AI Trade Document Extraction
The Diagnosis
Trade documents were re-keyed by hand for every shipment.
The Prescription
AI document extraction validating bills of lading and invoices.
The Relief
Removed 900 manual data-entry hours per month.
Case notes
A commodity trading & import/export operation came to Devlynks with a familiar set of symptoms. Trade documents were re-keyed by hand for every shipment. Our diagnosis phase mapped the full workflow, quantified the hours lost, and identified the highest-leverage points to intervene. AI document extraction validating bills of lading and invoices. We rolled out in phases with the operations team embedded throughout, migrating historical data, training key users, and instrumenting every process so improvement could be measured rather than assumed. Removed 900 manual data-entry hours per month. The system now runs as the daily backbone of the operation, with a support retainer covering monitoring and continuous optimisation.