Daniel Taki is Chief Technology Officer at Alliance Chemical — a DoD Bronze Medal DLA supplier shipping specialty chemicals across the United States since 1998. He brought engineering precision to a logistics problem most chemical distributors still solve with phone calls: fully agentic LTL freight booking with live rate shopping, DOT hazmat classification at order time, and a Claude-powered quoting agent that scans hazmat resources and pulls accurate pricing before a quote ever reaches a customer. Before that stack existed, every LTL shipment meant a manual call to a freight broker, DOT compliance was checked by hand, and the systems that did exist didn't talk to each other. Daniel replaced all of it.
The stack Daniel built: a per-mile freight-pricing engine across 9 LTL carriers with agentic booking, automated shipping with AI hazmat classification (packing groups, segregation rules, state restrictions, carrier compatibility), a warehouse operations platform covering hazmat inspections, lot tracking, and PLC-to-RFID weight handoff, and a Claude-powered quoting agent that handles inbound quote requests end-to-end for the sales team.
On the AI side, Daniel oversaw agentic AI quoting, customer-support and credit-application AI, and the hazmat-aware AI guardrails that validate H-codes, GHS data, and dangerous patterns before any AI output reaches a customer. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Texas State University.
On the Record
On transparent pricing
"Chemical buyers have been trained to call for a quote because distributors historically used pricing opacity as a moat. We decided to compete the other way — show the freight cost down to the mile at checkout, let the price speak for itself, and remove every reason to pick up the phone before placing an order."
On fast shipping in a regulated industry
"1-2 day ship for hazmat is not the default in this industry. It requires real infrastructure — AI that classifies packing groups at order time, a warehouse that runs DOT inspection workflows on a deadline, and a ShipStation integration that fires the moment an order clears. We built all of it so the customer just sees a delivery date."
On Claude-powered quoting
"A sales quote for a hazmat chemical is not a simple lookup. You need accurate freight to the zip code, the right packing group, any state-level restrictions, and the SDS data to back it up. We put Claude in the loop so the agent scans all of that automatically before the quote goes out. The sales rep reviews it — but the research is already done."
