The only AI built specifically for export research and international trade intelligence. Not a documentation tool. Not a compliance database. Intelligence that understands regulatory requirements, tariff classifications, and market entry barriers across jurisdictions at institutional scale.
Export research is drowning. Not in complexity—trade has always been complex. In regulatory fragmentation. Every market entry requires navigating 47 different compliance requirements across customs, product standards, and licensing regimes. Every tariff classification decision demands expertise that lives in three different departments. Every documentation package spawns another version that contradicts the previous quarter's submission.
Knowledge fragments between shipments. Your export manager remembers that Indonesia changed import licensing requirements in Q2 2024 but cannot find the updated documentation. A compliance specialist classifies a component under HS code 8471.70 while another uses 8473.30 for the same product shipped to a different jurisdiction. Market intelligence lives in emails, regulatory updates arrive in PDFs no one reads, and by the time you discover the Philippines implemented new FDA registration requirements on 1 September 2024, your shipment is held at Manila port.
By the time you find the compliance gap, the shipment is delayed, the customer relationship is strained, the penalty is assessed. What if export intelligence worked differently? What if it tracked every regulatory change, every classification precedent, every documentation requirement across every jurisdiction where you operate?
Generic trade compliance and export AI tools search databases and match keywords. They see documents and regulations. They cannot see how requirements cascade across jurisdictions, how tariff classifications connect to duty optimization strategies, or how regulatory changes in one market signal patterns emerging in others. They operate at the level of individual queries and documents—not at the level of institutional trade intelligence.
MAIA AI Export Research Agent is fundamentally different. Built exclusively for export research and international trade, it understands regulatory interdependencies, harmonized system classification logic, market entry sequencing, and how compliance requirements evolve across borders. No other AI maintains unified trade intelligence that compounds over time across all your export operations.
MAIA AI Export Research Agent learns from every classification decision, every regulatory change, every market entry, every compliance requirement across every jurisdiction. The intelligence compounds. The trade knowledge deepens. Purpose-built export research intelligence.
MAIA AI Export Research Agent learns from your existing export documentation, classification history, and compliance records. No complex training on harmonized system codes. No manual regulatory database updates. Your trade compliance team connects the system to existing export records, and intelligence begins compounding from historical patterns within days, not months.
Built for environments where export intelligence involves proprietary product specifications, customer relationships across sanctioned and restricted markets, and competitive trade strategies. MAIA AI Export Research Agent operates within your security perimeter with complete audit trails and explainable reasoning for every classification and compliance recommendation, meeting requirements for customs audits and regulatory investigations.
Export documentation, tariff classifications, market intelligence, supplier relationships, and compliance strategies remain entirely within your infrastructure. No cloud processing of proprietary product specifications. No external AI vendors accessing your customer markets or pricing strategies. Complete data sovereignty over institutional export intelligence that represents competitive advantage.
Not point solutions for tariff lookup or compliance checklists. MAIA AI Export Research Agent understands the complete export operation—classification, documentation, licensing, market requirements, regulatory monitoring, and how compliance decisions cascade across jurisdictions and product lines throughout your entire international footprint.
Tell MAIA AI Export Research Agent "prepare for Brazil market entry with medical device portfolio" and it maps ANVISA registration pathways, identifies required technical documentation under RDC 665/2022, flags HS classification implications for IPI tax calculations, and surfaces lead time requirements for mandatory local testing. It understands trade operations, not just database queries. No other AI connects regulatory requirements to operational execution.
One system understands tariff classification, regulatory compliance, documentation requirements, licensing regimes, and market intelligence. Not separate databases for different jurisdictions or compliance areas. MAIA AI Export Research Agent maintains unified trade knowledge across all markets—ensuring classification precedents inform compliance strategies and regulatory changes trigger documentation updates automatically.
Every tariff classification, every compliance recommendation, every market entry strategy includes complete reasoning with regulatory source citations and precedent validation. Export managers review AI-generated guidance before submission to customs authorities. Trade specialists maintain control over classification decisions with audit exposure. Human judgment remains central to every compliance determination that carries financial and regulatory risk.
Other AI looks up tariff codes in databases. MAIA AI Export Research Agent remembers that you classified your wireless controller under HS 8517.62.00 for EU shipments in April 2023, justified by the product's primary telecommunications function, and that customs accepted this classification through three audits. When you launch a similar controller with added gaming features, it surfaces this precedent and analyzes whether new features change classification.
Tariff classification is not just lookup—it's institutional precedent that customs authorities expect you to apply consistently. MAIA AI Export Research Agent maintains that consistency across your product portfolio.
Standard trade AI requires you to search for regulatory updates. MAIA AI Export Research Agent monitors regulatory developments across every jurisdiction where you export—tracking not just major regulation changes but also implementation guidance, enforcement pattern shifts, and administrative clarifications that affect compliance obligations. It connects changes to your actual product portfolio and flags impacts before they become compliance gaps.
Export compliance demands proactive monitoring across 50+ markets simultaneously. MAIA AI Export Research Agent maintains that vigilance institutionally.
Regulations do not exist in isolation. MAIA AI Export Research Agent understands that classifying a product as medical device in one jurisdiction triggers cascading requirements—regulatory registration, quality system compliance, post-market surveillance, adverse event reporting—and that classification creates precedent affecting how other markets view the product. It maps these dependencies and surfaces downstream obligations.
Trade compliance requires systems thinking. MAIA AI Export Research Agent operates systemically across regulatory domains.
When different team members classify similar products differently across markets, it creates audit risk and duty optimization inconsistency. MAIA AI Export Research Agent detects these variances—surfacing when your Germany operations classify a component under one HS code while your Singapore operations use a different code for functionally identical products. Inconsistency signals classification uncertainty that customs authorities scrutinize.
Customs audits focus on classification consistency as indicator of compliance quality. MAIA AI Export Research Agent maintains that consistency.
Entering new export markets is not just about meeting requirements—it's about sequencing activities to manage lead times, resource constraints, and regulatory dependencies. MAIA AI Export Research Agent maps the complete market entry pathway, identifying which certifications must precede others, which requirements have 6-month lead times, and where parallel processing is possible versus sequential activities required.
Market entry requires project management across complex regulatory workflows. MAIA AI Export Research Agent plans those workflows.
Tariff classification often involves judgment calls where multiple classifications are defensible but carry different duty implications and audit risks. MAIA AI Export Research Agent learns your organization's risk appetite—whether you optimize aggressively for lowest duty rate, whether you prefer conservative classifications with higher duties but lower audit risk, and how your approach varies by product category, shipment value, and destination market.
Classification strategy reflects institutional risk tolerance. MAIA AI Export Research Agent captures and applies that tolerance consistently.
Classification is not just about finished products—it's about understanding how design decisions affect tariff treatment. MAIA AI Export Research Agent connects product specifications to HS classification rules, surfacing how component choices, assembly location, or feature additions can shift products into different tariff categories with materially different duty rates. This intelligence should inform R&D, not just export compliance.
Tariff optimization starts at product design. MAIA AI Export Research Agent brings trade intelligence into development process.
Every export market demands specific documentation—certificates of origin, commercial invoices with prescribed details, packing lists with weight specifications, technical documentation in local languages. Requirements evolve, formats change, and missing documentation creates costly shipment delays. MAIA AI Export Research Agent maintains current documentation requirements for every market and flags gaps before shipment.
Documentation compliance is operational execution, not just regulatory knowledge. MAIA AI Export Research Agent ensures execution completeness.
Free trade agreements offer preferential duty rates but require specific origin documentation and content verification. MAIA AI Export Research Agent tracks which FTAs apply to your products, whether you're obtaining required certificates of origin, and whether you're achieving origin qualification through domestic content or cumulation rules. It identifies where you're paying standard duties when preferential rates are available.
FTA utilization is money left on the table. MAIA AI Export Research Agent captures that value.
Regulatory changes do not happen in isolation—they follow patterns where early-adopter markets signal trends that spread to other jurisdictions. MAIA AI Export Research Agent detects these patterns, identifying when EU's chemical restrictions signal similar restrictions coming to UK, Korea, and eventually ASEAN markets within 12-24 months. This foresight enables proactive product reformulation before regulations force reactive scrambling.
Trade intelligence requires pattern recognition across jurisdictions and time. MAIA AI Export Research Agent maintains that strategic view.
Companies exit markets for reasons—regulatory burden exceeds revenue potential, compliance costs eliminate margin, certification requirements create unacceptable lead times. MAIA AI Export Research Agent remembers these decisions and reasoning, preventing repeated market entry evaluation for markets you determined were not viable. When conditions change, it surfaces what would need to be different to reconsider.
Institutional memory prevents institutional repetition. MAIA AI Export Research Agent maintains that memory across market strategy.
Export pricing requires understanding total landed cost—not just product cost but duty, VAT, freight, insurance, compliance fees, and distributor margins. MAIA AI Export Research Agent calculates complete landed cost across markets, identifying where duty rates, compliance costs, or logistics expenses make specific markets uncompetitive or where FTA utilization creates pricing advantage.
Export strategy is economic analysis across complex cost structures. MAIA AI Export Research Agent performs that analysis.
Certain products and technologies face export controls beyond standard customs regulations—dual-use items that could have military applications, encryption technologies with export restrictions, items subject to sanctions. MAIA AI Export Research Agent screens products against export control lists, flags when technical specifications trigger licensing requirements, and tracks which destinations require special authorization.
Export control compliance carries criminal liability, not just financial penalties. MAIA AI Export Research Agent maintains appropriate scrutiny.
Your distributors across markets have jurisdiction-specific registration, licensing, and documentation requirements that affect what products they can legally import and sell. MAIA AI Export Research Agent tracks these distributor capabilities—which registrations they hold, which product categories they are authorized for, when licenses expire—ensuring you don't ship products your distributor cannot legally handle.
Export compliance extends through your distribution channel. MAIA AI Export Research Agent manages that extended compliance.
Country-of-origin marking requirements vary by product, destination market, and applicable trade agreements. MAIA AI Export Research Agent tracks which products require origin marking, what format and language are required, whether marking can be on packaging versus product itself, and when marking affects FTA eligibility. Incorrect marking creates customs delays even when all other documentation is correct.
Origin marking is operational detail with compliance consequences. MAIA AI Export Research Agent ensures marking correctness.
Export compliance requires screening customers, distributors, and end-users against sanctions lists, denied parties lists, and restricted entity lists that change weekly. MAIA AI Export Research Agent maintains current sanctions data and screens your trade partners, flagging when entities are added to restricted lists or when ownership changes create indirect sanctions exposure.
Sanctions compliance is continuous screening, not one-time checks. MAIA AI Export Research Agent maintains that vigilance.
Customs audits require demonstrating classification methodology, origin determination, valuation calculations, and FTA qualification with contemporaneous documentation. MAIA AI Export Research Agent maintains complete audit trail—every classification decision with technical justification, every origin calculation with BOM details, every FTA claim with supporting documentation—structured for customs authority review.
Export compliance is ultimately about defensibility to authorities. MAIA AI Export Research Agent builds that defensibility systematically.
MAIA AI Export Research Agent is not autonomous export compliance AI. It's a system where AI handles regulatory monitoring, classification analysis, and documentation preparation while export managers and trade specialists make final compliance decisions. Every customs submission requires human review and approval.
AI Intelligence + Human Judgment
Export manager sets target markets, product portfolio scope, risk tolerance for classification decisions, and approval workflows for compliance determinations.
MAIA AI ingests product technical documentation, historical classification decisions, export records, and compliance documentation to build institutional trade knowledge.
MAIA AI tracks regulatory updates, tariff changes, FTA modifications, and compliance requirement evolution across all export destinations in real-time.
MAIA AI analyzes tariff classification options, documentation requirements, origin qualification, and compliance pathways based on destination and product characteristics.
MAIA AI generates tariff classifications with technical justifications, prepares required export documentation, and identifies compliance gaps requiring attention.
Export manager or trade specialist reviews all AI recommendations, validates technical justifications, and assesses audit risk before any customs submission.
Export manager makes final decision on classifications and compliance approach. AI provides intelligence; humans maintain accountability for customs determinations.
MAIA AI logs all classification decisions, technical justifications, regulatory sources, human adjustments, and approval records for customs audit defense.
Export manager or logistics team submits approved documentation to customs authorities. Human remains accountable for all compliance determinations.
Built specifically for export research and international trade intelligence. Not adapted from generic database search tools or compliance checklists.
Map complete regulatory pathways for new export markets—identifying certification requirements, lead times, documentation needs, and compliance costs before first shipment.
Classify product portfolios across multiple jurisdictions with consistent methodology, technical justifications, and audit defense documentation for customs compliance.
Track regulatory requirements across 50+ export markets simultaneously, detecting changes affecting your products and prioritizing compliance actions by revenue impact.
Identify free trade agreement opportunities, calculate origin qualification, prepare certificates of origin, and track utilization to minimize duty payments across markets.
Generate market-specific export documentation with required formats, languages, certifications, and regulatory references ensuring customs clearance without delays.
Maintain complete audit trail of classification methodology, technical justifications, regulatory sources, and decision reasoning for customs authority investigations.
Detect regulatory changes affecting specific products, calculate implementation costs, assess compliance timelines, and prioritize response based on business impact.
Build institutional knowledge by capturing export manager expertise, classification precedents, and compliance strategies that new team members can learn from and apply.
MAIA AI Export Research Agent ingests product specifications, technical documentation, historical export records, classification decisions, and compliance documentation from your trade systems. Product descriptions become structured technical attributes. Export history becomes classification precedent. Compliance records become institutional strategy. The system consumes unstructured trade documentation—transforming it into structured intelligence about products, classifications, regulatory requirements, and compliance approaches across markets.
The system structures trade data into a knowledge graph where products have technical attributes, classifications have justifications and precedents, regulations have implementation dates and affected products, and markets have documentation requirements and compliance pathways. Every product classification enriches the institutional understanding of tariff logic, every regulatory change updates the compliance landscape, and every market entry builds the trade execution playbook.
MAIA AI Export Research Agent continuously monitors regulatory sources across export markets—tariff schedule updates, regulatory amendments, FTA modifications, customs rulings, and compliance requirement changes. It connects regulatory changes to specific products in your portfolio, calculating which SKUs are affected, what compliance actions are required, and when implementation deadlines occur. Passive regulatory databases become active intelligence that prevents compliance gaps.
When analyzing products for export, the system evaluates classification alternatives, calculates duty implications, assesses audit risk, reviews historical precedents, and considers FTA eligibility. It applies institutional classification strategy—understanding your organization's risk tolerance, duty optimization priorities, and compliance philosophy. Analysis considers: What precedent have we established? What duty rates apply under different classifications? What technical justification satisfies customs requirements?
MAIA AI Export Research Agent generates tariff classifications with complete technical justifications, prepares market-specific export documentation, identifies compliance gaps requiring action, and recommends FTA strategies for duty optimization. Every output includes complete reasoning—explaining which HS code was selected based on technical analysis, which regulatory requirements apply to the destination market, and which documentation is required for customs clearance. Recommendations are audit-ready, not just operationally sufficient.
The system logs every classification decision, every technical justification, every regulatory source citation, every human adjustment, and every approval record with complete reasoning and source validation. This creates permanent institutional memory—capturing not just what classification was used, but why, based on which technical analysis, validated by which customs precedent, and approved by which trade specialist. The knowledge graph grows with every export. Trade intelligence compounds over time.
Export compliance AI demands higher standards. MAIA AI Export Research Agent is built for environments where classifications are government submissions with criminal liability for false declarations, where mistakes create customs penalties and shipment delays, where decisions must be defensible to customs auditors and trade regulators, where control is not negotiable.
Trade intelligence operates with role-based permissions ensuring export managers, compliance specialists, and logistics teams have appropriate access to classification data, regulatory intelligence, and market requirements. Proprietary product specifications and competitive trade strategies remain segregated with access controls. All data access is audited and traceable for compliance governance.
Every tariff classification, every compliance determination, every regulatory source citation, and every human approval is logged with timestamp, technical justification, decision methodology, and approval record. Audit trails support customs investigations, regulatory inquiries, and internal compliance reviews. No classification intelligence is lost or unattributable—meeting government expectations for contemporaneous documentation.
MAIA AI Export Research Agent maintains version history for every classification decision, tracking AI recommendations, human adjustments, and approval workflows. When export managers modify AI classifications, the system captures what changed and why—building institutional knowledge about when AI recommendations require expert refinement and improving future classification accuracy.
No classification is submitted to customs without export manager or trade specialist review and approval. No compliance determination is executed without human verification. The system is designed around mandatory human oversight—not as optional governance layer, but as core architecture. AI provides intelligence; humans maintain accountability for government submissions with regulatory and financial liability.
Every tariff classification includes explanation of technical analysis, HS Explanatory Note application, precedent consideration, and alternative classification evaluation. Every compliance recommendation includes regulatory citations and implementation reasoning. Export managers can audit AI logic before customs submission—ensuring determinations are not just plausible, but technically defensible to customs authorities.
MAIA AI Export Research Agent grounds every classification and compliance recommendation in validated regulatory sources—official tariff schedules, published HS Explanatory Notes, government customs rulings, and documented regulatory requirements. It does not generate compliance guidance based on inferred rules or probable requirements. If regulatory information is ambiguous or unavailable, it flags the gap rather than providing uncertain guidance. Accuracy is enforced architecturally for compliance with government liability.
Traditional tariff databases and customs broker software search HS codes based on keyword matching and return possible classifications without institutional context or technical justification. MAIA AI Export Research Agent understands your classification precedents spanning years, your organization's risk tolerance for borderline classifications, your duty optimization strategies, and how classification decisions cascade across regulatory compliance and FTA eligibility. It operates at the level of institutional trade strategy—connecting every classification to precedent, regulatory context, and audit defensibility. No other AI maintains unified export intelligence that compounds over time across your complete product portfolio and all export markets.
Yes. MAIA AI Export Research Agent integrates with standard export management platforms, ERP systems, and customs filing software through secure APIs. Integration maintains your existing workflows while adding intelligence layer for export managers and trade compliance teams. Your team continues using familiar systems; MAIA AI provides classification analysis, regulatory monitoring, and compliance recommendations within those workflows. Implementation typically takes 3-6 weeks including historical export data ingestion and classification precedent learning.
Initial deployment takes 3-6 weeks. Historical export data and product documentation ingestion happens in first two weeks. Classification precedent learning and regulatory mapping occurs over 3-4 weeks as the system analyzes patterns. Export managers begin seeing useful classification recommendations and regulatory alerts within 15 days as institutional trade intelligence builds. Full sophistication—including nuanced duty optimization analysis and proactive regulatory change monitoring—develops over 90-120 days as the knowledge graph learns your trade operations and compliance priorities across markets.
All trade intelligence—product specifications, classification decisions, export records, compliance strategies, and competitive market intelligence—remains entirely within your infrastructure. MAIA AI Export Research Agent operates on your servers with no external data transmission. Proprietary product designs, customer relationships, supplier details, and pricing strategies remain under your complete control. No cloud processing. No third-party AI vendor access. Complete data sovereignty over export intelligence that represents competitive advantage in international markets.
No. MAIA AI Export Research Agent amplifies export managers and trade specialists by handling regulatory monitoring, classification analysis, and documentation preparation—freeing experts to focus on strategic compliance decisions, customs relationship management, and complex classification determinations requiring specialized expertise. The system requires export manager oversight for all customs submissions and compliance determinations. Trade professionals remain central to export operations; AI removes the repetitive research and monitoring work that consumes expert time without requiring expert judgment.
Every classification and compliance recommendation is grounded in validated regulatory sources—official tariff schedules, published HS Explanatory Notes, government customs rulings, documented regulatory requirements, and verified compliance pathways. The system will not generate compliance guidance without regulatory source validation. If regulatory information is unavailable or ambiguous, it flags the uncertainty and recommends consulting customs authority or trade counsel rather than providing uncertain guidance. Factual accuracy is enforced architecturally through mandatory source attribution. No other AI maintains this level of rigor for export compliance where errors create government liability, customs penalties, and shipment holds.
Yes. MAIA AI Export Research Agent is designed for organizational complexity—multiple product lines, diverse export markets, varying regulatory regimes, and complex FTA networks. It tracks jurisdiction-specific requirements, understands market-specific compliance pathways, and maintains separate regulatory intelligence for each export destination while identifying patterns and regulatory similarities that enable efficiency. The system scales from single-market operations to global export programs covering 50+ jurisdictions while maintaining market-specific accuracy and compliance rigor.
All classifications require mandatory export manager or trade specialist review before customs submission—specifically to validate technical analysis, verify regulatory sources, and assess audit defensibility. When humans adjust AI classifications, the system logs the corrections and learns from the expert refinement. This feedback loop improves future classification accuracy. Additionally, every recommendation includes complete technical reasoning and regulatory citations, allowing export managers to audit AI logic before government filing. Errors are caught in review; corrections improve institutional intelligence and prevent repeated mistakes.
Pricing is structured by number of export markets, product portfolio size, and number of users accessing the system—not by transaction volume or number of classifications. This aligns costs with value delivered—amplifying export manager productivity and reducing compliance risk rather than charging based on operational activity volume. Enterprise implementations include historical data ingestion, integration with existing systems, ongoing regulatory monitoring across all markets, and complete audit trail infrastructure. Contact us for specific pricing based on your export operation scale and market coverage requirements.
MAIA AI Export Research Agent is designed for export managers, trade compliance specialists, and international operations teams in organizations conducting cross-border trade where regulatory compliance, tariff optimization, and customs audit defense are business-critical capabilities. It's built for manufacturers, distributors, and exporters managing complex product portfolios across multiple jurisdictions where classification consistency, regulatory monitoring, and institutional trade knowledge represent competitive advantages and where compliance failures create material financial and operational risks.
Trade intelligence that compounds over time. MAIA AI Export Research Agent understands regulatory requirements, tariff classifications, and market entry barriers at institutional scale across your entire export operation.
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