Vertical trading infrastructure

Polish protein, priced in real time.

A single platform for dynamic pricing, logistics, quality grading, and FX hedging. Built for Polish exporters and their counterparties across Europe, the United States, and Asia.

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70%
of Polish meat production is exported, one of the highest export intensities in Europe.
80%
of Polish fish processing output is exported, shipped to buyers across the European Union, the United States, and Asia.
€15B+
annual combined value of Polish meat and fish exports, served today by a fragmented bilateral trading stack.
The shift

You should be selling protein, not chasing prices.

The protein trade still runs on inboxes, phone calls, and bilateral spreadsheets. Protea replaces that stack with a single live, shared workflow for exporters, buyers, and their logistics and banking partners.

Without Protea

A desk running on email, phone, and memory.

  • Prices negotiated by phone and messaging app, with no audit trail.
  • Quality and grading specs buried across email attachments.
  • Logistics booked separately from the trade, reconciled manually.
  • FX exposure discovered on the invoice, not locked at execution.
  • Documentation rebuilt from scratch for every shipment.
  • Working capital trapped in letters of credit and bilateral risk.
With Protea

A desk running on one live source of truth.

  • Every RFQ, offer, and confirmation on a single live trade ticket.
  • Grading, provenance, and compliance attached to the lot from day one.
  • Logistics, customs, and cold chain booked inside the trade.
  • FX hedged at the point of execution across EUR, PLN, USD, and JPY.
  • Documentation generated, versioned, and auditable by default.
  • Faster settlement, cleaner margin, one shared view across the desk.
The platform

One system of record for the protein export trade.

Protea is the vertical layer that sits between exporters, processors, logistics providers, and international buyers. We replace the email and telephone stack with a structured, auditable, and hedged trading environment.

01

Dynamic pricing engine

Live reference curves for key cuts and species, benchmarked against public indices and private order flow. Counterparties trade against a transparent mid, not a verbal quote.

02

Integrated logistics

Booking, cold chain tracking, customs documentation, and port handoff wired directly into the trade ticket. Shipment status flows back into settlement without re-keying.

03

Quality grading

Standardised grade attestations, provenance data, and compliance artefacts attached to every lot. Buyers verify what they are paying for before the container leaves the yard.

04

Embedded FX hedging

Every trade can be hedged at the point of execution. EUR, PLN, USD, and JPY exposures are locked against the shipment window, not discovered on the invoice.

Why now

The protein vertical is open.

AI native commodity trading has crossed the threshold from thesis to funded category. Energy, metals, and soft commodities are already seeing dedicated platforms capture order flow from the incumbent voice brokered markets.

Protein remains structurally underserved. The fragmentation is deeper, the quality specifications are more complex, and the regulatory surface is heavier, which is precisely what makes a vertical platform defensible.

Poland is the right geographic anchor. It is among the largest meat exporters in the European Union and a top tier fish processor, with established flows into Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic, and expanding premium corridors into the United States, Japan, South Korea, and China. The buyer base is diverse, demanding, and increasingly asking for verified, traceable, and hedged supply.

What we are building

Clarity. Control. Coverage.

The three pillars of the Protea platform.
01 · Clarity
Transparent price discovery

Live reference curves for key cuts and species, verified grading, and counterparty data surfaced on a shared view.

02 · Control
One structured trade ticket

RFQ, negotiation, confirmation, and documentation on a single workflow, replacing email and spreadsheet drift.

03 · Coverage
Logistics and FX built in

Cold chain, customs, and multi-currency hedging wired into every shipment across every corridor.

Key markets

One platform, every corridor.

Polish protein already moves into Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and the Netherlands, with expanding volumes into the United States, Japan, South Korea, and China. Each corridor carries its own specifications, documentation, and currency exposure. Protea standardises the trade ticket across all of them, so exporters can run a single workflow from Warsaw to every destination.

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We are speaking with Polish processors, international buyers across Europe, the United States, and Asia, logistics partners, and institutional investors. Please tell us where you fit and we will be in touch.