Interviews and press
Where Connor Miller has talked publicly about freight brokerage operations, AI agents in logistics, and protecting margin in a soft market.
Jacksonville Venture Competition, 2026
FreightScout won the 2026 Jacksonville Venture Competition, taking both the judges' award and the crowd favorite award. The competition was held on August 19, 2026 and is hosted by Chang Robotics. As the winner, FreightScout is entering due diligence for investment from the Chang Robotics Fund.
The judging panel was Summer Vyne of Anuvision Technologies, Randall Thomas of The Link, Forrest Hayes of the Chang Robotics Fund, Jim Stallings of PS27 Ventures, and Dr. Charles Bruce of Mayo Clinic. The other companies competing were Aurumn, Acorn, ChainMail, RACOS and Optitrade.
"I spent twelve years running freight before I ever wrote a line of software. FreightScout is the tool I always wanted on the floor and could never buy. Standing in a room full of Jacksonville builders and watching both awards go to that tool told me the problem is exactly as real as I thought it was."
Press releases
- Chang Robotics Announces Winners of the 2026 Jacksonville Venture Competition (JVC). Jacksonville, Florida, September 1, 2026. Distributed on GlobeNewswire and syndicated. GlobeNewswire · jaxvc.com · The Manila Times
Industry Champions, 2026
"Everything is gated by design, because the goal is to earn your trust as the customer. Then it's up to you whether you toggle full autonomy."
A conversation about coming to freight technology from the operations floor rather than from software, and about why autonomy in a brokerage has to be earned one gate at a time rather than switched on at signup.
New York Weekly, 2022
A profile from June 2022, written while I was building ArdentX in Jacksonville. It covers the decision to compete on service rather than on technology, the hours that took, and the road that got me to the desk in the first place.
Read it on New York Weekly →Recognition
- Winner, Jacksonville Venture Competition, 2026, for FreightScout. Took both the judges' award and the crowd favorite award. Hosted by Chang Robotics, August 19, 2026.
- Marquis Who's Who Honored Listee, 2026.
Topics I take
If you are booking a podcast, a panel or a trade publication interview, these are the subjects I can speak to from experience rather than from a briefing document.
- How shipper accounts actually churn in freight, and why the warning signs are invisible in most reporting
- Where margin really leaks on a brokerage floor, and why it is never one big mistake
- AI agents in logistics: what should be autonomous, what should stay gated, and who is accountable when an agent is wrong
- Why "just add more bodies" is usually the most expensive answer to a growth problem
- Building a software company as an operator with no engineering background
- What twelve years on an operations floor teaches you that a market report cannot
Short bio for producers
Connor Miller is the founder of FreightScout, freight brokerage software that runs the load from first call to invoice. He spent twelve years on freight brokerage operations floors, prospecting shippers, pricing lanes, covering loads and managing the reps who did the same, and helped scale a freight brokerage agency into nine figures in annual revenue before building the product. FreightScout won the 2026 Jacksonville Venture Competition, taking both the judges' award and the crowd favorite award, and is entering due diligence for investment from the Chang Robotics Fund. He is a Marquis Who's Who Honored Listee for 2026 and is based in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
A headshot is available at connormiller.ai/images/connor-miller-freightscout.jpg. For anything else, reach me on LinkedIn or book time on my calendar.
