Ultra USA Solutions for the Public Sector
Publican Solutions
Publican delivers AI-powered customs risk intelligence for government agencies and commercial trade organizations. The platform assesses shipments, products, entities, documents, and trade activity to identify customs, regulatory, financial, and supply chain risks before goods are filed, released, or moved across borders.
Publican integrates into existing customs and trade workflows, helping organizations improve data quality, automate risk assessment, strengthen compliance, and focus resources on the shipments and transactions that require attention.
Publican Government
Publican Government is designed for customs authorities, revenue agencies, border management organizations, and public-sector trade enforcement teams.
The platform enables government agencies to digitally assess shipments, products, entities, declarations, and trade activity before arrival or clearance. By combining AI-powered analysis with global trade intelligence, Publican helps agencies identify high-risk activity, validate submitted trade data, and prioritize inspections and enforcement actions.
Publican Government supports:
- Risk-based shipment targeting and inspection prioritization
- Customs fraud and illicit trade detection
- HTS/HS classification validation
- Country-of-origin verification
- Undervaluation and misdeclaration detection
- Sanctions and restricted-party screening
- Revenue protection and duty-risk assessment
- Public health and product-safety monitoring
- Supply chain visibility and anomaly detection
- Trade enforcement and investigation support
Publican for Commercial Trade Organizations
Publican for Commercial Trade Organizations is designed for customs brokers, freight forwarders, 3PLs, express and parcel carriers, importers, exporters, and enterprise trade compliance teams.
The platform helps organizations assess and validate customs and trade data before declarations are filed or shipments are released. Publican identifies potential classification, valuation, origin, regulatory, and supply chain risks early in the process, enabling teams to correct issues before they cause delays, penalties, additional inspections, or unexpected costs.
Publican supports commercial trade organizations by helping them:
- Improve customs declaration accuracy and consistency
- Automate shipment and product risk assessment
- Identify compliance issues before filing
- Strengthen HTS/HS classification processes
- Improve duty, tariff, and landed-cost visibility
- Validate origin, product, and shipment information
- Reduce manual review and document-processing workloads
- Monitor sanctions, regulatory, and supply chain exposure
- Integrate AI-powered trade intelligence into existing workflows
Platform Capabilities
AI-Powered HTS/HS Classification
Analyzes product descriptions, specifications, images, trade documents, and contextual information to recommend and validate HTS/HS classifications. Publican helps reduce manual classification effort, improve declaration quality, and identify potential misclassification before submission.
Duty, Tariff, and Landed-Cost Assessment
Identifies applicable duties, tariffs, trade measures, and other landed-cost components before shipment processing. This provides earlier cost visibility and helps organizations identify potential duty or tariff discrepancies.
Product and Shipment Validation
Cross-references product, shipment, declaration, and supporting-document data to identify missing information, inconsistencies, and potential discrepancies before goods enter the customs process.
Country-of-Origin Verification
Assesses declared origin information using product data, documentation, labels, routing information, supplier relationships, and relevant trade intelligence to identify potential origin fraud or inconsistencies.
Regulatory Intelligence
Surfaces relevant customs requirements, import restrictions, regulatory flags, agency requirements, and compliance considerations before shipment processing, enabling more informed and proactive decisions.
Customs Risk and Fraud Detection
Identifies indicators of customs fraud, trade compliance risk, and supply chain anomalies, including:
- Undervaluation
- Misclassification
- Country-of-origin fraud
- Misdeclaration
- Sanctions exposure
- Forced-labor risk
- Counterfeit and intellectual-property risk
- Illicit trade indicators
- Product and documentation inconsistencies
- Unusual routing, entity, and supply chain patterns
OCR and Trade Document Intelligence
Extracts, structures, and analyzes information from commercial invoices, packing lists, bills of lading, certificates of origin, customs declarations, and other trade documents. This reduces manual processing while improving data completeness, consistency, and usability.
AI-Powered Digital Vetting
Assesses shipments, products, entities, routes, declarations, documents, and historical trade behavior to identify hidden relationships, discrepancies, and risk patterns that may not be detected through traditional rules or manual review alone.
Risk Scoring and Prioritization
Generates explainable risk indicators and prioritization outputs that help government and commercial teams focus their review, compliance, and enforcement resources on the shipments and transactions with the highest potential risk.
API-First Integration
Integrates with customs systems, carrier platforms, logistics environments, ERP systems, TMS platforms, filing systems, and other enterprise applications. Organizations can embed Publican’s classification, validation, and risk-assessment capabilities into existing workflows without replacing their core operational systems.