Flexe Unlocks the Flexible Warehousing Market; Launches Real-Time Market Intelligence via Flexe Discover

Flexe, the pioneer of Flexible Warehousing Infrastructure, today announced the formalization of the Spot Warehousing Index. This new operational and rate index is designed to give logisticians decision-making tools to unlock the transactional speed and flexibility found in the established spot freight market. This allows shippers to procure warehousing space and services without the constraints of long-term real estate leases.

The move positions Flexe Discover as the essential industry hub, bringing to warehousing the same type of benchmarking power and market intelligence already existing in the spot market for freight. This provides the transparency and network access necessary for enterprises to execute agile, short-term warehouse strategies.

A Parallel Revolution: From Fixed Cost to Strategic Agility

For decades, the spot freight market has served as a vital relief valve for shippers, providing real-time capacity and dynamic pricing to manage urgency and seasonal spikes. Over this time period, shippers have become increasingly sophisticated at carefully balancing their contract freight spending with spot freight spending based on their constantly dynamic business needs. Flexe is now bringing that same necessary agility to inventory storage and distribution.

“In stark contrast to the freight market, the warehousing real estate model has remained too inelastic for the modern shipper,” said Karl Siebrecht, Co-founder & CEO of Flexe. “During the pandemic, vacancies hit a record low of 3.3%, forcing companies into expensive, long-term leases just to survive. Today, even as vacancy rates have more than doubled to 8.3% (Costar Q4 2025), national rents remain nearly 50% higher than pre-pandemic levels. We have created the scaled ’spot freight’ equivalent for warehousing, allowing enterprises to stop paying for underutilized ’dead air’ and start paying for actual usage.”

Powered by a proprietary data engine and real-time market feeds, Flexe Discover acts as the industry’s “capacity valve”. Much like the spot freight market, it allows logistics managers to secure immediate warehousing for short-term needs, decoupling storage from the constraints of a five-year lease.

The Mechanism: Flexe Discover

The primary gateway to this new market is Flexe Discover, the definitive engine powered by the Spot Warehousing Index. By centralizing exclusive network data and real-time cost benchmarks, this platform transforms the traditionally complex process of sourcing temporary space into a rapid, data-driven experience that allows enterprises to act with total market clarity. Key features include:

• Search and Discovery: Shippers can instantly search and compare available capacity across Flexe’s network of 800+ operators and 3,000+ locations.
  
  
• Dynamic Pricing & Cost Comparison: Users can calculate estimated savings by switching from rigid leases to a pay-as-you-go model, aligning expenses directly with actual usage.
  
  
• Market Intelligence: The platform, enabled by proprietary data, provides exclusive access to flexible, spot warehousing market trends, vacancy rates, and site costs to pinpoint the next strategic move.
  
  

Key Benefits of Flexible Warehousing

By incorporating the asset-light model enabled by Flexe into their overall warehousing strategy, shippers achieve greater supply chain resilience:

• Cost Reduction: Eliminate the risk of long-term lease liabilities by converting fixed capital expenses into variable operating expenses.
  
  
• Enhanced Agility: Respond swiftly to seasonal peaks or supply chain shocks without long-term commitments.
  
  
• Network Optimization: Strategically forward-deploy inventory closer to customers to reduce transportation costs and improve delivery times.
  
  
• Risk Mitigation: Gain a financial buffer against market volatility and forecasting errors.
  
  

Flexe will continue leading the evolution of this category by regularly refining and releasing market intelligence, including the ‘Spot Warehousing Index’ to validate the market and drive awareness among global logistics executives.

About Flexe

About Flexe: Flexe is the pioneer of Flexible Warehousing Infrastructure, providing the data intelligence and network scale enterprises need to transform fixed real estate liabilities into variable, strategic assets. Through its proprietary S pot Warehousing Index and the Flexe Discover platform, Flexe provides a single gateway to 800+ warehouse operators and 3,000+ locations across the U.S. and Canada.

Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Flexe combines deep logistics expertise with enterprise-grade technology to deliver inventory storage and distribution solutions to Fortune 500 enterprises. Learn more at www.flexe.com.

Flexe is a trademark or registered trademark of Flexe, Inc.

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