Your counterparty has signed this agreement hundreds of times. You're signing it once. For the first time, you know what everyone else signed — before you commit.
Screen counterparties against live sanctions and Entity Lists. Assess ITAR / EAR applicability for any product or technology. Grounded in the Semipply Corpus — including the full e-CFR regulatory archive.
Screen & assess →An agentic AI searches the Semipply Corpus, reasons across filings, and delivers benchmarks — clause by clause, company by company. Know what the market actually signed before you walk into a negotiation.
Explore the market →Your specific agreement, read from your side. Agentic AI scores it against the Semipply Corpus, flags every risk, and delivers a verdict, a redline, and a negotiation brief.
Analyze your contract →Foundry commitment exposure, wafer economics, and capacity obligations — benchmarked across IPO-stage semiconductor companies. See what peer companies actually committed to before you negotiate.
Benchmark your exposure →Contracts, filings, and regulation — ingested, classified, and maintained by Semipply. The complete intelligence layer behind every Market, Export Control, Contract, and Economics analysis.
From TSMC to ASML to SK Hynix, the critical nodes of your supply chain sit in countries subject to EAR, ITAR, or both. One missed classification or a sanctioned counterparty can trigger criminal liability — yet most startups still manage compliance manually, in spreadsheets.
The BIS Entity List and OFAC SDN List are updated weekly. Counterparties clear today may be designated tomorrow. Manual spot-checks are not a compliance program.
Whether a product falls under EAR99, an ECCN, or the USML depends on performance thresholds and end-use context — not just what it is called. Getting it wrong voids your license exceptions.
The EAR and ITAR together span hundreds of pages of 15 CFR and 22 CFR. Export control counsel is expensive. Fast, grounded answers to routine questions shouldn't require a billable hour.
Acquirers, investors, and government customers all conduct export-control diligence. Gaps discovered during a deal or audit are far more costly than proactive screening.
Answer a short questionnaire and get one grounded, downloadable page — jurisdiction reach (FDPR), restricted-party screening, investment review (CFIUS), what you ship, and workforce / IP exposure. Every finding traces to a specific screen and a CFR citation, assembled deterministically with no AI guessing. A counsel-ready picture in minutes, not weeks.
Search any company name against the live BIS Entity List, OFAC SDN List, and consolidated screening list. Results show match reason, program, and effective date — in seconds.
Describe your product, end-use, and destination. The tool reasons over 1,800+ EAR, ITAR, and CFIUS regulatory sections to return an ECCN estimate, license requirement, red flags, and CFR citations.
Ask plain-English questions about EAR, ITAR, OFAC, or specific CCL categories. The agent cites the exact CFR section — not a law firm memo, but the actual regulatory text.
Taking foreign or sovereign capital? Enter an investor and the tool resolves its true country and government-control status from a vetted registry — driving the mandatory-vs-voluntary FIRRMA determination. It corrects a wrong country, and refuses to guess when it can't.
Every assessment cites the exact CFR passages used, shows similarity scores, and flags confidence level. You get a defensible record, not an opinion without basis.
The Export Control Hub is grounded in authoritative, continuously updated sources — not static summaries.
Consolidated screening list — updated daily from the official U.S. Commerce Department feed.
Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List — Treasury OFAC, updated continuously.
15 CFR Parts 730–774 including the Commerce Control List (CCL), Oct 2022 advanced chip rules, and Part 744 end-user controls.
22 CFR Parts 120–130 covering USML Categories XI (military electronics) and XV (spacecraft & satellites).
31 CFR Part 800 (FIRRMA), plus a vetted registry of sovereign funds and state-owned investors — for foreign-investment review of TID U.S. businesses.
Recent rule amendments and interim final rules — ensuring the corpus reflects current controls, not prior-year text.
Electronic Code of Federal Regulations — the authoritative, continuously updated version of the CFR used by compliance professionals.
Export Control Hub provides preliminary guidance grounded in the EAR and ITAR regulatory corpus. It is not legal advice. All export control decisions must be reviewed by qualified export control counsel.
Every high-stakes agreement a semiconductor startup signs in its first years was drafted by the other side — foundries, hyperscalers, defense primes, universities, automotive OEMs. The terms reflect their interests, not yours.
Supply allocation, yield thresholds, wafer bank penalties, mask ownership, and change-of-control clauses all default in the foundry's favour. The asymmetry is structural, not accidental.
Customer-drafted pilot agreements contain IP ownership clauses, auto-renewal, and one-sided indemnification. What looks like a trial often becomes a binding commitment.
Spinout IP licenses carry field-of-use restrictions, milestone-based rights, and government march-in provisions that limit what you can commercialize and with whom.
Most semiconductor startups from seed through Series B have no general counsel. The exposure gets locked in before anyone reads the fine print carefully.
Every clause with commercial consequence ranked by severity — important, review, or note.
Calibrated to your side of the table — semiconductor buyer, IP licensee, defense contractor, or spinout founder.
Proceed, proceed with caution, pause, or renegotiate — with the specific asks to bring back before you sign.
Five dimensions scored RED, AMBER, or GREEN — supply, yield, delivery, economics, exit.
For every critical finding: a specific contract fix to negotiate and a situation fix for the underlying exposure.
Single source, critical launch, tight margins — change your context and see how your risk score shifts.
Five dimensions scored against your contract language and amplified by your company context — the only framework built specifically for semiconductor supply agreements.
Upload any contract as PDF or Word — foundry agreement, IP license, customer pilot, DARPA OTA. The system identifies the parties and confirms which side you're on.
Single-source or dual-source? Critical launch timeline or flexible? Tight margins or healthy buffer? Your context determines which risks are most dangerous for you specifically.
Receive a ranked list of clauses to negotiate, a clear verdict, and for foundry agreements — a scored F-MRI across five dimensions with specific language to push back on.
These are the real questions semiconductor teams should be asking — and usually aren't, until after execution.
Semiconductor supply negotiations are asymmetric — your counterparty has been at this table many times before. Semipply closes that gap: benchmark your contract clause by clause against what peer companies have signed, so you negotiate with evidence, not intuition.
Yield floors, force majeure carve-outs, dual-source rights — the data shows what other semiconductor companies have secured and with which counterparties. Walk in with precedent, not a guess.
Foundry lock-in, uncapped liability, and take-or-pay exposure are existential for a semiconductor startup. We surface these flags — scored and sourced — before you sign a term sheet.
One corpus access covers your entire portfolio. Every company walks into foundry negotiations knowing what peers have signed and what terms are achievable.
Query the Semipply Corpus — get answers grounded in real semiconductor supply contract clause text, company, and date.
Request Access ↗Wafer costs, take-or-pay obligations, and capacity fees are the financial terms most startups sign without knowing what's normal. Semipply surfaces the economics — year-by-year commitment data, yield floor distributions, and OSAT exposure — benchmarked across IPO-stage semiconductor companies.
Disclosure rates, median year-1 obligations, commitment front-loading, and the % of peer companies with wafer take-or-pay in their contracts — across both IPO-stage and large-company filings.
How common yield floors are, what thresholds IPO companies negotiated, and what happens when yield falls short — respins, credits, or nothing. Extracted from EX-10 exhibits across the IPO corpus.
What % of foundry agreements contain a formal supplier capacity commitment versus an allocation-only arrangement. The gap between these two is the operational risk most startups don't price.
Non-cancellable, non-returnable commitments to assembly and test vendors — disclosed in 10-K filings and OSAT agreements. Includes HBM allocation terms from the most recent filings.
Access the Supply Chain Economics module — benchmark your take-or-pay risk, wafer commitment exposure, and capacity obligations against companies at your stage.
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