The compliance intelligence layer
trade compliance teams were missing.
Trade compliance has a monitoring problem across every regulated industry. Eight regulatory bodies. Dozens of updates per month. PDFs in legal notice format, published without warning, effective the same day. A single missed Entity List addition can trigger a $300,000 civil penalty per violation — whether you're shipping chips, clearing cargo, or processing a cross-border transaction.
Embargo was built to solve that problem — not with another compliance checklist, but with an automated intelligence layer that watches every relevant source across semiconductors, logistics, and financial services, structures what it finds, and delivers it to your team in plain English before your competitors find out.
What we monitor
How we think about the product
Trust is the product.
If the data is wrong, the product fails. We pull directly from primary government sources — the Federal Register API, the EU Official Journal, official government content APIs — not from third-party aggregators with unspecified lag times. Every alert includes a link to the original document.
Speed is the value proposition.
An alert four hours before your compliance team would have found it manually is worth more than a perfect summary delivered three days later. We optimise for latency first, then for clarity.
Clarity beats comprehensiveness.
One actionable insight is worth more than ten ambiguous ones. Every entity in our registry comes with an AI-generated analyst note — grounded exclusively in the regulatory source data — that explains why the designation happened, which programs apply, and what it means for your industry. We always show you the source text alongside the analysis.
B2B-first, enterprise-grade.
This product is used by trade compliance managers and counsel at semiconductor companies with real regulatory accountability. Every design decision reflects that. No consumer shortcuts.
Ready to stop monitoring manually?
Start a 14-day free trial. No setup required. Your first alerts will arrive within hours of the next regulatory update.