Better supply chain decisions, with risk tools proven in financial markets.
Every company in a supply chain makes decisions on incomplete information. Sextant gives you workflows to decide faster, answers from your partners to fill the gaps, and contracts to share the risk that remains.
SWIFT standardized the payment message. The container standardized the box. Sextant standardizes the data.
Every supply chain decision is made on incomplete information.
An OEM knows what its own customers buy. Its chip distributor sees only the OEM’s orders. The chipmaker sees only the distributor’s orders. No one upstream sees real demand.
So a relatively small change in OEM demand creates progressively larger swings in orders, inventory and production at every step upstream. When chips run short, OEMs over-order because they expect everyone else to, and no one wants to be under-allocated. The result: bloated inventories, shortages, idle fab capacity and expensive expedited freight.
Tariffs, re-shoring, conflict and repeated disruption have turned these blind spots into a board-level risk — in every industry, from groceries to defence.
The largest firms can afford big planning teams and custom risk-sharing contracts with their suppliers. Before Sextant, everyone else carried extra inventory and hoped for the best.
One trusted data layer. Three ways to make better decisions.
Financial market participants start with what they know, acquire new information to update their view, apply their investment process workflows, and use contracts to shape the risks they ultimately hold. Sextant brings the same model to supply chains.
The foundation: the trusted data layer
Agentic
Sextant's AI agents pull, clean, validate, and work with your supply chain data.
Common
One shared data model with standard definitions, metrics and workflows, so every company in the chain speaks the same language.
Private
Participants ask specific questions. Only the data a seller approves is ever shared.
Validated
Sextant independently checks data quality and provenance.
Three ways to use it
Workflows and integrations
AI agents help humans-in-the-loop run sourcing, demand planning, inventory and network decisions on clean, connected data, or connect the planning tools you already use.
Intelligence marketplace
Ask your partners specific questions, such as an OEM's production plans. They decide, one question at a time, whether to answer. You pay them when they do. Or answer partner questions and get paid yourself.
Risk contracts exchange
Write contracts with your trading partners to share specific risks. Capacity options, revenue sharing, managed inventory and disruption contracts are examples. Firms design their own.
Decide: workflows and integrations
AI agents run each workflow on the trusted data layer.
Sourcing and supplier selection
Execute multi-party sourcing events, including coordinating multiple internal and external stakeholders.
Demand planning
Forecast using leading-edge algorithms updated with information from the Sextant marketplace.
Inventory optimization
Set safety stock and reorder points from shared demand and real lead times, so you carry less and run out less.
Network optimization
Decide where to make, store and ship, using costs and capacity across your whole network.
Connect your own tools
Already use a planning or procurement system? Sextant feeds it clean, connected data instead of replacing it.
Know: the intelligence marketplace
“What’s your production plan for this part next quarter?”
“How much spare capacity do you have in November?”
“What are your lead times from your own suppliers?”
Share the risk: the risk contracts exchange
Examples of the contracts firms write on the exchange. You and your trading partner design your own.
Capacity options
Pay for the right, not the obligation, to buy extra volume with a guaranteed allocation.
Revenue sharing
Pay a low price upfront plus an agreed share of the final sale price.
Managed inventory
Your supplier sees your inventory and ships to keep it within agreed minimum and maximum levels.
Disruption contracts
A supply contract with a pre-agreed payment triggered by a named event, such as a port closure or a regional heat wave.
Every contract is a commercial agreement between two consenting firms.
One chipmaker. Three OEMs. Three steps.
Decide
A semiconductor manufacturer runs demand planning in Sextant on its own orders and shipments.
Know
It pays three OEMs for their actual production plans, not just their orders, and updates its workflows.
Share the risk
One OEM pays a premium for a guaranteed extra allocation if demand spikes. The OEM no longer needs to over-order to protect its place in line. The chipmaker earns the premium and plans on real demand.
A steadier chipmaker is a more reliable supplier, so the OEMs gain more than the fee. And as trades repeat, the contracts become standard, which makes the next one faster and cheaper to write.
See every supply chain in your portfolio. Help each one run better.
When a private equity sponsor and its portfolio companies are on Sextant, they share the same data layer. The sponsor can see what’s happening across its portfolio as it happens, instead of waiting for the next board pack or a response to a request.
Portfolio transparency
Each company's data sits on the same common model as the sponsor's, so inventory, supplier and demand figures mean the same thing everywhere.
Ask the portfolio
Ask a portfolio company a specific question through the marketplace, such as its most recent demand forecasts, and management provides the answer.
Improve the workflows
Work with management to run sourcing, demand planning, inventory and network decisions in Sextant, and track the results.
Integrate add-ons
Rapidly bring add-on acquisitions onto the same data model, so the combined business operates and reports as one.
Share Intelligence. Keep Your Data Private.
You control your data
Your data is held private. Sellers of intelligence decide, one question at a time, whether to answer questions.
Built for partners, not competitors
Most information moves between tiers of a chain: plant to distributor to retailer.
Sector-wide intelligence
Sextant also provides anonymized, aggregated, sector-wide intelligence to all participants from a particular industry.
An honest broker
Sextant takes no side in any trade and never sells a participant's data. Aggregate intelligence is never traceable to a single company.
The category is open. The technology finally makes it possible.
The stakes went up
Before the pandemic, supply chain risk was an afterthought. Tariffs, re-shoring, war and repeated disruption have made it a boardroom priority.
The infrastructure finally exists
Connecting a company's systems to a common data model used to take an army of engineers and consultants. AI agents now make it much faster and less expensive.
No one has built it
Existing providers sell piles of facts, not answers. No service currently provides the specific intelligence Sextant does.
Organizations already trust us with their most sensitive data.
Sextant is based on prior experience running complex, multi-party procurement for governments and public agencies across Canada and the UK. Every project taught the same lesson: the hard part isn’t buying, it’s getting organizations with mismatched data to coordinate.
See what your supply chain isn’t telling you.
We’re onboarding manufacturers, distributors and retailers now. If you run a supply chain, or you buy and invest in companies that do, we’d like to talk.