Compliance intelligence,
built for the businesses that never had it.
Serious import compliance used to be a big-company privilege. If you had a legal department, someone checked, before you wired a deposit, whether a supplier turned up on a forced-labor watch list, whether a sanctions issue was buried in the paperwork, what certification your product might need. Everyone else guessed.
That stopped being survivable. Forced-labor enforcement keeps widening, new CPSC rules demand exact data at customs entry, and the people getting caught aren't the ones with legal teams. They're solo founders, private-label sellers, and small importers with no compliance desk behind them.
Tiana & Co. exists to close that gap: the same public sources a big importer's team searches, cited so you can check every finding yourself, in plain language, priced per report, with no retainer and no subscription.
What it does
Before you commit.Screen a supplier against the forced-labor and sanctions lists U.S. Customs uses, and find out which agencies regulate the product — each finding cited, so you can check it yourself, before a deposit goes out.
Before the paperwork goes out.Prepare the data and documents an import needs, and check a set is complete and consistent before it reaches a customs broker — fewer round-trips, fewer surprises at the border.
When a shipment is held.Make sense of a customs notice — what kind of hold it is, the deadline, and the path back — and organize the response to bring to a broker or a customs attorney.
Each moment is a focused tool — some paid per report, several free. See them on the import journey, and the set grows as the work does.
To see the tools run before using one: each has a short video of it working through a real example, and most guide questions have a video answer under a minute, all on YouTube.
How we build
Behind each report, the matching and the verdicts are ordinary deterministic code — the same supplier and the same lists produce the same answer every time, and no language model can move a verdict. AI writes one thing: the plain-language paragraph explaining what a finding means, checked against the sources before it reaches you. Every finding shows its work, cited to the official source, so you can confirm it yourself.
We separate what we know from what we suspect, and we're honest about what we couldn't check. And we stay in our lane: we're a research and screening tool, not a licensed broker. We help you understand and prepare; your broker makes the final filing. That line protects you as much as us.
An example
Catching a forced-labor risk before the deposit
A demonstration using a fictional supplier, not a real customer.
A private-label seller is about to place a first order for children's cotton pajamas and is ready to wire a deposit to a new manufacturer, Crestline Textile Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Before paying, they run Screen a Supplier.
The report comes back with three independent checks:
- Forced-labor watch list — flagged for review. The submitted name resembles a shorter form of an entity on the UFLPA Entity List. The report is explicit about the limit of that signal: the government list publishes only a name, aliases, category, and country — so the resemblance is not, on its own, proof of a match, and a licensed customs or trade attorney should review it before proceeding. What it does mean: if it is the same company, U.S. Customs can hold shipments at the border on that basis.
- Federal sanctions — clear. No match on OFAC's SDN list, OFAC's Consolidated list, or the U.S. Consolidated Screening List. The report names each list it searched.
- CPSC certificate flag. Children's sleepwear is checked against CPSC's flagged-code list for the product's HTS code.
The point of the example: the flag surfaced before the deposit — the cheap moment to catch it — with every finding cited to its source, rather than after a shipment was made, paid for, and detained.
Where it's going
Re-screening when watch lists change, deeper report types, richer official data sources. We add them as they're genuinely ready, and when something's still coming, we show it as coming.
Big importers have had this intelligence for years. Now it's yours.
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