How I Built an AI Agent That Maps Any Company's Supply Chain in Real-Time

Supply chain visibility is one of those problems that sounds straightforward until you actually try to solve it. Every company has suppliers. Every supplier has their own suppliers. Customers have distributors who have sub-distributors. And almost none of it is in a clean, queryable database. I wanted to see if an AI agent could discover this web of relationships automatically - given only a company name - by reading the same public evidence a human analyst would: news articles, supplier directories, annual reports, procurement documents, partner pages, and ISO certification databases. The result is Supply Chain Sankey : an agent that autonomously discovers upstream suppliers and downstream distributors for any company, backs every relationship with source URLs and confidence scores, and renders the whole thing as an interactive Sankey diagram. Here's exactly how it works and what I learned building it. The Problem With Supply Chain Discovery If you want to know who supplies Apple, you