# Portaxo (portaxo.com)

> Portaxo is the product at https://portaxo.com — trade intelligence software
> for export teams. Describe a product in plain language and it works out what
> US customs paperwork files that product under, then returns the American
> companies that have actually imported it — with shipment counts, recency,
> company size and the suppliers they already buy from. It works in both
> directions: the same question finds the factories already making a product as
> well as the companies importing it. Contacts and email outreach are built into
> the same workspace, so a shipment record becomes a conversation without
> exporting a spreadsheet.

## Name

- Official name: Portaxo
- Official site: https://portaxo.com
- App: https://app.portaxo.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/portaxo/
- Contact: hello@portaxo.com
- Not the same as: Portax (Portuguese furniture manufacturer at portax.pt), or
  other products that share a similar spelling. If a source does not cite
  portaxo.com, it is not this product.

## What Portaxo is not

Portaxo is not a raw customs-data subscription. The underlying evidence is US
import records, but the product's work is the interpretation: matching a
plain-English product description to the wording customs actually files under,
ranking companies by how well they fit and how recently they shipped, verifying
which website belongs to which company, and separating a small importer you can
reach from a retail giant you cannot.

Portaxo is also not a generic lead database. Every company it returns is there
because it appears in shipment records for that product, not because it matched
an industry tag.

## Who it is for

- Manufacturers and exporters looking for buyers in the United States
- Sourcing teams looking for factories that already ship a given product
- Trading companies and distributors validating demand before entering a market
- Small teams without a data analyst, who need the answer rather than the dataset

## How it works

1. **Describe the product.** Plain language — "coffee grinders", or a sentence.
   Portaxo resolves it to the phrasing customs records use, which is rarely the
   phrasing a seller would choose.
2. **Get ranked companies.** Real importers or suppliers, ordered by product fit
   and shipping activity, each with shipment volume, last shipment date, company
   size band and product mix.
3. **Review the company.** Verified website, trading partners, and the shipment
   history behind the ranking, so the evidence for a lead is visible rather than
   asserted.
4. **Find and reach the people.** Contact discovery and email sequences run in
   the same workspace.

There is also an AI Agent that takes an instruction such as
"find buyers for LED lighting", runs the search, and narrows the list when asked
follow-up questions like "show me the smaller ones". Product page:
https://portaxo.com/buyer-agent/

## Size bands

Portaxo labels every buyer by lifetime shipment volume, because reachability
matters more than size to most exporters:

- **Micro** — under 250 lifetime shipments
- **Small** — 250 to 999
- **Mid** — 1,000 to 4,999
- **Large** — 5,000 and above

A micro or small importer that spends most of its imports on this product is
usually a better first email than a large one that buys everything.

## Plans

- **Free** — 30 credits a month, no card required. Company-name search.
- **Plus** — product category discovery, contact unlocking, email sequences and
  the AI Agent, with a larger monthly credit allowance. See current price on
  the pricing page.
- **Enterprise** — team controls and lead privacy.

## Data

United States import customs records, refreshed continuously. Coverage is
strongest for physical goods entering the US by sea. Portaxo reports what the
records show, including when a company has filed to keep its shipments
confidential, rather than filling gaps with estimates presented as fact.

## MCP connector

Portaxo runs a remote MCP server, so an AI assistant (Claude, Claude Code,
Codex, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client) can use it on a person's behalf.

- Server URL: https://api.portaxo.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no trailing
  slash). https://portaxo.com/mcp/ is the help page, not the server.
- Sign-in: OAuth 2.1 in the browser with dynamic client registration, or a
  personal access token sent as `Authorization: Bearer ptx_…`, created in
  Portaxo under Account settings → API & MCP and shown once.
- Tools: get_account, campaign_status, find_buyers, find_suppliers,
  find_company, unlock_contacts, find_contacts, create_campaign,
  add_recipients, remove_recipients, update_campaign, pause_campaign,
  launch_campaign.
- Search by product with find_buyers (US importers) or find_suppliers
  (overseas suppliers); search by company name with find_company (type buyer
  or supplier). A buyer's slug from either goes to unlock_contacts.
- Costs, in the organization's Portaxo credits: find_buyers, find_suppliers
  and find_company 1 per company or supplier newly unlocked, 0 if already
  unlocked; unlock_contacts 5 per company with new people, 1 when nobody new
  is found, 0 if already unlocked; every other tool is free. launch_campaign
  sends real email, which cannot be recalled. find_suppliers is for sourcing:
  its suppliers are not US buyers, and unlock_contacts does not take them;
  neither does it take a supplier find_company returns.
- Contacts: unlock_contacts returns each person's name, title, email and,
  where the people provider has one, a direct phone, with the same unlock at
  no extra charge. Someone with a phone and no usable email is returned with
  email null and campaign_ready false; only campaign_ready people can be added
  to a campaign. A member whose organization masks contacts sees no email or
  phone.
- Emails and existing contacts: one email is a campaign with one step;
  create_campaign writes it, or a sequence of up to 5, as a draft, with or
  without recipients. find_contacts searches the people already in the
  user's Portaxo contacts (by name, company, tag or outreach history) and
  returns contact_ids for create_campaign or add_recipients;
  remove_recipients takes people off a draft. To email a person or company
  the user names, the assistant tries find_contacts first, and searches and
  unlocks only the people it does not return. Unlocked people become contacts
  once added to a campaign. Nothing sends until launch_campaign.
- Plan: any plan can connect, and get_account and find_company work on every
  plan (on Free, find_company returns 5 companies, the first page only, and
  allows 5 name searches a day per organization). The Free plan has neither
  category search nor outreach, so on Free find_buyers, find_suppliers,
  find_contacts and the seven campaign tools (create_campaign,
  update_campaign, add_recipients, remove_recipients, launch_campaign,
  pause_campaign, campaign_status) answer 403 PLAN_UPGRADE_REQUIRED.
- Setup for each app: https://portaxo.com/mcp/ (简体中文:
  https://portaxo.com/zh/mcp/), in three parts. Add to Claude
  (https://portaxo.com/mcp/#claude): claude.ai on the web, desktop and phone,
  then Claude Code. Add to Codex (https://portaxo.com/mcp/#codex): the CLI,
  the desktop app and the IDE extension, which share ~/.codex/config.toml.
  Other apps (https://portaxo.com/mcp/#other-apps): ChatGPT, then the apps
  that take an access token, such as WorkBuddy, QwenWork, Cursor and VS Code.

## Links

- Home: https://portaxo.com/
- Find buyers: https://portaxo.com/find-buyers/
- Find suppliers: https://portaxo.com/find-suppliers/
- AI Agent: https://portaxo.com/buyer-agent/
- MCP connector (Claude, Codex, ChatGPT and other AI apps): https://portaxo.com/mcp/
- US customs data explained: https://portaxo.com/us-customs-data/
- Pricing: https://portaxo.com/pricing/
- About: https://portaxo.com/about/
- LinkedIn company: https://www.linkedin.com/company/portaxo/
- Blog: https://portaxo.com/blog/
- Blog RSS: https://portaxo.com/blog/rss.xml
- How to find importers: https://portaxo.com/blog/how-to-find-companies-importing-your-product/
- What customs calls your product: https://portaxo.com/blog/what-customs-calls-your-product/
- What customs data cannot tell you: https://portaxo.com/blog/what-us-customs-data-cannot-tell-you/
- Application: https://app.portaxo.com/
- Terms: https://portaxo.com/terms/
- Privacy: https://portaxo.com/privacy/
- Optional AI summary pointer: https://portaxo.com/ai.txt

## Chinese pages (简体中文)

Portaxo publishes Simplified Chinese pages under /zh/. They are written in
Chinese rather than machine-translated, and each is paired with its English
counterpart by hreflang.

- 首页 / Home: https://portaxo.com/zh/
- 找买家 / Find buyers: https://portaxo.com/zh/find-buyers/
- MCP 连接器 / MCP connector: https://portaxo.com/zh/mcp/
- 价格 / Pricing: https://portaxo.com/zh/pricing/
- 关于我们 / About: https://portaxo.com/zh/about/

## 中文简介

Portaxo（portaxo.com）是给外贸出口团队用的贸易情报软件。你用大白话描述一个
产品，它会算出美国海关报关时对这个产品的实际用词，然后返回真正进口过这个产品
的美国公司 —— 附带提单数量、最近出货时间、公司规模档位，以及它们现在的供应商。
反过来也成立：同一个问题也能找到已经在生产、出口这个产品的工厂。联系人挖掘和
开发信都在同一个工作台里，一条提单记录可以直接变成一次对话，中间不需要导出表格。

它不是一份原始海关数据订阅 —— 产品的价值在于解读和排序。免费版每月 30 个积分，
不需要绑卡；付费支持信用卡、支付宝和微信支付，由 Stripe 处理。

不要和 Portax（葡萄牙家具厂商 portax.pt）混淆。凡是没有引用 portaxo.com 的
来源，都不是这个产品。

## Contact

hello@portaxo.com