TradeFind — AI-Powered Import/Export Trade Directory

An AI-powered web application to search global importers and exporters by country, product, and trade type. Built with Flask, SQLite, and three AI features.

TradeFind is an AI-powered import/export trade intelligence platform built as an AI/ML internship project. It allows users to search verified trade companies worldwide by country, product, and trade type — and download complete contact lists in Excel instantly.

The platform features three AI layers:

1. NLP Semantic Search — uses sentence-transformers to match queries by meaning, not just keywords. Searching "petroleum" finds "oil" companies. Searching "garments" finds "textile" companies.

2. Smart Recommendations — uses TF-IDF vectorization and cosine similarity to suggest similar companies on every detail page, ranked by match percentage.

3. AI Chatbot Assistant — powered by Groq Llama 3, understands natural language queries like "find oil exporters in UAE with email" and returns real company results instantly.

Features

• Classic search by country, product, and trade type
• AI semantic search using sentence-transformers (petroleum finds oil)
• Similar company recommendations using TF-IDF cosine similarity
• AI chatbot powered by Groq Llama 3 for natural language queries
• Excel export with all contact details
• Company detail page with products, services, address, and website

Tech Stack

• Python, Flask, SQLite
• sentence-transformers (all-MiniLM-L6-v2)
• scikit-learn (TF-IDF + cosine similarity)
• Groq API (llama-3.3-70b-versatile)
• openpyxl for Excel export
• Cloudflare Tunnel for public URL

How to Run on Google Colab

1. Open TradeFind_FINAL.ipynb in Google Colab
2. Save your Groq API key in Colab Secrets as: API
3. Run Cell 1 — installs libraries
4. Run Cell 2 — builds app and launches it
5. Run Cell 3 — gets your public URL
6. Click the URL to open the live app

Get Free Groq API Key

https://console.groq.com — free, no credit card needed

Sample Searches

• UAE + Oil + Exporter → 8 companies
• Pakistan + Textile + Exporter → 3 companies
• AI search: type petroleum Gulf
• Chatbot: find oil exporters in UAE with email

Project Structure

• app.py — Flask web application
• ai/nlp_search.py — NLP semantic search engine
• ai/recommender.py — TF-IDF similarity recommender
• ai/chatbot.py — Groq LLM chatbot
• templates/ — HTML templates with inlined CSS and JS
• data/trade.db — SQLite database

Internship Project

Built as an AI/ML internship project demonstrating:

• NLP text embeddings and vector search
• Content-based recommendation systems
• LLM API integration and prompt engineering
• Full-stack web development with Flask