Your export program, minus the reporting grind.
Duess Strategies builds AI for the organizations that run U.S. agricultural export promotion: FAS cooperators, commodity groups, and state regional trade groups. The tools we build take the reporting and data load off your team, so your people spend their hours on understanding and building markets, not shuffling paperwork.
The reporting only moves one way: up
Every UES cycle asks for more. Every MAP and FMD activity has to be documented, measured, and defended. RAPP added a whole new grant to administer on top of what you already carry. FAS needs tighter results, cleaner data, and faster turnarounds, and the staff count hasn't moved to match.
For a small export-development team, that means weeks a year swallowed by compliance and admin: assembling reports by hand, chasing numbers across spreadsheets, and rebuilding the same market picture from scratch every quarter.
What we build for FAS cooperators and export groups
Practical AI, built alongside your team, aimed at the work that eats your week:
MAP, FMD, and RAPP reporting that assembles itself
Pull the numbers and activities you already track into the shape UES, MAP, and RAPP ask for, instead of rebuilding them by hand each cycle.
Instant answers from your own export-program data
Ask a plain-language question and get an answer straight from your files, instead of hunting through drives, spreadsheets, and inboxes.
Market intelligence for your priority export markets
Watch hundreds of sources across languages and surface the handful that matter, so nobody loses a day a week to the news.
A searchable archive of your trade missions and market reports
Turn years of market reports and mission debriefs into one place you can actually search.
It gives your people superpowers.
None of this replaces your team. On a small staff, that matters.
It takes the busywork off the people you have, so the same team does better work, and more of the work only a human can do.
The tools underneath are AI. You don't have to care about that. What you'll notice is fewer hours lost to reporting and hunting for data.
Same team, better output.
Why me
I'm a fellow USAEDC member, and I've spent 30 years in food and agriculture. I spent my twenties at the cutting edge of technology, working with Google, Cisco, and others, and my thirties building one of North America's most successful food and agriculture marketing agencies. I know your world, and I can build the systems, not just advise on them.
Let's talk
Twenty minutes, no pitch. Tell me where the reporting and data load hurts most, and I'll tell you straight whether AI can take it off your plate.
Common questions
Can AI help with MAP and RAPP reporting?
Yes. Most of the reporting load is assembling data you already have into the format FAS asks for. That is exactly the kind of repetitive, rules-based work AI does well, with your team reviewing and signing off.
We're a small cooperator staff. Is this too much for us?
No. The point is to fit the team you have, not add to it. I build alongside your people and hand off, so you own the systems when I leave.
Do you work with state regional trade groups as well as cooperators?
Yes. Cooperators, commodity groups, and SRTGs all carry the same reporting and data burden, at different scales.
Does this replace our people?
No. It removes the busywork that buries them. Same team, better output.
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