AI Reads the Contract. Rules Check the AI.
Most bad deals look fine on paper. TradeIQ™ is the operations desk we built to take the paper apart — reading the contract, proving who is on the other side, following the vessel, and watching the world the cargo has to cross.
See It Run
TradeIQ™ in 25 seconds
The Catch
100,000 tonnes that were never on the page
An unsolicited invoice for one million tonnes of ICUMSA 45 sugar reached the desk. Asked to read it, the model reported a total of 1,100,000 MT. The twelve delivery lines on the page add up to exactly 1,000,000 MT.
A hundred thousand tonnes had been invented by a miscount, and the rules caught it: reconciliation recomputed the schedule and recorded the disagreement instead of passing the model's number along. Then the same rules turned on the invoice itself and blocked the deal, with at least six independent findings against it.
That is the design. The model reads; the rules decide; a person signs.
Rule-based checks run on every deal
Company records across five official registers
Sanctions and denial-list entries screened
Gates on every shipment, from contract to close
Platform Modules
Six systems watching one deal
Intake
Deal Onboarding
Hand it a contract, proforma, or invoice and it comes back as a structured deal — parties, quantities, prices, and schedule. A second model pass then attacks the first, and any finding it raises must quote the document word for word or it is thrown out.
Assurance
Reconciliation & Red-Flag Rules
The numbers are never taken on trust. Code recomputes every schedule line and total, then runs 49 checks for the marks of a bad deal: instrument language no real bank uses, bank details that changed, sugar priced far off benchmark, volumes out of scale with world trade.
Screening
Counterparty Verification
A company that does not exist cannot sell you sugar. Identity is checked against GLEIF, UK Companies House, Brazil's CNPJ register, Singapore's ACRA, and China's GACC food-manufacturer register, and every party, carrying vessel, and bank is screened against U.S., EU, and UK sanctions lists.
Trade Policy
Quota & Tariff Watch
An exhausted quota turns a good price into a bad one. Tariff-rate quota availability is checked the moment a U.S. or UK deal is opened — from CBP's weekly status report and the UK Trade Tariff — with U.S. tariff rates and Federal Register actions tracked alongside.
Monitoring
Vessel Tracking
Live AIS positions for the vessels the desk is watching, each stamped with the age of its last fix, on a map of world traffic. A ship that goes quiet raises an exception for the desk to work, and planned and actual milestones sit side by side.
Context
Chokepoints & World Events
Cargo crosses a world that keeps moving. Daily transits through Suez, Panama, Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, Malacca, and the other chokepoints are measured against their 90-day baseline, beside trade and regional news desks and conflict-zone reference layers.
After the Signature
A shipment can't skip a step
Seventeen gates
Every shipment carries the same 17 gates from contract to close. While a blocking gate is open, the shipment cannot move to its next stage.
The right documents, decided up front
The required-document checklist is built from the Incoterm and the payment instrument. A CIF shipment under a letter of credit carries 15 requirements before it can close.
One transaction, one record
Approving a deal creates the order, shipments, parties, and document checklist together — and writes every later change to an append-only audit trail.
Why It Matters
Software in service of the trade
Technology enforces discipline
TradeIQ™ doesn't replace the documentary process — it gates it. A blocking finding stops a deal from being committed unless a reviewer overrides it with a recorded reason.
Rules check the model
The model proposes; deterministic code decides. Totals are recomputed rather than trusted, a disagreement is recorded rather than quietly corrected, and only a rule can block a deal.
Everything is on the record
Nothing is committed without a person's approval. Access is role-based, every change lands in an append-only audit trail, and each deal analysis produces a report with a SHA-256 fingerprint.