LONDON, United Kingdom, November 11, 2026. On November 9, the 178 Section 301 exclusions on Chinese technology products lapsed. Goods entered from November 10 face the full rate, typically 25%. For distributors, the cost doesn't arrive as one bill. It hides in orders already placed, quotes already sent and price lists already printed.
Tariffs are this week's example. Last quarter it was interest rates, and next quarter it may be a supplier in trouble or a new regulation. Each time, companies need answers to questions nobody asked before. Which open orders are exposed? Which quotes are now underpriced? What happens to cash if duty is paid weeks before customers pay?
In most companies those answers mean a new report, a spreadsheet built by hand, or a call to a consultant. By the time they arrive, the decisions have already been made.
Dynocortex takes a different approach. It works inside the company's existing business system:
- Anyone can ask a new question in plain words. "Which open purchase orders from Chinese suppliers arrive after November 10?" "Which quotes are still valid on those items?" "How did margin move this week by item group?" Answers come from the system's own reports, with the report open beside the answer to check. There's nothing new to build.
- The same question works across the business. Buying, stock, sales, projects and the books are all covered, so one change can be followed from purchase order to quote to cash.
- It keeps watching once you know what matters. Weekly margin, overdue receivables and stock below reorder level come as alerts and in a morning brief, without anyone having to remember to check.
- It prepares the response, and people decide. When action is needed, such as a revised quotation or a different order, Dynocortex prepares a draft. Nothing is created until a person approves it. If the order or price changes before approval, the approval is refused, so nobody signs off on yesterday's numbers.
"Business systems are good at recording what happened, and slow at answering what it means," said Ladislav Urban, founder of Dynocortex. "When the rules change overnight, the companies that cope best are the ones that can ask a new question in the morning and have a checked answer by lunch, without waiting for a new report."
Five checks for this week, in any system:
- Open purchase order lines from Chinese suppliers due after November 10.
- Customer quotes still valid on affected items.
- Selling prices against the new landed cost.
- Weekly gross margin by item group.
- A 13-week cash outlook with the duty paid at entry.
On Dynocortex's public demo company, a fictional US electrical wholesaler with a year of trade, each check is a single question. The demo is open to try free for 14 days at dynocortex.com/try. Dynocortex can't know a company's customs classifications, so each business identifies its affected items itself.
Sources: USTR, Section 301 investigations; USTR, extension of the China Section 301 exclusions, November 2025.
About Dynocortex: Dynocortex Limited makes open-source AI agents that prepare the routine work in a company's business system while people approve every document. It is priced per company, not per user.
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