Introducing Vialode: Trade Intelligence for Cross-Border Trade

Cross-border trade is broken. Not the shipping itself, but the information layer around it.

Every day, freight forwarders and logistics teams manually key data from hundreds of bills of lading, commercial invoices, and packing lists into their systems. They navigate 10 different government customs websites in 5 languages to check tariff rates. They discover supplier problems only after it’s too late.

We’re building Vialode to fix this.

What is Vialode?

Vialode is an intelligence platform for companies that move goods across borders. Upload a shipping document, and we extract the key data in seconds: shipper, consignee, ports, tariff codes, weights, all of it. We then enrich that data with trade compliance information, supplier risk scores, and carbon emissions calculations.

Why start with the hardest documents?

Cross-border trade is complex everywhere. Every lane crosses different customs systems, languages, regulations, and trade agreements (USMCA, the EU’s FTAs, RCEP, ASEAN ATIGA, CPTPP, and dozens of bilateral deals). We started with the messiest, most error-prone part of all of it: the trade documents themselves. Get those clean and structured, and everything downstream gets easier.

What’s coming

We’re starting with Document Intelligence: automated extraction from bills of lading, commercial invoices, packing lists, and certificates of origin. This is in early access now.

Following that: trade compliance lookups, supplier risk monitoring, and supply chain carbon accounting.

Get early access to be among the first to try it.