Altana Acquires Cervo AI to Deliver End-to-End Agentic AI Platform for Customs Brokerage

The acquisition creates the world’s only fully agentic workflow for customs brokers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Altana, the network for trusted trade, today announced it has acquired Cervo AI, whose agentic customs entry writer prepares submission-ready customs entries for global logistics providers. The acquisition gives Altana's logistics customers one holistic AI solution to run the full customs brokerage workflow — and adds to a customer base that now includes 8 of the 10 largest logistics providers in the world.

Customs brokerage, an approximately $45 billion global market, is a historically manual process. Customs brokers enable shipments of goods to cross borders. Licensed professionals classify goods, determine country of origin, calculate duties owed, check free trade program eligibility, and secure the permits that agencies like the FDA require — then turn a flood of emails, EDI feeds, and PDFs into the formal legal filings that clear the shipment.

Altana provides logistics providers and importers with an agentic platform for determining the nature of goods, mapping their provenance, and assigning the full set of customs compliance attributes to the goods. Now, with the addition of Cervo, Altana becomes the only AI platform to offer an end-to-end customs broker workflow — with Cervo automating the writing of customs entries, including PGA filings, from unstructured transactional data. Combining the two platforms creates the only fully-agentic solution for customs brokerage. Cross-border logistics providers can automatically manage and enrich master data, make compliance determinations, process 5x as many entries, and continuously screen and audit their work with AI to maximize compliance.

"Altana is on a mission to fix globalization by re-architecting global trade — building an AI network for trusted trade that connects importers, suppliers, logistics providers, and governments," said Evan Smith, co-founder and CEO of Altana. "With the acquisition of Cervo, our logistics customers can now run and scale their brokerages on a single end-to-end agentic system — from the moment goods are classified to the moment the entry clears. That's what trusted trade at scale looks like."

"We built Cervo to take the most painful, manual work off customs brokers' desks," said Thomas Jiang, co-founder and co-CEO of Cervo AI. "Joining Altana gives us the opportunity to bring that vision to the world's largest logistics providers."

"Altana shares our belief that AI will redefine how global trade operates, and together we're creating the industry's first truly end-to-end AI agentic platform," said Troy Shen, co-founder and co-CEO of Cervo AI.

"By combining Cervo's agentic AI with Altana's trusted trade network, we're building an autonomous platform that learns, adapts, and scales with every shipment," said Jason Kurohara, co-founder and CTO of Cervo AI.

The acquisition further establishes Altana as the category-defining AI network for global trade.

About Altana

Altana is the network for trusted trade, connecting importers, suppliers, and governments through a single, intelligent system of record for products and the value chains behind them. Customs agencies like US CBP use Altana to enforce tariffs and manage their borders. 8 of the largest logistics providers use Altana to efficiently manage cross-border trade, and 140 million buyer-supplier connections are managed on Altana. To learn more, visit altana.ai