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Transfer pricing, assembled

The AI platform for transfer pricing benchmarking and documentation.

Go from a database export to an audit-ready benchmark in minutes — with consistent decision logic, linked evidence, and full reviewer control. You review. You decide.

Trusted by 50+ advisory firms and in-house tax teams
Meridian TaxHalden & RoeNorthcapeVantskildBrakke Global
Comparability screen · FY2025
47 screened
3.1%Q1
5.4%Median
7.9%Q3
12 accepted · 5 flagged · 30 rejected Net cost plus · every decision sourced
The reality

Transfer pricing teams have been promised automation for thirty years.

Our solutions

The tools that unlock automation and AI — now, not someday.

Benchmarking and documentation you can start using today, built on best practice for data handling, transfer pricing, and responsible AI. Efficiency that respects the craft.

Benchmarking

AI Benchmarks — the new benchmark for benchmarking.

Move from a database longlist to a defensible conclusion with one consistent decision logic. Every company is profiled, every accept or reject is motivated, and every screenshot is captured with its URL and timestamp — so the study holds up when the tax authority asks how you got there.

Upload & analyzeAccept/rejectExport
Alpine Components GmbH4.9%Accept
Boreal Trading AB6.2%Flag
Cerro Holdings SL11.4%Reject
Delphi Services Oy5.1%Accept
Documentation

TP/OS — documentation that fits your data, not the other way around.

Keep your methodology and templates. Add structure and AI support to accelerate data collection, drafting, localization, and review — with human sign-off on every material position. Your story, told well, with the audit trail a proper review process demands.

Local File — Alpine GmbH · FY2025
ENNLDEFirm branding
FAR profileExtractedLinked
Intercompany royaltiesReviewCheck
New · TP Monitor

Don’t just document transfer pricing — monitor it.

TP Monitor tracks every entity’s margin against its arm’s length range all year and alerts you the moment one drifts — so you adjust before year-end, not under audit.

DE · Distributor6.2%In range
AE · Trading8.7%Drifting
UK · Manufacturer4.9%Out
Validated AI

Built on millions of real transfer pricing analyses.

Developed by practitioners, tested against real client work, and explainable at every step. The AI proposes; a human always disposes.

2023

Benchmarking-first validation begins on 100k+ analyses.

2024

1M+ analyses validated across live delivery teams.

2025

Expanded beyond benchmarking into full documentation workflows.

Today

Continuous evaluation harness measures TP-specific accuracy.

0Comparables analyzed
0Less time on benchmarks
0Firms & tax teams
Security & support

A safe, ISO-aligned environment with experts around the corner.

We hold to modern security standards and back the product with same-day support from a team that listens to practitioners.

ISO-aligned governance

Information security managed through a certified, continuously improving management system.

Your data is not training data

Your inputs generate your outputs. They are never used to train foundation models.

Secure EU storage

Customer project data is stored and processed within the EU by default.

Encryption by default

Data protected with encryption in transit and at rest across the platform.

Same-day expert support

We resolve issues fast and prioritize improvements our customers ask for.

Read the full security overview

Governance, hosting, access model, and AI data boundaries.

Security details
What teams report

Faster delivery, stronger review.

75%+ time saved
“A benchmark that used to take three or four days now takes one, sometimes less. We validated the outputs against our own conclusions and they held.”
IW
Ingrid WahlPartner, Northcape Advisory
80% reduction
“We cut preparation time on an average benchmarking study by 80%, which let us take on more work and deliver sooner.”
MB
Marco BelliTP Associate, Vantskild
Higher quality
“The first-draft quality is noticeably better, which saves our reviewers real time and makes the whole benchmark more reliable.”
HR
Hanne RoeManaging Director, Halden & Roe
Get started

Choose where to start.

Both products run on the same governance model: clear rationale, audit trails, and human approval. Start with the workflow your team needs most.

Benchmarking

AI Benchmarks

The fastest rollout path for most teams. Meet the new benchmark for transfer pricing.

Documentation

TP/OS

The operating system for your transfer pricing documentation.

Have other questions or want to discuss collaboration? Talk to us
AI Benchmarks

Meet the new benchmark for transfer pricing.

From database export to audit-ready benchmark reports in minutes — with consistent decision logic, complete evidence capture, and full reviewer control.

Meridian TaxHalden & RoeNorthcapeVantskild
Live screen
Net cost plus
3.1%Q1
5.4%Median
7.9%Q3
Benchmarking reality

Benchmarking is a low-margin, high-risk business.

Senior people should not spend hours reading company profiles, taking screenshots, and drafting summaries. AI should do that work so your team can focus on comparability judgment and defensible positions.

Manual review of hundreds of companies

Teams read comparable profiles one by one instead of applying senior technical judgment.

Weak audit trail drives errors

Missing screenshots and unstructured evidence make decisions hard to defend and raise review risk.

Copy-paste reporting slows delivery

Moving data into templates by hand adds non-value work and extends turnaround for clients.

How it works

From database export to consistent decisions in minutes.

Import & auto-fill websites

Drop in your database export. Companies load immediately and missing websites are resolved before review.

AI analyses hundreds in minutes

It scans company websites and public sources, captures evidence, and writes TP-ready summaries.

Consistent accept / reject

The same decision logic runs row by row and explains why each company is accepted, rejected, or flagged.

You stay in full control

Open any flagged company, inspect the highlighted evidence, and override the decision.

Branded reports, saved once

Set your logo, palette, and fonts a single time and reuse them across every study.

Deliver in seconds

Generate the final Excel and PDF report ready for the file and the client.

Integration model

Tessera takes over after database extraction.

Keep your current database process. Our workflow starts once your export is ready — which is why integration is straightforward for benchmark teams.

01 · Extraction

In your database tool

  • Keep your existing process
  • Upload the export directly
  • No API integration required
02 · Screening

Post-DB profiling

  • Rapid company profiles
  • Linked evidence per company
  • Consistent structure
03 · Review

Accept / reject logic

  • Reviewer override at every step
  • Structured rationale
  • Source-confidence checks
04 · Report

Branded exports

  • Template-based generation
  • PDF and Excel
  • Reuse settings across studies
Defined processOnline accessibleSave & resumeFull audit trailReviewer control
Benchmark pricing

Transparent annual plans for benchmark volume.

* assuming 300 comparables per benchmark on average
FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Ready to get started with AI Benchmarks?

See your workflow in a real product demo, framed around your delivery context.

TP/OS

The operating system for your transfer pricing documentation.

Keep your methodology and templates, then add structure and AI support to accelerate data collection, drafting, localization, and review — with full human control.

AnalyzeModelTemplateExtractGenerate
Local File Template — draft
ENNLDEFirm branding
Functional analysisExtracted
Economic analysisLinked
Missing FAR profileReview
Documentation reality

Documentation is a pain.

It should not depend on copy-paste marathons and formatting workarounds. TP/OS moves teams to a structured workflow without giving up their methodology.

Still drafting in Word?

Teams lose hours to copy-paste, formatting clean-up, and version-control churn that adds no transfer pricing value.

Trapped by rigid software?

Many systems force a fixed process that breaks your methodology, review flow, and client-specific requirements.

Roll-forwards and reviews hurt?

Local reviewers change what should stay consistent and miss what actually needs review — creating rework and clean-up.

Localization chaos?

Country-specific requirements, languages, and recurring updates are hard to manage consistently across jurisdictions.

How it works

From unstructured data to documentation that fits your business.

Analyze

We map your existing files, source data, and recurring sections so automation starts from your reality.

Model

A data model reflects your TP logic, chapter structure, and review checkpoints.

Template

Layouts keep your familiar format while enabling consistent automation.

Extract

Facts, values, and narrative evidence are extracted and linked back to source.

Generate

Outputs are localized per jurisdiction and styled with your branding.

How it integrates

TP/OS fits the way your team already delivers.

Add structure, controls, and AI support to the process you already run — without replacing it with a rigid workflow.

Use the sources you already use

Start from current documentation, source files, and supporting data so implementation fits how you work.

Roll forward without rebuilding

Carry forward mappings, templates, and prior-year structure with clear checkpoints for updated facts.

Review facts before narrative

Validate extracted data in a controlled flow before anything is drafted into documentation.

AI with explicit risk controls

Accelerate extraction and drafting while keeping human sign-off on material positions and local nuances.

Templates that match your standards

Generate outputs in your structure, branding, and jurisdiction-specific format — not a forced new style.

Right access for the right people

Role-based access for contributors, reviewers, and approvers, so each person sees only what they need.

TP/OS packages

Choose your setup level.

Base
Pricing on request
Few countries, standard files, best-practice start.
  • Ready data model & fields
  • Ready documentation templates
  • Role-based review flow
  • Guided onboarding
Talk to our team
Popular
Custom
Pricing on request
Multiple countries, existing files, tailored setup.
  • Everything in Base
  • Custom data-model extensions
  • Custom templates & structure
  • Joint rollout, configured together
Talk to our team
Turnkey
Pricing on request
High complexity across countries, done for you.
  • Everything in Custom
  • Complete data setup by our team
  • Country-by-country templates
  • Done-for-you rollout
Talk to our team
FAQ

Common TP/OS questions.

Turn documentation from an annual fire drill into a workflow.

Join teams making transfer pricing documentation controlled and repeatable.

Pricing

Transparent annual pricing.

Choose the plan that fits your benchmark volume, or a tailored setup for documentation.

* assuming 300 comparables per benchmark on average · overage billed per comparable

Ready to see it in action?

Book a product demo or contact us to align pricing with your use case.

Security

Secured to handle transfer pricing data.

TP work means group financials, pricing strategies, and confidential client data. Our controls are built to match that responsibility.

ISO-aligned ISMSEU data residencyEncryption in transit & at restNo model training on client data
Security controls

Controls aligned to professional-services requirements.

Governance

Information security managed through a certified, continuously improving management system with risk management and controls.

EU data residency

Customer project data is stored and processed within the EU by default.

Encryption by default

Data protected with encryption in transit and at rest across all services.

Controlled access

Least-privilege, role-based access. Support access is scoped to what is necessary and auditable.

Incident response

Documented triage, containment, and communication. Affected customers notified within 24 hours of a qualifying incident.

Independent testing

Annual penetration testing and continuous vulnerability management as part of the security program.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure & data location.

ProviderRegionScopeNotes
Cloud platformEU Central (Frankfurt)Selected platform workloadsProvider-layer encryption controls.
Managed databaseeu-central-1 (Frankfurt)Primary database & storageDaily backups, 7-day retention.
Edge deliveryEU edge (Frankfurt-primary)Frontend & edgeHTTPS/TLS and platform controls.
AI integrity

Your data is not training data.

Your inputs are used to generate your outputs and are never used to train foundation models. Quality comes from better instructions, evaluation tests, and guardrails — not from reusing client content.

Need a deeper security review?

For security questions or evidence requests, contact us directly.

Company

We built the tool we always wanted.

The promise of automation in transfer pricing has been around for years. We built Tessera to make it real.

TEAM PHOTO — AMSTERDAM · KRAKÓW
Our mission

Getting transfer pricing done.

TP teams spend too much time on compliance mechanics and not enough on whether prices are actually arm's length. The case for automation is clear — but getting there under daily delivery pressure is hard. We fix that balance: automate what should be automated, and keep the TP professional in charge at every step.

Automate what can be automated

Screening, data processing, report generation — these should not consume senior TP time. We build reliable automation around every step that can be systematized.

The professional stays in control

Automation without oversight is a liability. Every AI decision comes with its supporting evidence, an audit trail, and an override. You make the final call — always.

Make it as easy as possible

Onboarding should take days, not months, and the tools should feel intuitive from day one. If it's hard to use, it's not good enough.

Leadership team

Senior, global, and close to the work.

India · Belgium · Dubai — with regional partners across the USA, Europe and Australia.

PS
Pankaj Shah
Founder & CEO

Global transfer pricing professional. ACCA (UK), MBA (Finance), Harvard Business Analytics. Based in India.

SP
Salim Panjwani
Developer & CTO

Leads engineering and the platform architecture behind the products. Based in Belgium.

JS
Jaisukh Shah
CFO · CA

Chartered Accountant leading finance, controls and commercial operations. Based in Dubai.

Regional partners

Local presence in every core market.

Delivery and support partners who bring on-the-ground jurisdictional expertise.

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Growlity Inc
USA region

United States partner — Nitin Dumasia. Regional delivery and client support across the US market.

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Nathaanen
Europe region · France

France-based partner covering the European region and EU documentation standards.

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Collab
Australia region

Australia partner — regional delivery, ATO requirements and local support.

Want to see how it works in practice?

Book a demo or talk to us about your transfer pricing workflow.

Customer stories

How teams use Tessera in practice.

Real outcomes from transfer pricing teams improving benchmark quality, consistency, and delivery speed.

Meridian TaxHalden & RoeNorthcapeVantskildBrakke Global
Case studies

Outcomes from live benchmark workflows.

75%+ time saved
“One benchmark used to take three to four days. Now it takes one at most, often less. We validated the outputs and they match our own conclusions — a reliable tool that saves a lot of time.”
IW
Ingrid WahlPartner, Northcape Advisory
Read full story →
Superior quality
“The initial preparation quality is much better with AI, which saves significant review time for our staff and improves the reliability of our benchmarks.”
HR
Hanne RoeManaging Director, Halden & Roe
Read full story →
80% reduction
“We reduced preparation time for an average benchmarking study by 80%, letting us take on more projects and deliver faster to clients.”
MB
Marco BelliTP Associate, Vantskild
Read full story →

Ready to improve your benchmark workflow?

See how your team can combine faster execution with stronger review quality.

Resources

Transfer pricing resources.

Expert articles, practical tools, and downloads for benchmarking, documentation, and tax operations.

Resource hubs

Start with the right workstream.

Tools

Free tools for day-to-day TP work.

Webinars

Recent sessions.

Articles

Latest guides.

GUIDE
18 MIN READ

Contract manufacturer transfer pricing: cost plus, TNMM, and audit issues

Tested-party selection, cost-base design, capacity utilization, benchmarking, and documentation.

by the Tessera team
GUIDE
11 MIN READ

Cost plus vs TNMM: gross mark-up vs net margin

When each method fits, examples, audit risks, and the documentation points that matter.

by the Tessera team
GUIDE
18 MIN READ

The CUP method: a practical guide with examples

Internal vs external CUPs, comparability thresholds, adjustments, and common mistakes.

by the Tessera team
GUIDE
18 MIN READ

Distributor transfer pricing: routine, limited-risk, RPM, TNMM & Amount B

Buy-sell models, method choice, benchmarking, documentation, and a worked example.

by the Tessera team

Not sure where to start?

Tell us your current TP task and we'll point you to the right hub, guide, or template.

Product demo

Book a demo.

See Tessera in action. We'll walk you through the product and your use case.

◷ SCHEDULER EMBED

Connect your Cal.com or Calendly here — the selected workflow is passed through so the session is tailored.

1 · Book a focused demo

We walk through your selected workflow and answer practical fit questions.

2 · Run a guided trial

Test the product on real use cases with support and clear governance checkpoints.

3 · Onboard the team

Roll out with agreed standards, reviewer controls, and team training.

Contact

Talk to us.

Questions about Tessera or want to discuss collaboration? Tell us a little and we'll make sure the conversation is relevant for your team.

Prefer email? hello@tessera.example

Policy

Policy

This is placeholder policy text. Replace it with your own legally reviewed content before launch. It should describe how you collect, use, store, and protect data; the legal bases for processing; retention periods; subprocessors; international-transfer safeguards; and how to exercise data-subject rights.

Do not copy another company's policy — have your own drafted and reviewed by counsel.

TP Monitor · Software by Tessera

Operational transfer pricing, monitored year-round.

Stop discovering that a tested party fell out of its arm’s length range eleven months too late. TP Monitor tracks intercompany margins continuously against your benchmarks and flags drift while you can still act on it.

Turn year-end firefighting into year-round control
Margin monitor · live
FY2026 YTD
IN — Services Co
Target 15% ± 2
14.6% NCP YTD
On target
DE — Distributor
Range 3.1–7.9%
6.2% OM YTD
In range
AE — Trading
Range 3.1–7.9%
8.7% OM YTD
Drifting
UK — Manufacturer
Target 8% ± 1.5
4.9% NCP YTD
Out of range
US — Principal
Residual split
review
Check
AU — LRD
Range 2.0–5.0%
3.3% OM YTD
In range
2 alerts · 1 out of rangeAdjust before year-end, not after audit
The problem

Transfer pricing is set once and forgotten — until it isn’t.

Policies are documented at year-end, but prices are lived every day. By the time the numbers are reviewed, the year is closed and the only fix left is a painful true-up or a defence under audit.

Found out too late

Margin drift surfaces at year-end close, when adjustments are large, disruptive, and hard to explain.

No single view

Entity margins live in scattered spreadsheets, so no one sees the whole group’s TP position at once.

Year-end true-up risk

Big catch-up adjustments draw questions, strain cash, and can trigger withholding and customs issues.

How it works

Set the policy once, then let it watch itself.

Load your policy

Enter each tested party’s target margin or arm’s length range — or pull it straight from a Tessera benchmark.

Connect the actuals

Feed monthly or quarterly figures from your ERP or a simple upload; TP Monitor computes the live PLI per entity.

Watch & get alerted

A dashboard shows every entity against its range, and alerts fire the moment one drifts toward the edge.

Act & log it

Model a corrective adjustment, record the rationale, and keep an audit trail of every decision through the year.

What you get

One live view of the group’s transfer pricing.

Range & target tracking

Every tested party monitored against its interquartile range or target margin, updated as actuals arrive.

Drift alerts

Threshold-based alerts by email or dashboard when an entity approaches or breaches its range.

True-up modelling

Estimate the adjustment needed to land inside the range — before the year closes, not after.

Group dashboard

A single heat-map of on-target, drifting and out-of-range entities across every jurisdiction.

Audit trail

Every threshold, alert, and corrective decision is logged — the year-round evidence an authority expects.

Benchmark-linked

Ranges flow straight from your Tessera AI Benchmarks, so monitoring always reflects the latest study.

FAQ

TP Monitor questions.

Is this a replacement for benchmarking or documentation?
No — it complements them. AI Benchmarks sets the arm’s length range, TP/OS produces the documentation, and TP Monitor keeps the live results inside that range through the year.
Where do the actuals come from?
From a periodic upload or an ERP/accounting connection. You choose the cadence — monthly or quarterly is typical.
Does it make adjustments automatically?
No. It monitors, alerts, and models options. Every corrective action is proposed to a human, who decides and signs off — with the rationale logged.

Catch TP drift while you can still fix it.

See TP Monitor tracking a group’s intercompany margins in real time.

Toolkit

Transfer pricing calculators.

Ten practitioner calculators for the numbers you run every day — arm's length ranges, profit level indicators, method pricing, working-capital and interest adjustments, profit splits, and documentation thresholds.

These calculators are decision-support tools, not tax advice. Quartile methods, PLI definitions, and documentation thresholds differ by jurisdiction and by database. Verify method and figures against local rules and your comparables provider before relying on any result.
News center

Global transfer pricing news, in one place.

OECD developments, Pillar Two and Amount B, country rule changes, landmark cases, and consultation deadlines — aggregated so your team tracks what matters without ten open tabs.

Demo content below is illustrative, not live. A static web page can't legally or technically crawl news sites on a schedule. To make this feed live, connect an RSS/news aggregator through a small backend — see "How to turn on the live feed" at the bottom of this page. Headlines link out to the original source; we never republish article text.
Sources tracked: OECD TaxEU TaxationIRSHMRCATOUAE FTASARSBig 4 TP alertsTP journals

How to turn on the live feed

The News Center UI is ready. To populate it with real, continuously updated headlines, wire one of these behind it:

1 · RSS aggregation

Collect RSS/Atom feeds from OECD, tax authorities, and firm blogs. A scheduled serverless job (e.g. daily cron) parses them and writes titles, links, dates, and a one-line summary to your database.

2 · News API

Use a licensed news API (NewsAPI, GDELT, Bing News) filtered to "transfer pricing / OECD / Pillar Two". Cache results server-side; the page reads your cache, not the API directly.

3 · Curated editorial

Have an analyst post 3–5 items a week with original summaries. Highest quality and zero copyright risk, since you write the words and link out for the source.

Respect each source's terms and robots.txt, store only headline + link + your own summary (not full article text), and always attribute and link to the original.

Mission & vision

Why we exist.

Transfer pricing is one of the largest, most contested areas of global tax — and still one of the most manual. We think the arm's length principle deserves better tools.

Our mission

To help transfer pricing teams get the work done — benchmarking and documentation that is faster to produce, consistent across engagements, and defensible in front of any tax authority. We automate the mechanical work so professionals can spend their judgment where it counts: on whether prices are actually arm's length.

Our vision

A world where every intercompany price has a clear, evidence-backed rationale on file the moment it's set — not reconstructed years later under audit. One consistent source of truth for global transfer pricing, where AI does the heavy lifting and the practitioner always makes the final call.

What guides us

The principles behind the product.

01
The professional stays in control

Automation without oversight is a liability in tax. Every AI decision ships with its supporting evidence, an audit trail, and an override. The tool proposes; a human disposes.

02
Defensibility over speed for its own sake

Fast is only useful if it survives review. We optimize for consistent decision logic and complete evidence capture, so speed never costs you the audit.

03
Respect the craft and the methodology

We don't force a rigid workflow onto experienced teams. Keep your methods, templates, and review standards — we add structure and AI around them.

04
Global by design

Transfer pricing is inherently cross-border. We build for multiple jurisdictions, languages, and documentation standards from the start — not as an afterthought.

05
Trust is earned in the details

EU hosting, encryption, no training on client data, and same-day support. In a field built on confidentiality, security is a feature, not a footnote.

Build global transfer pricing on a single source of truth.

See how the mission translates into day-to-day workflow.

Founder

Pankaj Shah, ACCA (UK)

Global transfer pricing professional and founder of Tessera.

ACCA (UK)MBA (Finance)Harvard Business AnalyticsGlobal Transfer PricingCross-border taxOECD · BEPS · Pillar Two
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RoleFounder
QualificationACCA (UK) · MBA
FocusTransfer pricing
Experience[XX]+ years
Based inIndia
LinkedIn[/in/handle]
[XX]+Years in tax & TP
[XX]Jurisdictions advised
[XXX]+Engagements led

About

Pankaj Shah is a global transfer pricing professional and a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), UK. A member of the ACCA (UK) with an MBA in Finance and training in Harvard Business Analytics, he founded Tessera to close the gap between how transfer pricing should be done and how the pressure of day-to-day delivery forces it to be done — bringing automation and structure to benchmarking and documentation while keeping the practitioner in control of every conclusion.

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Expertise

His work spans the core of cross-border transfer pricing: designing and defending intercompany pricing policies, preparing benchmarking studies and OECD-standard documentation (Master File, Local File, and Country-by-Country Reporting), and advising groups on the arm's length treatment of goods, services, intangibles, and intra-group financing across multiple jurisdictions.

Benchmarking & comparabilityMaster / Local FileCbCRTNMM · CUP · Cost Plus · RPMIntangibles & DEMPEIntra-group financingPillar Two / BEPS 2.0APA & audit defence

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Why he built Tessera

Having seen the same problems repeat across engagements — benchmarks rebuilt from scratch every year, documentation trapped in copy-paste marathons, and audit stories reconstructed long after the fact — Pankaj set out to build the platform he wished he'd had: consistent decision logic, complete evidence capture, and one defensible source of truth for global transfer pricing. The conviction behind Tessera is simple: automate what should be automated, and never take the final judgment away from the professional.

Credentials & affiliations

Member, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), UK.

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