ClearFirst

ClearFirst is an AI customs broker for the countries that run ASYCUDA, including The Gambia and most of West Africa. Today a broker in Banjul reads the invoice, packing list, bill of lading and certificate of origin, then types the customs declaration (the SAD) into ASYCUDA by hand. One weight that disagrees with the bill of lading, or one wrong HS code, and customs queries the declaration: the container sits at the port and the importer pays storage every day. Most of these delays aren’t fraud; they’re documents that don’t agree, and nobody checked. ClearFirst reads the shipment’s documents and produces a declaration where every box is proven: each figure carries the document, page and exact quote it came from. Weights, packages, HS code and parties must agree across two documents. Where documents disagree, it files a named discrepancy instead of guessing: on our demo tiles shipment it caught both errors planted in the bill of lading and a third we hadn’t planted. It classifies goods with a written justification, computes duty, levies and VAT line by line from the Gambian tariff, and checks signatures with SAM 3.1. The verification sits inside the tools as plain code, so the model cannot skip it. After three refusals it must stop and ask the broker, and nothing is exported until a licensed broker signs off. Output: a SAD PDF, XML, and an ASYCUDA adapter as the door to direct filing. It works beyond our demo files: from a phone photo of a real MSC bill of lading it read the parties, vessel, voyage and weight correctly, then asked for the invoice instead of inventing a value; on a real eight-line sea waybill it built the full declaration with per-line duty.