Created for the Capstone Logistics 2026 Partner Symposium

The Logistics Operations Assistant.

A working AI co-pilot for warehousing, transportation, and 3PL. Built block by block in front of a hundred logistics executives.

One Click · Yours In Fifteen Seconds

Copy the prompt. Paste it into Claude. Watch what happens.

Four blocks. One paste. Sample data included — replace with yours.

How to use it Monday morning.

Tap the button above.

The entire master prompt — role, context, task, and constraints — is now on your clipboard.

Open a fresh chat.

Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini — your choice. The prompt is portable.

Paste. Hit send.

The agent reads itself in. Acknowledges who it is, where it works, what you want, and what's off limits.

Describe a real disruption.

Late inbound. Missing driver. Customer SLA at risk. Anything you walked into Monday morning.

Make it yours.

The role, task, and constraints work for any logistics operation. Edit only the context block — your lanes, customers, crew, carriers. Twenty minutes of editing. Working assistant by 11 a.m.

What's in the prompt.

Role

A senior logistics operations leader with twenty years across warehousing, transportation, and 3PL. Specificity beats credentials.

Context

Lanes. Customers. SLA windows. Union rules. Carrier mix. Sample data included — replace with yours.

Task

Three options, ranked by SLA, cost, crew. Tradeoffs called out for each. The call to make. Who makes it. What could go wrong.

Constraints

Ten rules that turn the agent from a confident bullshitter into a thoughtful collaborator. SLA flagging, no OT assumptions, one clarifying question.

Judgment

The fifth block. Yours. The agent narrows the choice. You make it.

Built by John Andrews — Alex Lee Professor of Business at Lenoir-Rhyne University, founding partner of Katadhin Consulting, and author of The Agile Code.

The framework behind this prompt — Knowledge, Instructions, Tools, Triggers, and Human Judgment — is the operating model from the book. This is one applied example. There are many more.

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