Supply Chain Intelligence
Know who is really in your supply chain.
Your contracts stop at tier one. Your exposure does not. We map the suppliers behind your suppliers from trade data, corporate registries and local-language sources, and show the evidence for every link so you can act on it with regulators, customs authorities and your own board.
- Supplier deep dive
- 10 business days per supplier
- Mapped supply chain
- 3 to 6 weeks per product line
- Coverage
- Trade and shipping data, registries in 140+ jurisdictions, 41 working languages
- Team
- Supply chain lead, trade data and corporate records analysts, regional specialists and a red-team reviewer
- Deliverable
- Tiered supplier map, risk register and evidence annex
- Pricing
- Fixed fee by product line or supplier set
When to call us
The questions a supplier questionnaire cannot answer.
Questionnaires record what suppliers choose to say. Audits see one site on one day. Public records show who ships to whom, who owns whom and what local sources report when nobody is visiting.
Forced labor exposure
Facilities, labor transfer schemes and recruiters with documented indicators of forced labor, traced into the lower tiers of a product line.
Sanctions by ownership
Suppliers, shippers and intermediaries owned or controlled by sanctioned parties through layers that list screening does not reach.
Diversion and end use
Distributors and freight routes that carry controlled goods toward restricted destinations or end users.
Hidden concentration
Several tier-one suppliers that all depend on the same sub-supplier, port or region without the buyer knowing.
Counterfeit and gray market
Unauthorized production, overruns and parallel channels feeding your products, or your inputs, into markets you do not control.
Supplier breach exposure
Suppliers whose stolen data or network access is being traded in criminal markets, identified before the compromise reaches you.
What you receive
A map with evidence on every line.
A supply chain diagram is only as good as the proof behind each connection. Every link on our maps carries its source, its date and a confidence level, so compliance teams can defend it and procurement can act on it.
- A tiered map of entities, facilities and shipment relationships
- Each link graded as confirmed, probable or possible
- A risk register ranking findings by severity and by how much product they touch
- Ownership charts for high-risk suppliers, traced to the people in control
- An evidence annex with every record captured, translated and hashed
- Practical options, from a targeted supplier inquiry to re-sourcing
How it runs
From your supplier list to the tiers beneath it.
A typical mapping project runs for three to six weeks per product line. High-severity findings are reported as soon as they are confirmed, not held for the final report.
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01 / Scope
Week 1
We agree the product lines, the risks that matter and the standard of evidence your regulators expect. You share your tier-one supplier list and nothing more.
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02 / Map
Weeks 1 to 3
Analysts rebuild the lower tiers from shipment records, registries, tenders, certifications and the material suppliers publish about themselves.
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03 / Investigate
Weeks 2 to 5
High-risk entities are researched in depth: ownership, facilities, labor sourcing and local reporting, read in the original language.
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04 / Deliver
Weeks 4 to 6
After independent review you receive the map, the risk register and the evidence annex, with a debrief for compliance and procurement together.
Tradecraft
How the lower tiers become visible.
No single source shows a supply chain. It is assembled from many partial records, each of which a supplier had a reason to publish or a government had a duty to record.
- Trade and shipping dataShipment records, customs data and vessel movements that show who ships what to whom, and how routes change after a restriction takes effect.
- Corporate registry analysisOwnership, officers and addresses that connect suppliers to each other and to parties they would prefer not to name.
- Facility identificationFactory locations confirmed from registrations, permits, imagery and suppliers' own marketing, so a risk is tied to a site and not just a company name.
- Local-language sourcesRegional press, government notices, recruitment advertisements and worker forums read by native speakers in 41 languages.
- Labor indicatorsRecruitment fees, labor transfer programs, restricted movement and withheld documents, assessed against recognized indicators of forced labor.
- Certifications and tendersAudit certificates, product registrations and procurement awards that name sub-suppliers the buyer was never told about.
- Transshipment patternsSudden new intermediaries, mismatched product codes and routes that make no commercial sense.
- Satellite imageryCommercial imagery used to confirm that a facility exists, operates and matches what the records describe.
Results
Exposure found before a regulator found it.
Client names are withheld and identifying details changed. The methods, timelines and outcomes are reported as they happened.
Apparel and footwear
Four tiers down
Trade records, registry filings and local-language sources traced two facilities with forced labor indicators into the fourth tier of a brand's supply chain.
Private equity
The shareholder who was not there
Eleven shell entities across four jurisdictions hid a beneficial owner linked to a sanctioned individual, three weeks before signing.
Questions
Supply chain intelligence FAQ
Do you need access to our systems or supplier data?
No. We work from your tier-one supplier list and public sources. We do not connect to your procurement systems and we do not need your commercial terms, which keeps the engagement simple to approve.
Do you contact our suppliers?
No. We never contact suppliers or their staff, and they are not aware of the research. If our findings suggest you should put a direct question to a supplier, we tell you what to ask and what a credible answer would contain.
How certain can a map built from public records be?
It varies by link, which is why every link is graded. Shipment and registry records can confirm a relationship outright. Other links are probable or possible, and we say what further evidence would settle them. We never present an inference as a confirmed relationship.
Does a finding mean we must drop the supplier?
Not necessarily. That decision belongs to you and your counsel, and it depends on your legal obligations and on what the supplier can demonstrate. Our role is to make sure it is based on evidence rather than on a questionnaire.
Can you keep the map current?
Yes. Suppliers change their own suppliers constantly. Retained clients have their maps refreshed on an agreed cycle and are told when a mapped entity is newly sanctioned, listed or reported.
Will your evidence satisfy a regulator or customs authority?
That is their decision, but the work is built for it. Each record is preserved in its original language with a translation, a timestamp and a SHA-256 hash, and our analysts can explain the method to an authority at your request.
Start an engagement
Bring us the question nobody else could answer.
Tell us what you need to know and why. A senior investigator will scope it with you, tell you candidly what open sources can and cannot establish, and propose a plan with a fixed fee and a firm timeline.