Top 3 Global Tech Company
Supply chain provenance built to the standard of federal trade enforcement — verifying every supplier against authoritative source records.
42% Of supply chain leaders extend visibility past tier 1
500M+ Companies mapped
10.6B+ Authoritative source records
Challenge
Tier-1 visibility, but blind beyond — at hyperscaler volumes
Solution
A primary-source corporate data layer feeding proprietary risk scoring
Result
Visibility matching the standard set by federal trade enforcement
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Tier-1 visibility, but blind beyond — at hyperscaler volumes
While 95% of supply chain leaders have tier-one visibility, only 42% extend it to tier two or beyond. For the team building the backbone of global cloud computing, that blind spot was both a regulatory risk and an operational vulnerability.
A primary-source corporate data layer feeding proprietary risk scoring
Sayari was integrated into the company’s supply chain provenance system, mapping entity identity, ownership, and relationships across 500M+ companies in 250+ jurisdictions through API.
Visibility matching the standard set by federal trade enforcement
Every supplier is now verified against 10.6B+ authoritative source records. Ownership chains traced through multiple tiers. Entity identity resolved against official registries rather than self-reported data.
The challenge
Your direct suppliers are screened. Their suppliers are not.
Inside one of the world’s largest technology companies, the cloud supply chain organization was building a platform to achieve full supply chain provenance for its data center hardware. The goal was ambitious: achieve the same level of supplier visibility that U.S. Customs and Border Protection applies to imported goods. That meant tracing every component, from raw material extraction through final assembly, and screening every entity in the chain against sanctions lists, export control restrictions, and forced labor indicators.
Legacy supply chain visibility tools could not deliver. Traditional approaches relied on supplier self-attestation and questionnaire-based data collection, methods that break down beyond tier one. The supply chain team needed a data platform that could independently verify supplier identity, trace ownership chains, and map entity relationships across dozens of jurisdictions, without depending on suppliers to self-report.
- McKinsey 2025: 95% have tier-one visibility, only 42% extend to tier 2 or beyond
- Self-attestation and questionnaire-based collection break down beyond tier one
- Verification must operate without depending on suppliers to self-report
- Cloud build-out scaled faster than questionnaire-based mapping could absorb
The solution
Actual trade data, not declarations – 4B+ trade transactions
The company integrated a primary-source corporate data platform into its supply chain provenance system, creating a unified data layer that maps entity identity, ownership, and relationships across 500M+ companies in 250+ jurisdictions. The platform feeds the company’s proprietary risk assessment tools, providing the entity resolution layer that connects supplier self-reported data to independently verified corporate registry records.
The platform’s graph architecture enables the team to surface non-obvious relationships: shared ownership between a tier-one supplier and a sanctioned entity, beneficial ownership connections to state-owned enterprises, and corporate structure changes that indicate jurisdictional risk shifts. These are the connections that questionnaire-based approaches cannot detect.
- Primary-source corporate data layer feeds the company’s proprietary risk scoring
- 500M+ companies in 250+ jurisdictions — entity identity, ownership, relationships
- Graph architecture surfaces non-obvious shared ownership, SOE, and MCF connections
Sayari capabilities used
The results
Sub-tier visibility now operational across the full supply chain
The company now builds data centers with supply chain visibility that exceeds the capability of most government agencies. Every component carries a verified provenance chain. Every supplier is continuously monitored. The supply chain team operates with the confidence that verification infrastructure scales with the company’s build-out, rather than creating bottlenecks as the supplier population grows.
500M+
Companies in unified data layer
10.6B+
Authoritative source records
250+
Jurisdictions covered for entity verification
“We now build data centers with supply chain visibility that exceeds the capability of most government agencies.”
VP Supply Chain Provenance
Top 3 Global Tech Company
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