Real-Time Tariff Intelligence for Agile Global Operations – Copy – Copy
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) codes processed
HTS-country combinations tracked
Countries mapped for cost impact modeling
Rapid deployment and customization
Overview
A global manufacturer modernized its tariff tracking process by implementing an AI-powered solution to provide real-time, audit-ready insights. By automating tariff monitoring, the solution enabled potential reductions in compliance risk and supporting more informed decision-making across finance, sourcing, and pricing teams.
The Challenge
Tracking global tariff and duty changes is essential for manufacturers operating across borders. However, these changes occur frequently, vary by jurisdiction, and are often buried in fragmented online sources. Many organizations still rely on manual monitoring and spreadsheet-driven workflows, which are slow, error-prone, and difficult to scale.
A global manufacturer faced these constraints while managing pricing and sourcing decisions across a complex product portfolio. Finance and procurement teams lacked real-time insight into tariff shifts, and leadership had limited confidence in the underlying data. The organization required an automated solution that could keep pace with changing trade policies while delivering outputs with verifiable accuracy.
The Solution
To tackle this problem, Teragonia designed and deployed a real-time AI solution to extract tariff data dynamically and securely:
- Automated Monitoring Agent: Built an AI extraction system using advanced LLMs to track HTS-based tariff changes across global data sources, updating results near real-time.
- Precision by Design: Flagged cost and duty impacts at the HTS and ship-from country level—enabling sourcing teams to evaluate the downstream effect of trade shifts.
- Trust Layer Integration: Applied Teragonia’s proprietary Trust Layer to add confidence scoring, intelligent complexity ratings, and source-linked citations to every output.
- Accelerated Rollout: Completed implementation in under two weeks with minimal demand on internal resources, enabling immediate evaluation of real-time use cases.
The Result
The solution enabled the client to transition from fragmented research processes to an automated, traceable intelligence capability:
- Real-Time Tariff Intelligence: Delivered accurate and continuously updated insights across 50+ HTS-country combinations.
- Audit-Ready Outputs: Provided structured results with source traceability, enhancing reliability and supporting downstream compliance needs.
- Planning Enablement: Established a foundation of trusted input data—enabling future development of cost models, dynamic pricing strategies, and forecasting capabilities.
- Operational Efficiency: Reduced time spent on manual lookups, allowing teams to focus on strategic analysis and planning.
The Impact
For our manufacturing client, tariff insights are no longer reactive—they are reliable, rapid, and risk-aware. Finance, sourcing, and pricing teams now collaborate on a shared foundation of real-time data, transforming global cost modeling from a compliance function into a competitive advantage.
Foundational Tech Infrastructure
Our core analytics and AI platform drives informed decision-making with enhanced clarity and focus, and rapidly unlocks enterprise value
Core Features:
Connect All Your Data Sources
Integrate data from multiple source systems effortlessly
Critical for breaking down silos and creating a unified view
One Trusted Data Source
A secure, centralized cloud hub for all your data insights
Foundational for reliable decision-making and enterprise-wide alignment
Interactive Dashboards
Visualize complex data through easy-to-understand dashboards
Empowers leaders with actionable insights
Enriched Data Flow, Fully Automated
Reverse ETL capabilities enriches your data and ensures your data flows exactly where it is needed for function teams to act on
Enables real-time, action-oriented data flow
Additional AI capabilities are actively in development
Scott Briggs
BS International Business | American University of Paris
BS Computer Science | American University of Paris
Seasoned DevOps and infrastructure engineer with expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform; led cloud migrations and scalable infrastructure projects at Sfara, FanDuel, and Kickstarter.
With over 15 years of experience in small and medium-sized startups, Scott is a seasoned expert in designing, optimizing, and maintaining robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure. He specializes in automation and embedding security from the ground up, consistently delivering reliable systems tailored to meet dynamic business requirements.
Prior to joining Teragonia, Scott made a significant impact at Sfara, where he built the company’s entire infrastructure from scratch. He engineered systems capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of users with seamless scalability, implemented automated development pipelines, and introduced observability tools to monitor and manage resources effectively. Additionally, Scott led the infrastructure team in achieving ISO27001 security certification, ensuring security was integrated into every aspect of the system and transforming it into a critical asset for business-to-business operations.
Beyond his technical expertise, Scott has a proven track record of managing and mentoring high-performing teams. As a Senior DevOps Engineer at FanDuel, he gained invaluable experience in scaling infrastructure and optimizing resources to support millions of daily users, aligning technological capabilities with organizational goals.
Jack Amedio
Master’s in Human Resources | University of Illinois
Bachelor’s in Management | Loyola University
Former Financial and Operations Manager at Houlihan Lokey, Golin Harris, and MSL Group.
Jack is a highly driven, cross functional professional with extensive experience in operations and administration.
Prior to joining Teragonia, Jack held financial and facilities management roles for Houlihan Lokey, MSL Group/Publicis, and Golin Harris in which managed and created processes and trainings for multiple functional areas ensuring operational and administrative procedures were well planned, efficient, cost-effective, and aligned with business objectives while ensuring initiatives, internal events as well as client events propelled employee and client engagement.
Jack holds undergraduate degrees from University of Illinois and Loyola University Chicago and has completed graduate certificates in Business Administration, Strategic Human Resources, and Operations at Cornell, CUNY-Buffalo, and University of Illinois and is in the process of completing a Master’s in Human Resources at Loyola University Chicago’s Quinlan School of Business.
Mason Taylor
MS Analytics | Georgia Institute of Technology
BS Management Information Systems | Oklahoma State University
Former analytics engineer at Cyderes and ConocoPhillips with a Master’s in Analytics from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s in Management Information Systems from Oklahoma State University
Mason is an Analytics Engineer with deep experience in data analytics, business intelligence, machine learning, and cybersecurity. He brings a proven track record of leading analytics engagements spanning architecture, insights, visualizations, and delivery.
Before joining Teragonia, Mason was a Senior Analytics Engineer at Cybersecurity MSSP CYDERES where he built a scalable, standardized, and secure analytics architecture for over 300 clients across many industries and consulted with them to deliver insights through bespoke data driven solutions. In addition, he managed the data delivery of the insight platform leveraged by the Security Operations Center to respond to incidents in a timely and effective manner.
Prior to joining CYDERES, Mason worked in ConocoPhillips’ Analytics and Innovation Center of Excellence holding varied roles within the Data Analytics organization from Data Engineering, to Business Intelligence, and Data Science. He delivered robust data solutions in all operating units for various functions including Engineering and Production, Finance, IT, and more. Including projects to standardize cost and production data across operating units.
Mason started his career at The Williams Companies in cybersecurity and transitioned to cybersecurity at ConocoPhillips where he found his passion for Data Analytics through SIEM management, detection engineering, and threat intelligence.
Grace Sun
Bachelor’s in Finance & Accounting | Georgetown University
Former analytics engineer at Houlihan Lokey and financial analytics at JP Morgan Chase with a Bachelor’s in Finance & Accounting at Georgetown University
Grace is a seasoned analytics engineer with specialized expertise in crafting and implementing analytics solutions that drive agile, informed executive decisions in M&A and value creation for private equity-backed companies.
Before joining Teragonia, Grace was a part of the data science and business analytics team at Houlihan Lokey. She has excelled in harmonizing, enriching, and analyzing data from diverse sources, providing key insights that enabled private equity investors and portfolio company executives to make rapid, data-driven decisions across the investment lifecycle. She has developed novel analytics solutions, including deal sourcing and evaluation tools for platform investments that employ a buy-and-build or de novo growth strategy, as well as post-close value creation and KPI reporting tools for operators and management teams.
Grace has also worked at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the Global Finance and Business Management rotational program, where she built analytics solutions to evaluate banker attrition and KPI reporting within the Global Private Bank.