Our Mission

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Author
JD Mendoza
Founder
8/30/2025
Title

Empower 3PLs of all sizes with the most innovative, most user‑friendly, and least expensive tools to better serve their clients.

I grew up in freight forwarding. As a kid, I’d wander my uncle’s warehouse and marvel at the neat stacks of cargo, rows that shifted daily with the containers I packed myself in a hot Miami warehouse. That’s where I learned the rhythm of operations and the reality of the job: complex work, thin margins, and tools that too often get in the way.

Back then, even changing a simple blog post on a website could turn into a project. A decade later, many small and mid‑sized forwarders still face the same technology hurdles. Meanwhile, well funded players and end‑to‑end ecosystems keep raising the bar. The result is a widening digital divide: large 3PLs with bespoke tools pulling ahead while independents fight with spreadsheets, inboxes, and copy‑paste workflows.

Here’s the thing: 3PLs, and especially freight forwarders and NVOCCs, are essential to global trade. They bridge cultures, time zones, and regulations with relationships and on‑the‑ground know‑how. That human layer is irreplaceable. The problem isn’t people, it’s the software that should make their lives easier but often doesn’t.

Mycorza began with a simple goal: help 3PLs, freight forwarders, and NVOCCs compete through modern tools. But our mission has grown — because logistics doesn’t just move goods; it moves the world. The same systems that power trade can also expose or conceal its worst problems: labor exploitation, environmental harm, smuggling, and even human trafficking.

We believe better visibility means better ethics. When operations are transparent, accountable, and connected, we don’t just make freight faster — we make global supply chains more just. That’s the heart of Mycorza’s mission: to give operators the technology, insight, and independence to make honest trade the default everywhere.

A foundation for ethical trade

Every shipment is a story — of work, trust, and human effort. Our mission is to ensure those stories stay honest from origin to destination. By helping forwarders digitize their workflows, share trusted data, and verify what happens at every step, we create systems that make it harder for corruption, crime, and exploitation to hide in plain sight.

  • Reduce hidden harm: Increase visibility across hand-offs to detect anomalies, fraud, and trafficking signals.
  • Protect workers and environments: Build the traceability needed to identify unethical or unsustainable practices.
  • Promote accountability: Give honest forwarders and carriers the data they need to prove compliance and integrity.

Empowering the independents

We serve the operators who keep trade moving but are too often left behind by expensive, closed technology. Our tools are open-source, affordable, and accessible — because integrity in global logistics starts with access. When small and mid-sized forwarders can match the digital power of the largest players, transparency becomes universal, not optional.

  • Open-source platform: Freight software anyone can use, inspect, or improve.
  • Advisory for change: Hands-on support to help teams modernize responsibly.
  • Managed hosting: Private, secure deployments for those who prefer turnkey reliability.

Why this matters

Crime, exploitation, and environmental abuse thrive in opaque systems. Every time we help a forwarder digitize a workflow, verify a document, or connect a data trail, we strengthen a small piece of the world’s supply chain against those risks.

We can’t solve every problem alone — but we can create the conditions where integrity wins by default: where transparency, efficiency, and fairness reinforce each other, and every shipment moves with accountability built in.

Design principles

  • Transparency First: Visibility isn’t a feature — it’s a right. We design systems that reveal, not obscure.
  • Accessibility: Open tools for every team, regardless of size or budget.
  • Integrity by Design: Data trails, access logs, and verifiable workflows make accountability automatic.
  • Partnership over profit: We measure impact in adoption, improvement, and trust — not just revenue.

Freight forwarding has always been about human trust. Technology should amplify that trust — not replace it, not exploit it. At Mycorza, our mission is to build tools that help trade run faster, safer, and cleaner — and, in doing so, make the world itself a little more honest.

Transparency is security. Efficiency is fairness. And open systems can change the world.