Automating Customs Compliance with Deterministic AI

The Challenge

A global logistics provider was spending over 40 hours per week manually extracting specific declarations from varied, consistently changing PDF manifests. This human-in-the-loop requirement was actively bottlenecking their shipping velocity across international borders.

Our Approach: Agentic Orchestration

We bypassed standard OCR tooling which frequently tripped up on variable formatting. Instead, we architected a multi-agent workflow:

• Vision Extraction Agent: Converts unstructured manifests into raw text representations.
• Analysis Agent: Maps raw text strictly back to JSON schema utilizing zero-temperature LLM generation to prevent hallucinations.
• Critic Agent: Automatically validates the generated JSON array against required compliance flags before database insertion.

The Outcome

By enforcing deterministic JSON outputs, we were able to transition the compliance workflow from an error-prone, completely manual task directly into a fully hands-off pipeline. By removing the processing limits, the company increased total weekly shipment volume capability by 15%.