Extract data from cargo insurance forms
Unstract reads marine cargo applications, open-cover declarations, certificates and claim files, typed, scanned or faxed, and returns checked shipment data to your policy or claims system.
B/L attached, pls declare on Oct bordereau — Marisol
Valid only when countersigned by the assured
{ "certificate_no": "MC-2026-07734", "open_policy": "OC-48812", "assured": "Tidewell Coffee Imports", "vessel": "MV Nordic Lark", "bill_of_lading": "SNTSAV2614407", "port_of_loading": "Santos, Brazil", "port_of_discharge": "Savannah, GA", "packages": 620, "insured_value": 248600, "currency": "USD", "conditions": "Institute Cargo Clauses (A)", "confidence": 0.95}
Trusted by insurance teams around the globe
Every shipment brings its own paperwork
A certificate printed from the insurer's own portal reads cleanly. The rest come from forwarders, brokers and warehouses on three continents.
Certificates copied at the port, then faxed on
Each insurer and broker prints its own certificate layout
Package counts and values corrected by hand
The claim form, bill of lading, invoice and survey in one PDF
Monthly open-cover declarations, one row per shipment
Someone keys every vessel, port, package count and insured value by hand, so declarations sit unbilled and a cargo claim waits weeks before an adjuster sees the loss.
Unstract reads each certificate, declaration and claim file, matches them to the bill of lading and invoice, and sends the record to your policy or claims system.
Read, check and route every cargo shipment
LLMWhisperer parses the certificate or claim file, Document Studio turns it into one shipment record, and Flow runs cargo underwriting and claims around them. Each product works alone, so you can start with the layer you need.
Parse cargo insurance forms into text that keeps every box in place
LLMWhisperer reads marine cargo applications, certificates, declarations and claim forms as they arrive: typed, scanned at a port office, or faxed from a forwarder. The layout survives, so the port of loading stays apart from the port of discharge, and the under-deck box keeps its tick.
Pass the text to your own LLM, or use it as the first step of a full cargo workflow.
Learn more about LLMWhispererTurn each cargo insurance form into one shipment record
Marine cargo certificate data extraction starts with a prompt that names the fields you need: assured, open policy, vessel and voyage, ports, bill of lading, goods, packages, insured value and clauses. Each insurer's layout returns the same JSON. Values are then checked against the bill of lading and commercial invoice, and a mismatch arrives flagged with its source.
Call it as an API, run it as an ETL pipeline, or make it one step of a larger cargo process.
Learn more about Document StudioRun cargo underwriting and claims from the inbox onward
Describe your cargo insurance intake in plain English, and Flow's agents build the workflow: applications and declarations collected from broker and forwarder email, the assured checked against open covers and in-force policies, each form read and its voyage, goods and values checked against your appetite and the open-cover limits. You approve the workflow, and it then runs the same way on every shipment. Clean risks go on to rating, and the record lands in your rating tool and policy system, such as Guidewire PolicyCenter or Duck Creek Policy.
Set the stop rules once: a voyage or commodity outside your appetite, an insured value above the per-conveyance limit, a missing bill of lading, or a low-confidence read. Only those shipments wait for an underwriter, with the reason attached.
Learn more about FlowExtract from cargo certificates today. Automate the run when you're ready.
The free plan parses and extracts your own cargo certificates and claim forms now. Automating cargo underwriting or claims begins with a consultation.
Marine cargo forms, and the shipping papers behind them
Documents
- Marine cargo insurance applications
- Open cover and open policy declarations
- Certificates of insurance for a single shipment
- Monthly declaration bordereaux
- Cargo claim forms
- Bills of lading and sea waybills
- Commercial invoices
- Packing lists
- Survey reports
- Notices of claim to the carrier
- Delivery receipts and outturn reports
- Letters of subrogation
Fields captured
For everyone who insures, ships or claims on cargo
Declarations under each open cover booked and checked against per-conveyance limits, and cargo claims opened with the survey already read.
Certificates issued from your own booking data, and claim files built from the bill of lading and invoice you already hold.
Every shipment's certificate and insured value on record, and a claim sent with its documents instead of a chase for paperwork.
Marine cargo applications and monthly declarations placed with the insurer without retyping vessel, route and values.
Shipments declared on time, cargo claims opened sooner
Shipment data stays out of the wrong hands
A cargo certificate tells a reader what is moving, its value, which vessel carries it and when it lands, which is what cargo thieves look for. The commercial invoice behind a claim shows what your customer paid for the goods.
- Certificates, declarations and claim files are encrypted in transit and at rest.
- No cargo document you upload is used to train a model.
- Access set by role and account, so a forwarder sees its own shipments and every correction is logged against the certificate or claim.
- You choose how long processed cargo files are kept before deletion.
- Self-hosting is available for insurers and forwarders that keep shipment data in their own environment.
What cargo insurers, forwarders and brokers ask first
Yes. Document Studio gives each document type its own endpoint: POST a certificate, declaration or claim form and get the shipment record back as JSON. If you would rather drop files into S3 or a shared drive, the same extraction runs as an ETL pipeline.
Marine cargo insurance applications, open-cover declarations and monthly bordereaux, certificates for a single shipment, and cargo claim forms, plus the bills of lading, commercial invoices, packing lists and survey reports that travel with them.
LLMWhisperer reads scans, faxes and phone photos with the layout kept, handwriting included, so a package count corrected in pen is read from its own box. A value the extraction is unsure of goes to a person with the page beside it.
Yes. Marine cargo insurance application extraction pulls the applicant, commodities, annual shipping volume, trade routes, conveyance types, packing and loss history into one record, ready for an underwriter or a rating tool.
Yes. Certificates from an insurer's or broker's issuance portal are the easy case, and the record comes out in the same shape as one typed by a forwarder or scanned at a port.
Yes. A monthly declaration, as a spreadsheet or a scanned list, comes back one row per shipment, each checked against the per-conveyance limit and the clauses on the open policy before it is booked.
The claim form, bill of lading, commercial invoice and survey report are split apart and read on their own, then compared: packages on the claim against the bill of lading, the amount claimed against the invoice, and the cause against the surveyor's findings.
The record stops in a review queue with both values and the pages they came from. An underwriter or claims handler approves, corrects or sends it back, and the decision is logged against the shipment.
Yes. Describe the intake in plain English and Flow's agents build it: pick up from email, read, check against the open cover and shipping papers, then post to your policy or claims system. You approve it once, and it stops for a person only where you told it to.
Unstract is SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and HIPAA compliant. Cargo files are encrypted, never used for model training and kept only as long as you set, and insurers can self-host. The Trust Center lists each control.
Bring a month of cargo certificates and claims
Declarations, certificates and a claim file or two, faxed copies included. We run them live and show every field, every check against the bill of lading, and every exception.