Aera automates decisions for global enterprises on a horizontal platform. Cloud28.ai builds custom agents that do the operational work inside a forwarder's, carrier's or 3PL's existing systems. One sells a decision platform. The other gives your team more hands.
Last reviewed 13 November 2026. Based on each company's public materials.
| Aera Technology | Cloud28.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A decision intelligence platform and library of Skills | A managed service that builds and runs custom agents |
| Primary job | Automate and govern business decisions | Execute operational work: intake, extraction, updates, exceptions |
| Typical buyer | Global enterprise, cross-functional transformation | Ops leaders at forwarders, carriers, 3PL/4PL, warehouses, mid-market manufacturers |
| Data starting point | Enterprise systems (ERP, planning) via connectors | Inboxes, PDFs, EDI, SFTP, AS/400, ODBC, Excel — and APIs where present |
| Where AI runs | Aera's cloud platform | Your VPC or on-prem, with open-weight model option |
| Customization | Configure and compose Skills | Built bespoke around your rules and customers |
| Time to first value | Enterprise program (scope-dependent) | One workflow in production-like test in about a week |
Our agents can perform the same kinds of actions, designed around your workflow, your systems and your data instead of a one-size-fits-all product.
| Aera Technology offers | Cloud28.ai, customized to you |
|---|---|
| Understands your data and business context | Agents learn your SOPs, customer formats, codes and order history, grounded on a private LLM in your environment. |
| Recommends decisions within your policies | Agents propose the next action using your business rules, with confidence thresholds you set. |
| Acts on decisions end to end | Agents post to your TMS, WMS or ERP, send customer updates and book slots, not just suggest them. |
| Learns from every outcome | Every approved exception becomes a reusable rule or mapping, so the agent team gets better each week. |
| A library of Skills across functions | Instead of generic Skills, we build agents for your workflows: bookings, order intake, tracking, freight audit, POs. |
| Decision governance | Approval gates, audit logs and rollback on every action, owned and configured by your team. |
Left column summarizes Aera Technology's public positioning in our own words; see sources below.
Aera describes a Decision Cloud with “Aera Skills” — agentic decision automation that understands data, recommends, acts within policy and learns from outcomes. Skills span supply chain, procurement, sales & marketing, finance, HR and ESG. Aera was named a Leader in the January 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms and lists customers such as Unilever, Dell, AstraZeneca and Hershey.
Aera is strongest when a large enterprise wants to standardize and automate recurring decisions — replenishment, allocation, pricing — across many functions on one platform, typically on top of SAP, Oracle or similar ERP estates.
Cloud28.ai starts lower in the stack and smaller in scope: the documents, emails, EDI messages and screen work that consume operations teams at forwarders, trucking companies, 3PLs and warehouses. We build the agents for your workflow, connect them to whatever you run — including systems with no API — and can host the model privately on open weights.
Real samples, real systems, one workflow with heavy manual effort and clear rules.
A custom agent team, connected to your TMS, WMS, ERP, EDI, inboxes and files.
Production-like test on your documents, measured against today's effort and error rate.
We run and improve the agents, optionally on your own private open-weight LLM.
For mid-market logistics and operations teams, yes. If your need is enterprise-wide decision automation on a platform, Aera is built for that. If your need is agents doing the daily operational work inside legacy systems, Cloud28.ai is built for that.
Yes. Decision platforms decide; execution agents carry work through documents and legacy systems. Cloud28.ai agents can feed cleaner, faster operational data upstream.
No. We start from the systems and files you already have.
Bring sample documents and the systems they end up in. We'll show what an agent team would do with them.
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