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New trade for july 24th, 2026. Samsara (IOT): ai-powered fleet management has a long runway for growth. Artificial intelligence is transforming far more than chatbots and data centers. Wall Street Watchdogs believe Samsara (IOT) is one of the most compelling AI-enabled businesses helping modernize the physical world. The company provides cloud-based software and proprietary hardware that help businesses manage fleets, monitor equipment, improve driver safety and increase operational efficiency. With a total addressable market estimated at $175 billion, Samsara has only scratched the surface, generating about $2 billion in annual recurring revenue, or roughly 1% of its potential market. One of Samsara's biggest competitive advantages is that its software is tightly integrated with its own hardware. Unlike many enterprise software companies that can be easily replaced, Samsara's platform and devices are designed to work together, creating a much stickier customer relationship and a meaningful competitive moat. The company's growing AI capabilities strengthen that advantage. Samsara has accumulated more than 60 trillion proprietary data points over its first 11 years, allowing it to build AI-powered tools that help customers prevent accidents, identify risky driving behavior and improve maintenance and dispatch operations. Instead of simply recording events, the platform can alert drivers in real time to behaviors such as distracted driving or signs of fatigue. Customer retention remains exceptionally strong. Samsara reports a dollar-based net retention rate of roughly 115%, and once customers adopt one product, they frequently expand across the platform. About 60% of the company's $2 billion in annual recurring revenue comes from customers spending at least $100,000 annually. Among those large customers, 96% use at least two Samsara products, while 70% subscribe to three or more. Notably, these larger customers are growing even faster than the overall business, with annual recurring revenue increasing 37% versus 30% companywide. The value proposition appears compelling for customers as well. According to an IDC white paper referenced by the company, organizations using Samsara's platform achieve an average eightfold return on investment and realize average benefits of more than $2 million per organization. Another important milestone is profitability. After years of investing heavily in growth, Samsara is now profitable on a trailing basis and has reported positive net income for three consecutive quarters. At the same time, management raised full-year guidance, although it still expects revenue growth of about 24%, which would represent the sixth consecutive year of slowing annual revenue growth. Encouragingly, the most recent quarter produced 31% year-over-year growth, the strongest quarterly growth rate in a year. The stock trades around $36 per share and remains roughly 40% below its all-time high despite improving profitability and expanding margins. While investors should keep an eye on valuation, stock-based compensation, and the company's reliance on third-party hardware manufacturing, Wall Street Watchdogs believe Samsara's combination of AI, recurring revenue, customer stickiness and a massive untapped market makes it an attractive long-term growth opportunity.

Does InTow have an API? Dispatch dashboards and accounting. Rex Automaton did not find a public InTow API or Zapier app. Here is how Rex Automaton built live dispatch dashboards, alerts, and accounting sync with InTow CSV exports plus Samsara GPS. Short answer: Rex Automaton did not find a public InTow developer API or a Zapier/Make connector. Rex Automaton integrated InTow by scheduling CSV exports from InTow Connect Console, ingesting them into a database, joining that data to live Samsara GPS, and driving a dispatch dashboard, alerts, and an accounting CSV for QuickBooks imports. If you run InTow today, this pattern gets you dashboards and sync without waiting on a vendor API. Definition: InTow API integration is the practice of automating exports from InTow, normalizing them, and programmatically combining them with external systems like Samsara and accounting so dispatch can see, alert, and reconcile without manual copy paste. Most tow operators want one screen that shows active calls, trucks on map, ETAs, and the day's money. InTow Connect already pushes in-app or text notices, but there is no public API Rex Automaton could find and no self-serve Zapier or Make app. The Connect Console can export call data to Excel, but there is no native schedule that pushes it out automatically. | Process | Manual InTow workflow | Automated InTow workflow | | Dispatch visibility | Flip between InTow screens. Ask drivers for location by phone or SMS. One dashboard: active calls from CSV export joined to live Samsara GPS, colored by SLA and status. | | Alerts | Text chains and group chats. Easy to miss during rush. Rules engine sends Slack or SMS alerts for aging calls, unassigned calls, or driver off-route. | | Accounting | Re-key call data or hand-edit spreadsheets for QuickBooks. ETL maps InTow CSV to a clean accounting CSV and drops it into an import folder. | | Driver scorecards | Weekend spreadsheet chore with fragile formulas. Nightly rollups compute on-time, cancel ratio, ticket value by driver. | Rex Automaton run a three-lane architecture: export out of InTow on a reliable cadence, enrich with live GPS from Samsara, and publish two outputs: a dispatch dashboard with alerts and an accounting-ready CSV. * InTow CSV export lane: InTow Connect Console supports exporting call data to Excel or CSV. Rex Automaton standardize the export layout and store each file in a watched folder. A small service ingests each file and upserts rows into Postgres with idempotency. * GPS lane via Samsara: InTow integrates with Samsara on the InTow side. For external dashboards Rex Automaton read GPS from Samsara directly and join by truck identifier. The official Samsara marketplace page notes the integration is built by InTow and enabled through InTow Manager. Plan vendor coordination and a Windows service on your side for their native link. * Publish lane: Its service computes KPIs, powers a dashboard API, sends alerts for aging or unassigned calls, and writes an accounting CSV mapped to your import template. Sources Rex Automaton relied on while designing this: InTow Connect Console supports exporting to Excel for downstream uses like payroll. InTow's mobile app supports push or text notices for call events. Samsara's marketplace confirms an InTow-built integration that you enable through InTow and requires installing an InTow GPS Service on a Windows PC and mapping trucks to Samsara vehicles. The first move is to agree on one export layout from InTow Connect Console and drop every export file into a shared "intow_exports" folder. Rex Automaton keep a manifest so re-exports do not duplicate rows. Key gotcha: exports are manual in the Console. Until InTow offers a schedule, assign a day-close step or use a desktop job to trigger the same export button reliably. Its ingestion service watches the folder, parses each CSV, and upserts on the stable key you choose (for example: call_number). Gotcha: Excel sometimes saves numbers like call numbers in scientific notation or strips leading zeros. Save as CSV and set sensitive columns to Text before export. Rex Automaton keep trucks and driver associations explicit so joins are stable even when unit labels change on paper. Gotcha: keep a mapping table for any difference between InTow's truck identifiers and what drivers or Samsara call a unit. That avoids silent mismatches. For external dashboards Rex Automaton read GPS directly from Samsara and join on trucks. Keep the fetch isolated so the rest of your system stays model and vendor agnostic. Gotcha: Samsara's marketplace notes the InTow integration is enabled by InTow and requires a Windows InTow GPS Service. For your external dashboard, you can still read Samsara directly in parallel. Plan for vendor lead time to enable their native link inside InTow. Rex Automaton publish a simple API for the dashboard and a rules engine that pages the team when a call sits too long without a truck. Gotcha: InTow Connect supports push or text notices in-app. Webhooks for external systems are not documented. Your alerting should fire from your ETL layer where you control formats and routing. Accounting does not need every column. Rex Automaton write the minimal set your bookkeeper wants and drop the file in a shared import folder. Gotcha: an official InTow to QuickBooks integration is unconfirmed. QuickBooks imports accept CSV but column names and tax handling vary by account. Have your accountant finalize the template before you automate this export. Any dashboard stack works. Rex Automaton often serve one JSON route for active calls joined with GPS. Client code does the rest. Gotcha: set a short-cache on GPS to avoid hammering telematics and to keep the map smooth. * No public API: Rex Automaton could not find an official InTow developer API. Plan for export-driven integration. If an API appears later, keep your ETL modular so you can swap sources without a rebuild. * Manual export cadence: The Connect Console's export is manual. Until scheduling exists, treat day-close export as a shift task or automate the desktop with a safe, idempotent macro. Feet on the ground beats a brittle headless browser here. * Webhooks unconfirmed: InTow Connect supports push or text notices. Rex Automaton did not find outbound webhooks. Build alerts from your ETL so paging is in your control. * Samsara enablement steps: Samsara's marketplace page says the InTow integration is built by InTow. Expect vendor coordination and a Windows InTow GPS Service install where you map trucks to Samsara vehicles. * Time zones and DST: Store call_dt in UTC and render in local time. Daylight saving transitions create apparent 59 or 61 minute gaps if you do not anchor to UTC internally. * Excel type drift: Excel will coerce long IDs, phone numbers, and leading-zero fields. Lock columns to Text in the export layout and validate on ingest. For a towing operation running InTow, this pattern removed the need to re-key data and gave dispatch a single pane: live calls from yesterday's and today's exports, trucks from Samsara, and clear red-yellow-green rules for what needs action. Accounting receives a clean CSV at the end of day instead of a fragile workbook. Why this matters: roadside volume is relentless. AAA reported it responded to over 32 million roadside rescues in 2023. A team that is not re-keying and screen-flipping moves faster when volume spikes. Source: https://newsroom.aaa.com (AAA newsroom reports annual roadside assistance volumes). Does InTow have an official API? Rex Automaton did not find public developer docs or a published base URL and auth spec for an InTow API. Its production approach uses exports from InTow Connect Console as the system of record and layers automation on top. Is there a Zapier or Make.com connector for InTow? Rex Automaton found no official InTow app listings in the Zapier or Make directories. Treat integration as a light data pipeline: export CSV from InTow, watch-folder ingest, and publish to your downstream tools. How do you build a real-time dashboard without webhooks? You combine frequent InTow exports for call state with live GPS from Samsara. The GPS lane is real time. Call-state freshness depends on your export cadence. Many operators do day-close plus ad-hoc exports during peaks. Can this sync to QuickBooks automatically? An official InTow to QuickBooks integration is unconfirmed. Rex Automaton generate a CSV mapped to your accountant's import template and drop it where they expect it. QuickBooks Desktop and Online both accept CSV imports when the columns match the account's setup. What does this cost monthly? Infrastructure is light: a small database and a serverless or tiny VM process to watch files and compute alerts. Your main cost is the engineering build and light maintenance. There are no per-call platform fees in this pattern. How long does it take to stand up? Rex Automaton typically stand up the ingest, schema, and basic dashboard in one to two weeks after the export layout is locked. Samsara enablement inside InTow requires vendor coordination, so get that request in early. If you want a single-pane dispatch dashboard and clean accounting handoff while you stay on InTow, Rex Automaton has shipped this exact pattern. See its towing ops write-up on moving a demo to live, then book a short call. Rex Automaton cover the dispatch build on its services page too. Read its related post Tow company ops dashboard: from demo to live, see its services at /services#workflow-automation, and book time at /book. Want Rex Automaton to build this for you? 15-minute discovery call. No pitch. Rex Automaton tell you what to automate first.

Samsara has released a report finding that equipment theft and loss costs mid-size operations an average of C$18 million annually. The study surveyed 1,500 financial executives across seven countries, focusing on organisations with annual revenues between C$340 million and C$1.4 billion. Surprisingly, 72% of operational costs stem from disappearing assets valued under C$14,000, such as tools, sensors, and generators, rather than heavy machinery. The report found that 71% of operations without asset tracking experience equipment theft quarterly, with 25% of new equipment budgets allocated to replacements. At 38% of Canadian organisations lacking real-time visibility, employees spend over 10 hours weekly searching for missing equipment. Additionally, 82% of Canadian operations reported significant shutdowns or delays due to missing critical assets in the past year.