Hard truths about export control, compliance blind spots, and broken hardware execution.
You Googled "export license timeline" and exhaled. Then someone asked about the batteries. Now you need to know: am I okay or already too late?
A customer just asked for your export classification documentation. You don't have any. Here's why "we're commercial, not military" isn't the answer they're looking for.
Your title is Operations Manager. Last week you spent 20 hours on export documentation. Here's why the obvious solutions don't work—and what does.
A Swiss company lost a €180K deal because a pilot refused their "standard packaging." The certification that would have prevented it cost €3K. Survivorship bias is the most expensive assumption in export logistics.
You've read about everything that can go wrong. Here's what your Tuesday actually becomes when someone else is holding the complexity.
Practical notes on cross-border operations, compliance strategy, and moving regulated hardware — delivered when it matters.
A CHF2 million unit sits on your dock. The deal closed — but it can't execute. Here's why contracts fail before hardware ever ships.
You got invited to ADIPEC. Sales is excited. But you're shipping a drone demo unit with dual-use sensors — and nobody's told you about the consignee trap.
You told the CFO, "6 weeks for UAE." You're at week 10. Here's the framework that would have told you the truth before you committed.