You can't map what you don't buy from
Tier 1 relationships are documented. Below that, the picture is a survey response from two years ago — if it exists. Sole-source dependencies sit undetected three tiers down.
For OEMs & anchor buyers
You underwrite the demand. Now see who's actually building it.
Your credit quality is the reason financing is available anywhere in your chain — yet your visibility ends at the suppliers you invoice. Give us permissioned access to the trade documents you already exchange, and we return a mapped deeper supply base with financial-health and criticality signals on the firms inside it. No facility. No guarantee. Nothing on your balance sheet.
Deep-tier signal view
Illustrative
Precision castings, tier 2 — programme A-4471
Sole source · 3 open POs via 2 tier 1s
Machine shop, tier 2 — programme A-4471
Financing requests up 3× QoQ · on critical path
Surface treatment, tier 3 — programme B-1180
Payment behaviour deteriorating · single site
Fasteners, tier 2 — programme B-1180
Second source available · capacity headroom
Signals are derived from verified trade documents and funding activity across the chain. Illustrative example, not real supplier data.
The exposure
A stopped line is priced in millions per day. The cause is usually two tiers down.
Deep-tier failures rarely announce themselves. A small firm quietly runs out of working capital, defers a material purchase, misses a delivery to your tier 1 — and you learn about it when the schedule slips. By then the options are expedite, requalify, or stop.
Financial stress precedes operational failure
The firm that can't fund next month's material is the firm that misses next quarter's delivery. That signal exists — it just isn't visible to you today.
Programs can't reach far enough to help
Extending a treasury-run SCF program to hundreds of small deep-tier firms is operationally and commercially impossible. So the tier that needs liquidity most gets none.
What you get
Visibility as the return on data you already share
Every financed transaction adds a verified edge to the graph of your supply chain. The more of the chain that transacts through us, the sharper the picture you get back.
- A mapped deeper supply base. Which firms sit behind each tier 1, on which of your programmes and part numbers.
- Financial-health indicators on companies you have no contract with — built from verified trade activity and funding demand, not self-reported questionnaires.
- Criticality overlay. Where a financed operation is sole-sourced, capacity-constrained, or sitting on a single site.
- Early-warning signals. Rising funding demand, deteriorating payment behaviour, and stretched cycles — the smoke before the fire.
- Resilience, not just insight. Suppliers that get funded keep producing, which is the cheapest disruption mitigation available to you.
Your obligations
- Permissioned ERP access to the trade documents you already issue — purchase orders and contracts to your tier 1s.
- Nothing else. No facility to contract, no guarantee to give, no confirmation of payables, no program inside treasury.
What you never take on
- No credit exposure to deep-tier suppliers.
- No change to your payment terms with tier 1.
- No onboarding burden per supplier.
- No accounting treatment question on your payables.
Participation
Four steps, and none of them touch treasury
Pick one programme
Choose a single build programme and the tier 1 suppliers on it. Scope stays narrow and legible while the value gets proven.
Grant permissioned data access
A read-only connection to the purchase orders and contracts you already issue to those tier 1s. Scoped to the programme, governed by a data agreement.
Purchase orders
Contracts / frame agreements
Part & programme master data
We build the chain and verify transactions
We link your demand to tier 1's purchase orders and to the tier 2 invoices raised against them, then act as the verification layer a funder can rely on.
Funding flows down, intelligence flows up
Deep-tier suppliers get financed transaction by transaction. You receive the supply-chain health and criticality analysis built from those verified stories.
Next step
Start with one programme and its tier 1s
We'll map what sits beneath them, show you the transactions that are financeable today, and hand back the first read on deep-tier health — before you commit to anything wider.