Northbound automates the ingestion, extraction, and validation of trade documents, emails, and shipment data, converting them into review‑ready customs declarations that integrate directly with existing customs software such as Dakosy, DBH, and AEB. By checking data against master records and public tariff databases in real time and flagging exceptions, it reduces manual entry, errors, and hidden demurrage and detention costs while increasing specialist throughput.
Funding
$1.4M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Customs compliance teams spend extensive time manually extracting data from trade documents, validating it, and entering it into customs software, leading to errors, delays, and hidden demurrage and detention costs.
Solution
Northbound automates the ingestion, extraction, and validation of trade documents, emails, and shipment data, structuring the information to match the format required by existing customs systems such as Dakosy, DBH, and AEB. The platform checks extracted data against master records and public tariff databases, flagging missing fields and inconsistencies in real time. Clean, review‑ready customs data is then presented to specialists for quick approval, eliminating duplicate entry and parallel systems. By providing accurate, timely customs declarations, Northbound helps organizations reduce hidden demurrage and detention fees and improve overall throughput.
Target Audience
Primary customers are customs compliance departments, freight forwarders, and logistics providers that need to streamline customs declaration processes and control demurrage and detention expenses.
Features
- Automated ingestion of documents, emails, and shipment data from existing communication channels
- AI‑driven extraction of key fields from invoices, packing lists, and certificates
- Real‑time validation against master data and public tariff databases for completeness and correctness
- Immediate exception flagging and mismatch detection for specialist review
- Seamless export of validated data into major customs software platforms (e.g., Dakosy, DBH, AEB) without re‑entry
- Dashboard that highlights potential demurrage and detention costs using historical container data