The Company
Cyanway is built at the intersection of international trade operations and modern software engineering — by people who have signed the contracts and shipped the cargo themselves.
Where Cyanway comes from.
Most trading software is sold by software companies that visited a port once. Cyanway is built by a team that has spent years moving sugar, grains, coffee and minerals across continents — and lived every spreadsheet nightmare the legacy systems left unsolved.
Why we are building this
International commodity trading runs on a staggering amount of manual coordination. A single 300,000 MT contract generates twelve shipments, hundreds of documents, dozens of email threads, and a level of operational risk that often depends on whether someone remembered to check a laycan date in a tab nobody had updated since Tuesday.
Existing CTRMs are powerful but expensive, monolithic, and architected for a different decade. ERPs add a "commodities module" that misses the point. CRMs offer custom fields and call it a day. We started Cyanway with a different question: what would software for international trade look like if it were designed in 2026, by the people who actually run the trades?
What makes this different
Most commodity-trading software is sold by companies whose founders never carried laycan exposure on their own book. The Cyanway team has — and that operational background shows up in every product decision.
The way deals are structured. How documents are organized. What data is mandatory by incoterm. Why margin is calculated from sourcing, not from estimates. Why the platform refuses to let you advance an SPA stage without a signed copy on file. Every feature exists because someone on the team felt its absence in a real trade — and decided the next version of the world should not have to.
Our operational DNA.
Three principles that decide every product, hiring and roadmap call we make. Not marketing values — internal contracts the team holds itself to.
Real workflows first
We build for the workflow as practitioners describe it — not as a textbook diagrams it. If the spec says "SCO" but traders call it "the soft", the interface uses the trader's word. The application is in service of the trade, not the other way around.
Margin transparency
Trading is about margin. Every screen surfaces it. There is no "report" screen for what should be visible on the deal card itself. If a trader has to ask the software a question to know whether they are making money, the software has already failed.
Enterprise from day one
Built on Cloud with security, identity and compliance as foundational decisions — not features added under audit pressure. Designed so a two-person shop and a two-hundred-trader desk run the same software, with the same guarantees.
The commodities we cover.
Cyanway is configured for the commodities our team has direct operational experience trading — and is expanding as new sectors join the platform. The data model handles any traded commodity with standard contract terms, but our depth is where we have lived.
Sugar
White cane sugar ICUMSA 45 and 100, raw sugar VHP, refined sugar — with grade tracking and quality certification workflows.
Grains & Oilseeds
Soybeans, soybean meal, corn, wheat, sorghum — with quality grading, GMO declaration and origin tracking.
Coffee
Arabica and Robusta green coffee, screen-size classification, origin certifications, single-estate traceability.
Minerals
Iron ore Fe 62%, manganese, bauxite — with assay reports, moisture content and quality adjustment formulas.
Meat & Protein
Beef, poultry, pork — with halal, kosher and sanitary authority certification workflows.
Pulp & Paper
Bleached eucalyptus kraft pulp (BEKP), recycled paper grades, FSC chain-of-custody tracking.
Ethanol & Biofuels
Hydrous and anhydrous ethanol, biodiesel — with traceability and carbon-intensity certification.
And more
The data model is commodity-agnostic. New sectors can be configured without code changes — we have done it with customers in under two weeks.
Talk to the team building Cyanway.
If you trade commodities and want to see what software designed for the real workflow looks like, we would like to hear from you. Conversations are with founders, not sales reps.
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