TradeCheck — verify Dutch trading partners in minutes

Context

Commodity traders doing business with a Dutch counterparty for the first time face fraud risks that a single Chamber of Commerce extract won't surface. A company can formally exist and still be a shell entity, a virtualised address at a mailbox provider, a freshly-incorporated director who has never closed a trade before, or sit on an internal blacklist of known fake warehouse addresses.

For commodity trades where a single lot of palm oil easily clears €100,000, that's an asymmetric risk: a €29.95 verification prevents a transaction that could cost you a year's volume.

What it does

TradeCheck is an iOS app that runs a Dutch counterparty verification across 13 categories:

• KvK Registry — Chamber of Commerce registration + status
• VIES VAT — EU VAT number validation
• EORI — EU customs registration check
• Director Screening — active directors + their other roles
• Financial Health — annual accounts + financial indicators
• Insolvency Check — bankruptcy + debt-restructuring records
• Sanctions Screening — international sanctions lists
• Domain & SSL — domain age + certificate status
• Web Presence — online footprint + activity
• Email Analysis — email domain validity + configuration
• Phone Analysis — phone number validation + carrier
• Address Verification — physical address + virtual-office detection
• Storage Spoofing Blacklist — known fake warehouse addresses

Output is a trust score (0–100) plus per-category red flags on three severity levels (HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW), with a Claude Haiku-generated summary of findings.

An Instant Report is €29.95 and ready in 2–5 minutes. For heavier checks there's an Expert Review at €199 where a human does additional analysis.

Stack

• Frontend: Expo SDK 54 (iOS), App Store-published
• Verification engine: Python with separate adapters per external API (KvK, VIES, EORI, sanction lists)
• Data + auth: Supabase with RLS per user
• Payments: Mollie per-verification (no subscription), iDEAL and credit card
• Monitoring: Sentry for crash reporting + Python engine errors
• AI summary: Claude Haiku for red-flag synthesis

Result

Live in the App Store. €29.95 per Instant Report, €199 for Expert Review. Pay-per-report, no subscription — positioned as what it is: insurance against a specific trade decision, not an ongoing service.