ClearState
Pre-execution decision authorization layer

Your systems check the rules. ClearState checks whether the rules actually allow the decision to be taken.

So no one has to defend a decision that shouldn't have been taken.

Rules can pass. Roles can exist. The decision can still be one that doesn't hold. ClearState stops this before execution — and names the exact missing condition.

For operations that must authorize before execution
  • Cross-border e-commerce & logistics
    Booking and release decisions — against credit limits, sanctions, operator delegation. Before booking confirmation.
  • Customs / DDP
    Deferment release decisions — against guarantee capacity, importer status, EORI. Before declaration submission.
  • Corporate treasury & payments
    Payment release decisions — against internal mandate, regulatory scope, and counterparty conditions. Before release.
  • ManCo / AIFM
    Pre-trade, LMT activation, and LP subscription — against mandate, AIFMD II, and AI Act Article 14. Before execution.
The gap no other layer sees

Sometimes the rules are right. The roles are assigned. The decision still cannot be taken.

A customs broker is about to submit a declaration on a deferment account. The importer is approved. The goods are valid. The mandate permits this exposure size. Everything checks out — except no one verified, at this exact moment, whether the guarantee envelope can absorb it and the credit insurer still covers this importer. The declaration goes through. The breach is invisible until reconciliation. The exposure sits on the broker's book.

This is not a customs problem. It happens whenever rules, roles, and data are each correct but no one has tested whether they hold together — at the moment of decision.

ClearState tests this before execution. Not after. Not in audit. Before.

In action

The same problem appears across every industry.

Someone must determine whether the decision can actually be taken — before execution. Rules may pass. Roles may exist. The decision can still be one that doesn't hold.

Same conditions, same outcome. Every release has a provable basis. Every NOT ALLOWED includes the exact missing condition.

Cross-border ecommerce / DDP / Customs

A customs guarantee is approaching its limit. Hundreds of shipments queued after EU removed the €150 duty exemption. Not all can proceed — but no system determines release order before submission.

Each declaration is valid on its own. Together they exceed remaining guarantee capacity. Someone calls the broker. The broker calls the insurer. Shipments sit while the clock runs and the queue grows.

ClearState authorizes release before submission against:
  • Remaining guarantee capacity
  • Prioritization rules
  • Importer exposure
  • Operational mandate
ALLOWED or NOT ALLOWED — with exact reason and blocking condition.

The release decision is on record before submission. Every shipment that proceeds has a named authority. Every shipment that doesn't has a named reason.

Customs Deferment Gate

A customs declaration is valid. But submitting it would breach the broker's guarantee envelope.

Guarantee capacity, EORI status, and insurer coverage must all be verified simultaneously — before submission to customs authorities.

ALLOWED or NOT ALLOWED — before submission.
Shipment Acceptance

A freight forwarder is about to accept a booking. Credit limit, payment band, and operator delegation are all unverified.

The booking looks valid. But no one has checked whether the customer is within credit limits or whether this operator has authority to accept.

ALLOWED or NOT ALLOWED — before acceptance.
Payments

A payment is queued. The transaction is valid. Three people are deciding who can approve it.

Approval authority and exposure threshold are unclear at the moment of release. The payment waits.

ALLOWED or NOT ALLOWED — before it releases.
Why this matters

Most operational delays happen before execution — not during it.

The transaction is valid. The problem is the moment before it executes — when someone must determine whether the conditions are actually met. These are not execution failures. They are authorization failures — the conditions for execution were never verified before the moment of release.

ClearState moves that verification upstream. The answer exists before execution — not discovered during it.

Evaluation

Submit 3–10 real decisions. See what is authorized.

ClearState shows what is authorized and what is stopped before execution. No advisory review. No compliance assessment. No recommendations. ClearState only determines whether actions are executable before execution.

We run
  • ALLOWED / NOT ALLOWED on your submitted decisions
  • Each outcome bound to the rule and named authority that produced it
  • Decision records you can retrieve later
You keep
  • The rulebook expressed from your operational reality
  • The decision records from your submissions
  • Both regardless of whether you continue
Governance & depth

Every outcome is on record — at the moment it was made.

The same input against the same rulebook produces the same answer — at the time of the decision, or years later. The record is not reconstructed. It exists.