FCO
- Quantity10,000 t
- PriceUSD 250 / t
- IncotermCIF
- Discharge portPort D-1
- Shipment windowJan 2027
In operation · Client deployment
Commodity Trade Operations · A NEO AI vertical
Every trade.One coordinated workflow.
ARGO runs a physical commodity trade from the first buyer enquiry to final delivery. Supplier capacity, matching, pricing, approvals, contracts, finance and shipments live in one controlled, auditable record, with LILI, the NEO AI assistant, working beside every team.
- 12
- stages in one traceable chain, from supplier to closure
- 0
- business decisions taken by AI
- 18
- roles, each capability checked by the server
- 1
- record per trade, with an append-only audit trail
The challenge
A physical trade is a chain of promises.
Supplier capacity sits in spreadsheets, buyer requests in inboxes, contracts in PDFs and proof of funds in attachments. Capacity gets promised twice, documents drift apart, and nobody can say at a glance who owns the next step.
Capacity promised twice
Prices recalculated by hand
Contracts that contradict each other
A transfer copy taken for payment
Vessel ETAs lost in a chat thread
No record of who approved what
ARGO turns the chain into one controlled workflow.
One record per trade. One next action. One owner. Every step proven.
The lifecycle
From first enquiry to final closure, every link stays traceable.
Each status has a next action and an owner. A transaction moves forward only when its gate is met, and every move is recorded.
Deterministic matching engine
Matching you can explain, line by line.
When a buyer request arrives, the ARGO engine ranks supply in three layers. The result shows every rejected alternative with its reason, the assumptions, the sources and the policy version.
- 01Hard constraints
Product and grade, quantity, port, destination, Incoterm, shipment window and licences. A restricted destination is blocked, with the reason.
- 02FIFO
The earliest contracts and commitments are served first, with port allocations and recorded derogations.
- 03Economics
Price, costs and contribution, ranked under the approved pricing policy.
No AI inside the engine.
Availability, FIFO order, prices and contribution are computed by deterministic services. LILI explains them. She never computes or overrides them.
Contract period bucket · 20,000 t
05,00010,00015,00020,000 t
- Committed
- Reserved
- Proposed, not consumed
- Available
- Fulfilled
Illustrative example with fictional figures.
Capacity ledger
A proposal never consumes capacity.
Supplier capacity lives on a ledger, contract period by contract period. Proposals are drafts: only an approved reservation moves quantity, atomically, with protection against races and duplicates. Fulfilled tonnes never reappear as available.
Pricing and contribution
Unknown is not zero.
ARGO separates target, recommended and approved prices, and computes contribution from every cost line. A missing cost makes an estimate incomplete. It is never silently counted as zero.
Approvals and roles
People approve. Every time. On the exact version.
Each approval is bound to one version of the allocation: quantity, price, costs and terms. A material change puts the transaction on hold and invalidates the approvals it affects. Authority limits, four-eyes rules and substitutions are set per workspace.
Every role sees and does exactly what it should.
- Commercial officer
Buyers, requests, matching, approvals within an authority limit.
- Commercial director
Contracts, capacity, policies, exceptions and commissions.
- Legal officer
Drafts, reviews, issues and records signatures of FCO, SPA and IMFPA.
- Finance officer
Verifies financial evidence and bank contacts, approves the finance gate.
- Operations officer
Shipments, milestones, inspections, B/L, delivery and closure.
- Management viewer
Full read access, including pricing. No business action.
- Workspace owner
Every business role, plus members and workspace settings.
- Platform administrator
Technical administration only. No business approval.
18 roles in total. Every capability is checked by the server on each request, not only hidden in the interface.
Document studio
FCO, SPA and IMFPA, consistent by construction.
The FCO is prepared in one click from the approved allocation. Contracts are drafted from approved templates, compared version by version and checked against each other: quantity, price, Incoterm, ports, dates and parties must agree before anything is issued.
- New from documents
Reads a buyer's LOI, CIS and ICPO into a structured request. Every extracted field is validated by a person.
- Consistency checker
Flags any mismatch between the FCO, the SPA, the IMFPA, the buyer's documents and the financial instruments.
- Contract import and comparison
Brings past contracts in and compares their key terms side by side.
- Built-in electronic signature
Sign inside ARGO. Every signature is recorded in the audit trail.
The legal effect of an electronic signature depends on the jurisdiction.
Financial verification
Evidence is not payment.
Proof of product, proof of funds, guarantees, payment instructions and funds received are separate records. Bank contacts are verified independently, and only an authorised finance officer opens the finance gate. ARGO records payments. It never executes them.
- 1Evidence received
POP, POF, SBLC or DLC, payment instructions.
- 2Independent verification
Issuer, beneficiary, expiry and conditions checked through verified contacts.
- 3Funds received
Bank reference, value date and receipt evidence, verified by finance.
- Finance gate
Approved by an authorised finance officer. Logistics can be released.
Counterparty KYC
One dossier per buyer and supplier: signatories, documents, licences with value caps, screening records and expiry alerts, with an optional block before an FCO is issued.
Maritime & Cargo Control
Follow the cargo. Know the source of every position.
ARGO follows the vessels that carry your shipments from received AIS positions, with ports, ETAs, cargo events and alerts. Every value shows its source and its time.
Illustrative · fictional demo data
Loading port Discharge port- Declared, carrier, AIS-reported and ARGO-estimated ETAs are kept apart, never mixed.
- Freshness in colour and in words: recent, ageing, no recent signal.
- Alerts on delays and missing positions, acknowledged and resolved by people.
- An AIS position never proves that cargo is loaded or delivered. That comes from a carrier, a terminal or a validated document.
LILI · NEO AI Brain
An assistant that explains, organises and prepares. People decide.
LILI, the NEO AI assistant, works on every screen and in her own workspace. She answers in the language of your question, cites her sources, respects your role and your workspace, and proposes actions that only an authorised person can confirm.
- Ask
A direct answer, with the passages she relied on.
- Analyze
Facts with citations, then risks, blockers and what is still unknown.
- Organize
A plan of tasks with owners, due dates and dependencies, for you to review.
- Prepare action
A draft document, message or routine, proposed and never claimed as done.
- Permission-aware
- Cites her sources
- Answers in your language
- Never approves, sends or pays
Import centre
Bring your history with you.
A guided import in twelve steps brings in suppliers, contracts, capacity, buyers and documents. Units, quantities, currencies and dates are never converted silently: anything ambiguous is shown for a person to confirm, and an import can be undone.
- Source
- Prerequisites
- Connect or upload
- Access test
- Selection
- Detection
- Mapping with LILI
- Preview
- Confirmation
- Run
- Report and undo
- Recurring sync
Inside ARGO
See the platform at work.
Recordings of the product itself, made in ARGO demonstration workspaces on NEO AI demonstration data. Choose a topic, then a recording.
Recorded in ARGO demonstration workspaces on fictional DEMO DATA created by NEO AI.
Trust by design
Built for the documents and decisions that matter.
- Isolated workspaces
Each company is its own workspace. Data never crosses workspaces: another workspace's record behaves as not found.
- Server-checked roles
Pricing, banking and legal data follow the role everywhere: screens, search, exports, documents and LILI.
- Append-only audit trail
Every approval, change, document and message is recorded with who, when and which version.
- Two-step verification
Password and authenticator code, recovery codes and session controls.
- Backups and restore drills
Scheduled backups of data and documents, with regular restore drills.
- Demo kept apart
Demonstration workspaces hold only fictional data. Simulations are refused in production.
- Honest integration status
Every connector shows its true state: configured, simulated, pending access or not built. Nothing disconnected is shown as live.
- Human in the loop
Nothing commercial, legal or financial happens without an authorised person.
Part of NEO AI
One brain. A world of verticals.
ARGO is a vertical of NEO AI, the intelligence platform of My NEO Group. The same assistant, LILI, and the same core serve every vertical, each with its own data and permissions. Six verticals today, twenty more in the launch pipeline.
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