UtilityPilot
Global Trade, Business & Commerce Problem Solver
What are you trying to work out?
Ask anything about importing, exporting, shipping, duties, costs, pricing, selling or business time. Pilot answers with deterministic calculations and shows every assumption.
Describe your product, where it is made and where you are importing it — or start with a common task:
What Pilot can solve
Six connected problem families across goods, money and time.
Trade, tariffs & customs
HS classification signals, tariff treatment and duty — with clear limits on what is verified.
Import costs & landed cost
Build a full landed cost from product, freight, duty, import tax and fees, down to per-unit.
Shipping, freight & cargo
CBM, volumetric and chargeable weight, carton and container capacity, freight cost per unit.
Ecommerce & marketplace economics
Marketplace fees, product profitability and the selling price that protects your margin.
Pricing, profit & business money
Margin, markup, break-even, discounts, VAT/GST and everyday commercial arithmetic.
Business dates & time
Business days, invoice due dates and deadlines across supported public-holiday calendars.
Popular commercial problems
Real, multi-step questions people bring to Pilot.
Worked examples
“What HS code is likely for a men’s cotton t-shirt?”
Pilot narrows the description to a likely chapter and heading family, explains which attributes decided it, and reminds you to confirm the full national HTS line — then offers to carry it into a landed-cost estimate.
“Landed cost of 5,000 shirts at $8.70 with 15% duty”
Pilot totals product value, applies duty and estimated fees, adds freight, and returns a per-unit landed cost with every assumption listed.
“What price gives a 35% margin on a $12 item?”
Pilot solves price = cost ÷ (1 − margin), then lets you layer marketplace fees as a follow-up scenario.
“CBM of 300 cartons at 40 × 30 × 25 cm”
Pilot computes volume per carton and total CBM, and can convert to chargeable weight for air or sea freight.
How Pilot calculates
Pilot reads your question, extracts numbers, dimensions, currencies, dates and countries, then routes to a registered calculation engine. All arithmetic is deterministic — the same inputs always give the same result — and every answer lists its assumptions and a confidence level.
Read the full methodology →Data, sources & honesty
Pilot never presents reference data as verified live rates. It clearly separates what you supplied, labelled reference figures, and items that need official confirmation — and always links the authoritative tariff and tax sources.
See data sources →Current trade considerations
Tariff schedules, additional trade measures and de-minimis thresholds change frequently and differ by product and route. Because these move faster than any static table, Pilot treats duty rates as inputs to confirm rather than facts to assert. Always validate the current treatment for your specific HS code, origin and destination against the official schedule before committing to a price or purchase.
Prefer the classic calculators?
View all →Cross-border landed cost
Classification through to duty, freight and total import cost.
Freight quote
From carton dimensions to chargeable freight.
Profitability analysis
Margin, break-even and return on investment.
Frequently asked questions
Does UtilityPilot use real, live tariff rates?
No. Pilot never invents a current tariff. It calculates with the rates you provide or clearly labelled reference data, and always points you to the official tariff schedule to confirm the figure for your HS code and destination.
Is the answer generated by an AI language model?
Every calculation is performed by deterministic engines, not by a language model. Natural-language understanding is in active development; until a model credential is connected, Pilot uses transparent rule-based routing and tells you when it needs more detail.
What happens if I leave out important information?
Pilot asks one short clarification rather than guessing. It distinguishes what you told it, what it inferred, and what is still missing before it calculates.
Can I explore different scenarios?
Yes. After any answer you can change a value — increase duty, add freight, double the quantity, change the target margin — and Pilot recalculates deterministically so you can compare.