Fractional Risk Consulting
For freight brokerages with $50–200M in revenue who need a Director of Risk but can't justify a $180,000 hire. Twelve years of front-line freight experience, deployed part-time.
Quick answer
A fractional Director of Risk provides carrier vetting audits, freight fraud protocol design, and on-call incident response without a full-time hire. Engagements run 10–20 hours per month with no exclusivity. Gold Bird Group's fractional consulting is built on 12 years of freight industry operations — truck driver, broker, and security consultant — not generic advisory work.
The problem
Your brokerage moves $50–200 million in freight a year. Carrier vetting is reactive — you check SaferWatch after something goes wrong. Double-brokering exposure is unknown until a customer complains. Insurance verification happens at onboarding, not at dispatch. Fraud patterns that a dedicated risk person would catch in week one go unnoticed for months.
You know you need this function. A full-time Director of Risk costs $120,000–$180,000 plus benefits. You can't justify the headcount. So the gap stays open — until it costs you a load, a shipper, or a lawsuit.
What you get
| Carrier vetting quick-start review + priority fixes | Month 1 (one-time) |
| Active carrier portfolio risk review | Monthly |
| Double-brokering exposure scan | Monthly |
| Insurance verification checklist + process setup | Month 1 (one-time) |
| Incident response protocol (starter template) | Month 1 (one-time) |
| Fraud pattern briefing | Monthly |
| On-call for active incidents | As needed |
What this replaces: the $150,000-a-year hire you can't make yet, and the "I'll deal with it when it happens" approach that costs more.
Pricing
Pick the tier that matches your exposure. Cancel with thirty days' notice. 1099 only — no non-compete, no exclusivity, no IP assignment.
Quick-start setup + monthly review
10 hrs / month
Active risk management + incident response
20 hrs / month
Dedicated fractional Director of Risk
40 hrs / month
Three-month minimum on every tier. No long-term lock-in. Thirty days' notice to cancel.
* Onboarding fees apply.
Why me
Operator across the freight stack — driver, broker, ops manager, warehouse manager, security consultant
Built D74 Technologies' carrier verification and fraud-scoring infrastructure — FMCSA verification pipeline, OSINT carrier intelligence, behavioral analysis engines
Member, TIA Fraud Vendor Advisory Committee
SAM.gov registered. D74 Technologies briefed USTRANSCOM on supply chain trust intelligence.
Methodology. The fractional engagement applies our Zero Trust Freight Security Framework, adapted from FEMA 426 (Reference Manual to Mitigate Potential Terrorist Attacks Against Buildings) and tuned to the freight chain. Carrier vetting audits, fraud protocols, and incident response sit inside that methodology, not on top of it.
This engagement is judgment, not delivery. Vetting, audits, briefings, on-call response. If you decide to build custom automation off what we surface — carrier check-call workflows, document validation, dispatch alert routing, fraud-detection triggers — Gold Bird's AI automation service builds those as a separate engagement. The advisor recommends; the build team delivers.
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Read articleWe'll go through your carrier count, claim history, and current vetting process. By the end of the call you'll know whether this is a fit. No pitch deck, no pressure.
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