Vendor Analysis.
Every supplier, fully researched.
Beyond the contract you already have, Leah continuously researches every vendor in your base from public sources. Filings, news, court records, regulatory actions, ESG, and ownership. Material findings surfaced, risk profiles kept current.
The contract tells you what you bought. It does not tell you who you bought from today.
Vendor research happens at onboarding only
Suppliers are diligenced once, when the contract is signed. After that the file is closed. By year three of a five-year agreement, the profile in your system reflects a company that no longer exists in the form you bought from.
Financial deterioration discovered late
Public filings, credit downgrades, and audit qualifications are signals that a critical supplier is in distress. Procurement learns about it from a missed delivery or a press release, not from the data that was sitting in plain sight months earlier.
News and regulatory actions missed
Sanctions, enforcement actions, recalls, leadership departures, and adverse media all carry contractual and operational consequences. Without continuous monitoring, the buyer hears about them from the vendor, not from independent sources.
Court records uncatalogued
Litigation history, judgments, and ongoing disputes shape vendor risk in ways the supplier rarely discloses. Most procurement teams have no systematic way to surface court records across thousands of suppliers, so the data simply does not enter the risk view.
ESG disclosures collected inconsistently
Sustainability questionnaires get sent, returned, filed, and forgotten. Public ESG disclosures, ratings, and controversies sit outside the procurement workflow. The result is a supplier ESG view that is partial, stale, and self-reported.
Risk profiles outdated by the time they are used
When a category review or a renewal decision arrives, the supplier risk profile is pulled from a system that was last refreshed at onboarding. The decision gets made on a snapshot that is years old, against a vendor whose risk posture has materially shifted.
Every vendor, every public source, continuously ingested
Leah pulls from financial filings, regulatory registries, court systems, news wires, sanctions lists, ratings agencies, ESG databases, and ownership registries. Every supplier in your base is monitored across the full external information surface, refreshed continuously.
“We were running diligence on a few hundred strategic suppliers manually. Leah brought the entire base of twelve thousand vendors under continuous monitoring without adding a single analyst.”
Head of Procurement, Industrial Manufacturer
Five steps to continuous vendor intelligence
Leah operates on top of your supplier master and risk systems. No rip and replace. First wave of findings lands during ingestion.
Connect
Leah connects to your supplier master and risk systems. The full vendor base, including subsidiaries and parent entities, becomes the working universe for external research.
Ingest Public Sources
Filings, registries, court dockets, news wires, sanctions, ratings, ESG, and ownership data are pulled and normalized per vendor. Coverage and source attribution are tracked at the field level.
Track Financial Health
Public financials are trended, audit qualifications surfaced, and credit movements monitored. Distress signals are flagged with the supporting filing attached.
Surveil News and Records
News, regulatory actions, sanctions, and litigation are screened continuously. Hits are deduplicated, classified, and routed to the function that owns the response.
Update Risk Profile
Findings flow into a living risk profile per supplier. Procurement, compliance, and risk teams pull from the same continuously refreshed record, with full evidentiary trail.
Got Questions? Get Answers.
Most third-party risk providers offer a curated subset of signals on a sample of suppliers, refreshed periodically. Leah ingests across the full public-source surface, including filings, court records, regulatory enforcement, sanctions, ESG disclosures, and ownership data, against the entire vendor base, continuously. The output is a per-vendor profile that reflects every available external signal, not a vendor-by-vendor query against a single provider.
Coverage and source attribution are tracked at the field level. Where statutory accounts, registry filings, or local-jurisdiction disclosures exist, Leah ingests them. Where data does not exist publicly, the profile shows the gap explicitly rather than inferring values. Procurement teams know the difference between a low-risk supplier and an under-researched one.
No. Onboarding diligence remains the buyer-facing process: questionnaires, attestations, contractual representations. Leah operates on top of that, providing continuous external research that supplements and validates what the supplier discloses. The two work together. Self-disclosure plus independent public-source verification is a stronger view than either alone.
Each finding is scored by category, severity, recency, and supplier criticality. Adverse media tied to a supplier you spend a million dollars a year with is treated differently from a passing mention of a similarly named entity. Routing rules are configured per finding type so procurement, compliance, and risk teams each see the subset of findings they need to act on.
Initial supplier base ingestion typically completes within two to four weeks, depending on system access and entity resolution complexity. The first wave of material findings lands during ingestion. Buyer teams confirm entity matches for ambiguous suppliers and configure routing rules. Ongoing operation is continuous and largely hands-off.
Yes. Every finding is logged with the source document, ingestion timestamp, and any subsequent score changes. Auditors and regulators get a defensible trail of when a signal arrived, how it was classified, and what action followed. SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA, and ISO 27001 aligned. Private instance deployment is available for customers with strict data isolation requirements.
