Compliance authority,
rebuilt as software.
CustomsVerse is led by people who ran global trade compliance at Deloitte and EY — the firms importers call when an audit goes wrong. We took that expertise and built the system we always wished our clients had: one auditable record, every decision defensible.
Deloitte + EY
Global Trade Compliance Leadership
UK & EU
Jurisdictional Focus, End To End
Founder-led
Former CTO, Global Trade • Big 4
We kept watching defensible work fail an audit on a technicality.
Across years of global trade advisory at Deloitte and EY, the same thing kept happening. The classification was probably right. The preference claim was probably valid. But when the audit came, nobody could reconstruct why— the reasoning lived in an email, a spreadsheet, or someone's head, and the tools were never built to answer a regulator's actual question.
CustomsVerseis the response. Not another tool bolted onto the spreadsheet stack — one system where the decision and the evidence for it are recorded in the same act, so the answer is defensible the moment it's made.
The Founding Insight
The problem was never that the answer was wrong. It was that the process around it was never designed to be defended.
The Spreadsheet Stack
- decision in one place
- reasoning in another
- evidence nowhere
- audit = archaeology
CustomsVerse
- decision + reasoning together
- evidence on the record
- filed direct, no seams
- audit = press print
Domain authority from the Big 4. Engineering from the people who built the infrastructure.
CustomsVerse is what happens when trade compliance leaders and platform engineers build the same product.
Deloitte
Global Trade AdvisoryWhere our leadership ran classification, origin and customs advisory for some of the most scrutinised importers in the UK and EU — and learned exactly what an audit defence has to contain.
Methodology that holds up under enforcement — built into the platform, not bolted on after.
EY
Global Trade & Indirect TaxWhere the customs decision and the VAT position were forced to agree — the discipline of reconciling indirect tax to the entry that drove it, across UK and EU regimes.
One liability and one trail — the tax and customs positions stop contradicting each other.
Engineered to scale
The platform underneath is built by engineers who shipped systems at internet scale. Auditability at volume isn't a feature we added — it's how the system is constructed: every decision a durable, retrievable record.
Every line of the pedigree maps to something you can rely on.
Deloitte — Global Trade Advisory
Classification & origin methodology that survives audit
Tribunal-ready decisions, with the reasoning attached
EY — Global Trade & Indirect Tax
Tax reconciled to the customs decision that drove it
One liability, one defensible trail
Former CTO, Global Trade (Big 4)
A product owned by someone who carried the risk
It answers the regulator's actual question
Google · Oracle · Sun · Redis
Systems that scale without losing the record
Auditable at volume, not just in a demo
Small, senior, and on your side of the table.
Founder & CEO
Former CTO, Global Trade · Big 4Sets product and commercial direction. Has owned trade-compliance risk from the inside — and built CustomsVerse to remove it.
Trade Compliance
ex-Deloitte / EY · Global TradeOwns classification, origin and customs methodology — the logic the platform encodes and the standard it's held to.
Platform Engineering
ex-Google / Oracle / RedisOwns the architecture: an auditable record system that scales and never quietly drops the evidence.
The principles the product is built on.
We build for the audit, not the demo
If a decision can't be reconstructed and defended later, it isn't finished — however good the demo looked.
The model proposes — the record proves
AI does the work; the assurance around it earns the trust. Reasoning capture, confidence scoring, human review and a permanent record are first-class, not afterthoughts.
Every decision leaves a record
The decision and its evidence are captured in the same act. No record, no decision.
Defensible beats fast
Speed is worthless if it can't stand up to HMRC. We optimise for the answer you can prove.
Prove it on your data
We'd rather show you the result on your own entries than sell you a deck. Shadow mode first.
We say no to the wrong fit
If an auditable AI system isn't what you need, we'll tell you. Trust is the whole product.
From a platform to the standard for defensible trade.
UK & EU, End to End
Four pillars plus Layer 3 — classification to declaration to tax, auditable by design.
Channel & Scale
Partner and broker channels delivering binding-ruling quality output across their books.
More Jurisdictions
The same auditable model extended to further customs and tax regimes worldwide.
Compounding Evidence
Every decision filed makes the next one more defensible. The record is the advantage.