NewThe Global Trade Engine ships in production

The procurement automation system for operators and businesses.

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Sourcing pipeline
4 active · $562,000 in negotiation
6061-T6 aluminum extrusion · 18 SKUs
84mt · 3 mills bidding · 22% under incumbent
$562,000/yr
annual · committed
A36 hot-rolled steel · 280t annual
MSA redlines auto-resolved · risk: low
$245,000/yr
annual · committed
FCL · Hai Phong → Houston
Pending CFO · 4 carriers quoted
$108,400/yr
annual · committed
Industrial gases · argon + CO2
Auto-renewed · saved $9,400 vs prior term
$62,000/yr
annual · committed
AI vendor compare · 6061-T6 extrusion · 18 SKUs
SourceSmart ran 12 mills · ranked by 8 weighted criteria
Vanguard Alloys
$720k
Penn Aluminum
$789k
+9.5%
Empire Industrial
$812k
+12.8%
Hudson ExtrudersPick
$562k
−22%
Built forManufacturingConstructionTradeLogistics
How SourceSmart runs

One loop. Twelve stages. End to end.

Eleven stages run autonomously. One — the moment that matters — waits for a human.

Running·02 / 12
Operating loop12 stages
Stage 0220s

BOM normalization

Maps part numbers, alloys, and grades against your ERP catalog and 18 industry taxonomies. Resolves synonyms — "5083 H111" and "AlMg4.5Mn0.7" become one line.

Output
RFQ draftcanonical BOM
ERP catalog · matchedlive
5083 H111AlMg4.5Mn0.7
A380.0AlSi8Cu3Fe
6061-T6AlMg1SiCu
1 canonical line · 18 taxonomies matched
End-to-end7–14 days
11 auto·1 human gate
Global Trade Engine

From PO to port. Handled.

Compliance screening, HS classification, freight RFQ across forty carriers, rate negotiation in your voice, customs filed through your broker — one quote, one number, one container of saved time.

01

Supplier compliance

OFAC · EAR · BIS denied parties · end-use · country-of-origin

Hai Phong Castings · cleared
02

HS classification

Auto-classified to 8 digits · MFN duty + GSP eligibility computed

8483.30.80 · 2.5% MFN
03

Freight RFQ

4 carriers + 2 forwarders quoted across ocean / air / multimodal

FCL · Hai Phong → Houston
04

Carrier negotiation

GRI declined · detention waived · fuel surcharge fixed for the quarter

−$1,840 / container
05

Customs filing

ISF + Entry filed via your broker · MPF / HMF reconciled · clean entry

Filed 03:14 UTC
06

Live tracking

Container telemetry · port congestion · drayage handoff · ETA on-rail

ETA Apr 18 · 96% OTP
🇻🇳 Hai PhongHouston 🇺🇸
Last shipment receipt
Container HASU-4129883 · 1× FEU
  • Ocean freight · Maersk vs benchmark−$1,840 / FEU
  • Detention waived (negotiated)−$420
  • Customs duty · GSP-qualified line−$312
  • ISF late-fee avoided (auto-filed)−$5,000
  • Drayage rebid · Houston port−$240
  • Days saved vs incumbent forwarder4 days
Saved · this shipment$7,812
Compliance · always running

Every supplier, every shipment.

Eight checks, on every counterparty, before a PO is sent and again before the container leaves the dock. No clipboards. No surprises.

  • OFAC SDN + sectoral sanctions
  • EAR / BIS denied parties
  • ITAR-controlled commodities
  • Antidumping / countervailing duties
  • Forced-labor / UFLPA screening
  • Country-of-origin verification
  • HS code → ECCN cross-walk
  • End-use & end-user controls
Try the agent · live

Stop reading about it. Put SourceSmart to work.

One AI handles every procurement spec — sourcing, negotiation, contracts, spend — on your policies, your stack, your full vendor history. Type a request. SourceSmart runs the work and ships the artifact.

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live
Live · one workspace

Pick a real procurement request — SourceSmart AI handles sourcing, negotiation, contracts, and spend. Or write your own.

send · ⇧⏎ newline

Sandboxed agents · runs deterministic flows for these examples · full agent activates on signup.

Why now

Three forces collided. SourceSmart is the company that gets built.

01

AI agents crossed the threshold.

2025 was the year agents got good enough to source, redline, and negotiate autonomously. Five years ago this product was a slide deck. Today it ships — and SMEs are the first beneficiaries.

02

The Fortune-500 advantage is cracking open.

Big companies built procurement departments because they could afford twenty specialists. SourceSmart compresses that team into software. The single biggest cost asymmetry between SMEs and the Fortune 500 just collapsed.

03

Trade is becoming programmable.

Stripe made revenue an API. Plaid made bank data an API. SourceSmart makes the last untouched layer — outbound spend, compliance, and freight — programmable. Every container, contract, and PO eventually flows through code.

Manifesto

Procurement was the largest cost asymmetry in business. We're closing it.

Walk into a Fortune-500 procurement department and you'll find twenty specialists: strategic sourcing, category buyers, contract counsel, trade compliance, customs brokers, freight ops, supplier risk. They squeeze every line, fight every clause, and book the savings the rest of the economy never sees.

For the other ninety-nine percent — manufacturers, builders, traders, 3PLs — the math has been brutal. You hire one buyer and a spreadsheet, and you leave twelve to twenty-two percent on the table every quarter. SourceSmart compresses that twenty-person team into one autonomous loop: sourcing, RFQ, negotiation, contracts, compliance, customs, freight, renewal. Eleven automated stages, one human gate.

Every PO that flows through the system makes the next negotiation sharper. The 4.2M line-item index is the seed — the substrate for the decade in which trade itself becomes programmable. Stripe did this for revenue. Plaid did it for bank data. We're doing it for the last untouched layer: outbound spend.

RV
Raimond V.
Founder, SourceSmart AI · NYC
v2 · May 2026

Your business is more profitable than you think.

SourceSmart finds it — across every supplier, every freight invoice, every contract — and moves it from their margin to yours.

If you're a builder, manufacturer, or trader competing with companies that have a twenty-person procurement department — SourceSmart helps you beat them.