Meridian Documents

Your document reviewer
that never gets tired

AI reviews your shipping documents before customs sees them — and gets sharper with every shipment you run through it.

See how it works

No credit card required · Your documents never leave your browser

Live review — what Meridian catches
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FAIL
Wrong health certificate · HC issued to Andina Export SRL, not Pacific Chews Ltd
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HIGH
HAWB consignee name · “GLOBAL PET BRAND INC” should be “GLOBAL PET BRANDS INC”
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FAIL
Invoice mismatch · CI shows Braided Jerky, PL and HC show Pizzle Skin
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HIGH
APHIS permit number missing from AWB · required per permit conditions section 4(b)
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FAIL
Permit expired in transit · HC issued 28 days ago, vessel arrives day 31
✓
PASS
All 22 checks cleared · Ready for departure — no action required
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What makes it different

Not a checklist.
A system that learns.

Generic document tools run the same checks every time. Meridian builds a living profile for each trade lane — learning your suppliers, certificates, regulators, and history. It gets sharper every week, and the knowledge never leaves.

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Upload your permit once — it anchors every review
Upload your APHIS import permit, CFIA licence, or equivalent controlling document once. Meridian extracts your permit number, approved shippers, authorized species vocabulary, and required certifications. Every future review checks against this anchor — not against a generic rulebook.
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Lane intelligence builds automatically after each shipment
After each review, the system learns your supplier's establishment number, your forwarder's AWB series, your health certificate format, your standard weights and package counts. Deviations from your norm get flagged. Normal variation stops generating noise.
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Regulatory knowledge refreshes daily in the background
Every morning, Meridian researches current requirements for your active lanes — CBP, USDA APHIS, FDA, and destination-country authorities. If a rule changes or a new directive takes effect, your reviews reflect it automatically. No manual update. No code change.
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Suppress once — never see it again
When something is acceptable on your lane — an intermediary trading structure, a dual-address situation, a supply chain arrangement — you suppress it with a reason. Meridian stops flagging it permanently. The action items that remain are the ones that actually matter.
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Product knowledge accumulates across all your lanes
What Meridian learns about Bovine Pizzle Skin (HS 051199) on one lane applies immediately to every other lane you operate. Certifications that have caused holds before get flagged proactively across your entire operation — not just where you first encountered the problem.
Institutional memory that survives staff turnover
“CBP questioned the stamp location on the health certificate — accepted after 2 hours. Stamp must appear in Section 17, not the margin.”
One click. That note is added to your lane knowledge permanently. Every future review checks for it. Even if the person who experienced it leaves the company, the knowledge stays.
The time math

5 minutes instead of 40.

The mechanical cross-checking disappears. The judgment work — the corrections, the supplier calls, the decisions — stays with your team where it belongs.

Without Meridian — per shipment
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Open each document separatelyInvoice, packing list, AWB, health certificate, permit copy — five tabs, five documents to hold in your head at once.
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Cross-check every name manuallyExporter on CI vs shipper on AWB. Consignee on HAWB vs importer of record. Every name, every document, every time.
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Verify every numberPermit number, establishment number, HS code, weight totals, package counts, certificate reference numbers.
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Check all validity datesHealth certificate window. Issue date vs departure. Anything expiring before arrival.
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Start over after correctionsSupplier sends amended documents. The entire review begins again from scratch.
30–40min per shipment · 2–3 hrs/week
With Meridian — per shipment
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Drop the whole folderAll documents at once. PDF, image, Excel, Word. Meridian identifies each one automatically.
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30-second reviewEvery name, number, date, and cross-document check runs simultaneously against your lane profile and permit vocabulary.
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Read the verdictPASS, FAIL, or REVIEW REQUIRED. Critical issues first. Each item names the document, the field, and the fix.
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Re-run in 30 secondsDrop corrected documents. Second review runs instantly. Clean set confirmed before cargo moves.
 
 
5min per shipment · 20 min/week
Real catches

What Meridian finds
before customs does

These are real error types from real shipments — the kind that slip through when a human reviewer has checked 50 documents in a day.

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Critical — FAIL
Health certificate belongs to a completely different company
HC issued to Andina Export SRL under permit 639-24-166-78462. The shipment is Pacific Chews Ltd under permit 639-23-116-91845. Different exporter, different importer, different products, different permit. Shipment cannot clear customs without the correct HC.
Caught: exporter mismatch · permit number mismatch · product mismatch across 5 documents
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Critical — FAIL
Invoice covers the wrong product entirely
Invoice #028/2025 covers Braided Jerky (80 boxes, 640 kg). Packing list, AWB, and health certificate all reference Bovine Pizzle Skin (70 boxes, 560 kg). The correct invoice — identified by number — is missing from the document set.
Caught: product description mismatch · weight mismatch · missing document identified by name
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High
One missing letter stops the shipment
“GLOBAL PET BRAND INC” on the House Air Waybill. Should be “GLOBAL PET BRANDS INC.” One missing S. CBP checks consignee name against the importer of record. A single character mismatch triggers a query and potential hold.
Caught: character-level comparison across MAWB, HAWB, and commercial invoice
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Pass — ready for departure
All documents consistent — cleared for export
CI, PL, MAWB, health certificate, and Certificate of Origin all reference the same exporter, product, establishment numbers, and weights. Permit vocabulary check passed. All 22 cross-document consistency checks cleared. Confidence: high.
22 consistency checks · vocabulary compliance · permit number confirmed on transport documents
How it works

Four steps.
Thirty seconds.

Drop your documents. Get your verdict before departure.

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Create a shipment
PO number, lane, air or ocean. 20 seconds. Your lane knowledge and permit vocabulary load automatically.
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Drop all your documents
CI, PL, AWB, HC, permits — the whole folder. PDF, image, Excel, Word. Meridian identifies each one automatically.
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Read the verdict
PASS, FAIL, or REVIEW REQUIRED. Action items sorted by severity. Each one names the document, the field, and the fix.
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Fix and confirm
Send corrections, upload amended documents, re-run. Confirm clean before the cargo moves.
Everything included

Built for the full
shipment lifecycle.

From draft documents to customs clearance. Every stage tracked, every review stored, every lesson remembered.

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Any trade lane, any country
Create any origin → destination pair. Regulatory requirements are researched automatically on lane creation, then refreshed every morning. No pre-configuration needed.
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Air and ocean modes
Separate rule sets per mode. Telex release and Certified True Copy BL are correct for ocean. ISF filing checked for ocean → USA. No false positives from mixing air and ocean rules.
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Any file format
PDF, JPG, PNG, Excel, Word. Drop whatever your supplier sends. No conversion required. Suppliers in any country sending any format work out of the box.
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Shipment status tracking
Draft → Final Docs → In Transit → Cleared. Every stage tracked. Full review history preserved. Action checklist persists across sessions with ignore and suppress controls.
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Documents stay in your browser
Your documents are processed locally and sent directly to the AI for review. They are never stored on any server. No document ever leaves your control.
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Shared team workspace
Your whole team sees the same shipments, lanes, review history, and suppressions. Every piece of knowledge added by any team member is immediately available to everyone.
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Your documents never leave your browser · Any lane supported · Gets smarter every shipment