SupplyGuard

The problem

Supply chains break in small, quiet ways long before they break loudly. By the time a shipment is late or a supplier is down, the damage is already working its way through operations. Teams need the signal early — while there's still time to reroute.

What I built

SupplyGuard watches the inputs to a supply chain and surfaces risk before it becomes an outage. An agent pipeline ingests signals — news, logistics data, supplier health indicators — and turns them into ranked, actionable alerts instead of a firehose.

Stack & decisions

• Agents: a multi-step pipeline — ingest → classify → rank → explain — so each stage can be tuned independently.
• Backend: FastAPI orchestrates the agents and serves the alerts API.
• Frontend: Next.js dashboard with a clean risk feed and drilldown views.
• Why agents, not just rules: rules miss nuance. Agents reason about why a signal matters for a specific supply chain, not just whether it tripped a threshold.

Outcome

Won the hackathon it was built for — the judges highlighted the reasoning layer as what separated it from a standard alerts dashboard. Turned a firehose of supply chain noise into a short, ranked list of "things a human should actually look at today."