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anonymous

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Posted3 months agoActive2 months ago

Show HN: Corporate Hierarchy API – Map the corporate family tree

savvyiq.ai

B2B dataentity resolutioncompliance

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mfrye0

3 months ago

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Since it's quiet here, figured I'd share what the API actually spits out. Here's MG Motor's ownership chain (this is just the Mermaid diagram field - we return a bunch of other stuff too):

  graph TD
    e2[SAIC MOTOR UK HOLDING CO., LTD.]-->|2005-02-15|e1[MG MOTOR UK LTD]
    e1[MG MOTOR UK LTD]-->|2018|e7[MG Sales Centre Limited]
    e4[SAIC Motor Corporation Limited]-->e2[SAIC MOTOR UK HOLDING CO., LTD.]
    e4[SAIC Motor Corporation Limited]-->e3[SAIC MOTOR INTERNATIONAL UK LTD]
    e5[Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation Group]-->|62.69%|e4[SAIC Motor Corporation Limited]
    e6[Shanghai State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission Shanghai SASAC]-->e5[Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation Group]

You can copy/paste that into any Mermaid renderer to see it visually. Pretty wild how a British car brand ends up tracing back to Shanghai's government.

Happy to run lookups for other companies if anyone's curious what their ownership looks like!

promiseofbeans

3 months ago

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How does it handle companies with huge numbers of subsidiaries, like Volkswagen?

mfrye0

3 months ago

Hey, good question. Yeah, we're aware of many companies that can have thousands of subsidiaries.

We found that going both up the chain and down / sideways in the chain was too much for the agent to handle - they are two distinct operations. The #1 use case was customers trying to understand the ultimate parent, so we decided to focus on that first.

We have something roughly working on subsidiaries, but it's not ready for prime time yet. It would likely be a separate API.

consumer451

3 months ago

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Thanks for mentioning this in a more recent comment. This might be very valuable for one of the projects that I am working on. Instant sign-up.

HN posts are such hit and miss. Do not be discouraged, this looks great.

As an example of HN hit and miss, I just posted a link to a reddit post regarding Claude Code, that could collectively save HN users many millions of dollars in the next week, and it has three upvotes at time of writing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723955

mfrye0

3 months ago

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Thanks. I've been heads down on this for some time and don't have the huge network to share this with.

Regarding the product, I'm open to any and all feedback for your use case. Trying to follow the adage of "if you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late".

And wow - just read your reddit post. I'm going to look into that for us too.

consumer451

3 months ago

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> Thanks. I've been heads down on this for some time and don't have the huge network to share this with.

Your API, while using your MVP UI as teaching tool, is the #1 topic at my next meeting. The lesson about shipping early is so hard for me to execute, even though I know better. So, great job!

mfrye0

3 months ago

Thank you! Yeah, I know it's a fine balance between shipping too early and having a buggy product vs too late. I'm shipping as fast as I can now to keep that tight feedback loop going.

windex

3 months ago

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Hey, this is very useful. I worked in a couple of large consulting firms and this type of entity search was a deal blocker in some cases because the research teams would be busy trying to find the ultimate identity of parent for conflict checks. As a result, sales teams were wasting times engaging customers they didn't need to, contracts were delayed as discovery took too long etc. Reputational/compliance risk is something we used to try to avoid.

Also commenting so I can come back.

mfrye0

3 months ago

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Interesting. So in that case, who had the biggest pain point? The sales team from being held up, or the research time under pressure to deliver?

We actually haven't explored the big consulting firms yet. I know they are often contracted to do this sort of research for companies.

windex

2 months ago

The sales team got impacted since they have variable salaries based on deal closures. I am pretty sure there are SOX compliance violations hidden in many deals at large firms due this lack of clarity. SoX violations can get your firm into a lot of trouble.

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