Trust infrastructure for global trade finance
Cross-border trade still runs on paper. Letters of credit, bills of lading, certificates of origin, packing lists, inspection certificates, and compliance attestations move through email, courier, and manual review, at a cost the industry has quietly accepted for decades. UCP 600 governs the rules, ISBP 821E governs the practice, and yet the majority of LC presentations contain discrepancies on first review. The result: delayed payments, rejected presentations, and working capital trapped in transit.
Loamist is rebuilding that layer. Our AI platform automates the examination of trade documents against letter of credit terms, applying UCP 600 articles, ISBP 821E paragraphs, and bank-specific practice in real time. Exporters, importers, and trade finance banks get discrepancy detection in minutes instead of days, with audit trails that hold up to compliance review.
Leadership
Pete Christensen
Sets vision and commercial strategy at Loamist. A repeat founder and PhD chemist whose career spans fundamental science to commercial deployment: doctoral and postdoctoral work on optical materials for solar cells and OLEDs at the University of British Columbia and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, followed by the design of recyclable polymers and composites.
Pete spun out as co-founder of FLO Materials, a venture-backed advanced materials startup. At H2 Compliance, Pete spent years inside the world Loamist now automates, cross-border filings, chain-of-custody records, and audit-grade documentation. Activate Entrepreneurial Fellow (2021–2023) and Breakthrough Energy Innovation Fellow (2024–2025).
Andy Miller
Andy leads engineering and the agent architecture. Bioengineer and full-stack technologist with 18 patents spanning medical devices, consumer health, and industrial design. Deep capabilities across hardware-software co-design the full path from first-principles engineering to manufacturable product.
A Two decades commercializing technical innovations across regulated industries, with three Red Dot Design Awards and work covered in Vogue, CNN, Wired, and the New York Times. Former VP of Innovation at The Flex Company, Breakthrough Energy Fellow, and bioengineering training from Rice University.
Chelsea Samuelson
Co-Founder
Leads commercial strategy and customer success. Former manager of the Raynier Fund and NJIT Venture Fund, and Director of Innovation at the New Jersey Innovation Institute. Founder of Bikes ORO, raised $40K+ on Indiegogo. Brings the discipline of fund management to an industry where buyer trust is earned in basis points, not pitches.
Our Thesis
Waste biomass is abundant on paper but inaccessible in practice. Fixing that requires both technology and trust infrastructure. Loamist builds both — so the circular economy can finally scale with the rigor that global trade demands.