
Before trade documents became an AI problem, Sandberg learned how to make open-source infrastructure serve real businesses. At KlearNow.AI, that long apprenticeship has found an unusually stubborn target: the paperwork between a shipment and its destination.
Rick Tellez is the Co-Founder of KlearNow.AI, an AI-powered platform digitizing customs clearance and trade compliance for importers, freight forwarders, and customs brokers. Drawing on 20+ years of logistics expertise at DHL, Tellez co-founded KlearNow in 2018 to automate the manual, error-prone paperwork that bottlenecks global trade. The company has raised $69 million in funding, serves over 1,000 organizations, and generates $26.8M in annual recurring revenue.