Private Beta — Munich, 2026

The first live index
for delivery risk

Late deliveries cost European logistics companies billions in SLA penalties every year. Cargo insurance covers damaged goods — not late ones. Quantara closes that gap.

Delivery Pulse™ — Live
0 = no risk  ·  100 = maximum risk
Settlement threshold: 20%
The Problem

A multi-billion gap that has never had a financial instrument

Every day, thousands of B2B shipments across Europe arrive late. For the companies receiving them, this means SLA penalties, lost customers, and production stoppages — real financial losses that cargo insurance does not cover.

Cargo insurance pays out when goods are lost or damaged in transit. It says nothing about lateness. Companies absorb this risk through safety stock, buffer time, and hoping for the best.

There is no instrument to hedge it. Until now.

€12B+
Annual SLA penalty exposure in European road freight
~15%
Average late delivery rate on B2B road freight lanes in Europe
0
Parametric instruments currently available for delivery lateness risk

Three signals. One platform.

Quantara generates three distinct, time-layered signals from the same underlying reality — delivery conditions on European road freight lanes.

← Backward
Delivery Pulse™ History
60min chart · daily rate bars · factor log
What actually happened. 60 minutes of live index history, 14 days of daily settlement rates, and a spike log showing which factors caused each movement. The evidence base for pricing and underwriting decisions.
1
● Present
Delivery Pulse™
live · 0–100 · updates every 10 seconds
What is happening right now. A live index (0–100) calculated from five weighted factors: weather severity, traffic congestion, driver availability, route complexity, and shipment volume. Drives all Cover pricing in real time.
2
→ Forward
Market-Implied Rate
from traded prices · ↯ % implied settlement
What the market expects. When Covers trade on the secondary market, each traded price implies a forecast of where the Daily Settlement Rate will land at expiry. This is a genuine market-consensus forward probability — not a model, but what buyers and sellers are actually willing to pay.
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Who It's For

Three participants.
One market.

🏛
Insurers & Reinsurers
The Delivery Pulse™ index and its market-implied forward rate give underwriters a live, validated signal for pricing parametric cargo SLA products — a risk class that has never had a financial-grade index before. Use the Daily Settlement Rate as your trigger.
Parametric triggers Settlement reference Index licensing
🚚
Logistics Companies
Buy a Cover matching your shipment exposure. If delivery conditions deteriorate and the Daily Settlement Rate exceeds 20%, you receive a payout — offsetting the SLA penalties you absorb from your customers. Protection sized to your collateral: Standard (€100), Plus (€1,000), Pro (€10,000).
SLA hedging Parametric payout No claims process
📈
Traders & Speculators
A new asset class with a real, operationally grounded underlying. Buy and sell Covers on primary and secondary markets. The market-implied rate creates genuine pricing tension — especially for longer-duration contracts where the gap between spot and implied is widest.
New asset class Secondary market Implied rate arb
How It Works

Simple by design.

The Delivery Pulse™ index drives pricing. The Daily Settlement Rate drives settlement. Everything in between is the market.

01 —
Index updates every 10s
The Delivery Pulse™ (0–100) reflects live delivery conditions from five weighted factors. Higher index = higher risk = higher Cover prices.
02 —
Buy or sell a Cover
Select your duration (1h to 7d) and size (Standard / Plus / Pro). Buyers pay a premium and become HOLDERs. Sellers lock collateral and become WRITERs.
03 —
Daily Settlement Rate published
At midnight UTC, the official Daily Settlement Rate is calculated from 24 hours of index data. All expired Covers settle against this number automatically.
04 —
Automatic settlement
Rate above 20%: HOLDERs receive full collateral payout. Rate at or below 20%: WRITERs keep their collateral and the premiums collected. No claims. No paperwork. Instant settlement.

We are building this with the right partners.

Quantara is in private beta. The platform is live, the mechanics work, and we are looking for specific conversations — with freight data providers, parametric insurance professionals, and sophisticated traders who want early access to a new asset class.

If you work in cargo insurance, freight data, or derivatives trading and you think this is worth a 20-minute conversation, get in touch.

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