Protect your margins before import costs surprise you.
Tru Blue CostGuard helps small businesses track landed cost, tariffs, supplier exposure, inventory margins, and cost-change scenarios in one practical dashboard.
Focus
Tariffs, landed cost, supplier exposure, and product margin
Built for
Small businesses that need clear cost-risk planning
Approach
Practical dashboards, imports, scenarios, and plain-English insights
Overview
Import costs can move fast.
Tariffs, freight, supplier increases, duty rates, and selling prices can quietly turn profitable items into risky ones. CostGuard gives small businesses a clearer way to see where margin pressure is coming from before it becomes a cash-flow problem.
Costs change fast
Tariffs, freight, supplier increases, duty rates, and selling prices can move before a spreadsheet catches up.
Spreadsheets hide risk
CostGuard helps bring products, suppliers, tariff exposure, and margin pressure into one readable workspace.
Margins need visibility
Small changes can quietly turn profitable items into risky ones, especially when supplier costs and tariffs stack up.
Features
Everything you need to see import cost risk clearly.
Track products, suppliers, tariffs, scenarios, and AI-supported recommendations without turning your business into a spreadsheet project.
Dashboard
Monitor landed cost, tariff exposure, supplier concentration, gross margin, monthly and annual tariff exposure, highest-risk items, supplier charts, and category margin charts.
Inventory
Track SKU, barcode, supplier, category, HTS code, origin country, unit cost, shipping cost, tariff rate, sales price, usage, landed cost, margin, and risk level.
Import Tools
Upload CSV files, preview rows, review import batches before committing, create missing suppliers or categories when allowed, and use barcode or photo review workflows.
Suppliers
Track suppliers, assigned inventory, supplier exposure, and supplier-level margin risk so concentration issues are easier to see.
Scenarios
Model tariff changes, shipping changes, unit cost changes, sales price changes, target margins, projected landed cost, projected margin, monthly impact, annual impact, suggested price, and risk.
Tariff Watch
Search HTS and product information, review trade updates, filter by risk, and link to official resources such as USITC HTS, CBP CROSS, USTR Section 301, and Federal Register.
AI Insights
Generate plain-English summaries and recommendations for dashboard data, inventory items, suppliers, and tariff updates. AI summarizes and recommends; it does not automatically change records.
Setup and Team
Configure company settings, default margins, measurement units, import aliases, and team access for the people who need the workspace.
How It Works
A simple path from cost data to better decisions.
Add or import inventory
Bring in items by form, CSV import, or barcode/photo review.
Connect the cost details
Add suppliers, HTS codes, origin country, unit cost, shipping, tariff rate, sales price, and usage.
Review risk
Use the dashboard to see margin pressure, tariff exposure, supplier concentration, and high-risk items.
Run scenarios
Model tariff, shipping, supplier cost, and price changes before deciding what to do next.
Who It Helps
Built for small businesses that need cost clarity.
CostGuard is practical planning software for teams that need to understand cost pressure without adopting a heavy enterprise system.
Food importers and distributors
Retailers and resellers
Restaurants and food-service operators using imported supplies
Small manufacturers using imported materials
Purchasing teams managing supplier cost changes
Businesses still tracking cost risk in spreadsheets
Planning note
CostGuard is a planning tool. It helps estimate cost exposure and margin risk using the information you enter. It is not customs legal advice, and official tariff classifications should still be verified with the proper sources or professionals.
Start with clarity
Ready to see where costs are putting pressure on your margins?
Start tracking landed cost, tariff exposure, supplier risk, and margin scenarios in one practical CostGuard workspace.