Seventeen Ninety Partners helps organizations transform their businesses through a comprehensive, full-life-cycle framework to support your business objectives and outcomes that we call the Seventeen Ninety I7™ framework.
Align stakeholders, scope, urgency, and decision rights.
Over 100 years of combined leadership experience.
Leading high-performing sales, operations, and technology teams across the full freight and logistics stack gives Seventeen Ninety Partners a rare dual lens — the boardroom view and the floor-level reality simultaneously.
We enter every engagement at the strategic level — understanding the market position, the competitive dynamics, and the capital context — then drive execution from the ground up. That means working alongside your ops team, your carriers, your sellers, and your engineers. Not just advising. Building.
The result is transformation that sticks because it was built by the people who have to run it — not handed over in a final presentation.
Every recommendation is filtered through the question: can the team actually run this?
No 90-day discovery phases. We start producing insight and action in week one.
We build infrastructure — revenue, operational, technological — that gets better over time without adding headcount.
Five practitioners across commercial, operations, technology, marketing, and development — with over 100 years of combined freight and logistics experience.
Five interlocking service lines that cover the full transformation surface — from technology selection to revenue operations to M&A readiness.
Build a technology roadmap aligned to your business model, capital stage, and competitive position — not a vendor's sales pitch.
Navigate the freight and logistics software landscape with an operator who has evaluated, bought, and built these systems from the inside.
From system deployment to custom software — we design, build, and launch technology that fits how your operation actually runs.
Pick the model that fits where you are. Most long-term clients start with advisory and grow from there.
Engage one discipline or the whole team — your advisory layer, built the way you need it.
Advisory by individual discipline or full team. Engage Laura for marketing advisory, Kara for revenue operations, Kris for commercial strategy — or bring on the entire Seventeen Ninety team as your advisory layer. Twelve-month commitment, no full deployment required.
Embedded part-time CRO, COO, or full GTM team — without the full-time cost.
Part-time embedded leadership across commercial, revenue operations, marketing, and customer success. Individual roles or our full Fractional GTM Team.
Scoped, fixed-deliverable engagements with defined timelines and measurable ROI.
Fixed-fee engagements built around a specific outcome. Scope is defined before work begins, with a change-order process for anything outside it.
End-to-end partnership from evaluation through exit.
We enter as advisors and stay until the deal is closed. The highest-commitment, highest-return engagement model — for companies preparing for a capital event or exit.
Not sure which model fits? The fastest answer is a 45-minute conversation.
“In 1790, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable established the first commercial enterprise at the Chicago Portage — the natural chokepoint connecting the Great Lakes to the Mississippi. He didn't just occupy the land. He understood the network.”
The founding principle of Seventeen Ninety Partners
Du Sable's operation was the earliest proof that mastery of physical flow creates enduring commercial advantage. That thesis hasn't changed in 235 years. The networks have.
Seventeen Ninety Partners was built on the same conviction: the firms that win in freight and supply chain are the ones that understand the network at an operator level — not a consulting level.
Built by operators
Built by operators who have lived the P&L, the pipeline, and the platform — not a deck handed off by a generalist.
TMS, ERP, visibility, pricing, and capacity platforms for global shippers and carriers.
AI-native freight platforms, agentic systems, and intelligent operations at scale.
PE-backed freight and logistics acquisition, operational transformation, exit readiness.
Series A through C raises for freight tech, logistics SaaS, and supply chain startups.
Chemical, industrial, automotive, CPG, and energy — specialized compliance and modal needs.
Asset-light brokerage, digital freight, marketplace models, carrier network development.
Outsourced transportation management, 3PL, 4PL, shipper-of-record programs.
End-to-end supply chain design, network optimization, operational transformation.
International freight, cross-border operations, last mile, and fulfillment networks.
Seventeen Ninety Partners doesn't run a typical referral program. We build deep, selective partnerships with technology companies, PE firms, and independent operators who share the conviction that freight deserves better infrastructure and better operators.
Software companies building for freight, logistics, and supply chain who want a credible operator voice in sales cycles, product strategy, and customer success.
PE firms, VCs, and family offices investing in freight and logistics who need an operating partner with deep sector credibility and transformation experience.
Independent consultants, former freight executives, and domain experts who want to extend their reach through a structured partnership with shared clients and shared resources.
Partnerships are selective and relationship-driven. Reach out directly — no intake forms.
They didn't hand us a deck and leave. They sat in the operation and rebuilt how we sell, quote, and settle.
The only advisor we've worked with who understood the carrier side, the software side, and the P&L at the same time.
Week one we had a plan we could actually run. Ninety days in, the numbers had moved.
The fastest path is a direct conversation. Email, call, or text Kristopher — no intake form, no SDR, no wait. Engagements typically begin within two weeks of first contact.
Based in Chicago, Illinois.
Available for engagements globally.