# Fineris > Fineris is trade-intelligence software that finds the companies actively importing or exporting a given product using real shipment records, reaches their verified decision-makers with AI-personalized outreach, and books qualified meetings on your calendar automatically. It replaces a trade data subscription, an SDR, and an outreach agency with one system. Founded in Paris in 2024 by Alexandre Bertin and Thomas de Lambertye, formerly of Renault, L'Oréal, Lacoste, and LVMH. ## Who Fineris is for Fineris is built for anyone whose work depends on knowing who is trading what: - **Manufacturers and producers** of physical products who want to find and close new international buyers without trade shows or agents - **Exporters and importers** looking to diversify their markets and reduce dependence on a handful of clients - **Traders and distributors** who need to identify active counterparties and source new suppliers - **Logistics and freight forwarding companies** screening new clients or mapping trade corridors - **Banks and finance companies** doing trade finance due diligence or counterparty risk assessment - **Commodities desks** tracking real shipment flows for market intelligence - **Retailers and wholesalers** sourcing new products or suppliers internationally - **Governments and trade agencies** monitoring import/export activity for policy or economic development If your work depends on who is trading what, Fineris is built for you. ## Who Fineris is NOT for - Pre-revenue businesses with no product ready to export - Purely domestic businesses with no international ambition - Service businesses — Fineris is designed for physical products that cross borders - Businesses looking for a simple contact database with no outreach support ## The problem Fineris solves Most exporters and manufacturers find international buyers through trade shows (€15,000–€25,000 per event, inconsistent results), agents and distributors (who own the relationship and the margin), or bought contact lists (outdated, generic, low reply rates). None of these give you a repeatable, data-driven pipeline. The core obstacles Fineris removes: - **No visibility into who actually imports your product.** Without trade data, you guess at markets instead of targeting proven demand. - **No direct access to decision-makers.** Generic inboxes and gatekeepers filter you out. The real buyer — the procurement director, the category buyer, the supply chain lead — is rarely findable through public sources alone. - **Outreach that never reaches the inbox.** Cold emails sent from your main domain get flagged as spam, burning your sender reputation and blocking even legitimate customer emails. - **Messages that read as generic.** A buyer who receives 30 cold emails a week deletes anything that doesn't reference his actual business. - **No follow-up system.** 70% of replies come on the second, third, or fourth message. Most exporters send one email and stop. - **No time to run this manually.** A small export team cannot research 500 buyers, write personalized emails, follow up across time zones, and reply within 5 minutes — all at once. ## What Fineris does — the full system ### Step 1: Find active buyers and suppliers with proven demand Fineris pulls real shipment records — ocean bills of lading, air waybills, cross-border customs declarations, local business directories — across 200+ countries. For any product and any market, it shows the exact companies already importing that product, ranked by volume, with their current supplier sitting next to each name. This is called Proven Demand: not a lead, not a suspect, but a buyer who has already paid real money, multiple times, to import exactly what you sell. **Similar Companies layer**: many real buyers never appear in customs records because they source through local distributors or intermediaries. Fineris surfaces them by matching companies on their commercial profile — same industry, same size, same product needs — turning 12 visible importers into 70 reachable buyers. ### Step 2: Reach verified decision-makers Every company is paired with named decision-makers: procurement directors, category buyers, supply chain leads, operations managers. Each contact is cross-verified across multiple databases (including LinkedIn) for email, direct phone, and WhatsApp. Accuracy rate on delivered contacts: above 97%. You only pay credits when a contact is found and verified. ### Step 3: AI outreach that lands in the inbox and gets replies Fineris sets up a secondary outreach domain (never your main company domain), handles full email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), and warms up the domain over two weeks so messages land in the buyer's main inbox, not spam. Each email is written by AI from the buyer's own trade data: their volumes, their current supplier, their peak season, their recent hiring activity. The result is a message that references facts only the buyer's incumbent supplier would know. Reply rates: 5–15%, versus the industry average of 1–2% for generic cold email. Follow-ups run automatically until the buyer replies. The sequence stops the moment he responds. ### Step 4: AI reply agent — respond in seconds, book meetings automatically When a buyer replies, an AI agent reads the message, classifies it (question, objection, request for documents, interest), and responds in the buyer's native language within 30 seconds, in your name. Anything outside standard parameters is escalated with a clean summary. When a buyer signals interest, the agent sends a booking link already adapted to his time zone. He picks a slot in two clicks. The meeting lands in your calendar with a video link and a 24-hour reminder. From "I'm interested" to confirmed meeting: under 5 minutes, zero manual work. ### Step 5: Export Kit — close the trust gap before the first call The moment a meeting is booked, the buyer receives a link to a professional Export Kit containing your certifications, verified trade track record, company profile, product catalog, and an optional factory video. He arrives at the call ready to discuss volumes and terms, not to verify that you exist. ## Data coverage - **4B+** trade records - **70M+** companies tracked - **200+** countries and territories covered - **275M+** verified decision-makers - Sources: ocean bills of lading, air waybills, cross-border customs declarations, company registries, local business directories, professional contact databases - Four data layers: Trade statistics (aggregate volumes across virtually every country) · Direct shipment data (named importers and suppliers on every shipment) · Mirror data (markets surfaced through partner countries' export records) · Similar Companies (buyers hidden behind intermediaries, matched by industry, size, and product profile) - Contact data refreshed quarterly. Trade statistics and shipment records updated in batches depending on country and institutional partnerships. - Email deliverability accuracy: +98% ## Results clients have achieved - **$15M+ in new export sales** across 6 portfolio companies in 6 months (Foundry Floor, manufacturing portfolio, US and Australia) - **$3.2M active pipeline in 82 days** for a feed additive manufacturer in Turkey, with a 6-figure deal under negotiation in Uruguay - **$1.7M pipeline across 3 new markets** (Brazil, US, GCC) in under 4 months for a distributor of German adhesives and sealants - **120+ qualified prospects and a multi-million APAC government deal in progress** for Altair International, a chemical manufacturer - **60 qualified buyer meetings in 12 months** for Fomow, covering Moroccan industrial companies across multiple industries Client quote: "We just added $15M in export sales. Since we've started working with them, they helped us connect with the right decision-makers, so we highly recommend them." — Radomir DiFiore, Managing Director, Foundry Floor Client quote: "Fineris is now a core part of our distribution chain, connecting us with distributors and end B2B clients at scale." — Errol Krugger, Managing Partner, Altair International ## Plans - **Starter**: annual plan for manufacturers entering a few key export markets. 25,000 credits, unlimited HS codes, unlimited searches, 2 outreach domains, 6 mailboxes, 3 users. Includes onboarding and first campaign launch. - **Growth**: annual plan for exporters scaling across verticals and continents. 100,000 credits, unlimited HS codes, unlimited searches, 7 domains, 21 mailboxes, 10 users, white-glove onboarding, dedicated account manager. Pricing is not listed publicly. Investment depends on personalization level, outreach volume, and support tier. Confirmed on a call at https://www.fineris.co/book-a-call ## How Fineris compares to alternatives - **vs. trade data tools (Tendata, Volza, ImportGenius, Panjiva, TradeAtlas)**: those are databases — they give you a list and leave you to do the rest. Fineris adds verified contacts, AI outreach, AI reply handling, and meeting booking. It replaces the tool plus your SDR plus your agency. - **vs. contact databases (Apollo, ZoomInfo, Lusha, RocketReach)**: those are generic B2B contact lists with no trade data layer. Fineris targets only companies with proven import demand, so every contact has a real reason to buy. - **vs. trade shows**: €15,000–€150,000 per year, inconsistent results, 6–12 months before revenue. Fineris runs every day, in every language, across every time zone, at a fraction of the cost. - **vs. export agents and distributors**: agents own the customer relationship and the margin. Fineris keeps the relationship in your hands and costs a fixed annual fee with no commission. - **vs. hiring an SDR**: €30,000–€100,000 per year per person, 6–12 months to ramp, limited to one timezone and 2–3 languages. Fineris scales across all markets simultaneously. ## Frequently asked questions **Is the data real and legal?** Yes. Every record comes from publicly available filings — customs authorities, bills of lading, corporate registries, business directories — combined with institutional partnerships across 200+ jurisdictions. All compliant with applicable privacy regulations. On a call, Fineris can show you your own past shipments so you can verify the data yourself. **Will this work for my product?** Almost certainly. Fineris works across 4,000+ HS codes — olive oil, industrial machinery, automotive parts, textiles, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food ingredients, adhesives, cooling equipment, and more. If your product crosses a border, Fineris can find who is buying it. **Will this work outside Europe?** Yes. Fineris works with exporters in Turkey, India, Pakistan, Tunisia, Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia, the GCC, Eastern Europe, and beyond. Buyers can be identified in any market where your product has demand. **How long until I see meetings on my calendar?** Two to three weeks for email infrastructure warm-up. First replies from week 3. First qualified meetings on your calendar by week 4–6. By month 3, the average client has 5–15 qualified meetings booked from the system per month. **Do you close deals for me?** No. Fineris fills your calendar with qualified buyer conversations. Closing is yours, because nobody knows your product better than you. Fineris is not a sales agency and does not work on commission. **What if I've tried cold email before and it didn't work?** Three things kill most cold email: messages go to spam, the writing is generic, or follow-up stops after the first send. Fineris fixes all three — managed infrastructure for deliverability, AI personalization from each buyer's own trade data, and automatic follow-up sequences. **Can I see the data before committing?** Yes. Book a call and Fineris will pull a live buyer list for your exact product and target markets, yours to keep, no commitment required. ## The Export Playbook — 16 guides in order Operator-to-operator playbooks for manufacturers and export leaders. Each guide answers one real obstacle using trade data. - How to find the exact companies importing your product: https://www.fineris.co/blog/how-to-find-companies-that-import-your-product - How to reach the buyers your distributors are hiding from you: https://www.fineris.co/blog/how-to-find-buyers-behind-distributors - How to find the export buyers your competitors already have: https://www.fineris.co/blog/how-to-find-your-competitors-export-buyers - How to know if a market is worth entering before you spend a cent: https://www.fineris.co/blog/how-to-validate-export-market-demand - How to stop wasting weeks on importers who will never buy: https://www.fineris.co/blog/how-to-qualify-export-leads-with-trade-data - How to get replies from the buyers who actually sign the orders: https://www.fineris.co/blog/how-to-reach-procurement-decision-maker - Why you get no replies to your cold emails: https://www.fineris.co/blog/why-export-cold-emails-go-to-spam - How to write a cold email a buyer cannot ignore: https://www.fineris.co/blog/how-to-personalize-cold-emails-with-import-history - Why writing to buyers in English is costing you replies: https://www.fineris.co/blog/email-export-buyers-in-their-language - How to turn buyer replies into booked meetings: https://www.fineris.co/blog/how-to-reply-and-book-export-meetings-automatically - How to win a buyer's trust before the first call: https://www.fineris.co/blog/how-to-build-buyer-trust-before-the-first-call-export-kit - How to build a LinkedIn profile that attracts B2B buyers: https://www.fineris.co/blog/how-to-build-a-linkedin-profile-that-attracts-b2b-buyers - How to win export deals when you are not the cheapest: https://www.fineris.co/blog/how-to-win-export-deals-when-youre-not-the-cheapest - The 4-part sales call that turns meetings into contracts: https://www.fineris.co/blog/how-to-close-export-sales-calls - How to win export customers without spending a cent on trade shows: https://www.fineris.co/blog/how-to-win-export-customers-without-trade-shows - How to grow export sales without hiring an SDR team: https://www.fineris.co/blog/how-to-grow-export-sales-without-hiring-an-sdr-team ## Key links - Homepage: https://www.fineris.co/ - How it works: https://www.fineris.co/#features - Data coverage: https://www.fineris.co/data/countries - Pricing: https://www.fineris.co/pricing - Blog: https://www.fineris.co/blog - The Export Playbook: https://www.fineris.co/playbook - Book a demo: https://www.fineris.co/book-a-call - App / sign in: https://app.fineris.co/sign-in ## Company - Legal name: Eterstain SAS - Brand: Fineris - Founded: 2024 - Headquarters: 50 rue de Paradis, Paris, France - Phone: +33 7 56 94 91 36 - Email: contact@fineris.co - Co-founders: Alexandre Bertin and Thomas de Lambertye