The cross-border OS

One question. End-to-end. Done.

Ask one cross-border question. Get the whole matter back — discovery, scope, timeline, drafted documents, and a hand-off package ready for local counsel. No tools to stitch. No follow-up emails. Every claim cited.

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No credit card. Twelve minutes to a finished matter. Information, not legal advice.
Built for work that crosses
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A new shape of work

Cross-border work isn't a set of tools. It's a deliverable nobody hands you.

You don't actually need a tariff calculator. You need to know what happens to your Vietnam deal in seven steps, three jurisdictions, and four weeks. A calculator is a fragment of that. So is a sanctions screen. So is a CFIUS memo.

The platforms you've used so far hand you fragments. Then you spend the day stitching — six tabs, two outside-counsel emails, a half-finished spreadsheet.

Oulution is the layer above the fragments. Ask once — get the whole matter back. Discovery, scope, timeline, documents, lawyer hand-off — produced in one place, in one session, with citations all the way through.

Before
  • Open Westlaw, search HTS
  • Email customs broker
  • Re-open OFAC site, screen counterparty
  • Forward to associate for memo
  • Find a Vietnam M&A partner — somehow
  • Brief them on the deal — somehow
  • Wait. Track in a spreadsheet.
↓ One Question
With Oulution

Ouli runs discovery → scope → timeline → drafts → lawyer package. Every claim cited to the underlying authority. Twelve minutes start to send.

The flow

One question. Five stages. One deliverable.

From the moment you ask, Ouli moves through every stage — and shows you the work happen.

1

Discovery

What's the matter, really. Jurisdictions, parties, regulatory layers, time-sensitive triggers.

2

Scope

What needs to happen. An itemized work plan with owners and risk levels.

3

Timeline

When each step happens. Dependencies, deadlines, regulatory cliffs.

4

Documents

Drafts. LOIs, NDAs, term sheets, memos. Each one cited to the underlying authority.

5

Lawyer

When you're ready to hire, Ouli prepares a package for local counsel and sends it.

What it looks like

Three crises just landed on every GC's desk.

These aren't 2030 problems. They are this quarter. Click through each one — and watch Oulution turn it into a ready-to-send matter, in minutes, not weeks.

Ouli Concierge · click to advance
GC
You · 9:01 AM

Renewed Iran attacks just hit our LNG operation. War-risk premiums jumped 400% overnight. We've got 14 active charterparties through the Strait — and three of our shipping counterparties just got named in the OFAC expansion. What's my exposure, and what do I send the board by Friday?

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Ouli · 9:02 AM
1 · Discovery

14 contracts in scope, 47 counterparties touched, 4 jurisdictions live. Two regulatory cliffs in the next 30 days.

What's on the table
  • 14 LNG charterparties — 11 spot, 3 long-term TC
  • 9 use BIMCO 2022 FM clause; 5 use bespoke clauses that don't list "sanctions"
  • 3 carriers + 1 broker just added to OFAC SDN; 2 more on EU adjacency list (effective 14 May)
  • Cape route adds 14-21 days; war-risk premium uncapped under existing CP forms
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Ouli · 9:04 AM
2 · Scope

Seven items, ordered by deadline. Two are board-Friday.

Work plan
  • Sanctions screen all 47 downstream counterparties (today)
  • Force-majeure invocation drafts for 9 BIMCO contracts (today)
  • 5 bespoke-clause contracts — risk memo + amendment proposal (48h)
  • Alternative-routing rider for active spot fixtures (week 1, maritime counsel)
  • Insurer notification + war-risk re-rating (week 1)
  • EU 14 May compliance attestation (week 2, EU counsel)
  • Board memo: exposure, scenarios, Friday decisions (today)
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Ouli · 9:07 AM
3 · Sanctions screen

47 counterparties checked across OFAC SDN, EU Consolidated, UK Sanctions, UN ISIL/Al-Qaida. Six hits.

  • 6 designated — 3 carriers, 1 broker, 2 chartering agents
  • 4 borderline — non-listed, indirect ownership trail to listed entity (>50% rule)
  • 37 clear
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Ouli · 9:11 AM
4 · Documents

Four drafts ready. Force-majeure letters built from your standard form. Every citation lives in the side panel.

FM invocation · 9 contracts · EN/AR/中 Charterparty riders · 5 contracts Board memo · 4 pages Insurer notification template
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Ouli · 9:14 AM
5 · Counsel match

Three counsel teams shortlisted. The matter package is built. Click — it goes.

Matter package, ready to send

Maritime + sanctions · Daniel Martin · HFW London

Includes: 14-contract exposure brief, sanctions screen on 47 counterparties, FM invocation drafts, charterparty riders, board memo. Daniel sees the file and accepts/declines in his inbox.

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Ouli Concierge · click to advance
GC
You · 11:16 AM

Federal Circuit just narrowed IEEPA. We paid duties on 312 SKUs across 2024-2026 — $47M total. Treasury has 90 days to process protests. What's recoverable, which SKUs do we file on first, and who renegotiates with the suppliers?

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Ouli · 11:18 AM
1 · Discovery

$47M paid across 8 HTS chapters. Three classification rationales. The Federal Circuit ruling cuts two of them.

The picture
  • 312 SKUs across 4 entities (US IOR + 3 foreign affiliates)
  • HTS 84 / 85 / 90 / 73 dominant; four other chapters trailing
  • $31.4M of $47.2M attributable to IEEPA tariffs specifically
  • Refund window: 90 days from ruling. Clock started 12 March 2026 — 47 days remain.
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Ouli · 11:21 AM
2 · Scope

Five work streams. Two run today. Refund file targets 218 SKUs; 94 stay paid.

Work plan
  • Classification audit · 312 SKUs against narrowed IEEPA scope
  • Protest filings · 218 SKUs eligible · ~$28M recoverable
  • Substantial-transformation evidence pack · 41 borderline SKUs
  • Supplier renegotiation memos · 31 suppliers · pass-through clauses
  • Customs-broker coordination · routing through 4 entities
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Ouli · 11:26 AM
3 · Refund estimate

$28.1M at high confidence. $4.6M with a substantial-transformation argument. ROI on filing is 156×.

  • Recoverable — $28.1M across 218 SKUs · confidence: high
  • Borderline — $4.6M across 41 SKUs · subst-transformation argument
  • Not eligible — $14.5M across 53 SKUs · direct national-security predicate
  • Cost of filing — ~$180K legal + broker
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Ouli · 11:34 AM
4 · Documents

Four packages drafted. Every protest cited to Treasury Decisions and the Federal Circuit ruling.

218 protest filings · CBP Form 19 Subst-transformation memos · 41 SKUs Supplier renegotiation letters · 31 Refund-tracking matrix
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Ouli · 11:38 AM
5 · Counsel match

Filed-the-most-IEEPA-protests-in-the-industry counsel. Package is sized for them.

Matter package, ready to send

Customs · Lawrence Friedman · Sandler Travis Rosenberg

Includes: classification audit, 218 protest drafts, borderline SKU memos, supplier letters, refund-tracking matrix. Lawrence reviews and files into CBP this week.

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Ouli Concierge · click to advance
GC
You · 14:00

T-90 to high-risk go-live. We deploy AI across HR screening, credit decisioning, customs classification, and a contract-review tool. What's in scope under Article 6, what do I owe Brussels by August, and who do I hire to certify it?

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Ouli · 14:02
1 · Discovery

11 AI systems across 4 entities. Seven high-risk. Two on the cusp.

Inventory
  • High-risk (Article 6) — HR screening · credit model · customs classifier · contract clause-risk · shift scheduling · expense fraud · KYC scoring
  • Cusp — marketing personalization · supplier-risk dashboard (limited-risk if transparency duties met)
  • Out of scope — internal text summarizer · cafeteria recommender
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Ouli · 14:06
2 · Scope

Six obligations per high-risk system. 90 days. Brussels won't extend.

Work plan
  • Risk-management system · per system · documented + ongoing
  • Data-governance · training-data audit · bias-testing record
  • Annex IV technical documentation · 7 systems
  • Conformity assessment · 4 require notified body; 3 self-assess
  • EU AI database registration · pre-go-live · public entry
  • Post-market monitoring + serious-incident protocol
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Ouli · 14:11
3 · Compliance scorecard

Nothing is ready. Four systems need a notified body. Penalty exposure is €35M or 7% global revenue.

  • Ready — 0 of 7
  • Partial — 4 systems (model cards exist, conformity docs missing)
  • Gap — 3 systems (full Annex IV from scratch)
  • Notified body required — 4 (HR, credit, customs, contract)
  • Estimated spend — €840K conformity + €1.2M annual ongoing
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Ouli · 14:18
4 · Documents

Five packages drafted. The Annex IV files anchor everything else.

Annex IV technical files · 7 systems Conformity-assessment kits · 4 systems EU AI database entries AI governance policy · EU/UK/US Board memo · hire plan + budget ask
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Ouli · 14:24
5 · Counsel match

First-to-publish Article 6 enforcement guidance. Notified-body coordinator looped in.

Matter package, ready to send

EU AI Act · Benoit Van Asbroeck · Bird & Bird Brussels

Includes: full inventory, risk classification, Annex IV drafts, conformity kits, governance policy, board memo. Notified-body coordinator (TÜV SÜD AI Lab, Munich) cc'd.

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Three crises. Three matters. One Oulution.

Behind the curtain

Eight specialists. One assistant.

You ask one question. Ouli picks the right specialists. You see the work happen. You never log into another tool.

M&A diligence

Eighteen-section structured review across jurisdictions, tax, sanctions, CFIUS, data.

Document review

Paste a contract. Get back partner-level redlines with citations.

Tariff

HTS classification + Section 232/301 + MPF + HMF, dollar-accurate.

Sanctions

OFAC, HMT, EU, UN. Live OFAC API + Pinecone semantic search.

Regulatory

CBAM, USMCA, MOFCOM, IEEPA — what changed and what it means for you.

Tax

Transfer pricing, treaty access, BEPS Pillar 2, BVI economic substance.

FIDIC

Red/Yellow/Silver Books. Sub-Clauses 8, 17, 20 — risk allocation, time bars.

Talent Hub

9,500+ vetted local-counsel profiles. Ouli matches and brokers the intro.

The Oulution Brain

A generalist model can hallucinate. Oulution can't.

We started with a leading frontier LLM. It was great at reasoning — but it couldn't see live OFAC, couldn't pull a CBP HQ ruling, couldn't query Practical Law UK, couldn't hand off to a Vietnamese tax lawyer. So we built the OS around it: 10 specialist agents, 3 live legal databases, 5 sanctions feeds, and a router that refuses to ship an answer without a citation.

10
Specialist agents

Routed by the matter, not the model.

M&A diligence, tariff classification, sanctions screening, redaction, drawback refunds, FIDIC, regulatory watch, lawyer matching. Each agent runs its own protocol and refuses to ship without grounded sources.

8
Live data feeds

Reality, not training data.

OFAC SDN, HMT, EU, UN, OpenSanctions — refreshed daily. Practical Law UK, Westlaw UK, Lexis+ — session-authenticated, live. HTS classification across 17,000+ codes. Regulatory diff against the prior week.

3-tier
Verified retrieval

Cited before drafted.

Router blocks ungrounded outputs. Deep Analysis mode chains three providers (grounded retrieval → independent verify → reasoning). Every answer carries a citation that resolves to the underlying authority. The audit log is signed.

Same question. Two brains.

A real partner question from last quarter. Asked once to a generalist model with no tools, asked once to Oulution.

Frontier LLM (no tools) 1 / 3
Northstar Industries — Chinese components, Vietnam final assembly, $4.9M CIF to LAX. Does Section 301 apply?

Likely yes, but it depends on whether the Vietnamese assembly constitutes a "substantial transformation" under U.S. customs law. Section 301 tariffs apply to goods of Chinese origin. CBP applies the substantial-transformation test — a new article of commerce must result with a different name, character, and use.

Hedges without committing. No specific authority. No dollar exposure.
Oulution 3 / 3
Northstar Industries — Chinese components, Vietnam final assembly, $4.9M CIF to LAX. Does Section 301 apply?

Section 301 almost certainly applies. Vietnamese assembly will not shield the Chinese-origin components — on a $4.9M CIF entry you are looking at roughly $2.6M total US duty exposure (~55% effective rate) once the IEEPA reciprocal layer is included. CBP rulings NY N315583 / N316915 have consistently held that assembling Chinese motherboards in a third country does not transform the goods.

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USTR Section 301 List 3 · CBP NY N315583, N316915
4 specialist agents · live tariff + sanctions retrieval
Frontier LLM alone 200 / 300 · Oulution 229 / 300
100 cross-border partner questions, scored on cited authority, substantive precision, and risk flagged. The standalone LLM wins on raw citation breadth (95% vs 53%); Oulution wins on substantive precision (+20 pts) and dominates on risk-flagging (+51 pts). Same question, two architectures. Read the case study →

Internal benchmark · May 2026 · n=100 · Oulution wins 52 / standalone LLM wins 30 / 18 ties · Blind LLM-as-judge, position-randomized · Reproducible — raw results, methodology, and harness available for partner review.

When you need a lawyer

A network that crosses borders too.

The hard part of a cross-border matter is often finding the right outside lawyer in a jurisdiction you don't know. Oulution's Talent Hub starts where you are — and Ouli prepares the matter package before the intro is even sent.

9,500+
vetted lawyers across the network
239
firms, from boutiques to magic-circle
18
jurisdictions live; more shipping monthly
<30s
to a shortlist Ouli matched to your matter

Start with one matter. See what changes.

Try Oulution free. Ask one cross-border question. If the answer doesn't save you an hour you'd have spent stitching, the trial is on us.

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