# BorderHQ

> BorderHQ builds AI products for customs and border administrations. Four product lines — BorderRev (revenue protection), BorderShield (cargo risk), BorderSentinel (passenger intelligence), and Border360 (electronic single window) — give national authorities AI-grade customs capability that is auditable, sovereign, and tribunal-ready. Every AI verdict is grounded in legal authority, cited to a specific instrument, and reproducible from an immutable audit log.

BorderHQ was co-founded by Chris Thibedeau (35+ years in border security, founder of customs-AI consultancy TTEK, GTEC Gold Medal recipient, co-author of the WCO Customs Risk Management Study) and Mike Squirrell (25+ years in ICT for Economic Governance and Trade Facilitation, World Bank and UN-agency advisor across five continents). The firm's stance: findings that cannot stand up in a tribunal do not ship.

## Products

- [BorderRev](https://borderhq.ai/borderrev.html): Customs revenue protection platform. Five specialised AI models verify every declaration in under 3 seconds with full legal citation. Average revenue uplift of 15–30% for early adopters.
- [BorderShield](https://borderhq.ai/bordershield.html): AI cargo risk management engine. Scores every cargo declaration across eight threat categories in under 2 seconds. 1.5 million rules, Bayesian feedback loops that learn from every inspection, configurable rule builder, full Arabic RTL localisation.
- [BorderSentinel](https://borderhq.ai/bordersentinel.html): Passenger and conveyance intelligence for border control posts. Risk scoring across travellers, vehicles, and crews against watchlists, behavioural patterns, and entry/exit data.
- [Border360](https://borderhq.ai/border360.html): AI-native customs single window platform. End-to-end automated declaration processing — extraction, WTO-compliant duty calculation, real-time compliance validation, agency routing, and instant goods release. 70% reduction in clearance time.

## BorderRev model lineup

- [Classifier](https://borderhq.ai/borderrev/classification.html): Verifies HS codes against WCO Notes, General Interpretative Rules, and published rulings. 176 languages. HS 2022 and HS 2027 coexist. Every verdict carries a live citation chain back to the legal instrument. 85% steady-state cache hit rate. On-premises and air-gapped modes available.
- [Valuation](https://borderhq.ai/borderrev/valuation.html): Benchmarks declared values against trade-corridor world prices for the same commodity, origin, and partner. WTO Methods 2 → 3 → 6 applied in strict hierarchy. Vehicle intelligence via ISO 3779 VIN decoding. Semantic caching (all-MiniLM-L6-v2 embeddings) yields 60–90% steady-state hit rate.
- [Origin Verification](https://borderhq.ai/borderrev/rules-of-origin.html): Nine independent evidence modules — origin rulebook, trade-corridor risk, country vulnerability index, FTA plausibility, entity network analysis, route forensics, importer risk history, document anomaly, statistical anomaly — fuse with a two-signal guard architecture. Every finding ships with a falsification template.
- [Transfer Pricing](https://borderhq.ai/borderrev/transfer-pricing.html): Identifies related-party declarations via a 140+ source entity graph (corporate registries, director databases, beneficial-ownership records), benchmarks against arm's-length corridors, and cites CVA Art. 15 and Art. 1.2(a) on every finding. Continuous calibration as new third-party trade data flows in.
- [Risk Scoring](https://borderhq.ai/borderrev/risk-scoring.html): Fuses verdicts from the four model layers plus trader profile and external intelligence into a single 0–100 transaction risk score with explainable per-signal breakdown. Compound weighting (not additive) with two-signal guard. Score generation in under 1 second.

## Long-form insights

- [BorderHQ — The customs technology partner for a generational shift](https://borderhq.ai/borderhq-ai-reshaping-technology.html)
- [From Manual Selectivity to Machine Learning](https://borderhq.ai/ai-cargo-targeting-customs.html): How AI is transforming customs cargo targeting.
- [Four-Tier Cargo Targeting Framework](https://borderhq.ai/four-tier-cargo-targeting-framework.html): Reference architecture for layered cargo risk.
- [Building a National Targeting Centre](https://borderhq.ai/national-targeting-centre-blueprint.html): Blueprint for the operational hub.
- [Intelligence-Led Customs Enforcement](https://borderhq.ai/intelligence-led-customs-enforcement.html): Doctrine, organisation, and tradecraft.
- [WCO SAFE Framework Implementation](https://borderhq.ai/wco-safe-framework-implementation.html): Implementing SAFE end-to-end.
- [Customs Modernisation — A 40-Year View](https://borderhq.ai/customs-modernisation-40-years.html): Lessons from four decades of customs reform.
- [Closing Customs Revenue Leakage](https://borderhq.ai/customs-revenue-leakage-post-clearance-audit.html): PCA, audit, and recovery.
- [Electronic Single Window — Barbados Case Study](https://borderhq.ai/electronic-single-window-barbados.html): An ESW deployment in detail.
- [WCO Customs Diagnostics Assessment](https://borderhq.ai/wco-customs-diagnostics-assessment.html): Using the WCO diagnostic to scope reform.
- [Biometric e-Gates — UAE Deployment](https://borderhq.ai/biometric-egates-uae-deployment.html): Field notes on biometric border crossings.

## Optional

- [Blog index](https://borderhq.ai/blog.html): All BorderHQ articles, organised by topic.
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## Contact

- General enquiries: info@borderhq.ai
- Sales / briefings: mike@borderhq.ai
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