Manufacturing & Industry 4.0 JAASSubmitted July 18, 2026

Relay — an MCP that catches missed freight connections before they cost you

An MCP app on the Model Context Protocol built by JAAS at the Amrita University Amritapuri campus NitroStack × MCP To The Moon hackathon and deployed on NitroStack.

About this project

Relay is an AI agent that tracks a shipment across ship, rail, road, and air as one journey, and flags the moment a delay will make it miss a connection between modes — then shows the cost and drafts the fix. Delays only get expensive when they break a handoff (a missed vessel or rail slot), triggering detention, demurrage, and late-delivery penalties that cost the industry around $22 billion a year. Existing tools show where a shipment is; none warn you it's about to miss its train. Relay closes that gap.

Manufacturing & Industry 4.0 track

Create intelligent systems for smart factories, predictive maintenance, quality control, and supply chain optimization.

Live MCP appSource code

Team JAAS

  • Jayasurya Jay NairLead

  • Surya R

  • Mohammed Anhal K

  • Avijith M

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Frequently asked questions

What does Relay — an MCP that catches missed freight connections before they cost you do?
Relay is an AI agent that tracks a shipment across ship, rail, road, and air as one journey, and flags the moment a delay will make it miss a connection between modes — then shows the cost and drafts the fix. Delays only get expensive when they break a handoff (a missed vessel or rail slot), triggering detention, demurrage, and late-delivery penalties that cost the industry around $22 billion a year. Existing tools show where a shipment is; none warn you it's about to miss its train. Relay closes that gap.
Who built Relay — an MCP that catches missed freight connections before they cost you?
Relay — an MCP that catches missed freight connections before they cost you was built by team JAAS at the Amrita University Amritapuri campus NitroStack × MCP To The Moon hackathon, in the Manufacturing & Industry 4.0 track.
What is an MCP app and how is it built?
An MCP app is an application built on the Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets AI agents connect to tools, data, and APIs. This project exposes MCP tools and resources that agentic AI systems can call. It was built and deployed on NitroStack, the full-stack platform for shipping MCP apps and servers.