The Inside Track: Supply Chain Visibility Product Roundup & Road Map — Tive’s 2025 in Review and 2026 Preview

If you ship temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals, high-value electronics, or perishable foods, you already know what’s at stake. A single blind spot in your supply chain visibility can mean spoiled inventory, compliance failures, or a customer relationship you’ll never recover.

As Senior Program Project Manager at Tive, my job is making sure our tracking and monitoring solutions actually hold up their end of the bargain—so you never have to deal with any of that. Hardware, software, go-to-market strategy: I sit in the middle of all of it.

Last year, that meant standing outside our Boston office with industrial bolt cutters, hacking away at our new Tive Smart Seal’s reinforced cable while my colleague filmed. Five minutes in, a guy pulled up and threatened to call the cops because he was convinced we were breaking into his shipping container. 

Of course we weren’t though. We were simply proving that the product works and he left us to it with a smile on his face.

That level of hands-on rigor is how we build supply chain visibility solutions at Tive. What follows is a 2025 product roundup, and a look at where we’re heading in 2026.

2025 in Review: Product Roundup

We pushed harder in 2025 than in any year before. More teams working in parallel. More frequent releases. And a clear focus on removing friction for the people who rely on our products every day.

Solo Pro: Decisions at the Dock, Not Days Later

Our team made notable supply chain progress with the Solo Pro, our most advanced tracker ever featuring a built-in, high-contrast display screen (the largest display in the market). Like our other real-time tracking devices, the Solo Pro serves a valuable purpose when it comes to monitoring shipments and conditions in transit. Yet we refined it for one specific moment: the handoff.

Picture a loading dock at 6:00 a.m. A shipment arrives. The driver’s waiting. Your team needs to know: did the temperature hold? Should we accept or reject? And the Solo Pro answers that question on the spot, right on the screen. No logging into a platform. No waiting for someone at HQ to pull data. You look at the screen, assess the load, and decide.

We’ve run beta tests on the Solo Pro with life sciences, pharmaceutical, food, and cold storage customers who can’t afford to find out about problems hours later. Early feedback confirms what we suspected: visibility becomes most powerful when you can act on it immediately.

Building the Foundation You Don’t See

Some of our biggest wins in 2025 happened behind the scenes.

We spent serious time and resources building our logistics and operational foundation to scale globally. Sounds boring—but it matters enormously. Because device reliability means nothing if customers can’t get devices when they need them.

Availability. Consistency. The ability to support your growth without surprises. That’s the infrastructure we built at Tive. And it’s already paying off: our next-generation of Solo 5G trackers is running on top of this foundation right now.

Platform Evolution: Three Tiers and Streamlined Workflows

On the software side, we restructured our product offering into three distinct tiers. Capabilities now align with how customers buy and use the platform.

We also focused on shipment-creation friction. Setting up monitoring shouldn’t require too many clicks and too much guesswork. Now users get faster setup, fewer configuration mistakes, and quicker time-to-value.

A Year of Refining: Small Fixes That Add Up Fast

Software updates rarely make headlines. Nobody writes press releases about shaving two clicks off a workflow or fixing a bug. But those fixes accumulate. Over the course of 2025, we pushed dozens of incremental improvements, and the cumulative effect changed how customers interact with the platform for the better.

Alert collaboration got a major upgrade. When a shipment hits trouble, multiple stakeholders need to coordinate. We made sharing issues with partners and resolving them together far less painful. The new Tive mobile app for iOS and Android also means your team can respond to problems from anywhere.

One customer story captures how these pieces connect. A company we work with uses Tive Smart Seals for physical security and proof of handoff at custody changes, Solo Pro for real-time monitoring, and calibrated temperature beacons for cold storage compliance. Each product solves a specific problem. Together, these products create a complete picture of what happened to a shipment, from origin to destination.

I think of it like the Apple ecosystem for supply chain visibility.

Product Road Map: What’s Coming in 2026

2025 was finishing the foundation. 2026 will be introducing innovation.

I won’t spoil every detail (some things need to stay under wraps), but I can share the direction we’re heading.

Our road map breaks into three buckets: refresh what exists, introduce new innovation, and build new automation engines. We’re also doubling down on specific industries where the stakes run highest, and where “layers of security” becomes an operational strategy rather than marketing language.

Refreshing What Already Works

Our first priority? Strengthen the products already in the field.

The Solo 5G has proven itself across thousands of shipments. But “proven” doesn’t mean “finished.” There are always opportunities to make our hardware even more reliable across the range of customer environments. Trackers get dropped. They sit in freezing warehouses. They bake in trailers during the summer months. 

Through it all, our customers depend on consistent, uninterrupted tracking, and that's why reliability remains our top priority.

Better real-world reliability reduces false confidence. When you’re monitoring a high-stakes shipment of biologics or electronics worth six figures, you need ground truth data you can trust completely. Our 2026 refresh work targets that gap.

Automation: Turning SOPs Into Intelligent Workflows

Our third bucket lives primarily in software. We want to automate the manual processes that slow teams down.

Here’s what that looks like in practice. An alert fires. Today, someone has to see it, figure out who should handle it, notify the right people, and document the response. Soon, the platform will handle that routing automatically based on the event type, the route, and the conditions involved.

Think of it as building-block logic: event plus context triggers defined steps. Your standard operating procedures get modeled inside the platform, and they execute without manual intervention.

The benefits compound as teams scale. Less need for tribal knowledge. Faster response times. Consistent compliance regardless of who’s on shift. Plus, new hires onboard faster because the system guides them through protocols instead of requiring memorization.

Pharma and Cold Chain: Where Failure Isn’t an Option

My focus area heading into 2026 centers on pharma and cold storage customers. Solo Pro and the Tive Seal have pulled us deeper into these industries, and the requirements are unforgiving.

Spoilage prevention matters. Regulatory scrutiny runs high. You need proof that conditions held, and that controls worked throughout transit. These customers came to us because the alternative, i.e., blind spots in their chain of custody, undetected temperature excursions, carries consequences that range from costly to career-ending.

The rigor these industries demand sharpens our products for everyone. When we build for “can’t fail” moments in the pharma cold chain, the improvements flow downstream to electronics shippers, to food and beverage companies, and to anyone moving high-value goods.  

Layers of Security: A Strategy, Not a Slogan

Cargo theft won’t magically disappear, and in fact it will probably only get worse. That’s why the market keeps asking for layered security approaches, and our 2026 blueprint leans into that reality. Single-point solutions leave gaps. Products that work together close them.

The Tive Seal fits into this vision as a gateway. Physical tamper evidence, digital alerts plus real-time shipment visibility from Solo trackers, plus calibrated temperature monitoring create overlapping protection. If one layer misses something, another catches it.

Remember the bolt cutter story from earlier? We tested it outside our office because we needed to know the alert would fire when someone tampered with it. The whole thing was filmed while I hacked away for five minutes. A guy thought we were breaking into his shipping container. That moment captures how we feel about validation. 

We don’t trust slide decks. We trust real-world conditions.

Expect more “together they’re stronger” product experiences throughout 2026. Security reinforces integrity. Integrity reinforces visibility. Visibility reinforces security. The loop tightens, and your supply chain gets harder to compromise.

What Happens Next Is Up to You

I spend my days making sure hardware and software work together under real-world conditions. Not in a lab. Not in a slide deck. Outside Tive HQ, armed with bolt cutters, hoping nobody calls the police. That mindset drove everything we built in 2025—and everything we’re building for 2026. Stronger devices, smaller form factors, more intelligent workflows. All of it points toward the same thing: visibility that helps you act when acting still matters.

Supply chain visibility should work as hard as the people relying on it. Our trackers, security solutions, and platform handle the complexity so you can focus on the shipments that pay the bills. Cold chain, high-value goods, lanes where theft keeps you nervous: we built our solutions to overcome those problems, because our customers live with them every day.

Ready to see how Tive fits your operation? Request a demo or talk to our team about the right products for your lanes.