Industries — Trade Economics
Tariff exposure, landed cost, and sourcing decisions — modeled in hours, not weeks.
Orivian builds landed-cost intelligence, tariff-exposure models, and automated trade-data pipelines for import/export operations. When duty rates, freight costs, or sourcing options shift, your leadership team sees the financial impact the same day.
Fixed-fee pilot from $1,500 · One working system in 2–3 weeks · Fee credits toward a full build
Who this is for: CFOs, sourcing and procurement leaders, trade compliance directors, and analysts at import/export businesses and organizations that model trade flows.
Sector challenges
The operational constraints we understand.
The constraints below are what we consistently find when trade analysis depends on manually maintained spreadsheets and document-by-document data entry.
Tariff changes outrun the model
Duty rates and trade policy shift on short notice, but the spreadsheet that models exposure was built for last quarter's assumptions and takes days to rework.
Landed cost is scattered across systems
Product cost lives in the ERP, duties on broker statements, freight on carrier invoices, and FX in finance. Nobody sees true landed cost per product, supplier, or lane in one place.
Scenario questions take weeks to answer
"What happens to margin if this tariff moves five points?" is a board-level question that deserves a same-day answer — not a manual modeling project.
Customs and broker data arrives as paperwork
Entry summaries, broker statements, and shipment documents arrive as PDFs and portals. The data exists, but it isn't structured, so it can't drive analysis.
Executive reporting is rebuilt by hand
Every leadership update on trade exposure, sourcing shifts, or duty spend is assembled manually — which means it happens late, or not at all.
What Orivian builds
Systems built around your sector’s decisions.
Every build starts from the decision it needs to support: where exposure is concentrated, which sourcing option wins, what a policy change actually costs.
Landed-cost dashboards
True cost per product, supplier, and lane — product cost, freight, duties, brokerage, and FX combined into one maintained view instead of a quarterly spreadsheet exercise.
Tariff and duty exposure models
Structured views of duty spend and exposure by HTS classification, country of origin, and supplier, built to be re-run when rates change instead of rebuilt.
Scenario and sensitivity tooling
Interactive models that answer "what if this rate, lane, or supplier changes" in minutes — with assumptions visible, so the analysis can be defended.
Automated trade-data pipelines
Customs entries, broker statements, and shipment data extracted and structured automatically, so analysis starts from clean data instead of manual entry.
Executive trade reporting
Recurring leadership reporting on duty spend, exposure, and sourcing performance that assembles itself — consistent, on time, and traceable to source data.
Outcomes
What your team gains.
Answer policy questions in hours
When a tariff announcement lands, exposure analysis is a re-run, not a rebuild.
See true landed cost
Margin decisions are made on full cost per unit, not product cost plus a guess.
Compare sourcing options credibly
Supplier and lane comparisons carry their assumptions with them, so they hold up in the room.
Stop re-keying trade paperwork
Structured pipelines replace manual extraction from PDFs and broker portals.
Engagement model
Start with a fixed-fee pilot.
Instead of a proposal cycle, we build one working system at a fixed price agreed before work begins. You evaluate a larger engagement based on software running on your real data — and you keep the system either way.
A typical trade economics pilot
A landed-cost dashboard for one product line or lane — product cost, freight, duties, and FX combined — live on your real data, with the pipeline that keeps it current.
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Scoping call
A 30-minute call to understand how the work runs today and pick the highest-leverage first system.
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Fixed quote
A one-page pilot scope — what gets built, what it connects to, what it costs. From $1,500, agreed before work begins.
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Pilot build
Two to three weeks, built on the systems you already run and tested with your team along the way.
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You own it
Documentation, access, and data stay with you — and the pilot fee credits toward a full build if you continue.
FAQ
Common questions from trade economics teams
We already model tariff exposure in Excel. Why change?
Excel is where most trade analysis starts, and it works until the pace of change exceeds the pace of rebuilding. The problem isn't the math — it's that the model is rebuilt by hand every time rates, lanes, or suppliers shift. We turn the model you already trust into a maintained system fed by structured data, so a policy change means re-running analysis, not reconstructing it.
Where does the data come from?
Typically from customs entry data, broker statements, freight invoices, your ERP or accounting system, and published tariff schedules. Part of every engagement is mapping which sources you actually have and building extraction and reconciliation so the dashboard reflects reality, not estimates.
Is this a compliance tool?
No — we build analysis and reporting systems, not customs filing software. We work alongside your broker and compliance processes: the goal is that the economic picture (cost, exposure, scenarios) is clear and current, so compliance and sourcing decisions are made with full information.
How do we start?
Book a 30-minute scoping call. We walk through how trade analysis and reporting happen today and identify the highest-leverage first system — then follow with a fixed-fee pilot quote: one working build, such as a landed-cost dashboard for a single product line, live on your data in two to three weeks. The price is agreed before work begins and credits toward a full engagement if you continue.
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Next step
Scope a pilot for your operation.
A 30-minute scoping call to walk through how the work runs today, followed by a fixed quote for one working system — live on your data in two to three weeks, no obligation to continue.