01 · At a glance
Robosoft and Apollo Negoce side by side
| Robosoft | Apollo Negoce | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Agriculture (grains, oilseeds, softs, dairy, biofuels), metals, minerals and energy | Physical soft and agricultural commodities: cocoa, coffee, cashew, cotton, sesame, soybean, corn, rice, sugar, palm oil, rubber, peanut |
| AI | Announced: an agentic AI module (document extraction, anomaly detection) and a copilot for freight and demurrage exposure | 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 | Three to six months announced for agriculture | Weeks: a subset of your contracts is loaded first, requests answered within 24 hours, most customizations shipped within a week |
| Physical contracts and fixations | Fixed, floating and back-to-back contracts with local basis pricing; price fixations not detailed. | Fixed price, price-to-be-fixed with a differential and partial fixations against futures, and consignment contracts. |
| Futures and hedging | Futures and options hedging, with physical trades linked to hedges on ICE, CME and DGCX. | Futures in lots on ICE London, ICE New York, CBOT, SGX, SHFE and Bursa Malaysia, linked to the physical contracts they hedge. |
| Position | Position statements, exposure by position and date, and cash and FX risk. | 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 P&L dashboards and MTM exposure in the risk module. | Mark-to-market on purchases, sales, differentials, futures and FX, with month-end snapshots. |
| Shipments and documents | Logistics planning, vessel tracking and shipment tracking. | Vessels, bills of lading, containers and a status for each document, with uploaded documents read by AI. |
| Warehouse stock by lot | Warehouse and terminal storage, with quality and grade managed by lot. | Stock held lot by lot in each warehouse, with lot moves, analyses and documents. |
| Provisional and final invoices | Provisional invoices and final settlements, with protein and moisture discount matrices for grain. | Provisional invoice on shipped weight, then a final invoice trued up to landed weight, with credit and debit notes. |
| Quality and weight claims | Freight demurrage claims generated with invoicing; quality claims not described. | Quality and weight claims with survey data, contract allowances and a status from draft to settled. |
| Freight | Freight booking, charter party terms, laytime, demurrage and cost allocation. | Freight rate table, quote requests to carriers and their replies read by AI. |
| Commodity quality fields | Grade, moisture and weight tracked, with accelerators for grains, oilseeds, softs, dairy and biofuels. | 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 | Contract review, approval and notifications on mobile; no native iOS or Android app named. | iOS and Android apps on the App Store and Google Play: contracts, position, shipments, AI chat and quality checks with the camera. |
| Excel import | Data migration handled during implementation; no Excel import feature described. | Excel import for contracts, contacts, broker contracts, freight rates and EUDR farmer lists. |