About Sell Trade Data to AI
The people behind this site read trade platforms' terms and customs law through their own document reader, keep a stored copy of each page they quote, and answer every trade data enquiry personally.
Why we built this
An importer's history is split between the systems that filed it, each with its own clause on ownership and aggregated use, while customs law decides what is already public and how long the originals must be kept. This site lines both up before a price is discussed.
Who this helps
Importers, exporters, customs brokers and forwarders with years of entries, classifications and shipment files who have been approached about AI, or who want to know whether those records could be licensed.
What you will find here
This site answers one question, "sell trade data to ai", with a quote form you can use straight away, no account. It adds 4 guides on the questions people ask next. It also publishes a data table to cite (figures and method here) alongside the sources it draws on.
- Trade compliance software data ownership, platform by platform: Trade compliance software data ownership: what E2open, Avalara, Oracle, Flexport, AEB and other trade platforms say about an importer's data and aggregated use.
- Is import data public? Manifests, confidentiality and HMRC: Is import data public? In the US manifest names are disclosed unless the importer certifies; HMRC may not disclose what it holds. The rules, quoted from the law.
- Who buys trade data, and where theirs comes from: Who buys trade data: benchmark platforms that take customers' contracts, networks that take contributed records, and vendors that build from bills of lading.
- Selling a distribution business? Its trade records first: Selling a distribution business? Its years of customs entries and shipment files can be licensed or sold apart. Retention rules and platform exit terms first.
Limits
- We do not score or recommend trade platforms; each row is the platform's own wording and our short reading.
- We do not ask for entries, invoices or broker files in the form.
- No enquiry is passed to any trade-compliance or shipping platform on the board.
The person responsible
Joseph Ellul-Turner, Director.
How to reach us
For anything about the site, see Contact or email enquiries@selltradedatatoai.com. Our Terms and Privacy pages set out the legal detail.
No trade-compliance, customs or shipping platform paid to be on this board, and no link here earns a commission. Each answer is our reading of a published document and is not legal or customs advice on your own agreements. How this site is paid: if a company licenses its trade records to a buyer we introduced, our fee is 12.5% of the deal, with a minimum, where we act as its exclusive agent, or 10% with a minimum where the records join a bundle or the pool, agreed with the company in writing first; any fee a buyer pays us is credited to the company.