Seed pitch deck · 2026

Customs work, on co-pilot.

AI customs automation for brokers, freight forwarders, and trade teams.

Seed pitch deck · 2026

Customs work, on co-pilot.

AI customs automation for brokers, freight forwarders, and trade teams.

The problem

Brokers spend days clearing what should take minutes.

Customs brokers spend 60–80% of working hours on manual classification, data entry, and follow-up — not on filings themselves.

Why now

Three forces, converging.

AI

Grounded LLMs are finally good enough

Tool-use, retrieval, and structured reasoning crossed the threshold in 2024–25 — AI can now classify HS codes against live tariff feeds with citation, not guesswork.

REGULATION

Compliance complexity is exploding

EU ICS2 fully in force, e-invoicing mandates rolling across the bloc, post-Brexit friction sticky. Every shipment is more declaration work, not less.

LABOR

Brokers are retiring faster than replaced

Nordic customs brokers are aging out and recruiting is broken. The work doesn't shrink — only the people doing it do.

The solution

From invoice to declaration — in minutes.

1

EXTRACT

invoices to structured lines

  • AI reads commercial invoices
  • Splits combined carrier PDFs
  • Pulls qty, value, origin, weight
2

CLASSIFY

HS + duty from live feeds

  • Top HS candidates with confidence
  • Duty, excise, VAT, landed cost
  • Sourced from each authority's feed
3

FILE

declaration-ready exports

  • One-click export per shipment
  • Full audit trail and citations
  • Drop into your TMS — no rework
Product · Tariff calculator

Know the landed cost before it lands.

Tariff calculator
Destination
🇩🇰 DK🇫🇴 FO🇳🇴 NO🇬🇧 GB
Origin
🇨🇴 CO — Colombia
Goods description
Roasted coffee beans, not decaffeinated
Quantity
100,00
Weight (kg)
1.000,00
1 · BEST MATCH0901.21.00.00
99.7%
DK Toldstyrelsen · live feed
Customs value10 000,00
Duty · 7.5% · MFN750,00
Excise · 7.67/kg7 670,00
Freight2 500,00
VAT · 25%5 230,00
Total landed costDKK 26 150,00
Other candidates: 0901.22.00.00 0901.11.00.00
Defensibility

Three moats, compounding.

Grounded AI on live customs data — defensible by design.

99.7% classification accuracy across 26,000+ live line items.
REGULATORY MOAT

Live authority integrations

Direct feeds from 7 customs authorities, re-ingested whenever they publish. New authorities take weeks, not quarters.

TAKS · FOToldstyrelsen · DKTARIC · EUTolletaten · NOHMRC · UKCBSA · CAUSITC HTS · US
DATA MOAT

Classification dataset that compounds

26K+ classified line items reviewed by real brokers. Every shipment makes the next classification more accurate.

DISTRIBUTION MOAT

Embedded in the Nordic broker network

12 paying customers including Bakkafrost, Samskip, and Posta. Brokers refer brokers — the network compounds faster than competitors can cold-call.

Traction

Traction.

Live production data, active non-internal companies — H1 2026 to date.

€31.9M
customs value cleared
+59.7% vs prev period
12,237
invoices processed
+573% vs prev period
99.7%
classification accuracy
+2.7pp
12
paying customers
€5.4K
MRR
26,293
line items classified
1,418
shipments cleared
~5,100
broker-hours saved
MRR growth · €K / month
today → €5.4K
€1.1K
Jan
€1.9K
Feb
€2.8K
Mar
€3.8K
Apr
€4.6K
May
€5.4K
Jun
Customs value cleared · €M / month
cumulative → €31.9M
€0.4M
Jan
€2.1M
Feb
€5.8M
Mar
€12.1M
Apr
€6.7M
May
€3.7M
Jun
Customers

12 paying customers — including the marquee names of Nordic trade.

Posta
Faroe Ship
Bakkafrost
Samskip
Norlink
KJ
Skálkur
Borg
Føroya Keypssamtøka
Rit & Rák
Kanjon
Tangavirkið
Radiobúðin
Market

A €25B market hiding inside broker payrolls.

Customs is priced as labor today. The software line is small; the labor line is enormous and automatable.

TAM
€25B

Global customs software + automatable broker labor

~600K customs pros × ~€65K loaded cost × ~60% automatable + ~€2B existing customs software
SAM
€350M

Nordics + Northern Europe brokers & forwarders

~7,000 firms × ~6 customs seats × €8K ACV
SOM
€6M ARR

3-year reachable, design-partner expansion

500 customers × €12K ACV by year 3
Competitive landscape

Customs is moving from paper to intelligence.

Customs 1.0

Paper & EDI

Forms, faxes, edifact files. Classification is a human's job; tariff books live in drawers.

  • Legacy broker software
  • National EDI portals
  • In-house Excel
Customs 2.0

TMS bolt-ons

Customs as a sidecar inside the TMS. Faster forms, still manual HS. Tariff data updated quarterly.

  • e-AWB tools
  • Carrier portals
  • TMS plugins
Customs 3.0

Zakk — AI-native, authority-grounded

Invoices in, declaration-ready files out — with citations to live authority feeds. Knowledge compounds.

  • Live feeds from 7 authorities
  • Reasoning across HS graph
  • Auto-extract from any invoice
  • Continuous, never stale
Team

Founders.

Built and shipped together before.

R

Robert Sivertsen

CEO & Co-Founder

Product, GTM, sales, and customer success. Previously CEO at Brúsá and led growth at Aarstiderne, Wired Relations, and Havas.

linkedin.com/in/rrsivertsen
R

Rói Holgarsson

CTO & Co-Founder

AI engineer with MSc in AI & Algorithms from DTU. A decade of full-stack .NET and applied AI across Faroese and Danish tech.

linkedin.com/in/holgarsson
E

Eiler Poulsen

Senior Software Engineer & Co-Founder

Full-stack engineer with MSc from ITU Copenhagen. 10+ years shipping enterprise software at Trifork and Klintra.

linkedin.com/in/eilerpoulsen
Vision · 2036

The customs engine for agentic trade.

Customs is shifting from a document process to a data process. Companies shouldn't rebuild their operations for every new authority, rule, or market — they should connect once to an engine that keeps evolving.

TODAY
BY 2036
Fixed ERP integrations
Agentic integration layer
Manual broker workflows
Reasoning + orchestration engine
Spreadsheets & tribal knowledge
Reusable compliance memory
Cloud-only AI
Sovereign agent network
Customs as back-office burden
Customs as infrastructure
Shipment-by-shipment learning lost
Product knowledge graph that compounds

By 2036, customer agents connect to Zakk's network. Sensitive data stays sovereign. Customs becomes infrastructure companies trust — not a function they fight.

Shared customs intelligence. Sovereign data control.

The ask

Ask: €268K seed (20%)

€1.34M pre-money valuation

24 months of runway to take Zakk from the Nordics to every customs authority that matters.

€1.5M ARR5 new authorities live150 paying customers
60%

ENGINEERING

  • More authority feeds
  • TMS integrations
  • Multi-tenant audit
  • Enterprise SSO + SLA
40%

GO-TO-MARKET

  • Design-partner pilots
  • Broker association presence
  • Repeatable inbound motion
  • Content + comparison SEO
Vision · 2036

The customs engine for agentic trade.

Fixed ERP integrationsAgentic integration layer
Manual broker workflowsReasoning + orchestration engine
Spreadsheets & tribal knowledgeReusable compliance memory

Shared customs intelligence. Sovereign data control.

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