01For buyers
Ask once. Get answers in real time.
Request traceability and risk on the nodes you care about. The network answers from each supplier's own agent — no forms, no waiting, no chasing the non-responders.
Planet to Particle
Traceability that does not start with a survey.
Map Collective builds the connective tissue between buyers and suppliers: a federated network where a supplier's own agent answers requests securely, selectively and dynamically. We lay an external transactional graph against what was declared, and enrich every node — so data arrives as intelligence rather than as a form somebody filled in.
Minutes
To a federated response, against a quarterly survey cycle
1×
Suppliers answer once, and the network serves every authorized buyer
2 graphs
Declared and transactional, compared for corroboration and divergence
Every node
Enriched with ownership, geography, trade activity and risk
01The survey tax
The instrument the industry runs on is a form in the post.
Traditional traceability means mailing a questionnaire and waiting months for an incomplete answer. Six things are wrong with that, and they compound.
Slow
Months per cycle. The data is stale before it is compiled.
Sparse
A 30–50% response rate is typical, and the silence is not random.
Frozen
A point-in-time snapshot, already out of date on arrival.
Heavy
Suppliers fill the same fields again for every buyer who asks.
Blind
No visibility into actual movement or a change of ownership.
Unchecked
Self-attested, with no method of verification attached.
30–50%
Typical response rate on a supplier survey — the industry's current best instrument.
Months
Per mapping cycle, by which time the answer describes a supply chain that has already moved.
02A two-sided network
One federated network. Buyers get answers; suppliers keep control.
02For suppliers
Share selectively. Keep your data.
Deploy an agent over your own records to answer buyer requests securely and in-jurisdiction, at the scope you permit. The data never leaves your control, and every customer enquiry is satisfied.
03The network
Answer once. Reuse everywhere.
Every response strengthens the shared graph. The industry stops re-surveying the same suppliers for the same facts, forever.
03The infrastructure
We build the connective tissue. Agents respond securely, selectively and dynamically.
01Secure
Data stays where it lives.
Each supplier deploys an agent inside its own perimeter and jurisdiction, answering requests without moving raw records. No central pool, no bulk export.
02Selective
Share exactly what is permitted.
Suppliers control scope, granularity, masking and audience. Buyers see answers, not the supplier's books.
03Dynamic
A query, not a quarter.
Responses are live and current. Survey cycles are replaced by queries that stay true as the network compounds.
04What the network returns
Declared and observed, side by side — with every node enriched.
01
Declared, overlaid with transactional.
What the supplier shared, laid against external transactional signal — showing where the two agree, where one adds a node the other never mentioned, and where they part.
- 412
- declared nodes
- 1,180
- transactional edges
- 3
- divergences
02
External activity that corroborates or extends.
Trade, customs and vessel movement form an observed graph that either confirms a declared link or surfaces a relationship nobody declared at all.
- 37
- routes observed
- 94%
- signals matched
- 12
- sources cited
03
Every supplier, facility and owner — enriched.
Each node arrives with ownership, geography, sanctions and risk attached, so a name in a cell becomes something you can reason about.
- 2,418
- nodes enriched
- 18
- attributes per node
- 6
- sources linked
05The two graphs
What is declared, and what is actually happening. We show you both, and where they part.
Corroborated. The declared relationship is visible in the transactional graph. Both views agree.
Additional. Transactional signal surfaces a node or relationship the declared graph never mentioned.
Divergent. Observed activity contradicts what was declared. The gap is itself the finding.
Unobserved. Declared, not yet visible in external data. Reported plainly, never inflated into proof.
Enriched. Every node carries external attributes, whichever graph it came from.
Node enrichment
A name on a survey becomes a node with a dossier: ownership, geography, trade activity, sanctions and risk. Enrichment is what turns “who is this?” into “what does this mean for us?”
06What changes
Months of surveying become minutes of federated response — and the network compounds.
Speed
Minutes
Query, not campaign
No form to design, mail, chase and clean. Buyers query; supplier agents answer from live data in place. What comes back reflects current conditions, and can be asked again tomorrow.
The data never leaves the supplier's control.
Leverage
1×
Answer once
Today every buyer surveys and every supplier fills in the same fields over and over. On the network a supplier answers once, and the connective tissue reuses that answer for every permitted party.
The industry stops re-surveying the same suppliers, forever.
07Surveying vs the network
Same goal — traceability and risk. A completely different way to get there.
WHAT YOU NEED
THE SURVEY MODEL
ON THE NETWORK
Collecting supplier data
A survey campaign: design, mail, chase. 30–50% respond over months; the rest is silence.
A federated query. Supplier agents answer from live data in place — minutes, on their terms.
Trusting what is declared
Self-attestation, taken on faith, with nothing to verify it against.
The declared graph compared against the external transactional graph — corroboration and divergence both visible.
Finding hidden relationships
An undeclared relationship never appears at all.
Transactional signal surfaces undeclared nodes and edges without anyone being asked.
Understanding a supplier
A name and an address in a spreadsheet cell.
An enriched node: ownership, geography, trade activity, sanctions and risk attached on arrival.
Keeping it current
Re-survey quarterly, and repeat forever.
Agents stay live. Answer once; the network serves every authorized buyer, always current.
Put your supply chain on the network.
Buyers stop surveying and start querying. Suppliers answer once, on their own terms, without handing over control of their data. We build the tissue in between: secure, selective, live.
Your data never leaves your control. No central pool, no bulk export.
Query
Stop surveying. Start asking.
- Map the nodes you care about
- Query the network in real time
- Compare declared against transactional
Control
Answer once, on your terms.
- Deploy an agent over your own data
- Set scope, masking and audience
- Satisfy every buyer at once
Part of the platform
Traceability is one layer. The platform turns the network into decisions.
The federated network supplies live, trusted dependency data. When you are ready to rank exposure, model a disruption and forecast the operation, GRID runs on the same connective tissue.