Hire an AI cross-border ecommerce planner

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• A cost line for each product, from your cost to profit per unit in each market
• A list of rules and papers each market needs before you list, with what to confirm and with whom
• A ranked choice of which market to try first, and why
• A launch plan for listings, ads and stock for the first 90 days
• A list of missing numbers and facts to check before you ship

How it does the job well

• Cost line before ads or listings. If a product loses money in a market, say so first.
• Compliance before launch. For each market, name the rules and papers to confirm. Say "check this on the official source for that country" for any rate, threshold, mark or deadline. Never present one from memory as settled.
• Do not give a legal, tax or customs ruling. Name each point that needs a qualified adviser.
• Never advise fake reviews, review swaps, copied brand images, listing under a brand the user does not own, or skipping a required mark or tax registration.
• Treat machine-translated listings as a risk. Recommend review by a native speaker.
• Write for one named audience and one action. Each asset has a single job.
• Use the customer's own words from reviews, calls or surveys before inventing language.

Mistakes it avoids

• Quoting a tax rate, duty rate or fee from memory as fact.
• Copying the profile's margin ranges or ad targets into the user's plan as if they were measured.
• Planning many countries in one thin pass. If the user named more than three, ask which two or three matter most and plan those first.
• Generic copy that could fit any brand.
• Comparing periods or campaigns that are not comparable, such as different dates, budgets or tracking.
• Calling a test winner before there is enough data.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You make or source a product at home and want to sell it on Amazon, Shopee, Lazada, Temu or TikTok Shop in other countries.

• Scope. The products, markets and limits the plan was built from.
• Cost line. Profit left per unit in each market after shipping, fees, ads, returns and currency risk.
• Compliance list. Each rule or paper a market needs, who to confirm it with, and whether you showed proof.
• Market order. Markets ranked for a first launch, each with the reason and the main risk.
• 90-day launch plan. Listing, ad and stock steps for days 0 to 30, 30 to 60 and 60 to 90.
• Gaps and checks. Missing numbers, assumptions and what needs an adviser before you ship.

How the work is checked

• Every claim traces to the brand brain or supplied evidence.
• Each recommendation states the expected effect, the cost and how it will be measured.
• Copy fits the platform's length limits and the brand voice.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

Capabilities

• Fix the scope. It confirms your products, where they are made, your target countries and your limits. Anything missing is asked once, then marked MISSING.
• Build the cost line. For each product and market it adds buying cost, shipping, storage, marketplace fee, ads, returns and currency risk. You supply the rates.
• List what each market needs. It names safety marks, tax registration, packaging rules, brand checks and banned items to confirm, one market at a time.
• Rank the markets. It compares markets on profit left, effort to comply, shipping time and how the marketplace sends buyers.
• Plan the launch. It plans listing language with native review, ads by stage, and stock for the first 90 days.
• Hand back the checks. It separates facts from assumptions, lists missing numbers and says what needs a qualified adviser.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id marketing-cross-border-ecommerce only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/marketing-cross-border-ecommerce/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• What you sell, with the price you plan to charge and what each unit costs you to make or buy.
• Where it is made and where you ship from.
• The countries or marketplaces you want to reach, such as Amazon US, Shopee or TikTok Shop.
• Your size and weight per unit, and how you plan to ship (optional)
• Your budget, your team size and the date you want to launch (optional)

Helpful context (optional)

• Your supplier quote and the shipping quote from your freight company.
• The marketplace fee table for each market, copied from the marketplace's own seller pages.
• Any safety or quality certificates you already hold.

Tools and access

• Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini with file upload: It reads your price sheet or supplier quote and builds the cost line from your real figures.

Functions and deliverables

• Cross-border ecommerce planner: Get a cross-border ecommerce plan for Amazon, Shopee, Temu or TikTok Shop with margin per product, compliance to-dos and a launch order.
  • A cost line for each product, from your cost to profit per unit in each market
  • A list of rules and papers each market needs before you list, with what to confirm and with whom
  • A ranked choice of which market to try first, and why
  • A launch plan for listings, ads and stock for the first 90 days
  • A list of missing numbers and facts to check before you ship
  Source: Michael Sitarzewski and Agency Agents contributors.
• TikTok Shop overseas expansion planner: Share your products and target countries. Get which markets to enter first, plus shipping, rules and localizing steps.
  • Ranked list of markets
  • Shipping and customs checklist
  • Tax and legal points
  • A localization list
  • An order of rollout
  Source: Nexscope AI.
• TikTok Shop launch planner: Get a week-by-week TikTok Shop plan, from account approval and listings to content and creators, based on where your shop is today.
  • A week-by-week plan in three phases
  • A setup and approval checklist
  • Listing and pricing steps
  • A content rhythm and creator plan
  • A check at the end of each phase
  • Three actions for this week
  Source: Nexscope AI.
• Amazon fee and margin checker: Share price, costs, size and fee figures. Get profit per unit, break-even ad cost and a score against the source’s rules.
  • Profit per unit with every fee listed
  • Break-even ad cost per sale, a start-up cash estimate and a price check
  • A score out of 100 for how well the numbers meet the rules, with the sum shown
• Brand profile builder: Share your website. Get a reusable profile covering your products, customers, voice and approved claims, with sources.
  • A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log
  • A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned
  • A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it
  • A short slice for your next step, if you name one

Tasks you can use it for

• You make or source a product at home and want to sell it on Amazon, Shopee, Lazada, Temu or TikTok Shop in other countries.
• You are choosing between two or three countries and want to know which to launch in first.
• A buyer in another country asks for your product and you do not know what rules or papers you need.
• You sell in one country and want a cost line per product before you ship stock overseas.

Limits to check before starting

• You want to file VAT, sales tax or customs forms. Ask a customs broker or tax adviser. The Store tax setup planner helps with tax settings in your own store.
• You already know the product and market, and only want the Amazon landed cost or fees worked out. Use the Landed cost calculator or the Amazon fee and margin checker.
• You want to sell inside China. Use the China ecommerce operations planner.
• You want the Amazon title and bullets written. Use the Amazon listing writer.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the pack from this page and add it to your AI as a skill. If you cannot, paste SKILL.md into a new chat, then paste references/source-agent.md.
• Paste your products with price and cost, where they are made, and the countries you are thinking about. No code or web access is needed.
• Type "Build my cross-border plan. Cost line first, then compliance, then market order. Mark anything you are guessing and do not invent rates."
• Read the cost line first. Fix any cost it got wrong and ask it to run the plan again.
• Take the compliance list to a customs broker or tax adviser. Check each rule, fee and tax rate on the official source for that country before you ship.
• Start with the one market it ranks first and one product. Keep the rest of the plan for later.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/marketing-cross-border-ecommerce for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.