“The name isn’t accidental.
In Latin, Trado means to hand over – to place something directly into someone else’s care.
That’s exactly what we built.”
— Paul Bearman, co-founder
Our Story
That word Trado is roughly two thousand years old. The problem it describes is just as old. And somehow,the logistics industry still hadn’t solved it.
Trado does exactly what the name says: hand over. Person to person. No sorting facility, no anonymous handoffs, no broken chain of custody between pickup and drop-off.
Paul Bearman, the company’s co-founder, didn’t arrive at this idea from the outside. He lived it.
The Moment it Became Obvious.
Paul sold a set of chairs through his gallery to a buyer across the country. What followed was 41 emails — platform to buyer, buyer to shipper, shipper to seller — over four weeks, before anything moved. Nobody shared a channel. Every handoff diluted the information a little bit more.
Two months later, the client’s items arrived. No updates in between; no explanation for the delay. Just the confirmation that a system built for volume had failed, again, for someone who needed something more.
"There was no chain of custody. No accountability.
Just an item, gone. And the question of why nobody had built something better."
— Paul Bearman, co-founder
Get Anything. Everywhere.
That’s our commitment — to every person who has ever waited weeks or months for something that should have arrived in days, paid three times what a delivery was worth, or watched something irreplaceable disappear into a system that never knew it existed.
Trado was built by two people who came to the same problem from different directions. Paul Bearman didn’t identify a market gap. He lived one. As the founder of Merit, a high-end vintage and antique gallery, he spent years experiencing the failures that old delivery systems had to offer. Trado was the solution he needed, couldn’t find, and created himself. Michael Green brings 25+ years in finance and technology, a Wharton background, and a tenure as Chairman of Tech Coast Angels. Together, they represent the credibility and experience to build a delivery solution that has been needed for a long time.
"Trado is changing how things move between people.
A modern solution for a new era, and simply a better way to get anything from one person to another."
— Michael Green, co-founder
Hand something over. Take responsibility. Deliver it like it matters. Those are the principles worth building on.
The name says it all. Trado.
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