How it works
From discovery to delivery.
- 01
Discover
See what is happening in a market before committing time to it.
- What Offport does
- Brings trade signals together from sources Offport owns, licenses or generates, and shows where each one came from, when it was observed and what it cannot tell you.
- What you do
- Explores products, markets and trade routes relevant to their business.
- What partners may do
- Licensed data providers supply authorised datasets.
- What remains human-controlled
- You decide what is worth pursuing. Missing evidence is shown as missing, never estimated.
Your next stepStart with the product, market and trade information relevant to your business.
- 02
Decide
Use market information to decide: which product, which market, which terms.
- What Offport does
- Structures evidence into comparable form and explains the basis behind any figure it shows.
- What you do
- Defines a buying requirement or a supply offer.
- What partners may do
- Data partners provide the underlying evidence where licensed.
- What remains human-controlled
- Commercial judgement stays with you. Offport does not make buying or selling decisions.
Your next stepThe buyer and seller forms on this site capture structured requirements and supply.
- 03
Match
Find buyers and suppliers whose capability fits the requirement.
- What Offport does
- Compares requirements and supply on named factors — product, specification, quantity, origin, destination, timing and terms — and explains why a fit is suggested.
- What you do
- Reviews suggested buyers and suppliers and chooses whom to engage.
- What partners may do
- Verification providers may confirm business identity and documents.
- What remains human-controlled
- Offport recommends; you choose. No buyer or supplier is assigned, and paid placement never affects matching.
Your next stepThe Offport team reviews submissions by hand and looks for genuine fits.
- 04
Negotiate
Keep every offer and change in one shared record.
- What Offport does
- Records offers and counteroffers across price, quantity, quality, delivery, currency, Incoterm and payment terms. AI assistance can summarise or compare terms when a user asks.
- What you do
- Makes, reviews and responds to offers.
- What partners may do
- None required.
- What remains human-controlled
- Every offer is sent by a person. AI never sends, accepts, rejects or commits on anyone’s behalf. Identities stay masked until the deal closes.
Your next stepWhere both sides agree to an introduction, the conversation happens directly between them.
- Milestone
Deal closed
Both parties explicitly accept the final price and key terms.
- What Offport does
- Records the mutual acceptance of final price, quantity, specification, delivery, Incoterm, payment terms and other material conditions. Full identities are disclosed at this point.
- What you do
- Buyer and seller each explicitly accept. One party’s proposal is not the other’s acceptance.
- What partners may do
- None required to record the agreement.
- What remains human-controlled
- A deal closes only when both sides accept. Nothing is closed automatically.
Your next stepIntroductions happen only when both parties agree.
- 06
Contract
Turn the agreed terms into a contract both parties can review.
- What Offport does
- Prepares the contract record from the agreed terms and tracks versions and approvals. Offport does not provide legal advice.
- What you do
- Reviews clauses, requests changes and signs.
- What partners may do
- Legal advisers and electronic-signature providers.
- What remains human-controlled
- The parties and their advisers decide what they sign.
- 07
Pay
Payment milestones, visible to both sides.
- What Offport does
- Coordinates payment steps and shows their status. Offport never holds customer funds.
- What you do
- Funds and approves payments according to the agreed terms.
- What partners may do
- Licensed payment, escrow and trade-finance providers move and hold money.
- What remains human-controlled
- Releases follow agreed conditions and require a person’s approval.
- 08
Document
Every transaction document in one place, with its history.
- What Offport does
- Keeps documents together with versions and file-integrity checks. Any AI-assisted extraction requires human review.
- What you do
- Uploads, reviews and approves documents.
- What partners may do
- Inspection agencies, certification bodies and issuing authorities.
- What remains human-controlled
- People accept documents. Extracting data from a document is not the same as authenticating it.
- 09
Comply
A gate on documents and shipment — not a separate stage.
- What Offport does
- Surfaces requirements and blockers that may apply to the trade, with their sources.
- What you do
- Provides the evidence the trade requires.
- What partners may do
- Compliance and screening providers, customs brokers.
- What remains human-controlled
- Offport does not make autonomous compliance decisions or approvals.
- 10
Ship
Shipment milestones in the same record as the deal.
- What Offport does
- Shows shipment milestones from carrier and logistics data where it is available. Offport is not a freight forwarder.
- What you do
- Books and manages logistics with the providers they choose.
- What partners may do
- Freight forwarders, carriers, ports and logistics data providers.
- What remains human-controlled
- Logistics decisions remain with the parties.
- 11
Deliver
Delivery and acceptance against what was agreed.
- What Offport does
- Records delivery and acceptance against the agreed terms and reconciles the transaction record.
- What you do
- Confirms receipt and acceptance.
- What partners may do
- Destination inspection; payment release through the licensed partner.
- What remains human-controlled
- The buyer confirms acceptance.
- 12
Learn
Completed trade makes the next decision better informed.
- What Offport does
- Completed outcomes improve future intelligence — within permission and confidentiality rules.
- What you do
- Reviews performance and repeats what worked.
- What partners may do
- None required.
- What remains human-controlled
- Data use follows permissions. Private commercial details are never exposed.
Your next stepCompleted trade outcomes help improve future decisions.
—How Offport works
Real requirements. Human introductions.
- 01
Submit
You
Share a requirement or supply profile. Free, no account.
- 02
Review
Offport team
A person reads every submission.
- 03
Qualify
Offport team
We may ask questions to understand fit and seriousness.
- 04
Consent check
Both sides
If there is a possible fit, we ask each party first.
- 05
Introduce
Offport team
Only with both parties’ agreement — never automatically.
- 06
Converse
Buyer & seller
You decide whether, and how, to proceed.
- 07
Learn
Offport
Completed trades help improve the next decision.
Looking to buy?
Looking to sell?
Tell us what you need — product, quantity, destination and timing. Tell us what you supply — capability, capacity and target markets. A person reads every submission.