{"id":94794,"title":"MarkIt: Silver Bullet for Trade Compliance","tagline":"2025 Tariffs MegaThread: MarkIt Launch","body":"When Chan worked on Tesla’s Global Trade team, every car part—from bolts to battery packs—came from a different country. Each time tariffs shifted, thousands of parts across hundreds of pages of trade rules needed review, research, or reclassification. Pair that with tons of paperwork \u0026 meetings with consultants, brokers, \u0026 suppliers, and you’ll have one worst workflow of 2025. All happening within Outlook \u0026 Excel 2019.\\\nThey tried software, consultants, startups — every one of them got shut down due to reasons like product quality \u0026 data security.\\\nThat’s why we built **MarkIt** — AI agents that actually _do the work_ for Suppliers, Brokers, and OEMs.\n\n**Introducing MarkIt**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STJujU1zWz4\n\nWith agents that live where trade professionals already work — **Excel, broker portals, and browser** — MarkIt helps teams classify products, manage tariffs, and resolve customs issues in seconds, not hours.\n\n**MarkIt’s Value: Product \u0026 Logic Application**\\\nMarkIt is intentionally lightweight, and customizable. Previously, without AI, software in this industry was clunky \u0026 typically automating a set workflow. Now, MarkIt can support every trade compliance process, including ones companies have been ignoring. \n\n* **Classification**: Use our **accurate**, defensible classifications, or upload your own!\n* **OCR**: Analyze your Bill of Ladings, Commercial Invoices, Packing Lists for report filing, analysis, and report generatino.\n* **Customization**: Users can choose to **use their own logic**, where MarkIt’s platform would simply handle applying it at volume.\n* **Build Your Own:** MarkIt’s agents are familiar with many document types \u0026 many regulations. It’ll be able to support ad-hoc workflows just as well as your daily ones.\n* **Integration:** Plug directly into ABIs and ERPs **only if you want.** We don’t want require complete system overhaul.\n\nMarkIt is like a coworker specialized in customs \u0026 the trade process. Who’s willing to do all of your mindless “dishwashing” work.\n\n\\*\\*Our Ask:\\*\\*\\\nWe’re looking to connect with anyone who works in Global Trade. Suppliers, customs brokers, importers, e-commerce operators, etc. Anyone who may have to get a good across a border.\n\n\\*\\*Connect with Us:\\*\\*\\\nMarkIt: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/markittrade/), [Website](https://markittrade.com)\\\nChan: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chanhkim/), [X](https://x.com/ch6nkim)\\\nRoland: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rsaav/), [X](https://x.com/supadupacoda)","slug":"Oew-markit-silver-bullet-for-trade-compliance","created_at":"2025-10-21T15:36:33.380Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T05:48:34.590Z","total_vote_count":17,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oew-markit-silver-bullet-for-trade-compliance","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":31005,"name":"MarkIt","slug":"markit","url":"https://markittrade.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7e5614f0ff0430254c23e0743e5e0490fb5f826c.png","batch":"Fall 2025","industry":"B2B","tags":["Workflow Automation","Logistics","Supply Chain","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31005"}}