For export and foreign trade
An AI email assistant for exporters
An overseas retailer requesting samples before its buying committee meets, an additional duty taking effect in your largest market, a rate change on export credit and three forwarder newsletters. CatchTheMail reads each message you forward and places the buyer and the duty decision where you will see them first.
How your email is assessed
Four messages an exporter might receive in a single week, and how the analysis assesses each one.
- New customerHigh
Sample request and price list before our buying committee
A buyer requesting samples, with a committee date that leaves little time for shipping. Marked high priority and flagged as an opportunity.
- Notice and warningHigh
Additional customs duty on textiles from 1 November
Shipments loaded before the effective date retain the previous rate, so action is required now. The rationale states the duty and the date.
- Notice and warningNormal
Export credit interest rates updated
A cost change for new applications, with existing loans unaffected. Worth noting, but not a reason to set other work aside.
- PromotionLow
We can find you buyers in Europe, packages from this month
A service offering to sell you leads is promotion, not an opportunity.
The deadline is not always the date in the email
In foreign trade, the effective deadline is often earlier than the stated one. A duty that takes effect in five weeks matters today if your goods must be loaded before then. A buyer's committee meeting next month matters today if samples take three weeks to arrive. The export lens reads warnings with this in mind and states in the rationale what is at stake.
It recognises the warnings that matter in cross-border trade: duty, quota and anti-dumping decisions, sanctions and restricted party lists, certification and labelling rules in target markets, carbon border obligations, freight and port disruptions, and payment and currency regulations.
How it fits into your workflow
You select your sector once, during sign-up. No further configuration is required: you forward emails to your private CatchTheMail address, either manually or through a single Gmail filter, and each message is returned with a category, a priority, a brief rationale and a draft reply.
CatchTheMail never connects to your mailbox. It requests no Gmail or Outlook permissions and sees only the messages you forward. Nothing is sent on your behalf without your approval, and your email is not used to train AI models.
When it is not the right tool
- You want your inbox organised without forwarding any messages. CatchTheMail sees only what you send to it.
- You need customs classification or compliance advice. The analysis highlights what has changed; it does not replace your customs broker or adviser.
- Your buyers mostly contact you through messaging apps rather than email.
Other sectors
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