Vein Explorer provides AI-generated supply chain analysis. Ticker symbols are indicative only — not investment advice. Verify symbols with your broker before trading.
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How Vein Explorer works

Vein Explorer helps you turn a theme into a concrete map: what the product depends on, where risk concentrates, and which public tickers are exposed — fast enough to use in real research loops.

What is Vein Explorer?

Vein Explorer is an interactive supply-chain and trade explorer. Enter any product, component, or service and Vein builds a dependency tree with criticality, chokepoint flags, and tradeable tickers — then compounds results into Vein Graph for second‑order exposure.

Problems it solves

  • Hidden single points of failure in complex products
  • Unclear upstream exposure for investors and analysts
  • Slow manual decomposition for procurement and operations teams
  • Difficulty monitoring portfolio overlap with supply-chain risk
  • Scattered research that is hard to share across a team

How a trace works

1. Start with a query

Start on Explore with a product or theme (e.g. "lithium", "data center", "HBM memory"). If you want a guided starting point, use sector templates or the Sector Explorer.

2. Review the root breakdown

You’ll see the first decomposition: children, criticality, and early tickers. Use the list + graph views to spot obvious clusters and missing layers.

3. Expand nodes

Expand the most critical branches until you reach tradable layers (public companies, commodities, ETFs). Use chokepoint + rank panels to focus where disruption matters.

4. Act on insights

From any node, screen equities (cap tier + sector), add symbols to your watchlist, and run Exposure for second‑order beneficiaries. Share links or export results when you have a narrative.

Use cases

Investor / analyst

Find market exposure behind a theme or product

  1. Start with Explore (or Sector Explorer if you want curated anchors)
  2. Expand the highest‑criticality branches until you see tradable nodes
  3. Use the node Equity screener to filter to small/micro caps or a target sector
  4. Open Exposure to find second‑order beneficiaries via Vein Graph
  5. Add candidates to your watchlist and set alerts for chokepoint keywords

Operator / procurement

Map supplier and material dependencies

  1. Trace your SKU, subsystem, or supplier category
  2. Expand until you can name the constrained inputs and chokepoints
  3. Use evidence badges to separate “AI‑asserted” from corroborated relationships
  4. Export JSON/CSV for internal briefs and keep a share link as the living source

Team lead

Collaborate on supply-chain research

  1. Create a workspace and centralize traces for your theme coverage
  2. Comment on nodes where assumptions or supplier names need review
  3. Compare traces side by side to reconcile different decompositions
  4. Standardize alerts and share “starter traces” with your team

Developer

Automate traces in your pipeline

  1. Create an API key on the API page
  2. POST /v1/public/traces with your query
  3. Expand nodes programmatically
  4. Store results and periodically re-run to catch supply-chain drift

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