A product-research engine with three stages. It finds products taking off in the US, proves the lane is still open in Argentina — competitors, their ads, the prices — then sources vetted suppliers in China and quotes the landed economics to the dollar.
Sourcing decisions came down to intuition and scattered manual research: trends in one tab, MercadoLibre in another, competitors' ads in a third, supplier quotes in a fourth — and the import-cost math on a napkin. Hours of digging, no single picture, real money on the line each time.
Move too slow and the trend is gone. Move on a saturated product and you're sitting on inventory. Get the landed cost wrong and the margin evaporates after customs. Slow and risky — the combination that kills an importer's margin.
The engine runs one product through the whole chain — US demand, Argentine competition, Chinese supply and the landed math — and only the ones that clear every gate come out the other side.
The engine scans search demand across categories in the US and surfaces products that are climbing, not peaked. Rising volume plus real buying intent is the first signal — so you're sourcing ahead of the curve, not chasing it.
It checks the same product locally through three lenses — MercadoLibre, Google Shopping and the Meta Ad Library — to see who's already selling, at what price, and which competitors are running ads and how they're doing. If the lane is saturated, the product is dropped right here.
For products that clear the first two stages, the engine pulls Alibaba supplier references and writes a ready-to-send RFQ (FOB/EXW, suggested HS code, MOQs, required docs). Then it runs the landed math — FOB plus freight, DIE, IVA and perceptions — to a real margin and breakeven ROAS.
Surfaces products climbing in US search demand before they're obvious — momentum, not peaks.
Checks MercadoLibre, Google Shopping and Meta Ads to see if the local lane is open or saturated.
Pulls who's advertising from the Meta Ad Library — and how long their ads have been running.
Finds Alibaba suppliers and writes a ready-to-send RFQ with HS code, MOQs and required docs.
Quotes FOB, freight, DIE/IVA/perceptions and gross margin — the true unit economics before you buy.
Every product is scored and gated — only candidates that clear all three stages move forward.
This research engine was smoke-tested end to end — and the first products it surfaced were imported and sold. Any decision that today rides on scattered manual research is one we can turn into data.