Kardinal, which has been developing route optimization technology for transport and logistics since 2015, announces that it has once again been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for Vehicle Routing and Scheduling 2026, published on July 17, 2026.
The Gartner Market Guide is a key resource for the industry: it helps heads of logistics understand the vehicle routing and scheduling (VRS) market and evaluate the vendors that serve it. Kardinal’s inclusion in this new edition reflects its continued commitment to technological innovation, operational excellence and the success of its clients.
According to this edition, the need for efficient routing keeps growing with e-commerce, grocery and other consumer deliveries, across last-mile, less-than-truckload and full-truckload transport. Gartner also points to the ability to adapt to unexpected changes in delivery schedules as a baseline performance expectation, and notes that AI agents are becoming a significant trend among VRS vendors.
Today, Kardinal’s technology is available through:
- The route optimization API: open in self-service and designed for developers and their AI agents, with public pricing, complete documentation and a free tier to integrate at no cost. Read the announcement.
- Kardinal Factory: Kardinal’s team models, deploys and operates optimization with large carriers, shippers and parcel networks. Factory brings together the capabilities covered in the guide: real-time route optimization that takes predictive traffic into account and adapts to unexpected events, and territory sectorization and fleet sizing for parcel and postal networks. Discover Kardinal Factory.
- Laskar: Kardinal’s native mobile app for drivers, launched in 2025 and now used by more than 35,000 users. Drivers access their route plan directly from their phone. Discover Laskar.
We are delighted to have been recognized again in the Gartner Market Guide. It reflects the work of our teams and the trust of our clients, who bring us the most demanding operational cases. The market is changing fast, and AI agents are becoming part of how logistics software is built. Kardinal is adapting to this new norm with a self-service route optimization API that AI agents can drive themselves, to keep innovating and to answer what the market needs.
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About Kardinal:
Since 2015, Kardinal has been developing route optimization technologies for the transportation and field service sectors, combining operations research and machine learning to model the most complex business constraints. After supporting the market’s largest players through custom deployments, Kardinal is now making its expertise available through a self-service API, designed for technical teams and AI agents alike.
Kardinal was recognized as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for Vehicle Routing and Scheduling 2025, a recognition renewed in 2026.
Source:
Gartner, Market Guide for Vehicle Routing and Scheduling, By Nathan Lease, Zee Zakaria, 17 July 2026, ID G00833709
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