About Sortwyre
Built by ops engineers who lived the throughput problem
Sortwyre was founded in Memphis by engineers who spent years on the sort floor — watching throughput problems unfold in real time while ops teams worked from four-hour-old dashboard data.
Founding story
Why Sortwyre exists
Malik Johansson spent years working in operations engineering at mid-size parcel networks — watching floor managers pull throughput data from four different screens (WMS, WES HMI, conveyor SCADA, and a spreadsheet) to understand why PPH was dropping.
The exercise was familiar to anyone who has managed a sort floor. By the time you had a number, the problem was 30 minutes old. You were correcting for events that had already cascaded into recirc queues and missed carrier windows.
Sortwyre was founded to replace that four-screen exercise with a single, real-time sortation intelligence layer — one that reads from the systems already running in your facility and surfaces the metrics your ops team needs before throughput drops, not after.
Mission
One thing: sortation throughput, visible in real time
Sortwyre is not a WMS. Not a WES replacement. Not a carrier dashboard. It is the intelligence layer between your sort floor and your operations data — built for the VP of Operations and Director of FC Operations who need to act within the shift, not after it.
Operations-first design
Every dashboard element is built for the shift supervisor and ops director — not the data scientist or analytics engineer. PPH numbers, not charts that require interpretation.
Non-invasive integration
Sortwyre reads from your existing systems. It does not require changes to your WES, WMS, or sorter hardware. No conveyor downtime, no control plane modifications.
Pilot-first deployment model
We scope every deployment to a single sort zone first. You see throughput impact in the first 4 weeks before committing to full-facility deployment.
Mid-size FC focus
Built for the 8,000–25,000 PPH range — not Fortune 50 mega-hubs with 50-person analytics teams. The tools available to large parcel networks, right-sized for mid-market FCs.
Location
Why Memphis
Memphis is home to more air cargo sort operations than any other North American city. That density of sortation infrastructure has made the region a center of gravity for fulfillment operations expertise and a testing ground for sortation technology. Sortwyre is headquartered here intentionally — close to the operations teams who depend on high-throughput sortation infrastructure every night.
STAGE
Early-stage logistics software company. Angel-backed in September 2025. Currently operating 6 pilot deployments at mid-size fulfillment centers in the US Southeast and Mid-South.
Want to run a pilot?
We scope every pilot to your sort infrastructure. Tell us your sorter type, WMS, and current PPH — we'll scope the integration from there.