Tive
Real-time end-to-end shipment visibility: track location and condition of every load, prevent damage, delay and theft, and deliver on time and in full.
By Tive, Inc. · HQ Boston, US · 4.5/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Logistics and supply-chain teams moving high-value, temperature-sensitive or theft-prone freight
- Pharma, life-sciences and perishable-food shippers that need continuous cold-chain condition data
- Operations leaders who want real-time location and condition alerts feeding existing TMS/ERP systems
- Companies running recurring one-way or cross-border lanes where tracker recovery is impractical
Ideal size: 20–500 people · Mid-market to enterprise with a dedicated logistics or supply-chain function
Not for
- Teams looking for warehouse, inventory or order-management software
- Shippers with very low volumes where per-shipment device cost outweighs the risk
- Buyers who need published self-serve pricing and instant sign-up
- Organisations unwilling to deploy and manage physical tracking hardware
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
2–4 weeks
~30 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
On request
Subscription for the Tive Platform plus single-use or reusable trackers; no list rates published in the sources reviewed.
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Add-on costs
- None
Company & support
Who is behind Tive, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Boston, US
How you get support
- PhonePlan not stated
- EmailNot listed
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsPlan not stated
- Dedicated account managerNot listed
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- 24/7
- Response time
- Not stated
Homepage advertises a 24/7 expert monitoring team and support; the plan tier that includes it is not stated. A self-serve knowledge base sits at tive.com/support. Phone line is listed for sales, customer support and finance.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Tive sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Tive
- Apromore
- Vizion
- MineralTree
- FMX
- Growfin
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Tive. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Tive ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Tive pairs single-use and reusable trackers with cloud software to give real-time shipment location and condition data. Sensors report temperature, light and shock over cellular, GPS and WiFi; the Tive Platform turns that into alerts, analytics and workflow automation that can feed existing systems. An optional 24/7 monitoring team intervenes with carriers when issues arise. More than 1,200 organisations use it, concentrated in pharma cold chain, perishables, high-value goods and cargo-theft prevention.
Frequently asked questions
What does Tive actually consist of — hardware, software, or both?
Both. Tive supplies trackers (Solo 5G, Solo 5G non-lithium, Solo Lite, Solo Pro and a Security Seal) plus the Tive Platform. Devices report location and condition via cellular, GPS and WiFi; the platform handles real-time views, alerts for temperature, light and shock, analytics and workflow automation, and shipment data can be integrated into existing systems.
Which shipment risks does Tive address?
Its customer stories and product pages cover cargo theft, cold-chain temperature excursions, spoilage, physical damage and general real-time visibility. The pitch is early intervention: detect risk, trigger an alert and respond before a load is lost, spoiled or stolen, rather than reconciling problems after delivery.
How long does implementation take, and what does it cost?
Tive does not publish implementation timelines or list pricing on the pages reviewed; the site routes buyers to a pricing check and sales contact. Trackers are single-use or reusable, activate with a button push and report into the platform or your own systems, so pilots commonly start on a limited set of lanes. Confirm timelines, per-tracker cost and platform tier with Tive directly.
Does Tive include monitoring by its own staff?
Yes. The homepage describes a 24/7 expert monitoring team that collaborates with the customer and the carrier when shipment issues arise, and describes 24/7 expert monitoring and support more generally. Which plan tier includes that service is not stated on the pages reviewed.
Can Tive data be integrated into our existing systems?
Tive states that real-time shipment data can be viewed in the Tive Platform or integrated into your existing systems, and that Tive Intelligence automates workflows. Specific named connectors and platform certifications are not documented in the pages reviewed, so integration scope should be confirmed with the vendor.