Max Young
PM
Founder and USC entrepreneurship student with experience building M.Y. Distributors and working with startups and investors at Refundid, Rainfall, and Salesforce Ventures.
Trifect
S'25Match with the perfect 3PL partner for your business in minutes, not months.
Commerce
About
Trifect is an AI-powered marketplace solving one of the most painful problems in logistics: matching businesses with the right 3PL. Today, the industry is highly fragmented, with over 70,000 3PLs operating at roughly 70% capacity and no centralized system to evaluate fit. As a result, businesses spend months vetting providers, often ending up with suboptimal partnerships. Trifect fixes this by aggregating deep operational data on thousands of 3PLs and using AI to intelligently match businesses based on their exact needs. By replacing manual search and guesswork with precise, data-driven matching, we reduce time to partnership, improve outcomes, and unlock unused capacity across the logistics ecosystem.
Product
Trifect is an AI-driven platform that matches businesses with their ideal 3PL partner. During onboarding, we collect key operational inputs such as shipping volumes, product dimensions, tech stack, and fulfillment requirements. Our system then dynamically asks follow-up questions using an LLM to refine understanding and ensure high-confidence matches. The platform outputs a curated set of best-fit 3PLs, ranked by compatibility. For 3PLs, Trifect delivers highly qualified, ready-to-convert leads that align with their operational strengths and available capacity. Businesses use the platform for free, while Trifect monetizes through a success-based commission on signed contracts.
Founders
Sarah Fan
Developer
CS at USC (Presidential Scholar). Previously software engineer at SpaceX (Starshield) and Northrop Grumman.
