AI for freight forwarding and customs brokerage, tested on entries your brokers already filed.

Every entry your brokerage filed left a complete record: the supplier's invoice and packing list as they arrived, the bill of lading or air waybill, and the entry summary that went to CBP, with any correction made after it. The rules keep that record within reach. Under 19 CFR 111.23, a licensed broker keeps those records for at least five years after the date of entry, and powers of attorney until they are revoked. So the answer key exists before the test starts, and your reviewer, the licensed broker who knows your importers' entries best, sets each draft line beside the line your team filed.

The work already runs through a licensed person. Section 111.28 requires the licensed brokers in a brokerage to exercise responsible supervision and control over its customs business, and the factors CBP may weigh include the training and written instructions employees get, the reject rate on transactions, whether staff can reach current editions of the HTSUS and CBP issuances, and how often a licensed broker audits and reviews what employees prepared. An AI draft is one more piece of work under that review. It changes who keys the first version, not who answers for the entry.

Forwarding and brokerage share a file, not a license. The Federal Maritime Commission's rules at 46 CFR 515.2 define an ocean freight forwarder as one that dispatches shipments from the United States, books space for shippers and processes the documents, and an NVOCC as a common carrier that runs no vessels and acts as a shipper toward the ocean carrier. Customs business stays with the broker: 19 CFR 111.36 lets a broker pay a forwarder for referring brokerage work only if the importer learns the broker's name in advance, and the broker signs the customs power of attorney directly with the importer of record, never through the forwarder. If you forward without a license, start with the letter of credit job, which is export paperwork your own desk prepares.

The entry also makes a cleaner test than the earlier filings. On ocean shipments, ISF data reaches CBP no later than 24 hours before the cargo is laden at the foreign port, and 19 CFR 149.2 lets the manufacturer, ship-to party, country of origin and HTSUS number start as best available data and be updated before arrival. The entry summary follows, at the latest, within 10 working days after entry under 19 CFR 142.12, built from the commercial invoice. That makes the entry summary the stronger answer key, and the ISF stays out of the test.

Copies arrive under an NDA, with importer numbers, bank details and payment records blacked out. The proof of concept never classifies goods: it suggests, and your licensed broker decides. It never files or transmits an entry, an ISF or any other filing, never decides value, origin or admissibility, never contacts an importer, a carrier or CBP, and works only on copies. A licensed customs broker decides and signs. Nothing on these pages is legal advice.