Hey Product Hunt — I'm Matt, founder of ExChek.

Here's the problem I built this to solve:

There are tens of thousands of small U.S. manufacturers — CNC shops, injection molders, fabricators — who source parts from China and serve defense-adjacent clients. They know they need export compliance. They can't afford it. A compliance officer is $120K/year. Enterprise software runs $20K–$100K. Consultants charge $300/hour.

So they do nothing. And they're one audit away from a very bad day.

In December 2025, DOJ fined Swiss Automation — a 30-person precision machining shop in Illinois — $421,234 for compliance failures on defense subcontracts. Not Boeing. Not Raytheon. A small sub.

Meanwhile, AI agents are rapidly handling more business processes — procurement, logistics, supply chain management. But none of them have a compliance layer. The moment an agent touches an international transaction, it enters a regulatory environment it has zero awareness of.

ExChek solves both problems.

It's a set of skills you install into your AI agent. The agent gets over 10 capabilities, here are some of them:

ECCN Classification — Proposes export control classification numbers using live regulatory data from the eCFR. Human reviews and approves every classification. Generates audit-ready memos.
Consolidated Screening List Search — Screens any party against 13 federal denied-party and restricted-entity lists via the Trade.gov API. Fuzzy matching included.
License Determination — Cross-references the classification, destination, end-use, and end-user against EAR Parts 738 and 740. Tells you if you need a license, and which exceptions apply.
Export Documentation — Drafts commercial invoices, packing lists, shipper's letter of instruction, and AES/EEI data elements.

Every single determination requires human approval. This isn't autonomous compliance — that doesn't exist in regulated industries. It's AI-assisted compliance with a human in the loop every time.

It's completely free. No signup, no payment, no API key for classification and license determination. We're racing to adoption because we believe compliance infrastructure should be accessible to every company, not just Fortune 500s.

For companies that want it tailored to their business — their products pre-classified, their suppliers pre-screened, their memos branded — we offer ExChek Custom starting at $2,000.

Works with Claude Cowork, Cursor, Perplexity, and any MCP-compatible agent. OpenAI and Grok support coming soon.

I'd love your feedback. Two questions I'm genuinely wrestling with:

1. If you're building AI agents — what's the biggest friction point you'd expect when adding a compliance layer to an agent workflow?

2. If you're in manufacturing or trade — what would it take for you to trust an AI-assisted compliance tool?

Docs: https://docs.exchek.us GitHub: https://github.com/mrdulasolutions/exchekskills

Thanks for checking us out. Built by someone who spent three years on the "wrong" side of a multi million dollar export violation case. I built the tool I wish existed then.

— Matt