Sphere, Inc.

AI for global trade compliance

Sphere applies AI to trade compliance, which it identifies as one of the last and largest remaining transaction costs in global commerce. The difficulty is structural: trade rules are not reference data to look up but a complex adaptive system spanning 190-plus sovereign jurisdictions, written in different languages, changing constantly and reacting to each other. Its TRAM system ingests global trade law, interprets it, resolves cross-jurisdictional conflicts and produces determinations, handling calculation, registration, filing and remittance at millisecond latency. Customers include ElevenLabs and Replit, with over 30% month-over-month growth.