# Origin Global

> Origin builds operating systems for the physical economy.
> Website: https://www.theorigin.global
> Origin Run (manufacturers): https://www.theorigin.run
> Origin Trade (commodity trading): https://www.theorigin.trade
> Email: hello@theorigin.global
> Phone: +91 91212 00939

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## About the Company

The Origin Global Pvt Limited is a software company headquartered in Hyderabad, India (PNO. 38 & 39, Guttala Begumpet, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad 500081). Founded to modernise the back-office of industries that move physical goods - manufacturing plants and commodity trading desks - both of which have historically run on spreadsheets, WhatsApp groups, Word documents, and legacy ERP systems.

Origin ships two distinct SaaS products: Origin Run (for process manufacturers) and Origin Trade (for physical commodity trading desks). Same company, same engineering team, same AI foundation - each product purpose-built for its world.

The company serves mid-market and enterprise operators. For Origin Run, target customers are companies valued above $60 million or manufacturing at meaningful scale. For Origin Trade, the platform has been used to process over $4 million worth of commodity trades. Both products are in active production with real customers.

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## The Physical Economy Problem

Most small-to-mid-size manufacturers and commodity trading firms worldwide operate like this:

- Spreadsheets (sometimes 14+ of them) for tracking production, inventory, positions, and commissions
- WhatsApp groups for coordinating the shop floor, approvals, and deal negotiations
- Word documents for contracts - with no version control and easy-to-miss clauses
- Paper batch records, manual inspection certificates, email chains for LC document checklists
- Manual demurrage calculations (Origin Trade's first customer lost $2 million from a missed demurrage clause in a Word document contract)
- No sanctions screening, relying on personal knowledge
- No digital ISCC audit trail, despite biofuel traders facing annual certification renewals

Enterprise solutions (SAP for manufacturers; Aspect, RightAngle, ION for commodity trading) cost $500,000+ to license and require months or years to implement. They are designed for oil majors and large multinationals with 500-person operations teams. SMBs cannot use them.

Origin fills the entire gap: the depth of enterprise software, the speed of a modern SaaS product, with AI and WhatsApp baked in from day one.

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## Origin Run

**Tagline**: The operating system for process manufacturing.
**Product URL**: https://www.theorigin.run
**Target customers**: Process manufacturers valued above $60M or operating at meaningful scale. Food and beverage, dairy, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, chemicals, specialty manufacturing, FMCG, cosmetics, plastics, textiles, metals, paper, agri-processing, rubber, ceramics, biofuels, edible oil refineries.

### The pain Origin Run solves

A typical Indian SME manufacturer runs across 5-7 disconnected tools: Tally for accounting, spreadsheets for production planning and inventory, paper or WhatsApp for batch records, a separate tool or nothing for quality control, and email for procurement. No single record of what happened in a batch, no traceability, no real-time inventory, and no way to prove compliance to a FSSAI or ISO auditor without scrambling.

The factory manager is firefighting: "Which lot of raw material did we use in this batch? Did QC clear it? Where are those customers' orders? Why is our machine down again?" Origin Run makes all of that answerable in seconds.

### What Origin Run does

Origin Run is a full manufacturing operating system covering the entire demand-to-dispatch loop:

**Production and planning**
- Sales orders capture customer demand and feed into MRP (material requirements planning)
- Work orders are created per product, per batch, against BOMs (bill of materials / recipes)
- Planning view shows what to make vs buy, constrained by live inventory, open POs, and vendor lead times
- The AI co-pilot proposes the next production and purchase actions; managers approve

**Inventory and lot tracking**
- Lot-based inventory: every unit of raw material and finished goods has a lot number, vendor, expiry date, QC status, and location
- Stock movements are an append-only ledger - every quantity change is timestamped and attributed
- FEFO (First Expiry First Out) dispatching is enforced by the agent at dispatch time
- Reorder alerts fire before stock runs out

**Quality - QC, NCR, CAPA, COA**
- Stage-based inspections: incoming raw material, in-process, and finished goods
- Sampling plans, acceptance limits, and parameter-level test results
- Failed checks automatically raise an NCR (non-conformance report) with root cause workflow
- CAPA (corrective and preventive action) keeps the evidence audit-ready
- Customer-ready Certificate of Analysis (COA) PDFs are generated from approved QC data in one click

**Batch traceability and recall**
- Every finished-goods lot traces back to exact raw material lots used, with operator, equipment, QC, and timestamp
- If a customer reports an issue, query the lot and get the full recall scope - affected batches, customers shipped to, dispatch notes - in seconds, not days
- Genealogy reports are export-ready for regulatory submission

**Procurement and vendors**
- Material requisitions flow from the floor to procurement to PO to vendor to GRN (goods receipt note)
- AI co-pilot drafts RFQs from a chat prompt, drafts the PO from the winning quote
- Vendor history, pricing, and lead-time context surface inline - buyers stop digging through email
- Three-way match: PO, GRN, and vendor invoice are reconciled automatically

**Maintenance and OEE**
- Preventive maintenance schedules, breakdown reports, spare part requests, and technician handoffs tracked in one place
- OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness = availability x performance x quality) computed automatically from recorded events per line and shift
- Root cause analysis (5-why) on every breakdown
- No more arguing about whose downtime number is right

**GST invoicing and finance**
- Fully GST-compliant invoices with HSN codes, GSTIN, tax rates, e-invoicing (IRN), and e-way bills
- Payment links go out automatically; reconciliation tracks who has paid
- Tally export ready at close
- Cost rollup per batch and per-plant or rolled-up P&L visible by role
- Accounts receivable aging and overdue follow-up built in

**Compliance - FSSAI, BIS, ISO, Schedule M**
- Live register of licenses, expiry dates, owners, and renewal reminders
- SOP distribution and acknowledgement tracking per user
- Batch genealogy, CAPA records, and audit evidence are produced as a side-effect of normal work
- FSSAI, BIS, ISO 9001/22000, FSSC 22000, HACCP, and Schedule M audit readiness
- Audits stop being fire drills

**WhatsApp for the shop floor** (core differentiator)
- Shop-floor operators use Origin Run from WhatsApp - no ERP login, no laptop, no separate app install
- Operators check in for a shift, start and end batches, log downtime with reasons, capture QC readings, do shift handoffs, respond to alerts - all in their language
- Supervisors get menu-driven approvals on WhatsApp
- Every WhatsApp event lands inside the platform with a full audit trail
- Supports English, Hindi, Marathi, and more on request
- This is how Indian factories actually communicate - Origin meets them there

**AI co-pilot**
- Drafts sales orders, purchase orders, quotations, invoices, vendor emails, COAs, dispatch notes, shift briefings, and RFQs from plain-English prompts
- Before preparing each record, checks live stock, vendor history, pricing, compliance status, and document readiness
- Sensitive actions route through human approval with a full audit trail
- Autonomy is a dial: manual, confirm-each, confirm-high-risk-only, or auto-with-audit
- Can answer any question about plant data: "What's our current stock of sunflower oil?" "Which batch was used in the last shipment to Reliance?" "List all open NCRs from last month."
- AI actions are logged in an immutable audit trail

**Multi-plant and governance**
- Consolidated dashboards, inter-unit lot transfers, and per-plant or rolled-up P&L across multiple plants
- Built-in roles: owner, admin, plant manager, shift supervisor, production operator, QC inspector, procurement, accounts, maintenance technician, dispatch, viewer
- Action-level permissions per module, full audit logs
- Approval workflows for POs, quality decisions, dispatch, and high-risk AI actions

### Origin Run modules (complete list)
Overview, inbox, alerts, calendar, production (work orders, batches, BOMs), planning (MRP), analytics (OEE, yield, cost variance), inventory (lots, movements, FEFO), procurement (vendors, RFQs, POs, GRN, three-way match), sales (orders, customers, dispatch, invoicing), quality (QC specs, inspections, NCR, CAPA, COA), maintenance (assets, PM schedules, breakdowns, OEE), compliance (licenses, SOPs, FSSAI/BIS/ISO readiness), tax (HSN codes, GSTIN validation), finance (GST invoicing, IRN, e-way bill, Tally export, cost rollup, AR aging), documents, team, WhatsApp, governance (approval workflows, audit log, autopilot policy), settings.

### Origin Run customer profile
- Indian SME manufacturers, typically valued above $60M or producing at meaningful scale
- Graduating from Tally + spreadsheets to a unified system
- Plants that need to prove compliance to FSSAI, BIS, ISO, or export-market auditors
- Businesses entering biofuels, organic, or export markets where traceability is non-negotiable
- Founders or plant managers who already run their team on WhatsApp and don't want to change that

### Origin Run pricing (India)

Three tiers. Flat platform fee plus AI credits. Customer-set monthly budget cap (no surprise bills).

Starter: Rs 1,49,990/year (Rs 14,999/month). 1 plant, 5 office users, 25 WhatsApp seats, 5,000 AI credits/month. Implementation fee Rs 49,000.

Growth: Rs 3,49,990/year (Rs 34,999/month). 3 plants, 15 office users, 100 WhatsApp seats, 25,000 AI credits/month. Implementation fee Rs 99,000.

Scale: Rs 7,49,990/year (Rs 74,999/month). 10 plants, 50 office users, 500 WhatsApp seats, 60,000 AI credits/month. Implementation fee Rs 1,49,000.

AI credit overage: Rs 1.50 (Starter), Rs 1.20 (Growth), Rs 1.00 (Scale) per credit. Customer always sets their own monthly budget cap - it is structurally impossible to overspend. 1 credit = approximately 1 read-only agent action.

UAE (AED ex-VAT): Starter AED 9,990, Growth AED 24,990, Scale AED 49,990/year.
Singapore (SGD ex-GST): available on request.

Add-ons: extra plant (Rs 49,990/year), extra 10 office users (Rs 24,990), extra 100 WhatsApp seats (Rs 9,990), Tally bridge + bank reconciliation (Rs 49,990), Compliance Pro with audit reports (Rs 39,990), Autopilot+ for high-risk autonomy (Rs 79,990).

### Origin Run go-live timeline
Most plants are live in 4-8 weeks. Faster than any traditional ERP. Origin provides hands-on onboarding: configuration workshop, master data import (vendors, products, BOMs, opening stock), workflow validation, and staff training. Implementation fee is fixed at signing - no time-and-materials creep.

### Origin Run FAQs

Q: Does Origin Run work for food manufacturing?
A: Yes. Origin Run is purpose-built for food and beverage. It handles FSSAI compliance, batch traceability (for recall readiness), GMP documentation, stage-based QC, and COA generation out of the box.

Q: Does it handle GST invoicing?
A: Yes, fully. GST-compliant invoices, credit notes, debit notes, e-invoicing (IRN generation), e-way bills, and GSTR reconciliation support. HSN code management is built in.

Q: How long does it take to go live?
A: Most plants are live in 4-8 weeks. Origin provides hands-on onboarding and data migration support. The process starts the week after signing.

Q: Can shop floor workers use WhatsApp instead of learning an app?
A: Yes. This is one of Origin Run's most valued features. Workers log production updates, receive task assignments, submit QC readings, and get alerts entirely via WhatsApp. No app install required. Operators who have never used software can use Origin Run from day one.

Q: How does the AI co-pilot work?
A: The AI is embedded throughout the platform and knows your live data - your stock levels, vendor history, open orders, QC results. You can ask it natural language questions ("What's my current RM inventory for palm oil?") or give it tasks ("Draft a PO to Vendor X for 500 kg of maida"). It proposes actions; you approve before anything is committed. Every AI action is audit-logged.

Q: Does it support ISCC sustainability certification?
A: Yes. Origin Run has ISCC traceability modules covering mass balance accounting, sustainability declarations (Proof of Sustainability, Declaration of Origin), and the documentation chain required for ISCC Plus certification.

Q: Can I manage multiple plants from one login?
A: Yes. Multi-plant support with consolidated dashboards, inter-unit transfers, and per-plant or rolled-up P&L is included.

Q: What happens to our data if we leave?
A: You own your data. Full export is available at any time.

Q: Does it replace Tally?
A: It complements Tally at the operations level and includes a Tally export bridge. Most customers keep Tally for statutory filing while Origin Run handles all plant operations, quality, inventory, and customer invoicing - then exports journal entries to Tally.

Q: Is there a mobile app?
A: The web app is mobile-responsive. Shop floor operations run natively via WhatsApp. A native app is on the roadmap.

Q: What about data security?
A: Organisation-scoped tenant isolation, encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access controls, immutable audit logs. Dedicated single-tenant deployments available for regulated industries.

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## Origin Trade

**Tagline**: The operating system for physical commodity trading.
**Product URL**: https://www.theorigin.trade
**Target customers**: Physical commodity traders, commodity brokers, trading houses, importers and exporters. Primary commodities: UCO (used cooking oil), FAME, PFAD, UCOME, crude and refined oils, biofuels, petrochemicals, agri commodities (grains, oilseeds, sugar, spices) under GAFTA/FOSFA terms. The platform has processed over $4 million worth of trades. Markets: Singapore, Dubai, India, Geneva, London.

### The pain Origin Trade solves

A typical SMB commodity broker runs their entire operation on: 14 Excel spreadsheets for positions and commissions, Word documents for contracts (missed clauses, no version control), WhatsApp threads for deal negotiation, email chains to chase LC document checklists, paper inspection certificates, manual demurrage calculations, and no sanctions screening.

One missed demurrage clause costs $2M. One missed LC expiry means losing payment on a six-figure deal. One sanctions violation means regulatory action. These are not edge cases - they are recurring failures in every firm operating this way.

Enterprise CTRM systems (Aspect, RightAngle/OPIS, ION, Eka, Allegro) cost $500,000+ to license and require a 6-12 month implementation. They're built for oil majors.

Origin fills the gap: the depth of enterprise CTRM without the price or implementation timeline.

### What Origin Trade does

Origin Trade covers the full commodity trade lifecycle from deal to settlement, with AI handling the paperwork throughout:

**Deal management**
- Deal Confirmations (DCs): create Purchase DCs and Sale DCs with all commercial terms - commodity, quantity, price, currency, incoterm, payment terms, laycan, port of loading, port of discharge, quality specs
- Sequential reference numbers (ORG-PUR-2026-0001)
- Full status workflow: draft -> confirmed -> under_review -> changes_requested -> pending_signature -> signed -> active -> fulfilled/cancelled
- Link a Purchase DC to a Sale DC to form a back-to-back broker trade - commission/spread calculated automatically
- Export to CSV; generate contract PDF with one click

**AI contract generation**
- Takes a completed Deal Confirmation as input
- Generates a full contract PDF with all required clauses in under 60 seconds (vs 1-2 hours manually)
- Supports FOSFA (Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Associations) and GAFTA (Grain and Feed Trade Association) standard frameworks
- Quality tolerances, laytime, demurrage rates, force majeure, dispute resolution, and governing law all configurable
- Review-and-sign workflow: draft -> under_review -> changes_requested -> pending_signature -> signed
- Clause-by-clause review comments before signing
- First client result: "6x faster contracts"

**Letters of Credit (LC) lifecycle**
- Create and track LCs linked to specific trades/DCs
- Document checklist tracking: which documents received, which missing
- LC expiry alerts (fires automatically when within 30 days)
- Latest shipment date monitoring (vessel must sail before this date or LC becomes void)
- OCR document parsing: upload a bank-issued LC PDF and the system extracts key fields (applicant, beneficiary, amount, expiry, documents required) using AI-powered OCR
- Side-by-side LC vs. trade comparison to detect mismatches in quantity, commodity description, port names, or incoterm
- LC amendments management

**Logistics and vessel tracking**
- Real-time vessel position via AIS (Automatic Identification System - ships broadcast position by law): latitude, longitude, speed, heading, last update timestamp
- Vessel-to-deal-to-LC linkage: operations, finance, and traders see the same picture
- Multiple shipment types: sea freight, inland barge, road, rail
- Laytime start/end tracking linked to charter party terms
- ETA calculation from current position and speed

**Demurrage - the hidden cash drain**
- Demurrage rates can be $10,000-$50,000 per day for bulk vessels
- Origin captures demurrage rate per day on each shipment, tracks laytime start/end, calculates demurrage automatically
- Demurrage MTD (month-to-date) surfaces in the KPI dashboard
- Background job flags shipments at risk of overrunning laytime before it happens
- AI calculates demurrage on demand: "What's the demurrage on shipment SHP-2026-012?"

**P&L, positions, and mark-to-market**
- Real-time P&L, exposure, position netting, and cash-flow forecast update on every deal booking
- Mark-to-market runs on demand or end-of-day
- Hedging tickets created, tracked, and unwound against parent deals
- Net Exposure, Commission Receivable, Avg Margin per MT, DSO (Days Sales Outstanding), Demurrage MTD, LCs Expiring within 30 days, and Unlinked DCs over 48h are the 7 KPIs on the physical desk dashboard

**Smart deal matching**
- Given a sale trade (commodity, quantity, price, deadline), scans all active supplier contracts and scores each on quantity fit, timeline fit, and potential margin per MT
- Can be triggered manually from the Matching page or via AI: "Find me a supplier for 500 MT of UCO shipping before June 30"

**Blotter**
- Freeform daily working list of deals in negotiation before they are committed as formal records
- AI batch extraction: paste a raw WhatsApp message and the AI extracts deal terms into structured blotter rows automatically
- Position preview before promoting rows to real deals
- Promote to Deal Confirmation with one click

**Commission tracking**
- Commission rules per salesperson or external referral agent: percentage of deal value/margin, fixed per MT, fixed total, date-effective, commodity-specific, with max cap and min deal threshold
- Automatic commission entries generated when a trade/DC is marked complete
- Commission approval workflow: pending -> approved -> invoiced -> paid
- Commission dashboard with leaderboard, monthly summaries, performance by salesperson

**Invoice and GST management (Singapore focus)**
- Commercial invoices, commission invoices, freight invoices, credit and debit notes
- Full Singapore GST (9%) handling: standard-rated, zero-rated (exports), exempt
- A4 PDF generation with company logo, exporter and consignee details, product lines with HS codes, bank details, and signature fields
- Email sending with PDF attachment
- Partial payment recording; DSO tracking
- AI invoice audit: "Check if invoice INV-2026-047 matches its Deal Confirmation"

**General Ledger**
- Org-wide GL merging all financial entries across every Deal Confirmation
- Single chronological journal with running balance
- Filter by DC type, category, purpose code (invoice, payment, commission, freight, tax, credit note, debit note)
- Per-DC financial ledger for deal-level P&L
- Manual journal entries for items not tied to a specific DC

**KYC and sanctions screening**
- Self-service KYC portal: send a link to a counterparty and they upload documents (company registration, directors, UBO disclosure, bank details) through a branded, secure, audited interface
- OFAC, EU, UN, and UK sanctions screening runs automatically on every counterparty and vessel
- Adverse media screening scans news sources for negative press
- PEP (Politically Exposed Person) indicators
- KYC status workflow: pending -> submitted -> under_review -> approved/rejected
- KYC expiry tracking (KYC needs periodic renewal)
- Compliance dashboard: overall compliance score 0-100, pass/fail/warning per rule
- Background compliance checks run on a cron schedule

**ISCC sustainability and GHG tracking**
- ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) certificate storage, type, and expiry per company
- GHG calculation engine implementing EU RED II methodology: accounts for extraction, land use change, processing, transport, fuel use, soil carbon, carbon capture
- Sustainability declarations: PoS (Proof of Sustainability) and DoO (Declaration of Origin) - draft -> submitted -> approved/rejected workflow
- Mass balance management for ISCC volume accounting
- Chain of custody traceability across the supply chain
- ISCC certificate renewal alerts before expiry - if a certificate lapses, a biofuel trader cannot legally sell into the EU market

**EUDR compliance (EU Deforestation Regulation)**
- Geolocation data collection for covered commodities (palm oil, soy, cocoa, coffee, beef, wood)
- Risk assessment against deforestation risk maps
- Operator declaration preparation
- Full documentation chain for EU customs

**CBAM compliance (EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism)**
- GHG emission data per shipment for EU importers

**Trade surveillance**
- Continuously watches for wash trades, price manipulation, volume anomalies, and concentration risk
- Alerts compliance officers before regulatory exposure occurs

**Document intelligence**
- Drag a Bill of Lading, LC, COA, or contract into Origin Trade and the AI reads it: extracts fields, flags discrepancies, ties it to the right trade and lot, and answers questions from the document text
- OCR-powered extraction: "What is the discharge port on this B/L?"

**WhatsApp for traders** (core differentiator)
- Traders, operations, and brokers get P&L queries, ISCC proofs, vessel ETAs, and contract approvals on WhatsApp on the go
- Deal alerts, demurrage risk warnings, expiring contracts, and sanctioned counterparty flags push to WhatsApp
- Nothing waits for someone to open the dashboard

**AI co-pilot**
- Drafts contracts, invoices, payment instructions, and counterparty emails from natural-language briefs
- Extracts data from uploaded B/Ls, LCs, COAs, and contracts and ties them to the right deal
- Scores any deal on 12 risk dimensions: ROI, exposure, counterparty risk, ISCC readiness, logistics, FX, etc.
- Answers ad-hoc questions in plain English: "What is our net UCO exposure this month?" "Which LCs expire in the next 14 days?"
- All AI actions are audit-logged

**Broker and trader modes**
- Broker mode: earns commission on deals without owning the commodity. Core workflow: Deal Confirmations (purchase side + sale side), linked, tracking the spread as commission. Navigation: Deals, Trades, Exposure, Blotter, Trading Pads, CRM.
- Trader mode: buys and sells on own account, carries inventory risk. Core workflow: Trades, Contracts, Smart Matching, Positions, Quality, Logistics.
- Both modes share: Dashboard, Compliance, Invoicing, Sustainability, Documents, Alerts, AI Copilot, WhatsApp Bot, General Ledger.

**CRM and counterparty management**
- Company and contact directory with full counterparty history, credit limits, and document repository
- Trading pad (freeform digital notepad with text blocks, table blocks, dividers; AI can push analysis outputs directly into a pad)

**Roles and governance**
- Owner, admin, head of trading, trader, risk manager, compliance officer, operations, finance officer, sales, broker, viewer
- Scoped module visibility and action-level permissions
- Only risk manager can override a limit breach; only compliance can attest ISCC
- Every action audit-logged

### Origin Trade customer profile
- Physical commodity trading firms too large to operate without software but too small and too agile for $500K+ enterprise CTRM
- UCO, biofuel, edible oil, and agri commodity traders - especially those exporting to the EU where ISCC, EUDR, and CBAM requirements are live
- Firms in Singapore, Dubai, India, and Geneva who manage deals on WhatsApp and need a structured system that doesn't slow them down
- Brokerages needing clean commission tracking and KYC compliance
- Operations that have experienced a costly demurrage or LC failure and want to prevent the next one
- The platform has already processed over $4 million worth of commodity trades

### Origin Trade pricing
- Subscription-based, per-desk pricing. Flexible tiers based on number of traders, deal volume, and modules needed.
- Go-live timeline: 2-4 weeks for most trading desks. Configuration-light, ready out of the box.
- Contact sales: https://cal.com/origin-trade-lyyblg/origin-trade-demo

### Origin Trade FAQs

Q: Does Origin Trade handle UCO (used cooking oil) trading?
A: Yes. Origin Trade is actively used by UCO traders. It handles ISCC certification, sustainability documentation, mass balance, GHG calculations per EU RED II methodology, and the specific contract terms common in UCO and biofuel trades.

Q: What is demurrage and how does Origin prevent it costing us money?
A: Demurrage is the daily penalty charge (often $10,000-$50,000/day) when a vessel stays at port longer than the agreed laytime. Origin captures your demurrage rate, tracks laytime start and end, calculates charges automatically, and alerts you before you run over. Origin Trade's first customer had a $2M loss from a missed demurrage clause in a Word document.

Q: Does it generate contracts automatically?
A: Yes. From a completed Deal Confirmation, the AI generates a full FOSFA/GAFTA contract in under 60 seconds. First client benchmark: 6x faster than manually drafting from a Word template.

Q: How does EUDR compliance work?
A: Origin Trade collects geolocation data for covered commodities (palm oil, soy, cocoa, coffee, beef, wood), runs risk assessment against deforestation maps, prepares operator declarations, and maintains the full documentation chain required at EU customs.

Q: Does it do sanctions screening automatically?
A: Yes. OFAC, EU, UN, and UK sanctions screening runs on every counterparty and vessel automatically. Adverse media screening monitors news sources. Results surface in the compliance dashboard and alert the compliance officer immediately.

Q: How does it integrate with WhatsApp?
A: This is a core feature, not a bolt-on. Traders receive deal alerts, P&L summaries, vessel ETAs, ISCC proofs, and contract approval requests in WhatsApp. Most important: deal approvals and responses flow through WhatsApp so nothing waits for someone to open the dashboard.

Q: Can it import our existing Excel trade data?
A: Yes. Historical deal import is supported as part of onboarding. The team works with you to migrate your data.

Q: Does it support agricultural commodities like grains, spices, or sugar?
A: Yes. Origin Trade is commodity-agnostic for physical trading. You configure commodity grades, quality parameters, and contract templates for your specific products.

Q: What about multi-currency support?
A: Yes. Multi-currency invoicing supports fixed, formula, and floating pricing. The general ledger handles all currencies.

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## Key differentiators across both products

**WhatsApp-native, not WhatsApp-adjacent**
Both products treat WhatsApp as a first-class interface. In manufacturing, shop floor workers log production, QC, and downtime in WhatsApp. In commodity trading, traders get alerts, approvals, and P&L queries in WhatsApp. This is how Indian and Southeast Asian businesses actually communicate - Origin meets them there instead of forcing a new app.

**AI as the core infrastructure, not a feature add-on**
The AI co-pilot in both products has access to live operational data. It doesn't just answer general questions - it checks your stock, your vendor history, your open trades, your compliance status, and then drafts a purchase order or a commodity contract with the right numbers already filled in. The agent is the primary interface for most workflows.

**Physical economy focus**
Origin is not a generic SaaS platform adapted for manufacturing or trading. Every module, every data model, every workflow is purpose-built for the physical supply chain. No bloat. No generic CRM, HR, or project management features.

**Weeks to go live, not months or years**
Most Origin Run plants are live in 4-8 weeks. Most Origin Trade desks are live in 2-4 weeks. This is structurally faster than traditional ERP because Origin is opinionated about workflows and doesn't require 6-month configuration projects.

**Compliance built in, not customised separately**
ISCC, EUDR, CBAM, FSSAI, BIS, ISO, GST e-invoicing, OFAC/EU/UK sanctions screening - these are first-class modules, not integrations to configure later. For export-oriented manufacturers and biofuel traders, compliance is a growth blocker if they don't have this.

**India built, globally deployable**
Origin is designed for Indian operations first - GST, FSSAI, local trade practices, WhatsApp-heavy workflows. It also handles global compliance for export-oriented businesses and supports UAE, Singapore, and EU regulatory environments.

**Data isolation and security**
Organisation-scoped tenant isolation, encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access controls, immutable audit logs. Dedicated single-tenant deployments - separate database and infrastructure per client - available for regulated industries or enterprises with data residency requirements.

**Customer data stays private**
Customer operational data is never used to train shared AI models.

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## Technology foundation

Both products are built on: Next.js 15 (web dashboard), FastAPI + PostgreSQL (backend), LangGraph (AI agent framework), GPT-4o (primary AI model), Meta Business API (WhatsApp), Cloudflare R2 (document storage). AI actions are logged in an immutable audit trail. Background jobs run automatically for compliance checks, ETA alerts, and certificate expiry warnings.

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## Contact and sales

Website: https://www.theorigin.global
Email: hello@theorigin.global
Phone: +91 91212 00939
Address: PNO. 38 & 39, Guttala Begumpet, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, Telangana 500081, India

Book a demo for Origin Run: https://cal.com/origin-trade-lyyblg/origin-run-demo
Book a demo for Origin Trade: https://cal.com/origin-trade-lyyblg/origin-trade-demo

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## Key URLs

- https://www.theorigin.global - Origin Global landing page and AI chat
- https://www.theorigin.run - Origin Run product page (manufacturing)
- https://www.theorigin.trade - Origin Trade product page (commodity trading)
- https://www.theorigin.global/llms.txt - This file (machine-readable context)

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