How to use ChainSifter
ChainSifter maps verified supply chain relationships for public companies — who supplies them, who buys from them, and who else is exposed. Here's how to get value out of it fast.
By Redley Lamar · ChainSifter
Start with a ticker on the Map
Head to the Map page and enter any ticker or company name in the top-left search field. You can type F, ford, or Ford Motor — ChainSifter resolves it to the right company automatically.
Hit Map and the 3D supply chain graph loads. Every node is a company. Every line is a verified relationship. Spin the graph, zoom in, and click any node to see that company's details in the right panel.
Read the map — nodes, lines, and colors
Node size reflects how connected a company is in the graph. Larger nodes are more central to the supply chain. Line color indicates relationship type: blue for suppliers, green for customers, amber for debt/financial. Dashed lines are secondary connections — companies that appear together in the same filing context.
Click any node to pull up Counterparty Intel in the right panel: the company's mini supply chain, financial profile, recent activity, and news. The selected company's full profile expands in the panels below.
Dig into any company's full chain
Every company in the graph has a dedicated chain page — a clean list of all their verified suppliers and customers with confidence scores and source evidence. Click View chain page → in the right panel, or go directly to /chain/AAPL, /chain/F, etc.
Chain pages are designed to be bookmarked, shared, and linked. If you're researching a specific company's supply chain exposure for a report or trade, this is the page to save.
Search relationships on the Correlations page
The Correlations page lets you search across all verified relationships by ticker, company name, counterparty, or keyword found in the source evidence. Filter by relationship type (supplier, customer, debt, acquisition, ownership) and minimum confidence level.
Click Inspect on any result to see the full evidence text — the source passage that established this relationship. Click Map to jump to that pair in the 3D view.
Browse structured data on the Data page
The Data page gives you a clean tabular view of any company's supply chain. Enter a ticker to see a sortable table of suppliers and customers with confidence scores and quick-links to their chain pages. Use the Correlations tab on the same page for relationship-pair lookup.
Useful when you want the data in front of you without the 3D visual — easier to screenshot, copy, or drop into a spreadsheet.
Set up alerts for supply chain changes
On the Alerts page, subscribe to any ticker with your email address. Choose which events you want to hear about: new supplier detected, new customer detected, or relationship removed.
Set your timezone, quiet hours (no alerts while you sleep), and delivery frequency — instant, daily digest, or weekly. You'll get an email to confirm, then notifications land when ChainSifter detects a new relationship.
How current is the data?
Relationships are updated continuously. Most companies are refreshed within 24–48 hours. Alert subscribers are notified when new relationships are detected.
What's the difference between a supplier and a secondary connection?
A supplier or customer is a direct relationship — one company explicitly named the other in its filings. A secondary connection (shown as a dashed line) means two companies appeared together in the same filing context, suggesting shared exposure even if neither directly named the other. See the Glossary for full definitions.
What does the confidence score mean?
It reflects how strongly the relationship is supported — higher means it was cited more explicitly, more frequently, and in higher-quality filings. Above 70% is strong. Anything below 55% is filtered out by default. You can adjust the threshold in the Correlations filter.
Can I search a counterparty to find all its customers?
Yes — on the Correlations page, type any company name or ticker in the search field. Results show all relationships where that company appears, either as root or counterparty.
Is the underlying filing text available?
Yes. Every relationship on the Correlations page has an Inspect button that shows the evidence passage — the exact text from the filing that established the relationship.
Our Methodology
ChainSifter extracts and classifies supply chain relationships using proprietary analysis of public regulatory filings. Each relationship is typed (supplier, customer, debt, acquisition, or ownership), confidence-scored, and linked to the source document. Data is refreshed continuously as new filings become available.
Relationships are verified against multiple filing disclosures where possible. Confidence scores reflect the number of independent disclosures corroborating each relationship. ChainSifter currently tracks 10,000+ public companies across all major sectors.