The Altana Product Network
The trusted trade network — a shared, AI-powered view of products and the value chains behind them.
Altana is the trusted trade network: a continuously updated view of products and the value chains behind them, shared across businesses, suppliers, logistics providers, and governments. The Concepts section explains what that network is, what it produces, and the vocabulary you'll see across every Altana workflow.
What Altana is
At the foundation sits the supply chain graph — a single, living map of global trade. Companies, facilities, products, shipments, and the relationships among them all live in the graph as nodes and edges. The graph is built from open-source public data, established commercial data, shipment data from premier trade-data providers and customs authorities, and the records customers contribute through their own catalogs and Product Passports. AI then resolves, links, and reasons across the records to produce a shared, accurate view that no single participant could build alone.
That AI layer is described in How Altana Infers: observed values are kept distinct from inferred ones, confidence and explanation accompany every estimate, and agents propose actions for human review by default rather than acting on their own. The discipline is part of the product.
What the network produces
The shared output Altana surfaces is component truth — what products are truly made of across complex, multi-tier supply chains, even when the underlying records are messy or incomplete. Component truth is the foundation for accurate tariffs, defensible origin determinations, evidence-backed enforcement, and resilient sourcing decisions. Once the network agrees on what's actually in a product, every workflow downstream gets easier: classification, duty calculation, exposure screening, value-chain mapping, Product Passport submission.
Who benefits
- Importers use Altana to classify products faster, automate origin and duty determinations, trace multi-tier value chains, and share verified product information with their logistics providers and customs authorities through Product Passports.
- Suppliers share Product Passports with the importers they sell to. Credentials earned once can be reused with other importers on the network.
- Logistics providers classify, ground filings in verified product information, and submit Product Passports to customs authorities on behalf of their importer customers.
- Governments and customs authorities pre-validate shipments, screen against compliance criteria, and analyze upstream exposure across critical value chains.
Where to start
One more thing
The AI woven through these workflows is built around a simple posture: Altana surfaces what it knows, marks what it estimates, and asks before it acts on your behalf. The full picture lives at How Altana Infers. The Glossary indexes every term used in these pages with a one-line definition and a deep link to where the term is canonical.