Amid swiftly shifting tariff rates and cramped global trade flows, the supply chain trade network provider Altana on Tuesday said it has acquired Cervo AI, whose agentic customs entry writer prepares submission-ready customs entries for global logistics providers.
According to New York-based Altana, customs brokerage is a historically manual process, requiring practitioners to classify goods, determine country of origin, calculate duties owed, check free trade program eligibility, and secure the permits that agencies like the FDA require — then turn a flood of emails, EDI feeds, and PDFs into the formal legal filings that clear each shipment to cross borders.
The company says its agentic platform helps logistics providers and importers do that work by 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 says it becomes 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. That allows cross-border logistics providers can automatically manage and enrich master data, make compliance determinations, process 5x as many entries, and continuously screen and audit their work with AI to maximize compliance, the company said.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“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,” said 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.”
