Professional Services

Professional services firms can add value to their clients through the provision of world-leading vertical AI solutions.

Why Professional Services
Choose Hurricane

Regulatory Compliance

Improved compliance for clients, including meeting the requirements of recent regulatory events such as Brexit, the EU’s abolition of the VAT threshold on low value items, the introduction of the EU’s Import One-Stop Shop (IOSS), the US STOP Act and Type86 clearance and the EU’s Import Control System 2 (ICS2)

Denied Parties eCommerce

Clear Audit Trail

Enable clients to be able to demonstrate a clear audit trail

Added Value Advisory Services

The ability to provide added value advisory services covering:
  • Operational efficiency (faster and more accurate data)
  • Cost saving and productivity (automated processes less costly than manual labour)
Professional Services Benefits

Navigating a Complex World

Complex business processes, such as cross-border global trade, coupled with regulatory and compliance challenges, provide a significant opportunity for consultancy practices and professional services.

Consumers are now more confident than ever about purchasing products from overseas with global retail eCommerce sales currently in the region of $5.7 trillion – around 22% of which are cross-border (Statista). This figure is forecast to grow to over $8 trillion by 2026.

There are many reasons for the increasing popularity of cross-border eCommerce, among them the greater availability of products and brands and the ability to shop around for the best deals.

While there are attractive returns for retailers, entering new markets, driving revenue growth and staying ahead of the competition, there are a myriad of other organisations involved in the complex supply chain and transaction payment processes.

Enhancing Operational Performance

The sector is attracting smaller, nimbler players, who are increasing the competitiveness and putting operational performance and margins under the microscope.

A successful cross-border global trade strategy can be lucrative, but it is also a complex area and having the right partners is business critical.
The ability to provide accurate and real time data will become not just necessary for compliance, but to ensure operational efficiencies and ultimately customer satisfaction.

Global eCommerce

SECTOR
PAIN POINTS

Clients seek expertise to ensure reduction in compliance risk, to protect organisational reputation, to improve operational and financial performance and to increase customer satisfaction.
Clients are looking for AI-driven solutions, such as valid and verifiable data, throughout the end-to-end supply chain and, particularly, at the customs entry point.
Clients need solutions that can remove the need for traditional manual processes that can be replaced by AI-driven speed and accuracy.
Clients also need to consider fiscal flow and the benefits for online retailers of being able to offer their customers a Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) solution.

HURRICANE
SOLUTIONS

Hurricane’s products were created specifically to help all supply chain participants to navigate the various pain points detailed above, enabling clients to achieve cross-border eCommerce success.

Hurricane is supporting global advisory practices as our comprehensive solutions cover over 180 countries for import and export, plus multi-currency and multilingual.

With such large volumes involved in global trade, scalability, operational and cost efficiency and regulatory compliance are only possible through the harnessing of applied technologies such as Hurricane’s world-leading data APIs.

Hurricane Solutions

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David SpoTtiswood
Co-founder

Interesting Fact: I am an amateur baker, but I still have no idea how sourduogh starter actually works, and am intrigued how it all reacts together to produce an incredible taste.

Favourite Music: November Rain by Guns ‘n’ Roses.  Going to Wembley with my wife our go to fun thing in our early years, our youth with long hair and rock clothing and not a care in the world other than getting the best spot in the house.

Favourite Quote: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results ” – Albert Einstein

Harry Reilly
Non-exec

Interesting Fact:  I learned Arabic for five years!.

Favourite Music:  A Long December by Counting Crows.  Memory of best family time together in California.

Favourite Quote: “Don’t forget execution, boys. It’s the all-important last 95%”

Tom Lee

Technical Director

Interesting Fact:  I am completely self-taught from a technical skills persepctiuve, and left formal education at 18.

Favourite Music:  Blink 182 – Aliens Exist.  Brings back fond memories of stickly floors and cheap beer.

Favourite Quote: “He sprayed water in my face – thta’s not allowed” – James Haskell.  The whole event surrounding it is hilarious and shows the power of a good wind up

Martin Palmer
Co-Founder

Interesting Fact: I started my working life training to be an accountant but decided I hated numbers. (Ironically I now love them!). I really wanted to join the Hong Kong Police force but couldn’t do that until i was 24. I took a temporary job in Imports and 47 years later here I am.

Favourite Music: There only was one choice. Harry Chapin. Meant a lot to me in my early years as an import broker. We played Chapin for hours and this one seemed to cover so many modes.

Favourite Quote: “No man is an island”

Neil Harmer

Operations Director

Interesting Fact:  As a Geologist my idea of the perfect beach holiday is going to the beach and investigating the rocks in the cliffs behind.

Favourite Music:  Broken Stones – Paul Weller, I’m a huge Paul Weller / The Jam fan; Broken Stones is a very relaxing song, I love the use of the electric piano in it

Favourite Quote: “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today”. This is a great quote by Benjamin Franklin, to have in your head when working through a series of tasks to help keep focused.

Robert Dundas
Sales Director

Interesting Fact:  One of my life goals is to be able to speak French, I’ve been doing Duolingo every day for the last five years, and I’m still rubbish! 

Favourite Music: Where do I even start! Tom Petty Running Down a Dream, this is my top-down driving next to the ocean song

Favourite Quote: “This time will pass”

ASHLEY DEXTER
CFO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: I was nearly named Battle Dexter (I would have probably now been residing in one of His Majesty’s establishments)

Favourite Music: Even though I spent a few years in the music industry my taste of music was always a cause for concern with my colleagues, so to surprise them all my current favourite is Kids by MGMT (absolute belter)

Favourite Quote: “Quitters never win and winners never quit”

Ian Venner
CTO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: Runs Red Lantern Records, a not-for-profit, ethical label as a side project, whose artists have regular national BBC radio airplay.

Favourite Music: Tom Waits, pretty much all of his work.  Beautifully observed avante-garde vignettes of life.  Oh, and anything really loud!

Favourite Quote: “It’s not the mountains we climb, but the grit in our shoe that grinds us down” – which sums up taking a business from start-up to enterprise.

Martyn Noble
CEO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: Played a high standard of semi-professional rugby union (too many years ago now!)

Favourite Music: Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven…my first live gig – Knebworth 11th August 1979, the track never grows old and is the iconic song of ‘hope’ whatever mood you are in when listening too it…and I’m still trying to work out what the lyrics mean!!

Favourite Quote: “Know your customers, Know your People, Know your Numbers” – plagiarised from Sir John Harvey Jones when I met him very early on in my career and values I stick to in my business life.