API & Assistant Connections

Connect your systems — or your AI assistant — to FastQuotes

However your team asks for freight rates today, that way still works. Call us. Email us. Log in and quote it yourself. Nothing about that is changing.

This page is for teams whose tools can ask for them. If your operation runs on a spreadsheet, a business system, or an AI assistant, those can now pull your rates straight from us — the same engine, the same pricing, the same humans behind it.

The ways in

Email and phone. The original API. Still answered by people who know your freight.

Your spreadsheet. A plain sheet with a button — type a lane, get your rate in the next cell.

Your business system. TMS, ERP, or anything in-house your IT team maintains can call our quoting engine directly. One endpoint, documented below.

Your AI assistant. If your team uses an AI assistant that supports connectors (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Meta's Muse, or your own agent), point it at our connector and it can pull real quotes mid-conversation — permits considered, market context attached.

What comes back (why the quotes are usable)

Every quote carries three layers: the number, the market context behind it, and the terms it's good under — each term marked as binding or advisory, so your system or your assistant knows exactly what the rate depends on. Routine loads price in seconds. Loads that need a human get one — a review comes back as “pending review” with the reason, and a person picks it up. That's by design.

For your IT team (or your assistant's settings page)

API reference: https://www.fastquotes.io/api/external/v1/openapi.yaml
MCP connector endpoint: https://www.fastquotes.io/mcp/v1 — works as a custom connector in Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Muse. Auth header: X-Axle-Api-Key.

Connect in 60 seconds

Pick your assistant, paste the prompt, and ask for a quote. No key needed to explore. When you connect, ask your assistant to read the FastQuotes agent briefing first — it teaches your AI how to quote your freight right. Your own pricing needs a key (15-minute setup: john@fastquotes.io).

Meta Muse

Paste into Muse:

Connect to FastQuotes freight quoting. API documentation is at https://www.fastquotes.io/api/external/v1/openapi.yaml. Authentication uses an "X-Axle-Api-Key" header — ask me for my key through the secure prompt if I have one; discovery works without it. Then ask me what freight I'd like to price.

Claude

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → MCP URL:

https://www.fastquotes.io/mcp/v1
(Header if you have a key: X-Axle-Api-Key. Works keyless for discovery.)

ChatGPT

For a custom GPT or connector, use the Actions import:

Import the OpenAPI schema from https://www.fastquotes.io/api/external/v1/openapi.yaml. Auth: API key in header "X-Axle-Api-Key" (optional for discovery).

Grok / other MCP-capable agents

Add MCP server:

https://www.fastquotes.io/mcp/v1

First question to try, any assistant: “Get me a freight quote — standard flatbed, Dallas TX to Oklahoma City OK, 20ft steel, 40,000 lbs.”

This connector can price freight. It cannot book it, tender it, or spend anything — every load is confirmed by a person before a truck moves. That's by design.

Getting a key

Keys are scoped to your company, so quotes come back with YOUR pricing — not list rates. Setup is a 15-minute phone call: john@fastquotes.io.

Already a customer? Same call, faster.