# Loamist > Agents for the physical economy. Loamist turns paper, maps and judgment into decisions agents can make, and proves every one with evals. Loamist holds 98%+ accuracy, run after run, in production at enterprise scale. SOC 2 Type II certified. Every page below has a markdown version (the "Markdown" link, or the same URL ending in .md). The whole site as one file: https://www.loamist.com/llms-full.txt ## Products - [Loamist Trade Finance](https://www.loamist.com/trade-finance): L/C document examination for banks and corporates. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/trade-finance.md - [Loamist Geospatial](https://www.loamist.com/geospatial): Site and cost decisions, compared on one map. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/geospatial.md - [Loamist Evals](https://www.loamist.com/evals): Evals and nested evals that hold agents above 98%. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/evals.md - [Loamist Services](https://www.loamist.com/services): Our team, building agents inside yours. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/services.md ## Tools - [Loamist API for developers and AI agents](https://www.loamist.com/developers.html): Send letters of credit and documents to the Loamist API and get structured findings back, with webhooks when an examination completes. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/developers.md - [Free L/C check: upload your export letter of credit](https://www.loamist.com/lc-check.html): Upload your export letter of credit and receive a detailed extraction and risk analysis. Free L/C check powered by Loamist AI. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/lc-check.md ## Guides - [Match a Bill of Lading to LC Terms: UCP 600 Guide](https://www.loamist.com/bill-of-lading-letter-of-credit-compliance.html): Match your bill of lading to LC terms without discrepancies. Covers UCP 600 Articles 20–23, freight terms, endorsement, B/L errors, and recovery steps. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/bill-of-lading-letter-of-credit-compliance.md - [Chemical Export Documents for LCs: REACH, TSCA, GHS](https://www.loamist.com/chemical-export-documentation-reach-tsca-ghs-lc.html): How to align REACH, TSCA, CEPA, CSCL, and GHS regulatory documents with LC requirements. Practical guidance for chemical export compliance teams. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/chemical-export-documentation-reach-tsca-ghs-lc.md - [LC-Compliant Commercial Invoice: UCP 600 Guide](https://www.loamist.com/commercial-invoice-letter-of-credit-compliance.html): Prepare an LC-compliant commercial invoice correctly. Covers UCP 600 Art. 18 required fields, discrepancy examples, and chemical export considerations. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/commercial-invoice-letter-of-credit-compliance.md - [Export LC Document Checklist: Prevent Discrepancies](https://www.loamist.com/export-lc-document-checklist-prevent-discrepancies.html): A master LC document checklist covering commercial invoice, B/L, packing list, certificate of origin, insurance, and inspection documents. UCP 600 aligned. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/export-lc-document-checklist-prevent-discrepancies.md - [How to Review an Export LC Before Shipment](https://www.loamist.com/how-to-review-export-letter-of-credit-before-shipment.html): A 10-point pre-shipment LC review checklist for export coordinators. Catch discrepancies before they delay payment, with UCP 600 references. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/how-to-review-export-letter-of-credit-before-shipment.md - [Export LC Guides and Checklists](https://www.loamist.com/resources.html): Free guides, checklists, and how-to content for export coordinators, trade finance specialists, and documentation teams. UCP 600 compliant. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/resources.md - [Top 10 LC Discrepancies and How to Prevent Them](https://www.loamist.com/top-10-letter-of-credit-discrepancies-how-to-prevent.html): The 10 most common LC discrepancies, with real examples, consequences, and prevention steps. Reduce first-presentation rejections in your export operation. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/top-10-letter-of-credit-discrepancies-how-to-prevent.md ## Blog - [Blog](https://www.loamist.com/blog/): short posts on export letters of credit, workability, discrepancy cost and operations. RSS: https://www.loamist.com/blog/feed.xml - [70% Less Time per Letter of Credit: What a Documentation Team Does With the Hours Back](https://www.loamist.com/blog/seventy-percent-less-time-per-letter-of-credit/): A Validator client cut effort per letter of credit by around 70%. With routine review handled, examiners moved to exceptions, cargo strategy and advice. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/seventy-percent-less-time-per-letter-of-credit/index.md - [Client Logic, Fenced and Owned: Whose Data Is It, and Where Does It Go?](https://www.loamist.com/blog/client-logic-fenced-and-owned/): What Validator learns from a client, corridor rules, counterparties and standards, is assigned to that client as IP. Never trains the general model. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/client-logic-fenced-and-owned/index.md - [Explainability Means Credibility: an L/C Finding You Cannot Trace Is One You Cannot Trust](https://www.loamist.com/blog/explainability-means-credibility-lc-automation/): A flagged discrepancy with no reason makes the examiner redo the work. Validator cites the document, the field, the UCP 600 or ISBP rule, and your practice. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/explainability-means-credibility-lc-automation/index.md - [Accessorials Are Where Freight Leakage Hides: Auditing the Charges You Never Agreed To](https://www.loamist.com/blog/freight-accessorial-charges-where-leakage-hides/): 3% to 8% of freight spend is lost to billing errors, and most of it is not the base rate. Fuel, liftgate and peak-season fees are the highest-error lines. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/freight-accessorial-charges-where-leakage-hides/index.md - [What Export L/C Workability Means, and Why Compliant Is Not the Same as Workable](https://www.loamist.com/blog/what-export-lc-workability-means/): A workability check asks whether L/C terms can be met with this cargo, corridor and shipment window before production starts. Compliance checks come too late. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/what-export-lc-workability-means/index.md - [Sibos 2026 in Miami: Book a Session on Our Live L/C Study](https://www.loamist.com/blog/sibos-2026-miami-book-a-session/): Book a session at Sibos 2026, 28 Sep to 1 Oct: thousands of export L/Cs tested live, plus a before-and-after look at the Strait of Hormuz disruption. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/sibos-2026-miami-book-a-session/index.md - [Trust Is the Product: Why We Hold Validator to 99% Pre-Check Accuracy on Live Transactions](https://www.loamist.com/blog/trust-is-the-product-99-percent-precheck-accuracy/): An L/C pre-check you cannot trust is worse than none: missed discrepancies or phantom flags both send you back to a specialist. Accuracy is the product. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/trust-is-the-product-99-percent-precheck-accuracy/index.md - [You Are Not the Bank: Why L/C Verification Tools Miss the Exporter](https://www.loamist.com/blog/lc-tools-built-for-banks-not-corporates/): Bank-side L/C software checks documents that already exist. By then the discrepancies are made. What a corporate-first platform does differently. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/lc-tools-built-for-banks-not-corporates/index.md - [Clean at the Source: Generate L/C Documents From the Credit Instead of Fixing Them Later](https://www.loamist.com/blog/clean-at-the-source-generate-lc-documents/): Prepare, check and fix, or generate the documents from the L/C so they start compliant. Most of the industry does the first. The second is cheaper. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/clean-at-the-source-generate-lc-documents/index.md - [One Character Worth $1 Million: Why Cross-Document Consistency Breaks Presentations](https://www.loamist.com/blog/one-character-can-freeze-a-million-dollars/): A zero typed as O. A vessel name spelled two ways. One conflict between documents means a refusal and 30 to 45 days of delayed payment on shipped cargo. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/one-character-can-freeze-a-million-dollars/index.md - [Loamist at Sibos 2026: a Live Study of Thousands of Export Letters of Credit](https://www.loamist.com/blog/loamist-at-sibos-2026-live-lc-study/): Loamist is at Sibos 2026 in Miami, 28 Sep to 1 Oct, with thousands of live L/C transactions checked for workability against UCP 600, eUCP and ISBP 821E. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/loamist-at-sibos-2026-live-lc-study/index.md - [Most L/C Discrepancies Are Born Before You Produce a Single Document](https://www.loamist.com/blog/discrepancies-are-born-in-the-lc/): Unmeetable deadlines, certificates nobody issues, terms that contradict the contract: they are in the L/C. The day it arrives is the cheapest day to fix it. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/discrepancies-are-born-in-the-lc/index.md - [The Specialist Who Clears Your Export Documents Is Close to Retirement](https://www.loamist.com/blog/lc-document-specialist-retiring-institutional-knowledge/): One person can read a 20-page L/C and spot the refusal. That judgment took decades and is leaving faster than it is replaced. How to keep it in the business. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/lc-document-specialist-retiring-institutional-knowledge/index.md - [Two Out of Three Letters of Credit Fail on First Presentation. It Does Not Have to Be This Way.](https://www.loamist.com/blog/two-out-of-three-letters-of-credit-fail-first-presentation/): The ICC puts first-presentation refusals at 65% to 80%. Why exporters accept it, why they should not, and a workability checklist to stop it. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/two-out-of-three-letters-of-credit-fail-first-presentation/index.md - [The Discrepancy Fee Is the Smallest Part of a Rejected L/C Presentation](https://www.loamist.com/blog/true-cost-of-a-rejected-lc-presentation/): A discrepant presentation costs 0.5% to 2% of shipment value once you add corrections, resubmission and 45 days of delayed payment. Uncurable ones cost more. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/true-cost-of-a-rejected-lc-presentation/index.md - [Introducing Validator: an AI-Native Platform for Export Letters of Credit](https://www.loamist.com/blog/validator-launch-ai-native-export-lc-platform/): Loamist Validator is live: workability review on L/C arrival, document generation, and a full pre-check before the bank. Over $1B in live L/Cs in 2026. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/validator-launch-ai-native-export-lc-platform/index.md - [What Is an Export Letter of Credit? A Plain-English Explainer](https://www.loamist.com/blog/what-is-an-export-letter-of-credit/): An export letter of credit swaps trust in the buyer for trust in a bank and its documents. How it works, why the terms are strict, and where it goes wrong. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/blog/what-is-an-export-letter-of-credit/index.md ## Company - [Loamist home](https://www.loamist.com/): Agents for the physical economy. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/index.md - [About: The Team Behind Loamist](https://www.loamist.com/about.html): Meet the team behind Loamist: scientists, operators and builders making AI agents reliable for trade documents, letters of credit and land decisions. Markdown: https://www.loamist.com/about.md - [Contact Loamist: questions, pricing or a demo](https://www.loamist.com/contact.html): Get in touch with the Loamist team. Questions about L/C automation, pricing, or a demo? We will get back to you within 1 business day. 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