A Note from the Founders
Global trade is broken. It has been that way for a while. For decades, exporters and importers have made decisions on instinct, outdated data, and endless email threads. In an age where you can track a pizza to your door in real time, traders still rely on spreadsheets, static reports, and overpriced subscriptions for visibility that never quite arrives. Trade data exists everywhere in customs filings, port records, shipment manifests, and invoices. But it is locked away in silos, sold back to the same businesses that created it, and wrapped in dashboards that confuse more than they clarify. The result is a world where trade is slower, riskier, and more dependent on luck than logic. We have spent the last two decades watching this cycle repeat. Big platforms repackage public data, consultants charge to interpret it, and small and mid-sized exporters keep guessing. The world’s most vital industry still runs on PDFs and phone calls. Sawda exists because we believe trade doesn’t have to be this way. Verified trade data should be accessible, explainable, and instantly useful. Intelligence should come from context, not complexity. And AI should bring clarity, not chaos. Sawda gives traders that clarity. It connects real, licensed shipment data with an AI that understands trade the way traders do. No fluff, no fake dashboards, just the truth in seconds. We are kicking off with Polymer GPT, our first AI model built specifically for the global polymer market. It knows the HS codes, the buyers, the suppliers, and the patterns that move billions of dollars of material every month. It answers real trade questions in plain language and learns from every query. Polymer GPT is just the beginning. Metals, chemicals, textiles, and other categories will follow, building the most complete, intelligent map of global trade the world has ever seen. After twenty years of watching overcomplicated systems fail the people who actually make trade happen, we decided to build something that simply works. Welcome to Sawda, where global trade finally makes sense.
