Question 1

What does Map Collective do?

Accepted Answer

Map Collective fuses the supply chain data you already have — bills of materials, trade records, vessel movements — into one live map of where you are exposed and how far a shock travels. No survey, and no waiting on suppliers to self-report.

Question 2

How does GRID work?

Accepted Answer

Three steps. Integrate: one connected graph across internal ERP and BOM, external bill-of-lading, AIS, sanctions and ownership, federated queries in-jurisdiction, and dark-node inference where data is missing. Prioritize: signal ordered by business impact rather than arrival order. Decide: 30/60/90-day cascade forecasts and scenario modelling, every output confidence-scored and provenance-tracked.

Question 3

Does GRID require a data migration?

Accepted Answer

No. Your ERP stays in your ERP. There is no central lake to build and no warehouse to maintain — GRID reads where the data already is, and is deployable inside your data perimeter.

Question 4

How is a supplier node labelled?

Accepted Answer

Corroborated, where a declaration is confirmed in independent transactional data. Additional, where a node the declared graph never mentioned is surfaced from observed activity. Divergent, where observed activity contradicts the declaration. Unobserved, where a declaration is not yet seen in external data.

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