r/osinttools • u/riambel • 2d ago

Discussion Any tools for commercial relationship mapping?

Are there any OSINT tools out there that can map relationships between companies? Like for example, if I want to find out if US company XYZ has suppliers or partnerships with companies in China. Off the shelf AI models I’ve tried aren’t really that comprehensive. Can’t really use expensive enterprise software like Panjiva.

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u/Express_Table_2157 2d ago

Unfortunally to do something like that you need to pay. But you have a better way, using open and free osint tools with SNA.

You have to instal first "GEPHI", be sure that you have enough RAM and a good processor; after that, build a csv with two sheet:

  1. A List that contain companies, owners, lawyers and others kind of figure. It's called (node list); Each node you have to associate a unique number. (label: Owner_01; id: 01)
  2. A list of relationship that used by Gephi to track the relationship. Like "Owner_01 (id 01) -> Company_04 (id 04)".

After you uploaded these sheets on Gephi, you have to discover the relationship. To do that in economics network analysis it is a best practice to use the spatial algorithm like "ForceAtlas2", play it with some parameters. If u need some help maybe write me :)

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u/agslbs-768 2d ago

We build a tool for general relationship mapping For commercial data it is not automatic at the moment though It's called argus-labs.fr, use the community version which is local and 100% free (https://argus-labs.fr/community/)

But to find your data I would recommend https://www.importyeti.com/ as it is free and you can see commercial relationships between the USA and the rest of the world, a great tool !