What feeds a product, a company or an industry, mapped with each link tagged by how visible it is.
3 credits·in-depth·about 2–4 min·9 domains
Name the thing. It states the structural truth first, then how the chain is built, the map of it, the documented suppliers, the chokepoints, the substitutes and workarounds, the policy exposure, and what cannot be seen from the outside, with watch signals and open questions.
Procurement, sourcing, trade analysts, reporters on an industrial beat, and anyone who has to answer "where does this actually come from".
These are the headings the result renders, read from the same promise the form makes before you spend a credit. A section that depends on what the record holds is rendered when it can be and never promised here.
A supplier is named because a filing, a contract or a disclosure names it; a plausible one is not. Movement data that sits behind commercial terms is not invented, and the parts the record cannot reach are said to be unseen.
A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up. How the grades work →
A domain may name it in its own words and price it on its own terms; each row is what that domain shows.
The US does not make its own TNT: the basic explosive in artillery shells comes from a single European source, while the domestic expansion money has gone into a different explosive, RDX.
Final assembly for every nuclear-powered US Navy vessel runs through just two certified shipyards — Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut and Newport News in Virginia — and no upstream fix adds a third dry dock.
The fastest way to judge the result is to pick a subject you know cold and read it against what you know. The scan names its credit cost before it runs.