About
We built this because we watched the spreadsheet break.
TradeDeck began inside a real import operation, not a product workshop. The problem was never that anyone was doing their job badly. The system of record was a spreadsheet on one laptop, and the deadline tracker was somebody's memory.
Every part of TradeDeck exists because something went wrong without it. A free day nobody counted. A Letter of Credit that expired in a drawer. A quota that lapsed with tonnage still on it. A pricing sheet with one wrong cell that nobody found until the margin came in short.
None of those are exotic failures. They are the ordinary cost of running a serious import operation on tools that were never built for one, and they are invisible in the accounts: because they never appear as a line item. They appear as a landed cost that came in higher than expected.
We build for the way imports actually work here: the banks, the SROs, the the NBP ratesheet, the clearing agents, the WhatsApp groups. Not a global platform with a local setting switched on.
What we hold to
Four things we won't trade away.
The record is the document.
Every figure in TradeDeck traces back to the scan it came from. Not to a spreadsheet somebody typed, and not to a number somebody remembers being right.
A deadline is not a reminder.
Free days, expiries and quota windows are tracked by the system and pushed to the person who owns them. A calendar nobody opens is not a control.
Uncertainty is surfaced, not hidden.
When extraction isn't sure, it says so and stops. Software that quietly guesses is worse than software that asks, because you only find out months later.
Local is not a setting.
NBP ratesheets, SRO quotas and PSW filings are how imports work here. They belong in the core of the product, not behind a country toggle.
Next step
Bring one shipment. We'll show you the rest.
Twenty minutes, your own documents, no preparation needed.