A Delaware-incorporated, Uzbekistan-based startup is collapsing the dozen tools a U.S. car-shipping broker juggles into a single platform — and teaching AI to handle the calls, texts, and bookings. It has just raised its first outside capital and is rolling AI agents out to ten live brokerages.
The software that runs America’s auto-transport industry was never really built for the people doing the work. Enterprise platforms are priced and designed for large fleets, not for the independent brokers and small teams who book most of the cars that cross the country every day. Those brokers improvise — a CRM in one tab, a dispatch board in another, a separate dialer, payment links, a spreadsheet, and a phone that rarely stops ringing.
TheCarGo is trying to compress that sprawl into one system, then hand the most repetitive parts of it to software. The company has just closed its first outside funding round and is preparing to deploy AI agents — programs that can place outbound calls, answer inbound ones, reply to texts, and book carriers — into the ten U.S. brokerages already running on its platform.
It is an ambitious target for a company headquartered not in California or Texas, but in Tashkent.
A Market the Big Platforms Skipped
The opportunity emerged from a gap the founder kept encountering himself. Ziyobek Turdiev, TheCarGo’s founder and CEO, did not come to AI from a research lab. He came from the front lines.
Starting in 2019 as an entry-level auto-transport broker for a U.S. company, he worked his way into leadership, trained more than 50 agents, and eventually ran two U.S. car-shipping companies as chief executive — handling sales, dispatch, payroll, and customer escalations, often within the same hour.
That experience gave him a perspective most software vendors never see.
“The brokers I worked alongside weren’t lazy, and they weren’t bad at the job. They were buried in busywork. The work eats your whole day before you even reach the customer who’s ready to buy.”
So in 2024, while still operating his own brokerage, Turdiev began building the tool he wanted but could not buy. His own agents were the first to use it, putting every feature under the pressure of live deals.
The early journey was not smooth. An initial engineering effort fell apart, and he funded the rebuild out of his own pocket without drawing a salary. The turning point came when he recruited Bakhtiyor Ergashev as co-founder and chief technology officer to lead engineering, combining Turdiev’s years of frontline experience with the technical expertise required to scale the platform.
The company’s first paying customer signed in March 2025. By April 2026, Turdiev and his co-founders had fully exited the brokerage business to focus on TheCarGo full-time.
The Raise
In June 2026, TheCarGo closed its first external financing round: $110,000 from Yoshlar Ventures, Uzbekistan’s state-backed fund for young founders building for global markets, and Yasin Ehsan, a U.S.-based angel investor.
The funding is being used for three priorities: completing and launching the company’s AI agents, supporting brokerages currently onboarding to the platform, and expanding the team to meet growing demand.
Turdiev is candid that the validation mattered as much as the capital itself.
“For a long stretch, the only person putting money behind this was me. Having a serious fund here in Uzbekistan and an angel in the U.S. write checks told me the bet was real. After that, the plan is simple — keep shipping a better product.”
A larger U.S.-led follow-on round is expected within the next six to eight months.
Approved Where It Counts
Credibility in this industry is largely determined by two platforms — Central Dispatch and Super Dispatch — that nearly every U.S. auto-transport broker relies on.
TheCarGo is approved by both, a prerequisite for any software hoping to become part of a broker’s daily workflow. The company has also secured AWS cloud credits and a grant from ElevenLabs to support development of its AI voice agents.
Toward a “Digital Workforce”
The product roadmap is where the company’s broader vision comes into focus.
Turdiev and Ergashev describe what they are building as a digital workforce: AI agents capable of cold-calling leads, handling inbound calls, managing text conversations, and booking carriers with little or no human intervention.
Two such agents are expected to launch within the next two to three months, with deployment across the existing customer base planned within six months. The company also expects to onboard additional brokerages as the platform expands.
The endgame, as Turdiev describes it, is to become the core operating infrastructure for U.S. auto-transport brokerages — a single operating system where AI absorbs the repetitive work that has historically driven good agents out of the business.
He plans to relocate to the United States in 2026 to be closer to customers and believes part of the company’s mission is proving that globally competitive software can be built from Uzbekistan.
“I never set out to start a software company. I just kept wishing this tool existed back when I was on the phones — so at some point I decided to build it myself.”
About TheCarGo
TheCarGo (TheCarGo OS Inc.) is a Delaware-incorporated, AI-driven operating system for U.S. auto-transport brokerages. Founded by a former broker and an engineering co-founder, the platform brings quoting, follow-ups, dispatch, carrier communication, and payments into a single system, with AI agents handling much of the repetitive work.
The platform is approved by both Central Dispatch and Super Dispatch and currently serves ten active U.S. brokerage companies, with additional customers onboarding. In June 2026, TheCarGo raised its first $110,000 from Yoshlar Ventures and a U.S.-based angel investor and expects to open a larger U.S.-led funding round within six to eight months.
More information is available at thecargo.io.
