Cleareye.ai
AI-native trade finance platform for banks: digitization, compliance and TBML intelligence
By Cleareye.ai · HQ New York, US · 4.0/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Banks and financial institutions digitizing high-volume, paper-heavy trade finance operations (LCs, collections, guarantees, SBLCs).
- Trade finance and financial-crime compliance teams that need TBML, sanctions and red-flag screening with documented checks.
- Global or regional banks willing to run a consulting-led implementation with workflow redesign and change management.
Ideal size: 50+ trade finance / compliance staff people · Mid-size to large bank with an established trade finance or trade operations function
Not for
- Corporates, SMEs or startups wanting a self-serve, low-cost document AI tool with published pricing.
- Buyers who need to be live in days; ClearTrade is described as not plug-and-play and requires workflow redesign.
- Organizations that will not keep humans in the loop on compliance decisions or staff internal change management.
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
3–6 months
~120 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
On request
Quote-based enterprise licence for banks; no public list price. Implementation, training and support delivered by Cleareye, not a third-party SI.
Implementation Friction
4/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Enterprise licensing; no published seat tiers
Add-on costs
- None
Company & support
Who is behind Cleareye.ai, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- 2019 · 7 yrs in business
- Headquarters
- New York, US
How you get support
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Market position
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Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Cleareye.ai ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Sources describe OCR/ML/NLP document extraction and validation, ICC-based rules automation and TBML red-flag/sanctions screening, plus LLM use interpreting guarantee and SBLC clauses. Agentic AI agents are a 2026 roadmap item, not shipped capability. No statement on model choice, key ownership, training-data use or AI-action logging was found.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Not recorded — ask the vendor
- Runs on
- Not recorded
- AI pricing
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In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
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- AI usage audit
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Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Cleareye.ai is an AI-native trade finance platform for banks. Its ClearTrade suite digitizes paper trade documents, automates checking for letters of credit, collections, guarantees and SBLCs, and runs TBML, sanctions and red-flag screening. Founded in 2019, it counts J.P. Morgan, Lloyds Bank, NatWest and RAKBANK as customers. Deployment is a consulting-led project rather than self-serve, and pricing is quote-based. The design principle is 'AI recommends; humans decide', keeping compliance accountability with the bank.
Frequently asked questions
What trade finance work does ClearTrade actually automate?
ClearTrade digitizes and structures paper trade documents, then automates workability and document examination for letters of credit, collections and guarantees, alongside transaction screening, TBML red-flag checks, sanctions screening, vessel and price-fairness checks and duplicate-invoice detection. Cleareye says classification, extraction and validation use OCR, ML and NLP, with a dynamic rules engine aligned to ICC publications such as UCP, ISBP, URC and URDG.
How long does implementation take before we see value?
Cleareye describes ClearTrade as not plug-and-play. The vendor reviews the bank's existing processes, redesigns workflows where needed and says the first few months after implementation are vital to adoption. Implementation, configuration, user training, go-live support and ongoing assistance are delivered by Cleareye rather than a third-party systems integrator. Plan for a multi-month, change-management-heavy project, not a self-serve rollout.
Does the AI make final compliance decisions?
No. Cleareye's stated principle is 'AI recommends; humans decide'. The platform uses traditional ML, GenAI and LLMs to generate human-readable instructions from LC conditions, check documents against them, interpret clauses in guarantees and standbys, summarize suspicious patterns for TBML and enrich risk assessment with external data. Final decisions remain with bank staff, which the vendor frames as an intentional liability-control choice.
How is Cleareye priced?
Cleareye does not publish list pricing. It sells enterprise licences to banks on a scoped, quote-based basis and offers free demos. Consultation, system configuration, user training, go-live support and ongoing assistance are all delivered directly by Cleareye, not a systems integrator, so budget for a licence plus a services engagement. Expect procurement to require a scoped proposal and demos rather than a public price list.
What security and compliance certifications does Cleareye claim?
Cleareye's public FAQ states the company is SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified, and points to encryption, access controls and regular security audits. The site does not publish a dedicated trust, security or compliance page, so request the current SOC 2 report, ISO certificate, scope, hosting location and data-residency details directly during due diligence.
Which banks use ClearTrade and what results are reported?
Public references include J.P. Morgan, Lloyds Bank, NatWest, Ajman Bank and RAKBANK, and Cleareye reports work with Korab on digitizing bills of exchange. For RAKBANK it aligned ClearTrade with UAE central-bank TBML directives, adding vessel tracking, port and country screening, vessel ownership checks, adverse media and price-fairness analysis.