Passage is a co-pilot for the customs brokering space. 

Today, companies employ entire teams of customs brokers and entry writers who spend hours keying in data and corresponding with clients. 

With our co-pilot, we plan to streamline this tedious data entry work, and email correspondence, making compliance teams significantly more efficient
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### Clear your goods in minutes, with AI

Passage is a co-pilot for the customs brokering space. Today, companies employ entire teams of customs brokers and entry writers who spend hours keying in data and corresponding with clients. With our co-pilot, we plan to streamline this tedious data entry work, and email correspondence, making compliance teams significantly more efficient



Passage

Founded:2024

Team Size:2

Location:San Francisco

### Active Founders

### Terrell Marshall, Founder

Terrell Marshall is the co-founder and CEO of Passage. Before Passage, Terrell worked on AI products with over 1 billion users at Google, like Google Photos, Google Payments, and Hotels Search, and as a software engineer at Workday. Before that, Terrell studied computer science where he met his co-founder Aditya Nadkarni and created a patent for an AI Physical Therapy Platform



### Aditya Nadkarni, Founder

Aditya Nadkarni is the co-founder and CTO of Passage. Together with his co-founder, Terrell Marshall, they make customs and logistics workflows more efficient and better through the application of new technologies. Aditya spearheads the development of their platform, drawing from his experience at Flexport's AI and document processing team, and Artera, a start-up streamlining doctor-patient communication.



### Company Launches

[### 🧭 Passage - Clearing goods just got easier](

**tldr:** [Passage]( is an AI co-pilot that helps businesses clear their imported goods through customs.

**🙏 Our Ask**
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*   **Do you (or someone you know) work in logistics?** Whether you import goods, move goods (e.g., freight forwarders), or clear goods (e.g., customs brokerages), let us buy you a coffee and book some time with us [here!](
*   Just want to give Passage a spin? Try it [here]( for a limited time!

**⛔️ The Problem**
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*   Every company that brings goods into the US (e.g., Apple, IKEA) needs to clear it through customs
*   The problem is that clearing customs is super complicated. It has tons of manual work, and if a business screws it up, they face thousands in penalties
*   This leads to businesses spending hundreds of thousands on customs services, only to spend hours on manual data entry and searching complex regulations



**⚙️ The Solution**
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*   To tackle this, we’ve built a co-pilot to make clearing customs easier than ever for businesses
*   Have teams of people manually keying in data? We’ll help streamline the tedious data entry from shipping documents, so your team can spend time on the things that matter
*   Worried about submitting incorrect data to the government? We’ll check that the data is consistent across all your shipping documents and proactively flag if there’s anything that doesn’t line up



*   Struggle to understand complex regulations or classify products? We plug directly into key government resources like the code of federal regulations and product tariff schedule so you can clear your goods without the fear of huge penalties



**🧑‍🤝‍🧑 The Team**
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[Aditya]( and I ([Terrell]( are friends from college and even have a patent for an AI physical therapy platform. Since college, we’ve moved in together as roommates in San Francisco and have worked on AI products at Flexport and Google. Aditya helped build the AI document processing platform at Flexport (which is how we first learned of the many issues in the logistics industry), and Terrell shipped AI editing features used by Google Photos’ +1B user base.



Above is a photo of us after skydiving :) 🪂

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