Building Sourcing Intel: An AI-Powered Supply Chain Intelligence Platform with On-Device Inference

The Problem That Kept Me Up at Night If you've worked anywhere near retail procurement, you know the pain. A tariff announcement drops on a Tuesday morning, and suddenly your team is scrambling through spreadsheets, disconnected tariff tables, and three different news sites trying to figure out: Which of our 65 SKUs are exposed? What does switching to Vietnam actually cost? Is Vietnam even stable right now? That analysis — which should take minutes — takes days. By then, the window to act has closed. I built SourcingIntel to fix that. It's a real-time, multi-agent supply chain intelligence platform that brings together affected SKUs, landed costs, geopolitical risk scores, and ranked sourcing recommendations into a single workflow. And it does it all on-device — no pricing data ever leaves your machine. Why This Matters Now: The Middle East Crisis Let me paint a picture that's painfully current. In 2026, the Iran conflict escalated — airstrikes, Strait of Hormuz shipping disruptions, a