Know who you’re dealing with.
Know they’re authorised.
Novium helps cross-border trade participants verify companies, people, authority and opportunity mandates — while protecting the commercial relationships that bring deals together.
- Company
- Person
- Authority
- Mandate
Four dimensions, recorded separately.
Supplier ↔ intermediary ↔ buyer: each relationship carries its own verification record.
Cross-border trade has an identity problem.
A company can exist.
That doesn’t automatically mean the person contacting you represents it.
A representative can be genuine.
That doesn’t automatically mean they’re authorised to offer a specific opportunity.
An intermediary can create the deal.
And their role can disappear once the two parties meet.
Novium connects these trust layers.
From company to opportunity.
Novium records four different questions separately. One verified dimension does not automatically verify another.
- 01Company
Is the organisation identifiable?
- 02Representative
Is this person genuinely associated with it?
- 03Authority
Are they authorised to act?
- 04Opportunity mandate
Are they authorised for this specific opportunity?
Not a single “verified supplier” badge — four separate records.
Explore the verification modelThree roles. One trusted trade network.
“Can I trust this supplier — and the person representing them?”
Evaluate counterparties, opportunities and commercial authority before progressing.
For buyers“How do I prove I’m credible to serious international buyers?”
Build a reusable trust profile around your company, representatives and opportunities.
For suppliers“How do I introduce my buyer and supplier without losing my position?”
Create protected introductions and a traceable record of the relationship you originated.
For intermediariesIntroductions should create value — not remove the introducer.
Novium lets intermediaries create protected introductions that record:
- Who introduced whom
- The commercial context of the introduction
- Acknowledgement by both counterparties
- Relationship ownership and its scope
- Protection status and its history
This is relationship infrastructure and evidence. Novium does not guarantee commissions and cannot prevent circumvention absolutely.
Attribution, scope, territory, protection period and acknowledgement — recorded before contact details are released.
- Legal entityRegistration document on file
- Tax identifierSubmitted and checked
- Export registrationSubmitted and checked
- Representative identityIdentity check completed
- Organisation associationEmployment confirmed by the company
- Authority to actCompany-wide mandate recorded
- Opportunity mandateScoped mandate recorded for OPP-2052
- CertificationsGlobalG.A.P., GRASP, HACCP on file
- Trading performanceNot recorded by Novium
We show what has been verified — and what has not. A passport is a record of checks, not a guarantee of performance. Each dimension stands alone: a verified company does not imply a verified representative, authority or opportunity mandate.
One trust profile. Multiple layers of evidence.
The Trade Passport brings together the company, its representatives, recorded authority, opportunity mandates, relationship history and platform activity where applicable.
Every element carries its own state — verified, declared, historical or sample — so nothing inherits credibility it has not earned.
Explore a sample Trade PassportAn opportunity is more useful when you know who stands behind it.
Every listing stays connected to the company, representative, authority, mandate and relationship behind it — and every ranked match explains itself.
- Verified company
Registered entity, documentary evidence
- Authorised person
Identity and organisation association
- Authority
Scope of the mandate held
- Opportunity mandate
Authority for this specific deal
- Commercial opportunity
Specification, volume, incoterm, origin
- Protected introduction
Attribution and scope recorded first
- Commercial discussion
One thread, opportunity attached
- Agreed deal
Structured terms both sides read alike
What was agreed, with whom, and who introduced them — carried into the next conversation instead of starting again.
“We need 2–3 containers of Hass avocados per week from Kenya, CIF Rotterdam, GlobalG.A.P. certified, starting October.”
- Naivasha Fresh Produce Ltd95High confidence
- Product match
- Origin match
- GlobalG.A.P. held
- Verification complete
- Atlas Organics S.A.55Partial — stated requirement not met
- Does not meet stated origin
- Product match
- GlobalG.A.P. held
- Verification complete
Novium surfaces conflicts instead of hiding them behind a score.
Discover, evaluate, verify, connect, negotiate.
- 01Discover
Search by commodity, origin, volume, incoterm.
- 02Verify
Read what has been checked before spending time.
- 03Introduce
Contact details stay protected until accepted.
- 04Negotiate
Structured terms — accept, counter or decline.
- 05Deal
One agreed record. One shared understanding.
Built Africa-first. Designed for cross-border trade.
Novium is being built around trade realities where information is fragmented, relationships are often intermediated, and verification has to work across borders and jurisdictions. Solving that well in African export corridors produces infrastructure that holds anywhere the same frictions exist.
The model is not limited to one region: the trust chain, protected introductions and Trade Passport apply to any cross-border relationship.
See trusted trade from every side.
Experience Novium as a buyer, supplier or intermediary in a complete demonstration scenario. All demonstration data is fictional and labelled as such.