Xact Solutions Docs

Documentation for the software Xact Solutions builds and the data it publishes. Everything here is maintained alongside the code it describes.

Projects

CustomsHive

Belgian customs declaration processing. It takes invoice and packing-list PDFs or Excel files, extracts structured goods data with AI, puts it in front of a human for review, and generates compliant IDMS / NCTS / AES XML declarations.

External systems can push declarations straight in — over a REST API or Azure Service Bus — using the canonical ingestion contract.

Ingestion API · Service Bus integration · Architecture decisions

TaricHive

A multi-country customs tariff database. It imports published tariff data from taric-opendata into SQL Server and serves it through a web front-end and an MCP server, so a model can answer tariff questions directly.

MCP setup · Multi-country gap analysis

taric-opendata

Automated mirrors of customs tariff data from multiple jurisdictions, published as GitHub Release assets. The point is machine-readable HTTP access to tariff data without navigating a portal.

Start with the data licences — each source carries its own terms, and they are not all alike.

FiGet

A self-hosted package server for PowerShell and .NET shops: NuGet v2 and v3 so the Windows PowerShell 5.1 fleet and the newest tooling both work, proxy feeds with caching, asset directories for installers and shared folders, and OpenID Connect against any provider. NuGet v3 and v2 verified with the real clients, including Windows PowerShell 5.1; running on a test instance; MIT, on GitHub next.

SecretHive

A small self-hosted key vault: vaults of versioned secrets, fetched at deploy time by a command line, a PowerShell module and an Ansible collection; machine identities without stored secrets; reading a value as a right of its own, and every read on record from the first release. Design stage, nothing built yet; MIT, on GitHub once the identity and access model is green.

Platform

How we run things describes the shape of the infrastructure these applications run on, and the conventions behind it.