Trava

We would reach for Trava when duty spend is large enough that a single misclassified SKU, repeated across a year of entries, is real money. The pitch is honest about the gap it fills: brokers file on deadline and generally are not paid to hunt for savings, consultants sample a slice, and Trava audits every entry and keeps monitoring new ones after the initial pass. The 72-hour first report is the part that makes this easy to trial — you see flagged overpayments quickly and can judge the quality of the calls yourself. Where it bites is the workflow handoff. Trava is explicitly not a broker and files nothing with CBP, so the refund or correction only happens if your broker picks it up and runs it. If your broker is resistant or slow, recovered duties stall regardless of how good the audit is — and refunds usually take several months even when everyone cooperates. Budget for the chase, not just the finding. We also like the split between deterministic rule logic and AI research. For customs work, an AI that proposes an HTS code with citations you can verify is far more useful than one that just asserts an answer. The one-click approval and broker handoff keeps a human in the loop, which is the right shape for anything touching CBP. Compared with a customs consultant, the tradeoff is coverage versus human judgment at the shepherding stage — Trava scales to every entry but still relies on experts and your broker to validate and execute. If you want a fully self-serve tool you run alone, this is not it; there is an expert-service layer baked in. When to pass: low-volume importers where duty savings won't clear the cost, and any team importing outside the US — this is US-only. Tariff Engineering is still on a waitlist, so don't buy on that module today. Ask for a demo and