For Amazon and Shopify brands that import their inventory from overseas factories
Watch landed cost per unit before duties and fees erase your margin
Your prices were set off a landed cost from a spreadsheet you built a year ago. Since then the factory nudged prices, duty rates changed, and the customs broker added fees. Each bill looks small, so nobody adds it up per unit until margin is already gone.
What it can cost you
Example: 20,000 units a year with landed cost up $1.10 a unit nobody priced in = $22,000 a year.An illustration, not a promise. Your Opportunity Scan puts a real number on it.
What the system checks overnight
- Builds landed cost per unit for each PO from factory price, freight share, duty, broker fees, and inbound 3PL fees.
- Compares that number to the landed cost your current pricing assumes.
- Flags duty lines on a customs entry whose rate differs from prior entries for the same product.
- Flags new or larger broker and port fees compared to past shipments.
- Flags factory price increases on the supplier invoice versus the last PO.
- Shows margin per SKU after Amazon fees at today's price.
Where it reads from
- QuickBooks Online or Xero (bills)
- Gmail or Outlook (customs broker entries and supplier invoices)
- Google Sheets (cost model)
- Amazon Seller Central (fee reports)
Published tariff and duty rate changes for the product codes you already import under, so a change shows up before your next entry.
What happens when it fires
You decide whether to reprice, renegotiate with the factory, or absorb it. The system updates the cost model and drafts a note to your customs broker or supplier asking about the change.
Autonomy level: Suggest only. The brief tells you what changed and what to do. Nothing happens without you.
What we guarantee
Landed cost per unit rebuilt for every PO within a day of its last bill arriving. We agree on the metric before the Sprint starts and measure it over the first 20 business days after go-live. If we miss it, you get half your Sprint fee back. Dollar savings are tracked in your monthly saves log, reported rather than promised.
Questions
Will it tell me which tariff code to use?
No. Classification is a call for your customs broker. The system only watches what you actually paid on the codes you already use and tells you when it changed.
Our costs are spread across emails, bills, and a spreadsheet. Is that a problem?
That is the normal starting point. It reads all three and keeps one landed cost per PO, and asks you when a bill cannot be matched to a shipment.
Do I need new software for this?
No. The system reads from the tools you already use, with read-only access by default. A guardrail layer controls exactly which data the AI can see.
What does it cost?
A 3-week Sprint is $6,000 fixed and includes the morning brief plus one automation tied to an agreed metric. Ongoing support is $1,500 a month, or $500 a month to keep it running without new automations. If the agreed metric is missed over the first 20 business days after go-live, half the Sprint fee is refunded.
How is this different from a dashboard app or a free AI kit?
A dashboard app shows numbers when you go look. A free AI kit gives you the parts, and you do the setup, the upkeep, and the checking. Here the alarms are built for your kind of business, they watch outside data like market rates and rule changes alongside yours, and on Run or Keep-Running, the person who built them keeps them working and logs what they caught.
More alarms for E-commerce importers
Seven more things worth watching.
- Freight quote swingsCompare every forwarder quote against your lane history and other forwarders before you book, so a padded ocean or air quote gets caught in time.
- Stockout before the reorder landsKnow which SKUs will run out before the next PO arrives, using real sell-through on Amazon and Shopify plus your factory lead time and transit.
- Buy Box loss or listing suppressionGet flagged when an ASIN loses the Buy Box, gets suppressed, picks up a new seller, or has stranded inventory, before days of sales slip away.
- Ad spend efficiency driftSpot campaigns, search terms, and bid rules that are quietly raising ACOS and TACOS, so ad spend goes back to what actually sells.
- 3PL receiving delays and count gapsMatch every inbound shipment to its packing list at your 3PL and FBA, and flag slow receiving or short counts while you can still file a claim.
- Return rate spikes by SKUFlag SKUs and variants whose return rate jumps, group the return reasons, and tie the spike to a factory batch so you can act fast.
- Cash tied up in slow inventoryFind the SKUs holding your cash with weeks of supply, aged storage fees, and next PO payments in view, so you can clear them on purpose.