GingerControl
Also known as: Ginger, Gingercontrol, Flowyth Co, Live AI Compliance Hub, HTS Classification Researcher
AI trade compliance infrastructure whose HTS classification researcher applies GRI legal reasoning and clarifying questions to produce audit ready classifications, tariff calculations, and policy alerts.
GingerControl, built by Flowyth Co in Austin, is an AI trade compliance platform that has grown from an HTS classification researcher into an audit layer for global trade spend. It re-reasons duty decisions, reconciles purchase orders to customs entries, audits the charges built into customs value and flags recoverable leakage. Its free Live AI Compliance Hub offers the working instruments with no sign up.
The HTS Classification Researcher follows the General Rules of Interpretation rather than text matching, detects when GRI 3(b) essential character analysis applies, reads CROSS rulings as active decision inputs, asks clarifying questions derived from the legal framework instead of assuming, and supports pausing a case to gather missing information and resuming with progress preserved. A Tariff Calculator covers the full United States tariff stack (base duty, Section 301, Section 232, Section 122 and Chapter 99), with stacking, exclusions and side by side comparison across more than 200 countries of origin.
The Hub also carries a daily Trade Policy Digest and ECCN export classification. Compliance Radar monitors regulation around the clock and fires reclassification alerts when a change touches the customer's products, with one click recalculation. Every classification produces an audit ready reasoning chain, GRI citations, Section and Chapter Notes, ruling references and a staged determination to the ten digit level, with confidence scores and timestamps, built for CBP reasonable care and CF-28 response, and outputs are research for review by a licensed customs broker, whom the platform does not replace.
A REST API returns a code and full duty breakdown for one product or batches of 200, has processed over 100,000 classifications a day in production, and integrates into ERP systems. Custom agentic and audit system builds are offered as consulting engagements of eight to sixteen weeks. Security includes encryption by default, a Zero Trust posture and configurable per organization retention, with ISO 27001 alignment and SOC 2 Type II readiness stated, not certified. The Hub is free, and API, enterprise and builds are quoted.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://gingercontrol.com
Category
Enterprise operations agent
Funding status
Seed
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
OpenAPI with a batch endpoint that classifies up to 200 items per request and returns the full tariff stack, request based tiers from 1,000 to over 100,000 classifications per day, and ERP integration for checkout, declaration, and reclassification workflows.
In practice
Your team needs to classify a new product and its essential character is unclear. GingerControl's HTS Classification Researcher applies the General Rules of Interpretation, asks clarifying questions instead of assuming, and lets you pause the case while you check with the manufacturer, then resume where you left off.
A new tariff action lands and your team doesn't know which of its products it touches. GingerControl's Compliance Radar monitors regulation around the clock, fires a reclassification alert when a change affects your products, and recalculates duty with one click.
Your team classifies a large product catalog and needs the results in its own systems. GingerControl's REST API returns the HTS code and full tariff stack for one product or batches of up to 200, and every classification comes with an audit ready reasoning chain for CBP reasonable care review.
Sources & related URLs
Agentic Index coverage score
8.0 / 14 capabilities · 57%
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Customers get two paths. One is an autonomous trade compliance agent. The other is an AI native GTM platform that integrates directly with the customer's ERP and existing systems. There is no connector catalog, no custom tool route and no outbound authenticated action into another system. ERP and TMS integrations come from the AI Agentic System Build, a per client engagement, not from the platform. The API can be wired into SAP GTS, Oracle GTM or NetSuite, and those calls run inbound into the platform. SourceGingerControl, gingercontrol.com/faqread 2026-09-07 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Partial |
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The trade compliance agent handles classification, monitoring, reclassification and alerts autonomously. The audit layer reruns the reasoning on duty decisions, reconciles purchase orders to entries and audits the charges in customs value. GingerControl runs this multi step domain pipeline itself. Customers do not compose their own flows, the work does not run across multiple agents, and no runtime is named. SourceGingerControl, gingercontrol.com/faqread 2026-09-07 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Full |
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Classification runs on a maintained knowledge structure. A GRI 1 to 6 reasoning engine works over a database of more than 20,000 HTS codes with sub millisecond lookup, updated in real time for executive orders, USTR actions and CBP rulings. Section and Chapter Notes and CROSS rulings are read as active decision inputs, and per client product masters persist in the platform. SourceGingerControl, gingercontrol.com/faqread 2026-09-07 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Full |
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The AI works with human in the loop checkpoints on every high stakes classification or audit response, and those checkpoints are part of the product. The researcher pauses and asks clarifying questions instead of assuming, and it supports pause and resume while the customer gathers missing detail. Compliance Radar flags policy changes for a person to apply, with one click recalculation. The licensed broker's filing review is the customer's own legal gate, separate from these product checkpoints. SourceGingerControl, gingercontrol.com/trust and gingercontrol.com/faqread 2026-09-07 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Partial |
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Security rests on an ISO 27001 aligned ISMS and SOC 2 Type II ready operations, with a report shareable under NDA. GingerControl is aligned and ready, not attested. Granular RBAC, hierarchical permissions, mandatory MFA and IP allowlisting govern GingerControl's own personnel and production systems, not the customer's organization. Customers can configure retention and opt out per organization and scope features and data by team. There is no SSO and no customer role model. Data is encrypted, the platform follows a Zero Trust posture, and penetration tests run annually. SourceGingerControl, gingercontrol.com/trustread 2026-09-07 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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Every classification produces a full reasoning chain by default. It includes GRI citations, Section and Chapter Notes, CROSS ruling references and a staged determination at the 4, 6, 8 and 10 digit level, with confidence scores and timestamps. Change logs are preserved for evidence. The record shows why the engine landed where it did, and it is built to support CBP reasonable care review and CF 28 response. SourceGingerControl, gingercontrol.com/faq and gingercontrol.com/trustread 2026-09-07 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Partial |
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A classification case can be paused and resumed. The user pauses, gathers missing information from the manufacturer, and resumes the same case without restarting, with progress and reasoning history fully preserved. That working state persists per case beyond a single sitting. There is no separate memory layer, and nothing says how long saved state lasts or how a customer would find and delete it. The per client HTS catalogs are the application's data model, and the selection history is the audit record. SourceGingerControl, gingercontrol.com/faqread 2026-09-07 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Partial |
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Production workloads can be pinned to regions that match the customer's data residency requirements. Enterprise customers can request dedicated environments and custom retention. There is no published region list, and customers cannot pick a region themselves. The dedicated environment is not a standard customer environment option and comes only on request. The private VPCs are GingerControl's own infrastructure. SourceGingerControl, gingercontrol.com/trust and gingercontrol.com/faqread 2026-09-07 |
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| Prebuilt Agents / Templates / Packs | Full |
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The Live AI Compliance Hub carries a set of named instruments a customer picks from and uses immediately, with no sign up. They are the HTS Classification Researcher, the Tariff Calculator, the Trade Policy Digest and ECCN export classification, with Compliance Radar and the Product Sandbox alongside. Each works on its own. The Calculator computes the full tariff stack without the Researcher, and the Digest briefs without either. Customers adopt these instruments as they are, and there is no browsable catalog. SourceGingerControl, gingercontrol.com/faqread 2026-09-07 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Partial |
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Policy changes wake the agents. Regulatory monitoring runs 24/7 and fires automatic reclassification alerts when tariff rules or the HTS schedule change and affect the customer's products. The Trade Policy Digest delivers daily alerts on rate changes. Classification itself is started by a user or arrives through the API. Customers cannot set their own schedules, webhooks or inbound queues. SourceGingerControl, gingercontrol.com/faqread 2026-09-07 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Not documented |
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A purpose built GRI reasoning engine and a multi angle essential character engine, both GingerControl's own, do the work. No model provider is named, and neither customers nor admins can choose a model or routing. SourceGingerControl, gingercontrol.com/faqread 2026-09-07 |
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| APIs / SDKs / MCP Extensibility | Full |
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A REST API serves GingerControl's own platform, with a readable reference page and curl examples against api.gingercontrol.com. A single product endpoint returns the HTS code and full tariff stack. A batch endpoint takes up to 200 items and completes in three to five minutes, and component splitting handles Chapter 91 goods. Production keys are sized to calling patterns, with IP allowlists and peak QPS, and uptime is SLA backed. The API has processed more than 100,000 daily classifications in production. Outside callers can drive the platform entirely through it. SourceGingerControl, gingercontrol.com/products/openapi and gingercontrol.com/products/api-introread 2026-09-07 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Not documented |
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The only evaluation is GingerControl's own. An internal benchmark of more than 1,000 products reports 99.86 percent accuracy, a production accuracy figure is given, and the team pressure tests the classification logic as a release practice. Confidence scores attach to each output, not to a change under test. The audit infrastructure under services is the Audit System Build engagement, not the platform. Customers get no test harness, scored test cases, release gate or optimization loop to run or buy as a layer. SourceGingerControl, gingercontrol.com/products/openapi and gingercontrol.com/faqread 2026-09-07 |
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| Browser / Computer-use | Not documented |
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The agents classify from uploaded documents (PDF, JPG, XLSX) and monitor regulatory sources. That monitoring builds and refreshes the tariff corpus the work later queries. The agents do not operate a browser, desktop or computer at run time. SourceGingerControl, gingercontrol.com/faqread 2026-09-07 |
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Pricing
Free Compliance Hub; API and enterprise by contact
free self serve hub; API keys sized to calling patterns and billed on the key; enterprise and custom builds quoted
What is public
The free Live AI Compliance Hub is public and usable with no sign up. The API is documented publicly with request and response examples, but its price is not: production keys are requested and sized to the customer's calling patterns, and the API key is the sole basis for billing. Custom engagements run eight to sixteen weeks from discovery to go live.
Billing mechanics
Free hub; API billed on the production key, sized to calling patterns; enterprise and the Agentic and Audit System Build engagements quoted.
Variable cost rationale
API pricing is request based across daily volume tiers, so cost scales with classification throughput; a free hub covers light manual use.
Additional watchouts
The free hub is genuinely open, and everything beyond it is quoted; a formerly published credit rate card has been withdrawn.
Sales call required
Mixed (some tiers require a call)
Free / trial
The Live AI Compliance Hub, including the HTS Classification Researcher, Tariff Calculator and Trade Policy Digest, is free to use immediately with no sign up
Lowest paid plan
Not published
Key ambiguities
Exact API tier prices are not published; Compliance Radar is in private beta. The company also sells custom system builds and consulting, quoted separately.
Missing data
No paid rate is published; the former credit pack page redirects to the FAQ and its figures are withdrawn.
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