Logistics & Supply Chain Developers
You're building the backbone of global trade. Why are you still stuck with data systems that break every time a ship loses satellite connection?
You're here to digitize global commerce, enable supply chain transparency, and build resilient trade networks that connect the world. But the "digital transformation" vendors sold your industry cloud-first solutions that assume perfect connectivity. Your breakthrough logistics platform becomes useless the moment goods enter the real world of intermittent satellite links and remote ports.
Global trade happens in places where Silicon Valley's connectivity assumptions fall apart. Time to build infrastructure for the real world.
Source gives you a verifiable database that runs everywhere goods actually move — from container ships to warehouse handhelds to customs terminals. With DefraDB, your logistics systems get offline-first operation, peer-to-peer synchronization, and cryptographic trust built for the disconnected reality of global trade.
The Cloud-First Delusion That's Sabotaging Supply Chain Innovation
You came here to revolutionize global commerce, not to debug why your "digital transformation" stops working at the dock:
The entire logistics tech industry sold you a lie — cloud-first platforms designed for office workers being forced into container ships and remote warehouses
Your supply chain visibility works great in demos — but disappears the moment goods enter ports with satellite internet from the dial-up era
Every stakeholder operates in a digital silo — because the "interoperable" platforms can't actually trust each other's data without expensive middleware
Data integrity is built on wishful thinking — bills of lading and customs documents can be tampered with because verification happens in systems designed for consumer apps
Compliance is a Kafka-esque nightmare — each jurisdiction's data sovereignty requirements force you to rebuild the same system differently for every country
Your "real-time" tracking goes dark for days — while goods traverse areas where bandwidth costs more than the cargo itself
The logistics industry deserves better than repackaged consumer cloud services. Every day you accept these limitations, your competitors building for logistics reality will leave you behind.
Build supply chain systems that work in supply chain environments
DefraDB runs natively on logistics hardware.
No more digital transformation that stops at the warehouse door. No more "global" platforms that don't work globally. No more accepting that supply chain technology has to be dumber than smartphones.
What becomes possible when you stop accepting infrastructure designed for the wrong industry:
Actually offline-first operation
Capture and process shipment data at ports, warehouses, and border crossings without live connectivity — because trade doesn't wait for internet permission
Cryptographically bulletproof records
Every bill of lading, sensor reading, and customs document is signed and tamper-evident from the moment it's created
True peer-to-peer trust networks
Trading partners sync verified updates directly using conflict-free data structures that actually handle the network chaos of global logistics
Multi-jurisdictional compliance that works
Field-level access controls automatically enforce data sovereignty without rebuilding your platform for every country
Bandwidth costs that don't bankrupt operations
Transform and aggregate trade data locally before selective transmission to central systems
Dispute resolution in hours, not months
Immutable audit trails provide cryptographic proof of what happened, eliminating the manual investigation process
Stop building custom sync systems for every port authority, shipping line, and customs agency
Deploy one cryptographically verifiable database from handheld scanners to global trade platforms
Handle multi-jurisdictional compliance automatically instead of maintaining separate systems per country
Cut satellite bandwidth costs by 90% through intelligent local processing before selective cloud transmission
Enable supply chain automation with trusted, structured trade data that all parties can verify
Infrastructure that actually understands global logistics:
Maritime-grade deployment
Runs reliably on everything from rugged handhelds to ship terminal systems in hostile environments
Disconnection-native operation
Full functionality during extended periods without network connectivity, because that's normal in logistics
Conflict-free multi-party sync
Automatic reconciliation across trading partners with incompatible legacy systems
Regulatory-grade integrity
Tamper-evident records that satisfy the most stringent international trade compliance requirements
Bandwidth optimization
Intelligent data shaping that reduces satellite transmission costs while maintaining supply chain intelligence
Trustless inter-party coordination
Verifiable data sharing between stakeholders who compete with each other