MalakarConsultingSubscriptions
Priced for the company that can't hire an analyst.
Enterprise supply chain platforms start around $500 per user per month and take six months to implement. These start at $49, work on day one, and every plan runs free for the first 30 days.
Tariff Watch
One buyer covering a handful of imported parts.
per month · first 30 days free
Know before the invoice does.
- Every Section 232, 301 and AD/CVD action, filtered to trade only
- Up to 25 of your HTS codes monitored
- Email alert within 24h of anything touching your codes
- Weekly Monday briefing — what moved, what it costs you
- Full commodity index board (8 indices)
No custom baskets, no written analysis.
Start free →Cost Index
A category manager defending a budget.
per month · first 30 days free
Stop arguing about whether steel went up.
- Everything in Tariff Watch
- Custom commodity basket weighted to your actual bill of materials
- Movement alerts at a threshold you set
- Should-cost drift: what your parts should cost now vs at award
- Supplier price-increase rebuttal pack, generated monthly
- CSV and Excel export of every series
Self-serve. No scheduled calls.
Start free →Category Desk
A team running multiple categories without an analyst.
per month · first 30 days free
The analyst you did not hire.
- Everything in Cost Index, for up to 10 users
- Unlimited HTS codes and commodity baskets
- Monthly written read on your categories — a human wrote it
- Resourcing Decision Engine, fully unlocked
- Quarterly landed-cost model refresh for your top 20 parts
- Direct email access for questions
Analysis and data, not execution.
Start free →Embedded Desk
A manufacturer with no internal sourcing capability.
per month · first 30 days free
A sourcing function, on subscription.
- Everything in Category Desk, unlimited users
- Two working sessions a month with the principal
- Should-cost models built for your parts, on request
- RFQ packages drafted and supplier responses analysed
- Named point of contact, 1-business-day response
- Cancel any month — no annual lock-in
This one involves a human. That is the point.
Start free →How the free month works. Tell us which plan and which HTS codes or commodities you care about. You get the full plan immediately — no card. On day 30 we send one email asking whether to continue. If you say nothing, it stops. We do not auto-charge a card you never gave us.
Straight answers
Where does the data come from?
US Bureau of Labor Statistics producer price indices, the Federal Register, the USITC tariff schedule and Census trade data. All official, all public domain, republished unaltered with the source and date attached. We deliberately do not resell LME, Platts, Argus or Fastmarkets feeds — their licences forbid redistribution, and any vendor quietly passing that data to you is creating a problem for both of you.
If the data is free, what am I paying for?
Consolidation, filtering and interpretation. The raw feeds are thousands of series and hundreds of notices a month, most irrelevant to you. You are paying for the version matched to your codes and your commodities, delivered before it costs you money — and for someone who has run $1.58B of spend deciding what matters.
Can I cancel?
Any month, by replying to any email we send you. No annual contract on any plan, including Embedded Desk.
Is this financial or legal advice?
No. It is cost and trade-policy intelligence for procurement decisions. Confirm your own HTS classification with a licensed customs broker before committing capital.