Trade intelligence
for a contested world.

Tariffs, sanctions, technical trade-barriers, and other export controls have made the operating reality of every shipment increasingly complex. Kanan solves that for you,

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TradeWatch prepares evidence-ready shipment packets
for customs, trade insurance and LC workflows.

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Today · 14 May Portfolio brief · 09:02 IST
Brief me on IGM-4521 Recap yesterday's seals
3 active · 1 needs you
IGM-4521 Pune → Hamburg
Five documents in. Reconciliation clean. Awaiting broker consent before 14:00.
Awaiting consent
IGM-4518 Chennai → Rotterdam
All rules OPEN. Both packets compiled. Ready for your sign-off.
Ready to seal
IGM-4502 Mumbai → Hamburg
Sealed yesterday · dossier delivered to CHA and broker.
Dispatched

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Inbox · linked to IGM-4521 5 attachments · 09:31 IST
Auto-detected from rohit@acme-ev.in · classifying by document type
CI-IGM4521.pdf 09:31 Commercial Invoice
PL-IGM4521.pdf 09:31 Packing List
BL-IGM4521.pdf 09:31 Bill of Lading
COO-IGM4521.pdf 09:31 Certificate of Origin
INS-IGM4521.pdf 09:31 Insurance Certificate
5 / 5 classified · linked to IGM-4521

5 documents · classified deterministically · linked to one shipment

2 packets compiled · 22 fields · 1 override recorded · ready
Packet · 01
Shipping Bill Readiness Packet

For handoff to Customs House Agent

4Open
2Cond.
0Unclear
0Blocked
  • Discrepancy register · 1 item
  • e-SANCHIT references · 4 docs
  • SCOMET screening evidence
  • Boundary statement · CHA scope
  • Provenance chain · 22 fields
Packet · 02
Marine Cargo Insurance Broker Packet

For handoff to IRDAI-registered broker

3Open
0Cond.
1Unclear
0Blocked
  • Sum-insured calculation · CIF + 10%
  • Commodity-voyage consistency note
  • Exclusion-condition tracking
  • Boundary statement · IRDAI scope
  • Underwriting evidence pack
Sealed
& signed
Reviewer · Aarav S. 8a7f29c4d3e1f5b6a02c8e7f4d6a91b3c5e8f0a2d4c7e9b1f3a5d7c9e2b4f6a8
10:14 IST · 14 May 26 Audit trail · immutable
Delivered · CHA inbox Delivered · Broker inbox

Two PDF/A-3 packets · SHA-256 sealed · audit trail closed

One shipment bundle.
Multiple institutional handoffs.

Explore TradeWatch
  • Shipment Evidence
  • Customs Clearance
  • Trade Insurance
  • Letter of Credit
  • Supply Chain Risk
  • Regulatory Strategy
The Engine

Meet Drona. The brain that knows the law,
not just the language of it.

Without Drona

With Drona

Provenance as product. Every line points home.

The Flow

A shipment becomes a fact. A fact meets the rules.
The rules produce a packet.

  1. Documents

    Invoices, bills of lading, packing lists, certificates of origin. In any format your team already uses.

  2. Reading

    Drona parses each document into a structured shipment fact model — bounded, source-located, replayable.

  3. States

    Every obligation resolves to Open, Blocked, Conditional, or Unclear against the live rule pack for your jurisdiction.

  4. Review

    A human reviewer attests. The system records who, when, and on what evidence.

  5. Packet

    Out: a hash-chained, source-stamped packet you can hand to a customs officer, an underwriter, or a banker — and defend three years from now.

Your junior analyst. On shift forever.

The Kanan Intelligence Stack
Historical maritime trade scene — a winding river with tall ships approaching a port city
TradeWatch Active MVP

Evidence-ready shipment packets for customs, trade insurance, and LC workflows.
Victorian archival library with researchers consulting tall shelves of records
India AI Tracker Public Research Asset

A live intelligence tool tracking AI policy and regulatory developments across India.
Antique cartographic map with hand-coloured territorial regions
SectorWatch Platform Roadmap

Kanan's long-term trade intelligence platform for supply-chain, regulatory, and market-risk exposure.
The Lanes

We start narrow. Deliberately.

TradeWatch ships first to the trade lanes where the cost of being wrong is highest and the evidence trail is longest.

01

EV Exporters

Electric vehicles moving between India, the EU, and the US — inbound or outbound — where battery provenance, lithium chain-of-custody, and dual-use controls collide.

02

Complex Issues

Where legal, regulatory, and customs questions tangle, our depth makes the hard call defensible — like a contestable HS classification that would otherwise become a Section 149 amendment six months later.

03

L/C Pre-Presentation

Before your banker presents, every document is checked against the credit against the rule pack. Six weeks from kickoff to first live packet.

04

Marine Cargo

Underwriting-grade evidence: compliance status, loss history, customs clearance probability — packaged for the broker.

05

Shipping Bill Readiness

Pre-filing reconciliation between what you're declaring, what you're shipping, and what India permits.

06

e-BRC / RoDTEP Closing

Closing-loop evidence so your incentives don't get clawed back at audit.

Your sector isn't here yet? It's on the map.

Trade has become fragmented and evidence‑intensive. The next era will be defined by a company’s ability to maintain a defensible, continuously updated evidence position across customs, insurance, finance, regulation, and supply‑chain risk.
Kanan is building the intelligence layer for that problem.

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Founder Note

Kanan Labs is being built for a world where trade decisions must be evidenced, not assumed.

The Operating Doctrine

I founded Kanan Labs from a simple conviction: cross-border trade is no longer governed only by access, price, and logistics. It is increasingly governed by whether a firm can prove its position across regulators, brokers, banks, insurers, and supply-chain counterparties.

My training across multiple legal systems shaped how I understand this problem. Rules do not operate in isolation. They move through institutions, documents, incentives, and evidentiary burdens. Kanan is being built to turn that complexity into structured intelligence that firms can actually use.

  1. Evidence before automation

    We do not treat trade documentation as form generation. We treat it as an evidence system.

  2. Reasoning before output

    Every packet should preserve the source, the rule, the reasoning path, and the reviewer decision.

  3. Infrastructure before interface

    TradeWatch is the first deployment. The larger undertaking is an intelligence layer for regulated trade.