World's first(*)Japan patent grantedClassification & party screening—without the grind
First-pass classification and party screening—
from an upload and a few fields.
Matrix checks and counterparty back-checks,
without relying on one person’s focus alone.
World's first(*) · Japan patent No. 7862062 · Okayama University validation · 20+ organizations
(*) As an AI agent in Japan's security export control (list and catch-all regulations). Confirmed by TIMEWELL internal research as of March 2026.
“Another matrix row?” “What does this local site even say?” — sound familiar?
METI matrices never finish
Jumping between item numbers and thresholds late at night—never sure it is fully right.
Counterparty research burns hours per case
Local-language sites, ownership chains, end-use checks. Too many tabs, not enough certainty.
Classification paperwork lives in one person’s head
Specs, evidence, forms. When that person is out, the shipment waits.
Crossing list, catch-all, and EAR leaves doubt
Japan and U.S. views differ. You checked—and still worry something slipped.
Headcount is flat; case volume is not
Specialists are hard to hire. Overtime becomes the process.
From the field
Matrix-to-spec matching can take half a day. I fear inconsistent judgments across staff.
New-party website research is the bottleneck. Sales wants speed; legal wants certainty.
Partner screening eats the time we meant to spend supporting researchers.
Scope
Not only shipping goods
When technology moves on trips or in meetings, a review may still be needed. U.S. EAR and the BIS 50% rule (parent/group ownership stakes) are also coming up more often.
Travel and field work
Installation, repair, guidance—with laptops and drawings. “It is just a trip” is a phrase we hear before teams discover a check was needed.
Not only shipping goods
Wherever technical information moves, screening can apply
Meetings and technical disclosure
Screen shares, joint R&D files, cloud specs. You may never leave the room—and still provide controlled services.
U.S. EAR / BIS 50% rule
Beyond re-export and U.S.-origin checks, teams increasingly need to review parent ownership under the 50% rule. TRAFEED has started ownership-chain support with early customers.
Not only shipping goods
Wherever technical information moves, screening can apply
Travel and field work
Installation, repair, guidance—with laptops and drawings. “It is just a trip” is a phrase we hear before teams discover a check was needed.
Meetings and technical disclosure
Screen shares, joint R&D files, cloud specs. You may never leave the room—and still provide controlled services.
U.S. EAR / BIS 50% rule
Beyond re-export and U.S.-origin checks, teams increasingly need to review parent ownership under the 50% rule. TRAFEED has started ownership-chain support with early customers.
Organizational load
Is export control still on one person’s shoulders?
Shipping, hiring, joint research, trade shows—more teams touch it, while screening work stays concentrated.
Where load concentrates
Export-control owner
Screening, explanation, and deadlines pile onto one role
Effort
Hours vary wildly
One case may take an hour—or half a day
People
Quality is tribal
It stalls when the veteran is out
Explain
You must show why
Audits and managers ask for the trail
Easy to wave through
“Business as usual”
is not a control
Goods exports still need a clear process
- 1Selling parts or equipment overseasExport
- 2Sharing specs or drawings before a saleMay need review
- 3Technology transfer to an overseas subsidiaryMay need review
- 4Onboarding a new overseas distributorParty screening needed
Compliance risk
This is not “extra work.” It is compliance risk.
Penalties depend on law and facts—but the worst case still hits people and the company.
Japan (FEFTA)
- Criminal imprisonment up to 10 years in severe cases
- Substantial corporate and individual fines
- Export bans that can halt the business
United States (EAR)
- Civil and criminal sanctions under U.S. law
- Large monetary penalties
- Denial of export privileges and deal restrictions
Missed checks are not “business as usual.” Design export control as compliance risk.
* Penalties vary by statute and case. Near-worst examples only—not legal advice.
Start from the forms you already use
No special prep day—METI Excel or party CSV as-is.
You get the why, not only a score. Final decisions stay with you.
01
Upload your forms
METI Excel or partner CSV as-is—no special data prep.
02
AI runs the screening
Classification, counterparties, and relationship chains in one pass.
03
Score + evidence
S–C concern scores with rationale and source URLs.
04
Human decides
Your export-control officer decides. AI prepares the investigation.
01
Upload your forms
METI Excel or partner CSV as-is—no special data prep.
02
AI runs the screening
Classification, counterparties, and relationship chains in one pass.
03
Score + evidence
S–C concern scores with rationale and source URLs.
04
Human decides
Your export-control officer decides. AI prepares the investigation.
VALUE 01
Just upload the file
METI-specified Excel forms or party lists as CSV. No half-day of data wrangling to start.
- METI-designated format (Excel) — Works with the official formats teams already use
- CSV file (batch processing) — Batch many counterparties in one flow
VALUE 02
You can explain the “why”
We do not stop at a score.why the risk level came out that way stays with evidence—so audits and internal reviews are not “because the AI said so.”
- Concern Score (S/A/B/C) — Clear 4-level risk assessment
- Detailed Reasoning — Logical explanation of what information led to the judgment
- Source URLs — Direct links to reference sources. Ready for audit explanations.
From upload to first-pass screening support and structured evidence. Spend human time on judgment and explanation.
What changes per case
Time to first pass (illustrative)
* Varies by case complexity. “Tens of seconds” is a guide for first-pass visibility.
Before
- Time on matrix vs specs
- Time on party back-checks
- Hard to re-explain later
After · TRAFEED
- Faster first-pass cross-checks
- Risk level with rationale
- Humans still decide
Adoption across universities, companies, and public bodies
World’s first(*) AI export-control agent. Patented in Japan (No. 7862062). After joint validation with Okayama University, adoption is also confirmed at multiple national/public universities and across materials, electronics, equipment, machinery trading, and U.S. manufacturers.
World's first AI agent in the field of Japan's security export control. The core risk-assessment logic is patented (Japan Patent No. 7862062).
20+ universities, research institutions, and companies are deploying or piloting TRAFEED
Following Okayama University, multiple national and public universities have decided to adopt TRAFEED (names under NDA)
Materials, electronics, and equipment manufacturers, machinery trading companies, and U.S. manufacturers have also decided to adopt
Multi-LLM Consensus
Check the mechanism before you trust the output
Cross-checks across multiple LLMs—not a single model. Evidence is retained; final decisions stay with people.
Cross-Check & Consensus
Final Judgment & Output
Reliability Points
What helps practitioners sleep at night
Multi-model cross-check
Do not bet everything on one model’s wording
Deterministic list matching
Match what can be matched—not vibes
Open rationale
Reasons and sources stay visible
Human final say
AI assists research; your export-control officer decides
Presented at FY2025 University Export Control Seminar (Osaka)
Following the presentation at this seminar, we have received numerous inquiries from universities and research institutions primarily in Western Japan, and we are currently responding to these requests.
Individual organizations are not disclosed due to NDAs. Contact us for details.
Takao Funakura
Deputy Director, Headquarters for Collaborative Research with Industry and Government, Research and Innovation Co-Creation Organization, Okayama University
Okayama University has long been strengthening its security export control framework. We see this collaboration with TIMEWELL as an excellent opportunity to return the university’s expertise to society and contribute to Japan’s industrial security as a whole. We are confident that this service will become a powerful tool for many companies and universities to make export control work more efficient and more sophisticated.
* This comment is based on content published in the press release.
Adoption segments
Building on joint validation with Okayama University, TRAFEED is being adopted by multiple national and public universities and companies across industries (individual organization names are withheld under NDA).
Individual organization names are not disclosed under NDA. Please contact us for details.
For organizations where these checks show up every week
“We want to be careful—we just run out of hours.” Universities and companies share the same structure.
Universities & Research Institutes
- Partner checks pile up right before contracts
- Visiting researcher / student screening with a small team
- Tech + party checks collide before conferences and shows
- Tech transfer and audits demand explainable evidence
Enterprises
- New-party screening clashes with sales speed
- Overseas distributor checks keep slipping downstream
- Pre-shipment classification and party checks hit the same owner
- Supplier reviews and M&A DD create sudden spikes
Government & Public Agencies
- High-volume checks on grantees and contractors
- Manual review cannot keep up with bulk cases
- Accountability and throughput are both required
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Brief for internal sharing
Features, rollout, and scope (goods / services / EAR) in one file for managers and stakeholders.
Key Features & Concern Scores
As the world's first(*) export control AI agent, TRAFEED covers the full set of capabilities needed in real-world operations.
Feature List
Classification (Designation) Support
Automatically map goods and technologies to controlled-item lists (Japan's FEFTA, US EAR, EU, etc.) from product specs, model numbers, and spec sheets. The decision rationale and cited regulatory clauses are presented together to support the human's final call.
Individual Partner Deep-Dive
Deep-dive each counterparty—company, lab, or person—across ~100M company records, multi-country sanctions/control lists, and technology sources (about 300M records total including tech data), surfacing ownership, related entities, and people links.
EAR / BIS 50% (Affiliates) Rule Support
Early accessSupports screening ownership chains and parent equity under the 50% rule—including Entity List subsidiaries. Already rolling out with early customers.
AI Analysis of Technical Documents
AI directly analyzes parameter sheets including drawings, engineering design documents, and specifications. From technical elements that text alone cannot reveal, we score regulatory applicability and concern level.
Pre-screening (Students & New Partners)
Pre-admission screening for international students and visiting researchers, plus pre-onboarding due diligence for new business partners. Concern level is auto-reported, fully integrated with relationship chain analysis.
Same-day Regulatory + Approval Workflow
Same-day reflection of regulatory and entity-list changes from METI, US EAR, EU, China, and Korea. Multi-stage approvals, reviews, and pushbacks are fully logged — combining internal control with audit trails.
Batch Processing & Evidence-Backed Reports
Check hundreds of records in a CSV batch. Variant-name and notation drift handled automatically. Reports auto-generate with source URLs, decision rationale, and concern scores (S/A/B/C).
Concern Score
4-level risk assessment from S to C.
Clear reasoning and source URLs for every judgment.
See the connections hand research cannot finish
Related entities, people, and technology links that single list lookups miss—the graph takes that investigation load.
Open a counterparty site, chase ownership, line up sanctions lists—and the tree keeps branching: related companies, inventors, prior research. That sprawl is the daily pain. TRAFEED unifies multi-country sanctions/control lists, company records (~100M scale), and technology sources (papers, patents, design context) on one graph for cross-search. Non-public sources are expanding within legal and contractual bounds. Total volume is about 300M records including technology data.
~100M
Company records
Multi-country org data for “who is related to whom?”
Multi-country
Sanctions & control lists
Entity lists and sanctions targets, continuously refreshed
Tech corpus
Papers, patents & designs
Technology context on the same graph for classification work
Data you can search across (incl. technology)
~300M records
~100M company records, multi-country sanctions/control lists, papers & patents. Non-public expansion underway (lawful, contractual scope).
Domains the graph connects
Papers
Co-authorship & affiliations
Patents
Applicants, inventors, cites
Researchers
Career & networks
Orgs
~100M company graph
Control lists
Sanctions & entities (multi-country)
Why this lightens manual investigation
Do not hunt classification cues and party facts in separate silos
Technical context and ownership / related entities / sanctions sit on one base—so handoffs do not fracture the story.
Touch related-entity and people links in the first pass
For cases that will not end on a single name hit, surface investigation branches earlier.
Leave a trail for “why it flagged”
Less re-work when managers or auditors ask. Final decisions stay human.
Relationship Chain Analysis
Track not just your counterparts, but their entire network of relationships
Before entering transactions with overseas partners, automatically analyze the subject's relationship chain.
Cross-reference shareholder structures, affiliated entities, and sanction histories across multiple data sources to uncover hidden risks.
- Network analysis of overseas agents and distributors
- Automated capital relationship chain tracking
- Cross-matching against sanctions and concern lists
Automate METI Matrix Table
Cross-Checking Work
The Export Control Order Appendix and Goods Ministerial Order Matrix Table is essential for export control. AI solves technical jargon and the time required for cross-checking.
Conventional Challenges
METI Matrix Table
- !Technical jargon barrier: Legal-specific expressions make cross-checking with in-house products difficult
- !Vast number of items: Hundreds of items across 15 categories require visual inspection
- !Reliance on individual judgment: Interpretations differ between staff, making consistency hard to maintain
TRAFEED Solution
AI Term Translation
AI automatically translates technical terms in the matrix table into common expressions. Enter a product name or specification to identify potentially applicable items.
- 90% reduction in cross-checking time: Work that used to take hours is completed in seconds
- Transparent rationale: Displays the reasoning for why a given item may apply
- Consistent quality: AI applies the same criteria, eliminating variation between staff
- Audit-ready: Determination history and supporting documents are saved automatically
* AI determinations are a support tool. Final export-control decisions remain your company’s responsibility.
Item-by-Item Comparison Table
EAR / BIS 50% rule support has already started with early customers (see Features). Below is the planned item-by-item comparison table support.
Item-by-Item Comparison Table Support
Full support for the item-by-item comparison tables of the Export Trade Control Order Appendix 1 and the Foreign Exchange Order Appendix, streamlining applicability determination work.
Beyond prior screening, cross-comparison with actual export records is legally required.
- Comparison table format data import
- Cross-checking of prior screening against actual export records
- Output support for CISTEC format
Official Documents Used
in Export Control
Security export control requires prior confirmation using forms prescribed by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).
TRAFEED (formerly ZEROCK ExCHECK) fully supports this official format.
METI "Security Export Control Prior Confirmation Sheet" format
What is the Prior Confirmation Sheet?
An official document used to confirm in advance whether the technology or goods to be exported fall under List Controls or Catch-All Controls.
The destination country, counterparty, and end use must be recorded in detail to determine whether the transaction is subject to controls. Specialist knowledge is required and the work has traditionally consumed considerable time and effort.
Key Capabilities of TRAFEED (formerly ZEROCK ExCHECK)
- Full support for Forms 1–3
AI automatically recognizes each form for technology transfer and goods export
- Automatic field validation
Instantly assesses risk level from counterparty, country, and end use
- Bulk processing via Excel
Large volumes of confirmation cases can be uploaded in bulk
Export Control Basics in 3 Minutes
Technical terms explained simply
What is List-Based Control?
Regulations that list items and technologies usable for weapons/military, restricting exports to certain countries. 'Classification' determines if your product specs match controlled items.
What is Catch-All Control?
Comprehensive regulations applied even to non-listed items if there's risk of WMD development use. Requires checking end-user purpose and identity.
What is Classification?
The process of determining if goods/technology you're exporting fall under export control lists. Compare product specs against control lists to judge controlled/non-controlled status.
What Does TRAFEED (formerly ZEROCK ExCHECK) Do?
Upload product specs and AI automatically performs list-based and catch-all classification. Auto-generates linked evidence documents and reasoning explanations.
Same-day regulatory response — relentless pace of feature expansion
Export control regulations evolve constantly. TRAFEED tracks regulatory information across jurisdictions 24/7 and reflects changes in the system on the same day, with weekly releases on top of that to ship customer feedback in the shortest possible cycle.
Changes to regulations, entity lists, and sanctions lists across jurisdictions are reflected in the system the same day
Same-day regulatory tracking
Regulatory changes from METI, US EAR, EU, China, Korea and other jurisdictions reflected within 24 hours
Approval workflow capability
Multi-stage approval, pushback, and full history logging — combining internal controls with audit trails
Expanding sanctions, company lists, and tech knowledge
Continuous multi-country list and company-graph growth (~100M company records; ~300M total with technology data). Non-public sources expanding where allowed
Enhanced pre-screening
Improved accuracy of background checks for international students and new business partners
Regulatory changes same day, customer feedback within a week
Regulatory updates and entity-list changes are reflected within 24 hours. Feedback from design-partner customers is reviewed within a week as a rule, and high-priority items go into the next weekly release.
Pricing Plans
Clear pricing for confident adoption
Standard
Initial fee $2,400
- Up to 500 pt/month
- Screening & classification
- Auto evidence linking
- Audit-ready reports
- Auto regulatory updates
Growth
Initial fee $2,400
- Up to 1,300 pt/month
- Everything in Standard
- Screening & classification
- Auto evidence linking
- Auto regulatory updates
Large-scale
Initial fee $2,400
- Up to 2,500 pt/month
- Everything in Growth
- Priority support
- Audit-ready reports
Large-scale Use & Special Programs
We tailor the best plan to your volume and specific requirements
Enterprise
Large-scale use & API integration ／ The more you use, the lower the per-pt cost
- 12,500+ pt/month, high-volume processing
- API & ERP integration
- Dedicated support
- Screening & classification
- Audit-ready reports
Design Partner
Offered at a special price
- Up to 500 pt/month
- Screening & classification
- Auto evidence linking
- Priority support
- Feature development input
※ Limited to companies that can provide feedback on product improvements
About point (pt) consumption
Usage is managed in points (pt). The points consumed vary with the type of processing.
The estimated points for each operation are shown on screen before you run it.
Support
Frequently Asked Questions
Stop carryingmatrix matching & party checks
alone
Share the brief internally, or walk us through the step that hurts most—either is fine.
We'll fit a world's-first(*) , Japan-patented system into your classification and counterparty workflow.
We reply within one business day. We start from operational load—not a hard pitch.
(*) “World’s first” refers to an AI agent in the field of Japan’s security export control (list and catch-all regulations). Confirmed by TIMEWELL internal research as of March 2026. The 95%+ AI assessment accuracy is based on our own validation jointly conducted with Okayama University on approximately 30,000 past review cases. TRAFEED assesses and supports risk determination; the final export-classification decision is made by the customer’s export-control officer. Japan Patent No. 7862062.