An AI layer for
your trading operations.
Timberhub runs an AI brain across our own trading operations, connecting pricing, stock, orders, and compliance, and handling the routine work between them. We built it for ourselves, and now we deploy it for fellow timber traders.
Trading runs on institutional knowledge, and it does not scale.
Pricing decisions, stock management, logistics coordination, compliance. All of it still depends on a small number of people, a dozen spreadsheets, and a full inbox.
Operational bottleneck
Every pricing decision, order update, and certificate request passes through the same small group. Volume grows, so does the queue. The team becomes the constraint.
Scalability ceiling
Growing the business requires adding headcount linearly. More countries, more suppliers, more volume multiplies the operational load. Cost grows at the same rate as revenue.
Knowledge risk
Critical intelligence lives in people's heads, not systems. One person knows the pricing logic, one the supplier history, one the freight. When they're unavailable, operations slow or stop.
What changes when the system runs the routine.
A Trading Brain. An intelligent layer across your operations.
An AI-powered system that sits across your existing operations. It does not replace your systems. It connects them and automates the routine work between them.
Where the brain already runs.
Not hypothetical workflows. These run in production at Timberhub today, each one replacing a manual process that consumed hours per week.
A country manager needs pricing for 5 containers of OSB. Emails the trading team. Team checks the frame agreement, calculates freight, and replies after hours of back-and-forth. Purchase order drafted separately, manually.
Manager asks the brain via Teams. It returns the landed cost, lead time, and freight estimate in seconds, grounded in the current frame agreement and real freight data. Confirm, and the purchase order is drafted and sent automatically.
Hours of back-and-forth → seconds.
Run this on your operations →Each country manager maintains their own view of inventory and demand in spreadsheets. The head office consolidates data manually every month — chasing updates, reconciling conflicting numbers, and calculating stock coverage by product and region. Committed volumes are gathered via email chains spanning multiple countries.
The brain aggregates all data, calculates coverage days per country per product, flags issues, and generates a report. Automated outreach collects committed volumes; one-click approval sends tailored guidance to each country.
Month-long process → automated cycle.
Run this on your operations →When supply is constrained, the team manually decides which customers get priority. Decisions happen in email threads between country managers. The process is slow and opaque to the team.
The brain proposes a split weighted by margin, retention, and urgency, with the reasoning shown. Country managers approve or adjust in one click. Allocation becomes transparent, defensible, and auditable.
Fewer disputes. Better margin. Retention kept happy.
Run this on your operations →Every shipment needs 3–4 freight quotes chased by email, compared in a spreadsheet. Decisions stuck waiting on carrier responses. Booking happens across separate systems.
Quotes collected automatically from approved carriers. The brain ranks options on landed cost, recommends the best one, and drafts the booking. A process that took days resolves in minutes.
Freight at the speed of the trade, not the inbox.
Run this on your operations →How the Trading Brain works in practice.
Two modes. A chat interface grounded in your real data, and an agent that runs quietly in the background, escalating only when a human decision is genuinely needed.
Ask questions. Get answers from your own data.
Your teams interact through the tools they already use: Microsoft Teams, Slack, or email. Ask a question, get an answer grounded in real data: product pricing, stock positions, order status, supplier terms. No training needed.
Munich is running low. Shall I trigger a replenishment order from X Sawmill?
Hours of back-and-forth → seconds.
The brain works proactively in the background.
Without being asked, it monitors your operations and acts on what it finds, escalating to your team only when a human decision is genuinely needed.
Automated end-to-end. A real pipeline.
ISPM15 phytosanitary certificates are required for most cross-border timber shipments. High volume, rule-based, and a strong fit for end-to-end automation. This pipeline runs in production today.
Reads certificates directly from supplier PDFs, with no manual transcription and no templates.
Validation rules check treatment type, certificate number, issuing country, and expiry. Exceptions are flagged for human review only.
Certificates auto-linked to the relevant purchase order and archived with full shipment documentation.
Buyers notified automatically. Record is audit-ready from the moment it is processed.
Built by timber traders, for timber traders.
We are a timber trading company. We built this brain for our own operations and now offer it as a service to fellow traders who want the same leverage.
The brain processes buyer requests across channels, matches supply with demand, generates quotes from real-time pricing and logistics data, and manages workflows from inquiry to delivery. It runs our business every day, and we deploy it on yours.
"We don't sell software. We sell the brain we use ourselves."
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Bring the Trading Brain to your operations.
We deploy the same brain we use ourselves, on your infrastructure, integrated with your existing tools, configured to your workflows. Built by timber traders, for timber traders. No generic AI tool, no slide-deck demo.
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