How it works
From first contact to closed and proven.
Every commodity deal moves through the same five stages. Most desks stitch them together across email, chat apps, spreadsheets, and a separate screening tool. TradeFlow OS runs all five in one place.
Identify
Automated KYC screening and KYB verification establish who you are dealing with before anything moves.
→Connect
Post buy, sell, and service interest. Smart Match surfaces compatible counterparties and opens a channel.
→Negotiate
Run the deal in a shared room with chat, voice notes, term sheets, and tracked revisions.
→Document & Sign
Generate any of 15 trade documents and capture immutable, hash-stamped electronic signatures.
→Prove
Attach a provenance passport so the chain of custody travels with the commodity, publicly verifiable.
Stage 01 · Identify
Know who you're dealing with, first.
Before a kilo moves, establish identity. KYC + AML confirms the person and screens them against sanctions and watchlists, KYB verifies the business itself, and on-demand screening checks every counterparty.
KYC + AML & KYB
Identity and business verification, built in
KYC + AML confirms your own identity with a government ID and a live selfie across 220+ countries, then screens you against 1300+ sanctions and watchlists, decided automatically with no manual review. KYB, a paid-plan feature, confirms your company exists through registry and incorporation checks, identifies and screens every ultimate beneficial owner, and runs entity AML and sanctions screening against 1300+ global lists. Sanctions screening also runs on demand for any counterparty.
- 1300+ lists across dozens of jurisdictions: OFAC, UN, EU, UK, SECO, BIS, Interpol, MAS, and more
- PASS / REVIEW / FLAG outcomes with risk tiers and confidence scores
- Every ultimate beneficial owner screened during KYB
- AI web-research summary: registration, ownership, and adverse-media signal (unverified research aid)
Business Verified
KYBMeridian Commodities Ltd
Beneficial owners
Compliance
PASSMeridian Commodities
16 lists checked · 0 matches
Stage 03 · Negotiate
Run the whole deal in one room.
Once a match becomes a conversation, the deal room keeps everything, and everyone, in sync.
Deal rooms + messaging
Chat, voice, terms, and a full audit trail
Invite counterparties with role-based access and negotiate in real time. Text and voice messages, shared files, a term sheet, and a timeline that records every change as it happens.
- Real-time chat with voice notes and file sharing
- Term sheets with propose-and-approve revisions ('suggest edits')
- A live timeline of stage changes, documents, and participants
- Trade-flow guide that tracks signatures and required documents per stage
Deal Chat
Gold Bullion · 500 kgAssay report attached. Can we lock the price formula?
Sending the revised FCO now.
Stage 04 · Document & Sign
Generate it. Sign it. Prove it later.
15 document types
Trade paperwork with cryptographic signatures
Generate any of 15 compliance and commercial documents with an AI-assisted wizard, then capture tamper-evident electronic signatures, each sealed in an HMAC-SHA-256 hash chain with a timestamp and party label, and verifiable on a public page.
- ICPO, FCO, SCO, LOI, MOU, NCNDA, IMFPA, CIS, KYC, SPA, invoices, B/L, AWB, and more
- Immutable signatures with a verifiable hash audit trail
- Share with view or edit permission and an expiry
- Built-in fraud-watch guidance on the highest-risk document types
Signature
SignedFCO · Full Corporate Offer
SHA256 a3f9…d21c · 31 May 2026, 14:30
Stage 05 · Prove
Provenance that travels with the goods.
SourceProof
A custody chain anyone can verify
Attach a provenance passport and record every custody event from extraction to delivery, with evidence and commodity-specific compliance checklists. Share a public link that needs no login.
- Custody timeline: extraction, assay, transport, export, refining, delivery
- OECD minerals, energy, and agriculture compliance checklists
- Evidence documents per event: assays, permits, certificates of origin
- Public verification link for buyers, auditors, and regulators
SourceProof
VerifiedGold · 500 kg · 99.5%
- Extraction · Ghana
- Assay · LBMA refiner
- Export · customs cleared
- Delivery · Zürich
OECD due diligence · publicly verifiable