What does Kadmoon do?

We are a US analytics firm focused entirely on foreign trade. We turn the data buried in your customs, logistics, and ERP systems into decisions: landed cost and margin, duty and tariff exposure, shipment visibility and OTIF, customs and compliance analytics, inventory, and an executive control tower. Everything is built on a governed model, delivered on the Microsoft stack, and lives in your own tenant.

Do we have to be a Microsoft shop?

No. Your data can live anywhere: SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, broker and carrier systems, EDI and ACE, or spreadsheets. We read from the system of record wherever it runs. We deliver the analytics on the Microsoft stack, Fabric, Power BI, and Azure, because it is a strong, governed place to build, but the platform is the how, not the point.

Why only foreign trade?

Because trade analytics fails when it is built by people who do not know trade. Landed cost, duty, incoterms, bonded inventory, HTS classification, denied-party screening, and ACE are not edge cases to us, they are the metrics we model every day. That focus is why we arrive with the trade data model and KPIs ready instead of learning your business on your budget.

Where does the data come from?

From the systems you already run. We land raw data in your tenant, shape it into a governed semantic model, and feed the dashboards from there. Carrier EDI and customs messages are parsed into structured events, so milestones, exceptions, and filings become data you can measure instead of documents you have to read. The data integration doc goes into detail.

How does a project start?

Usually with a trade data assessment: a short, fixed-scope engagement that maps your decisions and data and delivers first dashboards in about two weeks. It de-risks the larger build and produces a scope and a quote grounded in your real data. You leave with working analytics, not a slide deck.

Do you build software too?

Yes, and it grows out of the analytics. Living in a client’s trade data is where our software starts: once we understand the operation, we build the systems that run it, customs filing, trade ERP, inventory, and security vision. Analytics is what we lead with and deliver today; the software is what we build as the relationship deepens.

Do we own the analytics and the data?

Yes. Everything we build is yours: the semantic model, the reports, and the data, all inside your own tenant, with documentation and a full handover. Access is provisioned per engagement against your identity provider and policies. We support and evolve it on a defined agreement after launch, but you are never locked in or dependent on us to keep operating.

Which regions and company sizes do you serve?

We are a US firm serving American importers, exporters, brokers, forwarders, 3PLs, ports, and the manufacturers and distributors that trade across borders. We work with growing operations and established enterprises alike; the common thread is that moving goods across borders is central to the business and the numbers have to be right.

Glossary | Docs

A short reference for the terms that come up in trade analytics. Where a term has a strict regulatory meaning, the definition here is the working one we use in reporting.

Trade and customs

HTS: the Harmonized Tariff Schedule code that classifies a good and sets its duty rate.
ACE: the Automated Commercial Environment, the US system brokers file entries through.
Denied-party screening: checking counterparties against sanctions and restricted-party lists.
Duty drawback: a refund of duty paid on imported goods that are later exported.
Bonded and FTZ: inventory held under customs control where duty is deferred or suspended.
Landed cost: the full cost of a good delivered, freight, duty, and fees included.
CBP: US Customs and Border Protection, which administers imports and collects duty.
Country of origin: where a good is from for tariff and preference purposes; it drives which tariff regime applies.
ISF (10+2): the importer security filing required before an ocean shipment loads.
Entry summary (7501): the filing that reports classification, value, origin, and duty on an import.
Liquidation: CBP’s final determination of duty owed, which closes an entry.
Incoterms: the standard terms (2020 edition) that set who bears cost and risk and who clears import.
USMCA: the US-Mexico-Canada free-trade agreement, with rules of origin for duty-free treatment.

Tariffs and duties

Customs value: the value duties are assessed on, usually the transaction value plus statutory additions.
Section 301: tariffs on unfair trade practices, imposed by the USTR; the China program is the main example.
Section 232: tariffs on national-security grounds, originally steel and aluminum, expanded to more goods since.
AD/CVD: antidumping and countervailing duties on dumped or subsidized goods, specific to order and producer.
MPF and HMF: the merchandise processing fee (ad valorem, with a floor and cap) and harbor maintenance fee (ocean imports).
De minimis: the low-value import exemption, historically $800, significantly curtailed in recent US policy.
Effective duty rate: total duties and fees over total entered value, the blended rate actually paid.

Logistics

OTIF: on-time in-full, a delivery met in both timing and quantity.
Demurrage: a charge for keeping a container at the terminal beyond free time.
Detention: a charge for keeping carrier equipment beyond the agreed window.
EDI: electronic data interchange, the message standard carriers and partners exchange.
3PL: a third-party logistics provider that runs warehousing or transport for others.

Analytics

Semantic model: the governed layer that defines each KPI once for every report.
Row-level security: a rule set that limits each viewer to the rows they may see.
Lineage: the traceable path from a reported number back to its source data.
Lakehouse: a storage pattern that keeps raw and modeled data in one governed place.