About Warpspeed
Warpspeed runs warehouse operations and the software that powers them as one product. Headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas, we serve D2C and B2B brands that want fewer surprises and faster decisions, not just lower per-order rates.[10]
Section 01
TL;DR
Warpspeed is a third party logistics company. We receive your inventory, store it in racks and bins, pick and pack orders when they arrive, and hand the labels to a carrier. That part of the work is the same for every 3PL on earth.
The interesting part is the layer above the warehouse. Most 3PLs buy a warehouse management system from one vendor, an order management system from another, a billing system from a third, and stitch them together with brittle scripts. The result is a place where data lives in eight tabs and nobody can answer a question on a Friday afternoon. We took the opposite path. ShipOS is one piece of software that handles inventory, orders, exceptions, billing, and reporting on a single schema.[10]
That choice shows up in small ways. When a customer asks why a SKU is short by three units, the answer is one query, not a phone tree. When a new SKU appears, the receiving team scans it and the brand sees it in their dashboard before the pallet is putaway. That cadence is what tech-native means in practice. It is not a marketing line. It is the reason we can run leaner per order and still respond faster than larger competitors.
Section 02
The founding thesis is simple. Brands that do between one million and one hundred million dollars in revenue need a 3PL that behaves like software. They need an integration that does not break every time Shopify ships a new feature. They need a portal that updates in real time, not a CSV emailed at 8 a.m. They need a person on the other end who can read a SQL query and know what a peak hour curve looks like.
Most of the brands we talk to have already worked with at least one legacy 3PL. They know what bad looks like. They know what it costs in chargebacks, in WISMO tickets, in CX salaries hired to clean up fulfillment errors. We do not have to convince them that operations quality matters. We have to show them that it can be both better and about the same price as what they have today.
Kansas City was not an accident. The metro sits at the convergence of four Class I railroads, the largest rail hub in the country after Chicago.[4] Two of those, BNSF and Union Pacific, run the intermodal lanes most of our inbound containers ride. Industrial rents in the metro averaged about $5.49 per square foot in Q3 2025, well under coastal benchmarks.[1] Labor is available, the cost of living lets warehouse teams build careers, and the central geography gives ground parcel the best two day reach in the country.
“We picked Kansas City because the math is honest. Central node, real labor pool, modern industrial product, and customers an hour away by air.”
Section 03
Most 3PLs are run by people who came up through warehousing. We respect that craft. The difference is that we run the warehouse and the software as one product, with one team, on one schema. That sounds abstract. Here is what it changes day to day.
Inventory, orders, billing, and exceptions sit in one database. Account managers, operations leads, and engineers query the same tables. There is no overnight ETL job to wait for and no version of the truth that contradicts another version.
Every event in the warehouse has an API. If your developer wants to listen for a shipment created event and write it to your data warehouse, that is a 10 minute setup. We do not gatekeep data behind a custom integration fee.
Shopify, Amazon, NetSuite, EDI for major retailers, parcel and LTL carriers. We write and maintain these in house. When a downstream system breaks, we know who to call and we usually already have the patch ready.
Receiving, storage, pick and pack, and parcel are line items with rates. There are no surprise fees for label generation, kitting that we already agreed to, or pulling reports. If we add a fee, you see it before it hits the invoice.
Section 04
The leadership team blends three backgrounds. The operations side comes from people who have run warehouses at the hundred-thousand-orders-per-month scale and know the difference between a clean cycle count and a fudged one. The engineering side comes from product teams that have shipped consumer and B2B SaaS, where the bar for uptime and developer experience is higher than what most 3PL software ever attempts. The go-to-market side comes from people who sold to founders, not procurement departments.
We keep the leadership team small on purpose. Account managers report to people who have packed orders. Engineers sit on standups with operations leads. When something breaks at three in the afternoon, decisions get made in a Slack channel, not in a steering committee.
Operations
KC and remote
Engineering
Remote, US time zones
Account management
Lenexa HQ
Section 05
Most Warpspeed customers fall into three buckets. The first is D2C brands between one million and twenty million in revenue that have outgrown a founder garage or a part time fulfiller. They need real software and a partner who can scale with them. Fazit, the beauty brand that built a $40M category around large format hydrocolloid patches and Glitter Freckles, is the public example.[7]
The second bucket is brands that ship a more specialized category and need someone who can hold their inventory carefully. Greco Gum, which sources mastic chewing gum from Chios and ships across the United States with a four star plus average review, is in this group.[8] Specialty consumables, electronics with serial tracking, beauty products with lot codes, and food and beverage with date sensitivity all fit.
The third bucket is brands that have a wholesale or retail channel in addition to D2C. They need EDI compliance for big box retailers, ASN generation, routing guide adherence, and the parcel side for direct orders. Most of our customers in this group started D2C and added wholesale as they grew.
Talk to Warpspeed
Share a few details about your catalog, channels, and order volume. We will respond within one business day with a real plan, not a stock deck.
Lenexa, Kansas
Headquarters and primary fulfillment center
+1 816 890 8731
Sales and partnerships
sales@gowarpspeed.com
Email response within one business day