AI startup helps small companies navigate tariff rules
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Customs compliance, rebuilt for constant change.
TariffSense is customs compliance software for companies importing into the United States and Canada. It reads entry summaries, invoices and shipping documents in any format, checks classifications, duty rates and declared values against current tariff measures, and gives compliance teams, customs brokers and forwarders the tools to classify products and calculate duties with confidence.
Our story
When the 2025 tariff changes hit, we built a set of practical tools to help Canadian and US businesses navigate the immediate disruption: tariff calculators, duty analysis tools, and a chatbot grounded in the latest trade rules and regulations. Within a month, more than 500 businesses were using them.
What mattered most wasn't the scale, but what we learned from it.
As we spoke with our users, one thing came up in every conversation: compliance and logistics teams are stretched thin by constant regulatory change, manual data-checking across too many spreadsheets and PDFs, and repeated rework with multiple stakeholders involved in each shipment.
That insight made us rethink how customs compliance workflows are handled end to end. We started building an AI-driven customs automation platform with a single mission: to take on the cumbersome parts of customs preparation, reviews, and audits, so trade professionals are free to focus on judgment-driven decisions.
That's how TariffSense came to be.
Rules written by regulators, kept current by machines, judged by people.
Tariff law changes faster than any team can read it. When a tariff notice is published, our AI-assisted pipeline captures it within hours and ships the tested rules within a day. The checks it produces are explained in plain language, so the final call always rests with a compliance professional.
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- media@tariff-sense.com
- Careers
Think trade, tech, or operations and excited by our mission? We'd love to hear from you. Drop us your resume.
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- info@tariff-sense.com
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