01 · At a glance
Agiblocks and Apollo Negoce side by side
| Agiblocks | Apollo Negoce | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Agricultural and soft commodities: sugar, cocoa, coffee, grains and oilseeds, later cotton, nuts and edible oils | Physical soft and agricultural commodities: cocoa, coffee, cashew, cotton, sesame, soybean, corn, rice, sugar, palm oil, rubber, peanut |
| AI | No AI features of its own announced. A partnership with CommodityAI is mentioned. | AI agents in the product, for freight, export documents, warehouse, claims and surveyors, available on WhatsApp, Telegram, the mobile app and the platform. A human approves every action. |
| EUDR | No mention found on its public pages. Carbon traceability and a document audit trail were added in 2024. | Built in: plot import (Excel, GeoJSON, Shapefile), deforestation risk scored with Global Forest Watch, due-diligence statement per shipment |
| Time to go live | One published case: Tereos Commodities went live about two months after signing (2015) | Weeks: a subset of your contracts is loaded first, requests answered within 24 hours, most customizations shipped within a week |
| Physical contracts and fixations | Flat price and differential to-be-fixed contracts, with partial pricing, rolls and ratio pricing. | Fixed price, price-to-be-fixed with a differential and partial fixations against futures, and consignment contracts. |
| Futures and hedging | Hedging with futures, options, OTC and forex, including New York and London sugar and cocoa arbitrage. | Futures in lots on ICE London, ICE New York, CBOT, SGX, SHFE and Bursa Malaysia, linked to the physical contracts they hedge. |
| Position | Positions by origin, specification, premium and certification, covering physicals, futures, options and forex. | Position by commodity and month: stock, physical, unfixed, futures and basis, with FX positions in their own module. |
| Mark-to-market and P&L | Mark-to-market on physical inventory, futures, options and OTC, with unrealized P&L by commodity or counterparty. | Mark-to-market on purchases, sales, differentials, futures and FX, with month-end snapshots. |
| Shipments and documents | Deliveries and transports managed from allocations, with shipment instructions from a built-in document generator. | Vessels, bills of lading, containers and a status for each document, with uploaded documents read by AI. |
| Warehouse stock by lot | Weight notes split a delivery into inventory lots that can be merged later, with bag details kept per warehouse. | Stock held lot by lot in each warehouse, with lot moves, analyses and documents. |
| Provisional and final invoices | Pro forma, provisional, percentage-based and franchise invoices for weight differences. | Provisional invoice on shipped weight, then a final invoice trued up to landed weight, with credit and debit notes. |
| Quality and weight claims | Arrival weight differences are checked against contract terms and the franchise computed; no claims workflow is named. | Quality and weight claims with survey data, contract allowances and a status from draft to settled. |
| Freight | Logistics management covers documentation and freight. | Freight rate table, quote requests to carriers and their replies read by AI. |
| Commodity quality fields | Specific features for sugar, cocoa, coffee and grains, such as arrived weight for cocoa and the white sugar premium. | Quality templates for 28 products, including cocoa, coffee, cashew, cotton, sesame, sugar, palm oil and rubber. |
| Interface languages | No interface languages stated; introductory tutorial videos are offered in Spanish. | English, French, German, Russian and Japanese. |
| Native mobile app | No native app mentioned; the web application opens in a browser on phones and tablets. | iOS and Android apps on the App Store and Google Play: contracts, position, shipments, AI chat and quality checks with the camera. |
| Excel import | No mention found on its public pages. | Excel import for contracts, contacts, broker contracts, freight rates and EUDR farmer lists. |