01 · At a glance
CommodityAI and Apollo Negoce side by side
| CommodityAI | Apollo Negoce | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | An AI layer for physical traders, producers and processors (sugar, grains, fuel oil, cocoa and coffee in examples) | Physical soft and agricultural commodities: cocoa, coffee, cashew, cotton, sesame, soybean, corn, rice, sugar, palm oil, rubber, peanut |
| AI | The core of the product: agents read emails, PDFs, chats and scans and write clean records into the client's CTRM or ERP | 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 | Built in: plot import (Excel, GeoJSON, Shapefile), deforestation risk scored with Global Forest Watch, due-diligence statement per shipment |
| Time to go live | About two months announced | Weeks: a subset of your contracts is loaded first, requests answered within 24 hours, most customizations shipped within a week |
| Physical contracts and fixations | Captures physical trades from recaps into the trader's CTRM and finalizes prices against the contract formula. | Fixed price, price-to-be-fixed with a differential and partial fixations against futures, and consignment contracts. |
| Futures and hedging | Futures and pricing execution listed as a use case, connected to ICE and CME contract rules. | Futures in lots on ICE London, ICE New York, CBOT, SGX, SHFE and Bursa Malaysia, linked to the physical contracts they hedge. |
| Position | Reports open positions and exposure on request, from records synced with the trader's CTRM. | Position by commodity and month: stock, physical, unfixed, futures and basis, with FX positions in their own module. |
| Mark-to-market and P&L | Answers gross margin questions from live data; mark-to-market not described. | Mark-to-market on purchases, sales, differentials, futures and FX, with month-end snapshots. |
| Shipments and documents | A logistics agent reads bills of lading and certificates of analysis, links them to shipments and tracks them. | Vessels, bills of lading, containers and a status for each document, with uploaded documents read by AI. |
| Warehouse stock by lot | An inventory agent captures warehouse receipts with lot numbers and keeps positions by location. | Stock held lot by lot in each warehouse, with lot moves, analyses and documents. |
| Provisional and final invoices | Drafts provisional and final invoices, and holds an invoice when the outturn differs from the contract. | Provisional invoice on shipped weight, then a final invoice trued up to landed weight, with credit and debit notes. |
| Quality and weight claims | Flags quality variances and drafts claim letters and demurrage notices for review. | Quality and weight claims with survey data, contract allowances and a status from draft to settled. |
| Freight | Computes laytime and demurrage from statements of facts and drafts demurrage notices. | Freight rate table, quote requests to carriers and their replies read by AI. |
| Commodity quality fields | Checks certificates of analysis against contract quality specs, such as sugar polarization. | Quality templates for 28 products, including cocoa, coffee, cashew, cotton, sesame, sugar, palm oil and rubber. |
| Interface languages | No mention found on its public pages. | English, French, German, Russian and Japanese. |
| Native mobile app | No mention found on its public pages. | iOS and Android apps on the App Store and Google Play: contracts, position, shipments, AI chat and quality checks with the camera. |
| Excel import | Excel among the connected systems, with two-way record sync. | Excel import for contracts, contacts, broker contracts, freight rates and EUDR farmer lists. |