supply chain visibility for small businesses — know your suppliers' suppliers
an AI-powered supply chain monitoring system owned by the businesses using it. members share anonymized supplier information, and the system maps deep-tier dependencies and monitors for disruptions. when one member's supply chain gets hit, everyone gets early warning. 50 restaurants sharing supplier intelligence means nobody gets blindsided.
the problem
when avian flu hit our egg supplier's supplier, we found out when the delivery truck didn't show up. we had zero visibility into our supply chain beyond the guy we write checks to. enterprise tools for this cost $50K/year.
submitter asks $100/mo to maintain and host this.
$475/mo pledged from 6 sponsors
48%
48% toward forming a cell ($1,000/mo threshold)
no charges yet — this is a commitment, not a payment.
discussion(1)
had a hay supplier go bankrupt last fall with no warning. if we'd known their feed supplier had raised prices 40%, we would have diversified months earlier. this is exactly the kind of collective intelligence small operations need.