For trade teams
Tariff code software your team can actually defend
Tariff code software has historically meant two options: an enterprise compliance suite sold on an annual contract, or a database with a search box that matches words instead of meaning. Tariffwise is the third option: AI classification with a written rationale, duty and landed cost on the same screen, priced for teams.
What "defensible" means in software
Four things a classification tool owes you
01
A code, not a list of maybes
A search box returns forty candidate lines and leaves the judgment to you. Classification software should commit: the most likely code, its official heading text, and an honest confidence level, with the near misses shown separately.
02
The reasoning, written down
When customs or an auditor asks "why this code?", the answer cannot be "the tool said so". Every Tariffwise result carries two or three plain-English sentences naming the material, function or construction that drove the call.
03
The runner-ups, with the flip factor
Disputes live in the gap between two plausible codes. Software that hides the alternatives hides your risk. Tariffwise shows the two nearest codes and the single distinguishing factor that would flip the classification.
04
The cost, on the same screen
A code without its duty is half an answer. Each classification prices the duty, the import tax and the estimated landed cost for your origin and destination lane, with the arithmetic computed exactly.
Built for the team, not the analyst
One engine, one record, every desk
The expensive failure mode of manual classification is inconsistency: three people, three answers, no record of why. Software fixes that only if the whole team runs through the same engine and the results live in one place.
- Live today: classification, rationale, runner-ups, duty and landed cost, free on the demo
- Early access: saved history, so one SKU never gets two answers from two people
- Early access: bulk CSV runs with review flags on low-confidence rows
- Planned: team seats and roles, and an enterprise path with SSO, SLA and security review
How it compares to what you use today
Against a customs broker: keep the broker for genuinely contested classifications and binding rulings, and stop paying a per-line fee with a multi-day turnaround for the routine 95 percent of SKUs. Against enterprise suites like Avalara Cross-Border or Descartes CustomsInfo: those are deep, entrenched and priced for Fortune 500 trade departments, with sales-led onboarding measured in weeks. Against checkout widgets: they answer "what is the duties-included total at checkout", not "what code do we file and why". The full breakdown lives on the features page.
Honest about what AI classification is
Every result is a best-effort AI classification for guidance, labelled as such, never presented as a binding ruling. We publish no invented accuracy percentage. The product bet is different: showing the reasoning and the alternatives makes an AI answer reviewable, and a reviewable answer plus a human sign-off is a defensible process. Try it on the live demo with your hardest SKU and judge the rationale yourself; the how it works page shows what happens under the hood.
Priced like a tool, not a contract
Planned tiers start at $59 a month for a solo importer and run to an enterprise plan with SSO, roles, SLA and invoicing, all listed openly on the pricing page. Early access is free while we build, no card required, and early-access members lock in launch pricing.
Put your classification process on software worth defending.
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