About KYG Trade
KYG Trade | Know Your Goods™ is a next-generation AI-Assisted orchestration platform and marketplace purpose-built for global trade and customs compliance. It is SaaS or software as a service.
Our open, extensible “API friendly” architecture simplifies the gathering of product information from shippers, suppliers, and the internet, which reduces emails and attachments and eliminates redundancy. The result is a significant reduction in cost and penalty risk while increasing levels of compliance and utilization of preferential tax, tariff, and ESG benefits.
KYG Trade, Inc. is a privately held Delaware C Corp. We operate the world’s first decentralized Trade Attestation Platform and Marketplace. We facilitate the global digital exchange, recordkeeping, and auditability of product attribute data for tax, trade, sustainability, and ESG claims related to the cross-border movement of manufactured goods.
Todd R. Smith is a US Licensed Customs Broker and the founder and inventor of KYG Trade (KYGT). Prior to forming KYGT Todd served as a partner and provided trade and customs consulting services to the Fortune 50 at Big 4 Accounting, Tax, and Advisory firms EY and KPMG. Prior to his 18-year consulting career, Todd was a co-founder and CEO of a venture-backed start-up that was acquired on favorable terms by a larger competitor.
Todd also recently founded and serves as co-chairman of the OriginBX OASIS Open Project (OriginBX). OriginBX™ is a non-profit vendor-neutral open-source product attribute standards-setting initiative. Members of OriginBX consist of global brands, customs brokers, freight forwarders, trade technology providers, track and trace blockchain platforms, eCommerce platforms, customs authorities, and global trade policy-setting organizations, including the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).
Todd is an inventor of three patent applications for global trade management systems, including a decentralized authority for trade attribute attestations (e.g., forced labor, sustainability, intellectual property rights, anti-counterfeit, HTS, preferential origin, export controls, tax vs. trade transfer pricing, tax residency, etc.) involving physical and digital goods.
Meet
our Team
The Founder
Todd R. Smith
CO-FOUNDER CEO
Advisors
Board of Advisors
We are honored to have a diverse group of highly successful advisors with backgrounds in trade technology, government regulators, global policy, blockchain, intellectual property law, offshore software development, venture capital, and investment banking.
Please email info@kygtrade.com for further information.