[ • ]LaycanDesk
THE AI CHARTERING DESK · FOR DRY-CARGO BROKERS, OWNERS & CHARTERERS

LaycanDesk reads every cargo circular in your inbox.

It turns the flood of cargo circulars and ship positions in your inbox into a live board — then, when an enquiry lands, finds the match in your own book and drafts your reply in about 90 seconds.

YOUR PRIVATE DESK — NOT A MARKETPLACE. NOTHING YOU FORWARD IS EVER SHARED WITH ANOTHER COMPANY.

SET UP IN 10 MINUTES · ONE FORWARDING RULE · NO IT PROJECT
AN ENQUIRY LANDS · WHATSAPP / EMAIL
* illustrative — anonymised
LAYCANDESK ANSWERS — FROM YOUR BOOK
READParsed: billets · IRBND → KEMBA · SPOT
SIZEDSupramax / Ultramax 55–63k
YOUR SHIPSUPRA MERIDIAN · 56,800 DWT · opens Fujairah · fit 92
SCREENLoad Iran — metals exposure · review before firming
REPLYDrafted to the charterer — your message, you send it
BUILT FOR DESKS INISTANBULPIRAEUSDUBAIMUMBAIKARACHISINGAPOREGENEVA
WHAT LAYCANDESK DOES

Four things, on every cargo enquiry.

The work a broker does by hand between 07:30 and 09:30 — reading, matching, pricing, replying — done in the time it takes to read the email.

BROKERS
match the tonnage & cargo you're shown
OWNERS
answer enquiries from your own ships
CHARTERERS
compare the vessel offers you receive
INBOX → BOARD

Reads your market mail

Forward circulars and position lists to one address. LaycanDesk parses every one — cargo or ship — into a structured, searchable board in under a minute. The same stem sent by four brokers becomes one row.

ENQUIRY → YOUR TONNAGE

Finds the match in your book

When an enquiry arrives, it sizes it and ranks the fitting tonnage you've been shown — right area, right size, geared, no excluding term — with the reasons. Own the ship or just hold the position: it's the tonnage you can actually offer.

→ TCE YOU CAN DEFEND

Prices the voyage

Distances with canal logic, live bunker prices, laytime by the book, port costs as editable defaults — every figure labelled where it came from. "No freight idea" becomes the rate you should name.

→ OFFER, YOU SEND IT

Drafts your reply

A market-format offer with the right protective subjects, screened for sanctions exposure — ready to edit and send. To the counterparty who asked. Never blasted to other companies on its own.

HOW IT WORKS

Ten minutes to a working desk.

Useful from the first forwarded email — your own market, structured. No marketplace to wait for.

01

Forward your market mail

One rule in Outlook sends circulars and positions to your private desk address. That's the whole integration — no migration, no mailbox handover.

RULE: market lists → desk-7f3a@in.laycandesk.com
02

Work a live board

Every email becomes a structured row, deduplicated across forwarders. Anything the parser is unsure about is flagged for a one-click check — the board is never wrong behind your back.

45,000 MT BILLETS · IRBND→KEMBA · SPOT · REVIEW ✓
03

Answer first, win the fixture

Size the fleet, rank your ships, price it, screen the route, draft the reply — before the market gets back to the charterer.

OWNERS BEST: USD __.__ PMT · SUPRA 56,800 DWT · SUB SANCTIONS
THE BOARD

Your whole market, out of the inbox.

Hundreds of circulars a day collapse into two live boards — cargoes and open tonnage. Sort by laycan, size, area, commodity. Private & confidential mail stays badged and never leaves your desk.

  • Mixed list emails split into individual stems and ships
  • Counterparties auto-filed with full history
  • Realtime — the whole desk sees one board
CARGO BOARD · 14 OPENHANDY–SUPRA
BILLETS 45K · IRBND→KEMBAIR
SUGAR 25K · OMSOH→SYLTKP&C
WHEAT 30K · ROCND→EGALYVIA 3
UREA 28K · QAMES→INMUNOPEN
ENQUIRY DESK

"Do you have a ship for this?"

The fastest-converting message is the thinnest. Paste it and LaycanDesk sizes the enquiry, ranks the fitting tonnage in your book with reasons, and drafts the qualifying reply — from what's on your desk, never broadcasting it to other companies.

  • A live timer on every unanswered enquiry
  • Trust tiers gate what's shared with unknown senders
  • The answer goes only to the desk that asked
ENQUIRY ⇄ YOUR BOOK⏱ 2M 41S
"do you have vsl west africa?"
96 HANDY ALFA open Abidjan 18 JUN
HANDY DELTA — WITHHELD: P&C
ESTIMATOR

A freight number you can defend.

Suez vs Cape side by side, the required rate for your target TCE, breakeven — every input editable, every figure labelled live, assumed or yours. A number you can stand behind on the phone.

  • Voyage timeline: ballast, laden, canal, port
  • Required rate for a target TCE, and breakeven
  • Versioned estimates — recap text and PDF
ESTIMATE · BILLETS 45K34.2 D
DIRECT$16,240/d
REQ $11K$28.90/mt
TRUST & COMPLIANCE

Reopening trades, with eyes open.

Screen counterparty, vessel and route against consolidated sanctions data — and see exactly what wasn't checked. Every deal you conclude builds your private relationship history, so you know who you're dealing with next time.

  • Counterparty, vessel (name + IMO), flag and route
  • Deal stages: offered → on subs → subs lifted → fixed
  • Relationship memory that compounds — never pooled
DEAL · BILLETS 45KON SUBS
OFFERED
ON SUBS
LIFTED
FIXED
ON SUBS = the owner's vetting window.
Charterer credit · cargo · Iran exposure checked before anyone is bound.
YOUR FLOWS ARE YOURS

The desk's knowledge stays in the desk.

A broker's book is the business. So LaycanDesk is a private desk tool, not a marketplace: nothing you forward is pooled, resold, or emailed to other companies on its own. Tenant isolation is enforced in the database — not promised in a policy PDF.

NO CROSS-DESK POOLING — EVER
NEVER AUTO-EMAILS YOUR CARGO TO OTHERS
ROW-LEVEL SECURITY ON EVERY TABLE
HOSTED IN THE EU (ZURICH)
P&C EMAILS BADGED AND RING-FENCED
PRICING

One fixture pays for years of it.

Per seat, monthly, cancel anytime. Every plan includes the full parsing pipeline and the board.

Solo

$99/user · mo
  • Forwarding-address ingestion
  • Cargo & tonnage boards
  • 100 estimates / month
  • 50 screenings / month
MOST DESKS

Desk

$199/user · mo
  • Everything in Solo
  • Enquiry Desk + match alerts
  • Unlimited estimates & screenings
  • Offer drafting in market format
  • Relationship history & deal stages

Operator

$299/user · mo
  • Everything in Desk
  • Live AIS vessel layer
  • API access
  • Priority parsing queue

EARLY ACCESS: first 20 desks get 50% off for life for a weekly feedback call.

EARLY ACCESS · SUMMER 2026

Answer "best offer pls" before the next desk does.

TELL US YOUR TRADE AND DESK SIZE — WE ONBOARD 20 DESKS THIS SUMMER.