workspace, no IT is needed.
Will my suppliers need to be on the platform?
No. They keep emailing you exactly as they do today. No portal, no onboarding, no change on their side.
We use SAP. How does Holocene help?
Your ERP stays untouched. Epoch works alongside it, reading the inbound truth that never makes it into a structured field, and writes back only when you want it to.
Fit
Is this a TMS?
Yes. It covers the inbound side end to end: booking and execution, tendering and spot quoting, rate and contract management, routing and consolidation, freight audit, claims, customs documentation, and arrival truth at line level. The one capability it doesn't cover is dock and appointment scheduling. The difference is what it needs before it returns anything: no ERP integration, no supplier portal, no carrier onboarding. It runs on the emails you already receive.
We already run Oracle OTM. Why would we need this?
A TMS manages transport you've booked. It's built around carrier contracts, rate management and tendering, and it depends on structured data arriving from systems you've integrated. Most of the inbound truth never arrives that way. It's in an email from a supplier saying the shipment slipped nine days. Epoch reads that. It runs alongside your TMS or replaces the inbound side of it. Manufacturers have done both.
We tried a supplier portal and it stalled. Why is this different?
Because we don't ask your suppliers to do anything. Portal programmes fail on adoption — you can mandate it, but you can't make three hundred suppliers change how they work. Epoch reads the emails they already send. There's nothing for them to adopt, so there's nothing to stall.

See what's on your water. On your own emails.

Ten minutes to connect a mailbox and your first real shipments appear. Or ninety seconds and five inputs if you'd rather start with the calculator.
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Can I try it without talking to sales?

Yes. Leave your work email, we verify the company domain and send your personal signup link. Connect a mailbox and you're running. Sales only gets in touch once you've seen real shipments, and only to help.

Who can sign up?

Manufacturers and distributors with inbound freight. We check the company behind the email domain so the platform stays clean; most signups are approved within a couple of hours.

What do I need from IT?

On Google Workspace, nothing. On Microsoft 365, one action: IT grants admin consent to the Epoch app (two clicks in Entra) or allows external forwarding for the one mailbox. We give you the exact request text; most IT teams do it the same day.

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