Altana acquired Cervo AI, giving Altana's logistics customers one holistic AI solution to run the full customs brokerage workflow.
"Altana is on a mission to fix globalization by re-architecting global trade — building an AI network for trusted trade that connects importers, suppliers, logistics providers, and governments," says Evan Smith, co-founder and CEO of Altana. "With the acquisition of Cervo, our logistics customers can now run and scale their brokerages on a single end-to-end agentic system — from the moment goods are classified to the moment the entry clears. That's what trusted trade at scale looks like."
"We built Cervo to take the most painful, manual work off customs brokers' desks," says Thomas Jiang, co-founder and co-CEO of Cervo AI. "Joining Altana gives us the opportunity to bring that vision to the world's largest logistics providers."
"Altana shares our belief that AI will redefine how global trade operates, and together we're creating the industry's first truly end-to-end AI agentic platform," says Troy Shen, co-founder and co-CEO of Cervo AI.
"By combining Cervo's agentic AI with Altana's trusted trade network, we're building an autonomous platform that learns, adapts, and scales with every shipment," adds Jason Kurohara, co-founder and CTO of Cervo AI.
Key takeaways:
· Altana provides logistics providers and importers with an agentic platform for determining the nature of goods, mapping their provenance, and assigning the full set of customs compliance attributes to the goods.
· Now, with the addition of Cervo, Altana is said to be the only AI platform to offer an end-to-end customs broker workflow with Cervo automating the writing of customs entries, including PGA filings, from unstructured transactional data.
· Combining the two platforms creates the only fully agentic solution for customs brokerage.
· Cross-border logistics providers can automatically manage and enrich master data, make compliance determinations, process 5 times as many entries, and continuously screen and audit their work with AI to maximize compliance.
