Provenous Provenance · Veracity · Intelligence
DOC PROVENOUS‑005 STATUS ARCHITECTURE READY REV 2026.08 VERTICAL SUPPLY CHAIN & VENDOR RISK LINKAGE
Supply Chain & Vendor Risk Linkage

Every component, vendor, and product —
one map, instantly queryable.

A CVE drops, or a vendor fails an audit. Provenous answers "which products use this?" and "who's affected?" in a query, not a week of forensic spreadsheet work.

The problem

The SBOM is a static document. Root-cause analysis takes weeks because nobody maintains the links.

Supply chains span hundreds of vendors, thousands of components, and millions of transactions. When a vulnerability is discovered or a vendor fails an audit, companies scramble to answer: which products use this component? Which customers are affected? How did this happen?

The SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) is a snapshot, not a living map. Risk assessments are siloed. The links between components, vendors, products, and customers decay the moment anyone stops maintaining them by hand.

How Provenous changes this Every component, vendor, product, and customer relationship is a fact in the same living map a new CVE lands in. Impact analysis is a query, not a fire drill.
Capabilities

Wherever this vertical's truth already lives.

Layer 1A — the connectors below — is the only piece built specifically for supply chain. Everything else is the same Provenous Core already live in production for another vertical.

Connects to

Supplier & Vendor Risk

Vendor risk databases and audit histories, linked to every product that depends on them.

Connects to

Product & Component Inventory

Your actual SBOM — components and versions, kept current instead of regenerated per release.

Connects to

Vulnerability Feeds

CVE and NIST feeds ingested as events, so a new disclosure lands in the map the moment it's published.

Connects to

Procurement & Contracts

Contract terms and procurement records, connected to the vendor and component they govern.

Connects to

Logistics & Distribution

Shipment and distribution records — the last link between a component and the customer who received it.

Agents

Component → vulnerability → product → customer mapping

Router Agents resolve deterministic IDs (CPE/CVE, part numbers) across the whole chain — no LLM ever decides whether two components are "the same."

Governance

Proactive vulnerability detection

Reasoning Agents watch incoming CVE feeds against your actual component inventory, not a quarterly manual review.

Provenous Lens

Dynamic SBOM-to-risk map

Ask "which products are affected by this CVE, as of last week" and get a real answer, not a scramble.

How it works

Same engine, a supply-chain ontology on top.

INGEST
Connectors
MAP
Temporal Context Map
AGENTS
Router · Reasoning · Enforcement
LENS
Dynamic SBOM-to-Risk Map

Same mechanism as every other Provenous deployment — Kafka-class event sourcing, deterministic ID resolution, a bi-temporal context projection, and HITL-gated agents. Only Layer 1A (the connectors on the left) and Provenous Lens, the dashboards on the right, are specific to supply chain.

Built for regulated industries

Speaks the standards your auditor already speaks.

EO 14028US Executive Order mandating a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for software sold to the federal government. FDA SBOM RequirementsFDA guidance requiring a Software Bill of Materials for medical devices, to track third-party component risk. ISO 28000Security management standard for supply chains — assessing and mitigating security risk across the chain. NIST SP 800-161NIST guidance on supply chain risk management for information and communications technology.

Architecture-ready, not yet built: the Provenous Core — event sourcing, the bi-temporal context layer, HITL governance — is already live in production for our Product Development deployment. Extending it here means building this vertical's ontology and connectors on that same core, not re-platforming.

What's different

Not a nicer report. A different source of truth.

A CVE drops; finding affected products takes a week of grep.
Affected products are a query away, the moment the CVE lands.
The SBOM is regenerated per release and goes stale immediately after.
Component-to-product links are living facts, not a point-in-time export.
Vendor risk sits in a separate spreadsheet from the products it touches.
Vendor risk, components, and products share one living map — a bad vendor's blast radius is visible directly.

See your SBOM as a living, queryable map.

A working walkthrough scoped to your actual component inventory — not a slide deck.

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