tldr: Passage is an AI co-pilot that helps businesses clear their imported goods through customs.

🙏 Our Ask

• Do you (or someone you know) work in logistics? Whether you import goods, move goods (e.g., freight forwarders), or clear goods (e.g., customs brokerages), let us buy you a coffee and book some time with us here!
• Just want to give Passage a spin? Try it here for a limited time!

⛔️ The Problem

• Every company that brings goods into the US (e.g., Apple, IKEA) needs to clear it through customs
• The problem is that clearing customs is super complicated. It has tons of manual work, and if a business screws it up, they face thousands in penalties
• This leads to businesses spending hundreds of thousands on customs services, only to spend hours on manual data entry and searching complex regulations

⚙️ The Solution

• To tackle this, we’ve built a co-pilot to make clearing customs easier than ever for businesses
• Have teams of people manually keying in data? We’ll help streamline the tedious data entry from shipping documents, so your team can spend time on the things that matter
• Worried about submitting incorrect data to the government? We’ll check that the data is consistent across all your shipping documents and proactively flag if there’s anything that doesn’t line up

• Struggle to understand complex regulations or classify products? We plug directly into key government resources like the code of federal regulations and product tariff schedule so you can clear your goods without the fear of huge penalties

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 The Team

Aditya and I (Terrell) are friends from college and even have a patent for an AI physical therapy platform. Since college, we’ve moved in together as roommates in San Francisco and have worked on AI products at Flexport and Google. Aditya helped build the AI document processing platform at Flexport (which is how we first learned of the many issues in the logistics industry), and Terrell shipped AI editing features used by Google Photos’ +1B user base.

Above is a photo of us after skydiving :) 🪂