Decompose the deal. Classify every component. Cite every conclusion.
Paste the transaction summary. The tool breaks the U.S. business into its constituent technologies, classifies each against the CCL and the USML, screens the counterparties against eleven restricted-party lists, and produces a filing-trigger memorandum — with the verbatim regulation behind every claim.
Apex Acquirer Ltd. (CN, PE fund) is acquiring 51% of Helios Microwave Corp., a Delaware-headquartered designer of GaN-on-SiC RF power amplifiers used in radar and SATCOM modules. Helios sells into DoD primes (Raytheon, Northrop) and commercial 5G OEMs. The deal includes the wafer-process IP, firmware libraries, and a customer dataset of recorded radar signatures.
- 013A001.b.2MMIC RF amplifierEAR · CCL Cat 3
- 023E002GaN-on-SiC wafer process IPEAR · Technology
- 035D002Firmware (signal-processing libs)EAR · Info Security
- 04USML XI(b)Customer dataset (radar signatures)ITAR · Munitions
Inside one classification: posture, retrieval, ECCN, license check.
The hero shows the four components decomposed from one transaction. Here is the pipeline that produced a single one of them — the same pipeline runs for every component, in parallel.
Designed in-house at Helios Microwave Corp. (Delaware). Fabricated at TSMC Taiwan on a GaN-on-SiC process. Used in radar and SATCOM modules. Sold to DoD primes (Raytheon, Northrop) and commercial 5G OEMs.
- #13A001.b.2MMIC RF / microwave power amplifierEAR · CCL Cat 30.94
- #23A001.b.5MMIC mixer / converterEAR · CCL Cat 30.71
- #35A001.b.5Phased-array radar transmit/receive moduleEAR · CCL Cat 5 P10.58
- #4USML XI(b)Electronic combat equipment for military useITAR · Munitions0.43
- #53A001.a.1General microelectronic circuitEAR · CCL Cat 30.31
“monolithic microwave integrated circuit power amplifier rated for operation at frequencies exceeding 31.8 GHz”
Nine-category enum
Hardware, software, algorithms, data, firmware, cryptographic modules, FPGA configurations, services, and IP — each component is split by kind, then classified separately.
EAR Order of Review walk
When a component doesn't match a Category-3-through-9 entry, the classifier walks the EAR Order of Review (15 CFR § 738) deterministically to EAR99 or USML referral.
Threshold language verbatim
No paraphrases. The verbatim controlling text — “rated for operation at frequencies exceeding 31.8 GHz” — is what the run footnotes cite.
Restricted-party screening that runs on every analyze, before classification.
600 ms debounced. Blocking-severity hits — OFAC SDN, BIS Entity List, DoD § 1260H — gate the run before any tokens are billed.
- BIS Entity Listmatch · 1.0015 CFR § 744, Suppl. No. 4 · effective 2019-05-16
- DoD § 1260H Listmatch · 1.00Section 1260H, NDAA FY 2021 · refreshed 2026-04-01
- OFAC 50% Rule — beneficial-owner walk3 SDN ties31 CFR § 571.602 · OFAC SDN Aug-2014 guidance
The filing recommendation — mandatory or voluntary — with the shot-clock math.
Covered-investment determination, TID three-pillar walk (critical tech / critical infra / SPD), filing recommendation, deadline arithmetic anchored to the binding-agreement date. Every step cited.
Acquirer X is a SUBSTANTIAL INTEREST holder of a FOREIGN GOVERNMENT (CN). Target Y is a TID U.S. BUSINESS by virtue of critical-technology production. A mandatory declaration is required under § 800.401(c)(1).
- § 800.215CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY determination: ECCN 3A001.a.7 controlled (NS, AT).
- § 800.248TID U.S. BUSINESS status: produces critical technology (pillar 1 satisfied).
- § 800.256SUBSTANTIAL INTEREST: 25% direct foreign-government interest threshold met.
Covered investment
Deterministic § 800.210 / .211 walk through control rights, governance rights, and covered-investment rights. No LLM in the gating logic.
TID determination
Critical-technology match against indexed § 800.215, critical-infrastructure LLM-judged against Appendix A, SPD against § 800.241 thresholds.
Shot-clock math
Subpart F deadline arithmetic anchored to the binding-agreement date — declaration, review, investigation, Presidential decision.
The memorandum your partner expects, with the regulation in the footnote.
Streaming-generated markdown that becomes a citation-anchored filing-trigger memo. Defined terms in BOLD-CAPS on first use. Footnotes to verbatim chunk text, not paraphrases.
I. Covered transaction determination
The proposed transaction is a COVERED CONTROL TRANSACTION within the meaning of 31 CFR § 800.210 because Acquirer X, a FOREIGN PERSON organized under the laws of the People’s Republic of China, will acquire 51% of the voting interests of Target Y, a U.S. BUSINESS engaged in the design and manufacture of advanced semiconductor packaging.1
Target Y is a TID U.S. BUSINESS under § 800.248 by virtue of its production of CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES controlled under 15 CFR Part 774, Category 3A — specifically 3A001.a.7 (microwave monolithic integrated circuits).2
Outbound investment and real-estate transactions — the scope CFIUS counsel also has to track.
Part 850 outbound notification routing (development / production / other-sector gating) and Part 802 real-estate proximity to listed military installations, both with the same citation discipline.
- § 850.224Development-technology sectorsAI-systems training compute > 10²³ FLOPsTriggered
- § 850.403Production-technology sectorsNot triggered
- § 850.501Other sectors of national-security interestNot triggered
| Installation | Distance | Cite |
|---|---|---|
| MCAS Beaufort | 0.7 mi | § 802 App. A, item 38 |
| Port of Charleston | 2.4 mi | § 802 App. A, item 81 |
| Naval Health Clinic | 14.2 mi | not listed |
Twelve authorities, indexed in full, refreshed daily, deep-linked to the source.
The corpus the tool reasons over. Each tile opens the authoritative text — eCFR, Treasury, Commerce, or DoD — in a new tab. Every citation in a generated memorandum traces back here.
31 CFR Part 800
↗Covered investments in U.S. businesses
31 CFR Part 802
↗Covered real-estate transactions
31 CFR Part 850
↗Outbound investment program
15 CFR Part 774
↗Commerce Control List (CCL)
15 CFR Part 740
↗License exceptions
15 CFR Part 744
↗Entity List, MEU, Unverified List
22 CFR Part 121
↗U.S. Munitions List (USML)
OFAC sanctions
↗SDN + 10 sanctions programs · 50% Rule
DoD § 1260H List
↗Chinese military companies (NDAA FY 2021)
NDAA § 889
↗Prohibited telecom & video-surveillance suppliers
BIS Entity List operative texts
↗Footnote-1 / .4 advanced-computing rules · FDPR
Treasury CFIUS guidance
↗FAQs, mitigation precedents, annual reports
Hybrid retrieval, measured against an eval set we publish openly.
Vectorize ANN + D1 FTS5 BM25 fused via reciprocal rank, expanded with HyDE, reranked by Claude. The numbers below are what we measured, not what we hoped for.
| Measure | Value | Eval set |
|---|---|---|
| Retrieval — top result correctwhat a human reads first in /search | 0.69 | 61 queries |
| Retrieval — correct result in top 5the slice fed to the analysis LLM | 0.85 | 61 queries |
| Classification — first ECCN / USML correctwhat the component card displays | 0.84 | 25 cases |
| Classification — correct in top 5candidates surfaced for attorney review | 0.96 | 25 cases |
| Decomposition composite (v2)coverage · enrichment · gaps · classification | 0.81 | 5-case mini |
- 01identifier_prefilter// ECCN/USML/CFR regex
- 02hyde_expansion// vocabulary-seeded query rewriting
- 03vectorize_ann// 1024-dim cosine, k=20
- 04d1_bm25// FTS5, k=20
- 05reciprocal_rank_fusion// k=60 fusion
- 06llm_reranker// top-10 reranked
The workflow surface, built for the way export-controls counsel actually drafts.
Hover any defined term for the regulatory definition. Click any footnote for the verbatim chunk and the eCFR deep-link. Track diligence gaps by severity. Compare two runs side-by-side.
A covered investment in a TID U.S. business is governed by § 800.211.
- CriticalFIPS 140-3 validation evidence for the cryptographic module.
- ImportantCountry of manufacture for the GaN-on-SiC wafer process.
- InformationalCompliance certifications (CMMC level, DCSA NISP status).
The methodology attestation that makes the memo defensible.
Every run footer lists model versions, retrieval pipeline, per-source corpus revisions, and a run ID. Built so the audit trail is permanent, not implied.
- eCFR 31 CFR 8002026-04-22612 chunks
- eCFR 31 CFR 8022026-03-04184 chunks
- eCFR 31 CFR 8502026-04-22226 chunks
- eCFR 15 CFR 7402026-04-22307 chunks
- eCFR 15 CFR 7742026-04-22982 chunks
- eCFR 22 CFR 1212026-04-22438 chunks
- Treasury CFIUS guidance2026-02-1832 chunks
Daily change-detection cron
A Cloudflare Worker polls upstream at 06:00 UTC, hashes the content, and logs revisions to corpus_revision_log. Stale corpus is surfaced in the run footer.
valid_from / valid_to on every section
Effective-date stamps on every indexed regulation. Point-in-time replay supported via the soft-delete tombstone.
chunk_id on every assertion
The draft generator footnotes to specific retrieved chunks, not paraphrases. Open the citation drawer for verbatim text and the eCFR anchor.
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This tool provides decision support, not legal advice. Outputs are research-grade drafts grounded in the cited regulations as of the corpus refresh date; classifications, filing-trigger determinations, and draft memoranda warrant review by qualified counsel before any reliance.