The UFLPA detention response,
organized before the first meeting.
A forced-labor detention is document-heavy and deadline-bound, and the first hours of a matter go to sorting what the client has against what CBP asks for. The Detention Decoder does that sorting. It reads the CBP notice, computes the response window from the notice date, checks the client's documents against the evidence categories in CBP's UFLPA guidance, cross-checks them for the mismatches an officer flags, and assembles the set into one package.
The argument stays yours. The executive summary arrives with the facts filled in and the “why the goods should be released” line blank, because that is legal judgment and the tool does not make it. Nothing is stored, and nothing is filed.
What it does
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Reads the notice.Upload the CBP notice, or answer a short questionnaire. The notice is read into structured fields behind a consent gate and then discarded. The hold type and the deadline are computed by deterministic code from those fields — the model only extracts; it never classifies or sets a date.
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Checks the evidence.For a UFLPA hold, the cited evidence checklist follows CBP's UFLPA guidance and the attachment to the notice of detention. Each of the client's documents is read for its key fields (and discarded), matched to a category, and cross-checked against the others — names, addresses, date order, completeness, translations — with each check returning consistent, please verify, or not enough to say.
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Assembles the package.Everything is arranged the way CBP's guidance describes a submission — executive summary, annotated index, the evidence by category — and zipped in the browser. The pathway (applicability review or exception request) is surfaced as the direction the notice leans, never as a decision.
The diagnosis, the deadline, the checklist and the cross-check are free. The assembled, branded package is a one-time $149, paid by whoever downloads it — a client before the intake call, or the firm on the client's behalf.
What the package contains
One ZIP, assembled in the browser from the notice and the documents the client added. Because nothing is stored, it downloads once; the client keeps the file.
- Read-me-first.pdf
- The guide: what each file is, how the tool used the documents, how the consistency checks work, and what remains for the attorney. Plain text if the PDF render is unavailable.
- Executive-summary.docx
- An editable executive summary with the case facts filled in and the argument left blank — plus an annotated index of the documents, the evidence checklist, a supply-chain summary, and every consistency flag written into an “items to reconcile” section at the top. Plain text if the render service is briefly unavailable.
- CBP-notice
- The CBP notice, in the format it was uploaded.
- Evidence/
- The client's own documents, arranged by the evidence categories CBP's UFLPA guidance names, with a note on each.
Every fact in the executive summary traces back to something read from an input. The tool does not rephrase, summarize or interpret the documents, and the places that call for judgment — the legal argument, the supply-chain narrative — are left for you.
What it does not do
- —It does not argue the case, decide the pathway, or assess sufficiency. Those are yours.
- —It does not file anything. The submission through the CBP Forced Labor Portal is led by the attorney or a licensed customs broker. Tiana & Co. is not a licensed customs broker and does not conduct customs business.
- —It does not store the notice or the documents. Each is read for its fields on the server and discarded; the package is built in the browser.
- —It does not promise a release, and it is not legal advice — to the client or to you.
- —It does not need a client document to run. The questionnaire path produces the hold type, the deadline and the checklist with nothing uploaded and no client identified.
Using it in a practice
Before the intake call
Send the client the link. They arrive at the first meeting with the hold type and the deadline already read off the notice, the documents already sorted against CBP's categories, and the mismatches already flagged — so the meeting starts on strategy rather than inventory.
Inside the firm
A paralegal runs the client's documents through it and opens the executive summary in Word. The consistency flags sit at the top of that document, in context, where the response is written beside them.
Try the full package free for 30 days — use it on as many real matters as you like. No signup, no card, nothing to cancel. Ask by email and your firm's access link goes out the same day.
The fastest test is a closed matter: run its notice, or answer the questions from it, and compare the hold type and the deadline against what the file shows. Where a client's document goes, what is kept and what is discarded is set out on the data-handling page, written for a firm's compliance review.
Get your free trial linksupport@tiana-co.comHow it is built
Hold-type routing and the deadline are deterministic code; a language model is used for one thing, reading the words on a page into fields, and it cannot set either. Every checklist item cites the CBP document it comes from. The consistency checks are a named, fixed set, each a prompt to verify rather than a determination.
Tiana & Co. is a research and preparation tool, not a law firm and not a licensed customs broker. The public guides below cover the same ground in the open — the pathways, the evidence CBP looks for, the deadlines — with the primary sources cited.
Try it on the next notice that lands.
Open the Detention Decoder