A public-benefit company building trade infrastructure for a connected world.
Crossbotra.ai is the flagship product of Imponexpo PBC, a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation.
Lowering the barriers that hold small importers back.
We use AI to make borders, logistics, and trade finance work for the small business — not just the multinational.
Built by someone who has lived the problem.
Maximilian Ani
Founder & CEO
- M.Eng., Communication & Information Systems Engineering — NUAA, Nanjing
- Chinese Business & Culture — UIBE, Beijing · fluent in Mandarin
- Lived and worked across Nigeria, China, Europe, Canada and Asia
- Represented importers and manufacturers across the China corridor
“The world doesn't lack products. It lacks trust, payment confidence, and clarity. I'm building the infrastructure that gives the ordinary importer what only big corporations have had.”
A Nigerian founder who studied engineering and Chinese business in China, Maximilian spent years guiding importers and manufacturers through every step of buying from China — and saw, up close, how fragmented, risky and expensive cross-border trade remains for everyone but the giants. Crossbotra is his answer.
Parent entity
Imponexpo PBC
Delaware Public Benefit Corporation
Platform ecosystem
Crossbotra.ai
Importer operating system
Agent intelligence
Crobotra
Native trade-intelligence layer
Built for the importers global trade overlooked.
Our specific public-benefit purpose is to use artificial intelligence to lower sovereign border-compliance barriers, resolve logistics inefficiencies, and unlock trade-finance options for small and medium-sized importers worldwide.
Small businesses are the backbone of emerging and developing markets. By automating manual brokerage and providing reliable routing intelligence, we reduce the transaction margins that historically favoured large multinationals.
A legally binding balance of interests.
Under Delaware General Corporation Law §365, our directors are mandated to balance three interests — which protects our ability to prioritise community, regional stability, and data integrity over short-term revenue.
| Stakeholder group | Primary priority metric | Charter weighting |
|---|---|---|
| SME Importers | Landed-cost reduction & compliance-trust rate | 40% |
| Logistics Nodes & Carriers | Load-planning predictability & port turnaround | 30% |
| Strategic Shareholders | Sustainable operating margin & system integrity | 30% |
What we hold ourselves to.
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Target transit-time reduction
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Target compliance pass rate
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Strategic trade corridors
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Category verticals covered
Targets are aspirational pre-launch objectives, not guarantees of outcome.