// For importers and trading companies
You're paying suppliers across three continents, dealing with customs holds you can't predict, and getting freight invoices that bear no resemblance to the quote. Marapone builds private AI that reconciles supplier docs against the PO before goods leave origin, audits every freight invoice line, and surfaces which suppliers are quietly costing you the most. You own the model. You own the data. No subscription.
Built for importers and trading companies sourcing from Asia, Europe, and the Americas · Toronto + Rome
// The four things eating your landed cost
PAIN 01
The proforma invoice has 12 SKUs at one price. The commercial invoice arrives with 11 SKUs, two with different unit prices, and a packing list that doesn't match either. Your customs broker calls. The container is already on the water.
→ FIX: Trade Doc Engine reconciles PI, CI, packing list, and origin certificate against the PO before shipping and flags every mismatch.
PAIN 02
"Documentation discrepancy." That's the message. Now you're emailing your broker, your broker is emailing the agent, the supplier is asleep, and your container is sitting in a bonded warehouse racking storage.
→ FIX: The build pre-empts the most common hold reasons by validating documents against destination customs requirements before goods ship.
PAIN 03
The forwarder quoted $4,200 for the FCL move. The invoice arrives at $5,180 with seven accessorials you didn't expect — port congestion surcharge, ISPS, doc fee, ENS, BAF revision. Nobody has time to fight every line, so you pay.
→ FIX: Invoice Auditor reads each invoice line against the original quote and contracted tariffs, surfaces every variance, and lets you dispute the ones that aren't yours.
PAIN 04
You think Supplier B is more trouble than Supplier A. You can't quite prove it — you'd have to add up doc errors, ETD slips, quality claims, and freight cost overruns by hand across the year. So you keep ordering from both.
→ FIX: Supplier Intel scores every supplier on doc accuracy, on-time, claim rate, and landed cost variance — so the gut feeling becomes a defensible scorecard.
// What we build for importers
Most importer builds bundle these three modules. Trained on your supplier portfolio, your historical POs, and the Incoterms you actually use. Not a generic chatbot.
BUILD 01
Reads PI, CI, packing list, and origin certificate as suppliers send them. Reconciles against the PO and against destination customs requirements, and flags every mismatch — before the container leaves origin.
BUILD 02
Reads every freight invoice line against your forwarder's quote and the contracted tariffs. Surfaces accessorials, surcharges, and corrections that don't match. The 5-8% you've been paying because nobody had time to check.
BUILD 03
Scores every supplier on doc accuracy, on-time performance, quality claim rate, and landed cost variance. The buying decision becomes evidence-based — and the conversation with the supplier sounds different.
// What importers say after the build
"Customs holds dropped from roughly one in twelve containers to one in sixty-something. The doc engine catches the mismatches before goods load — most months we don't have any holds at all. The freight audit alone has paid for the build twice over."
// Not an importer? We build for these too:
// Free, real, no obligation
Pick one shipment — the PO, the PI, the CI, the packing list, and the freight invoice. We'll run it through the same engine we'd build for you and send back a written reconciliation report plus the freight audit, usually within 24 hours.