ASTRA OVERVIEW
TRANSFORMING CUSTOMS CLEARANCE AS YOU KNOW IT
Meet Astra, Your Digital Customs Assistant — Powered by Agentic AI
Astra is an intelligent, autonomous AI agent designed to assist Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders in automating the complex processes required for the importation of goods. By handling documentation, regulatory filings, and payment workflows, Astra accelerates operations, reduces errors, and ensures compliance—freeing your team to focus on customer service and business growth.
Key Features & Capabilities
Explicitly trained on financial regulations and guidelines, Sophia understands the complexities of compliance frameworks such as SEC, FINRA, and MiFID II, and applies this expertise across its functions.
Document Management
Automates the preparation, submission, and secure storage of all required import documentation, ensuring instant access to complete, organized records in the event of audits or regulatory reviews.
Regulatory Form Filing
Generates and submits all required import forms to local customs authorities, ensuring accurate, timely submissions that help accelerate clearance and reduce delays.
Payment Tracking
Monitors duty and tax payments to government agencies in real time, providing full visibility into payment status and confirming successful processing to prevent clearance bottlenecks.
Government Clearance Integration
Seamlessly receives and processes clearance notifications from customs authorities, enabling faster release of freight and proactive communication with clients.
Client Invoicing
Automatically prepares detailed invoices for all applicable charges—including duties, taxes, and service fees—and delivers them to clients for faster billing cycles.
Funds Receipt Confirmation
Tracks and verifies receipt of client payments before authorizing freight release from bonded warehouses, ensuring financial compliance and mitigating revenue leakage.
Built for Trade. Ready to Scale.
Astra understands the unique demands of global trade, logistics, and regulatory compliance. Whether your firm handles 10 or 10,000 shipments, Astra grows with your business—reducing operational bottlenecks while maintaining strict compliance standards.
Tech Stack
Model Development
- Proprietary fine-tuned language models
- Dense retrieval of regulatory data
- Supervised training on financial compliance tasks
- Model performance monitoring
- Continuous evaluation & refinement
Agent Framework
- Open LLM
- Orchestration using LangChain / LangGraph
- Autonomous agent workflow engine
- Custom agent code using Python
- Continuous evaluation & refinement
Security and Compliance
- Hosted in a virtual private cloud (AWS VPC)
- End-to-end encryption (in transit and at rest)
- Role Based Access Control (principle of least privilege)
- Continuous monitoring and alerting
- Audit controls and reporting
Why Astra?
- Agentic AI that acts, learns, and reasons
- Purpose-built for import and customs operations
- Fast time-to-value with minimal disruption
- Developed with industry experts
- Secure, compliant, and explainable
What Astra Solves
- Manual, error-prone customs documentation
- Complex tariff calculations and regulatory submissions
- Payment tracking and clearance delays
- Fragmented systems lacking real-time visibility
- High costs tied to repetitive administrative processes
Ready to Simplify Import Operations?
Contact us today to schedule a demo and discover how Astra can become your most reliable digital team member.
Tel: 954-382-3900
Email: astra@pre8us.com