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Spy On Your Competitors. Find Their Buyers. Sell More.

Trade intelligence built from real import activity — helping exporters uncover the companies already buying products like yours.

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Real buyers. Real trade data. Real opportunities.

FILE 02 / INTELLIGENCE

Your Competitors’ Importers Are Your Opportunity.

Stop chasing generic trade-portal leads.

Trade-Spy uses shipment and trade intelligence to identify real companies importing products like yours, then helps you turn those targets into sales conversations.

What you uncover

  • Who is importing
  • What they are buying
  • Where they are buying from
  • Which competitors are supplying them
  • Who the decision-makers are
  • Which prospects are worth pursuing

RESULT Less prospecting. Less guesswork. More qualified buyers.

FILE 03 / TRADECRAFT

From Product to Prospect

Our intelligence operation follows a simple mission.

  1. 01

    Briefing

    Tell us what you sell, where you want to sell it, and which competitors you want to investigate.

  2. 02

    Classification

    We identify the correct product terminology and relevant HS / CN-8 classification.

  3. 03

    Recon

    We investigate trade and shipment data to identify companies actually importing the product.

  4. 04

    Target Acquisition

    We enrich the intelligence with buyer names, roles, email addresses and phone numbers where available.

  5. 05

    Contact

    You take over the mission, or we conduct targeted outreach on your behalf.

  6. 06

    Handover

    Interested buyers are delivered to you, ready for the next conversation.

Your job is to close the deal. Our job is to find the target.

FILE 04 / THE TAKE

Not Every Lead Is a Buyer.

Trade portals can give you thousands of companies. We want to know: who actually imports?

A company appearing on a directory is one thing. A company appearing in trade records as an importer of your product is something else entirely.

We hunt for evidence of buying behaviour.

That means your prospect list is built around trade intelligence, not wishful thinking.

FILE 05 / THE FILE CONTENTS

Intelligence You Can Act On

Depending on your package, your intelligence file can include:

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  • Importer company
  • Contact name
  • Decision-maker role
  • Email address
  • Telephone number
  • Country and market
  • Relevant product classification
  • Competitor / supplier information
  • Outreach status
  • Buyer interest

Up to 300 targets per month*

*Premium missions prioritise qualified conversations rather than simply maximising the number of contacts delivered.

FILE 06 / FIELD OPERATION

Don’t Want to Make the First Contact?

Let our team run the outreach.

We identify the target, craft the message, make contact and manage the initial exchange. You receive the interested prospects.

We do the reconnaissance. You close the mission.

Includes campaign tracking and CRM visibility.

Add Outreach To My Mission

FILE 07 / MARKET SIGNALS

The World Is Moving. Know Where.

Tariffs. Wars. Shipping disruption. Exchange rates. Regulation. Supply shortages.

Global trade is constantly changing. Trade-Spy helps you identify new markets, new buyers and changing supply relationships before they become yesterday’s opportunity.

Don’t follow the market. Read its signals.

FILE 08 / BEYOND THE BRIEF

Need More Than Leads?

We can extend the mission beyond importer intelligence.

Market Recon

Identify potential markets and active buyers for your product.

Competitor Surveillance

Investigate where competitors are selling and who is buying from them.

Trade Fair Intelligence

Put representatives on the ground at key international trade fairs to build your pipeline.

Counter-Intelligence

Monitor changing trade conditions and identify threats and opportunities affecting your export strategy.

FILE 09 / CASE FILE

Case File: Coconut Oil

Mission: find US buyers for a Sri Lankan coconut-oil exporter.

The first problem wasn’t finding buyers. It was defining the product.

Crude? Refined? Virgin? Organic? Cold pressed?

Packaging, certification, capacity and specifications all affect which buyers are actually relevant.

Once the product was properly classified, trade intelligence could be used to investigate companies already importing comparable coconut oil.

That’s the Trade-Spy method.

FILE 10 / WHY TRADE–SPY

Precision Over Volume.

MOST LEAD GENERATION STARTS WITH

Who might buy?

TRADE–SPY STARTS WITH

Who is already buying?

That distinction can save months of wasted outreach.

Our advantage

Trade Intelligence

Built around actual international trade activity.

Buyer Reconnaissance

Find companies with evidence of purchasing behaviour.

Competitor Intelligence

See where competing exporters are already selling.

Human Verification

Turn company records into usable commercial contacts.

Optional Outreach

Go from intelligence to conversation.

FILE 11 / PACKAGES

Choose Your Spy Package

STARTER SPY

$199/month

For basic importer reconnaissance.

Up to 100 leads/month

  • Importer company name
  • Product intelligence
  • Market information

Best for exporters who want to conduct their own research and outreach.

Choose Starter

STANDARD SPY

$499/month

For exporters ready to contact the target.

Up to 200 leads/month

  • Importer company
  • Contact name
  • Contact role
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Product / market intelligence

Best for export teams running their own outreach.

Choose Standard

PREMIUM SPY

$1,999/month

The done-for-you intelligence mission.

Up to 300 targets/month*

  • Importer intelligence
  • Contact intelligence
  • Targeted outreach
  • Buyer qualification
  • CRM
  • Interested-buyer handover

Best for exporters who want us to find the targets and start the conversations.

Launch Premium

*The objective is qualified buyer conversations, not simply delivering 300 contacts. The number of interested prospects will therefore vary.

FILE 12 / OPEN A CASE

Ready to Open a Case?

Tell us:

Your mission begins with the briefing.

FILE 13 / ABOUT TRADE–SPY

We Learned the Hard Way.

We spent years looking for buyers through traditional trade portals.

The problem? Too many weren’t buyers.

Then we looked at the trade itself.

Every shipment leaves an intelligence trail: products moving from exporters to importers, country to country, port to port.

That changed everything.

Trade-Spy was built around one simple idea: find the companies already buying.

Today, we combine trade intelligence, product classification, buyer research and targeted outreach to give exporters a more intelligent route into new markets.

We find the targets. You make the deal.

FILE 14 / CLOSING BRIEF

Your Competitors Are Already Selling Somewhere.

The question is: do you know who is buying from them?

Find out.

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