Meridian - Supply Chain ESG Compliance Agent

Meridian is an autonomous supply chain ESG compliance intelligence platform that monitors the entire public web to detect human rights, environmental, and financial violation signals at supplier companies 4 to 8 weeks before they escalate into scandals or regulatory enforcement. It is built for three high-penalty regulations: the EU CSDDD (up to 5% of global turnover), the US UFLPA (import bans), and Germany's LkSG (up to 2% of turnover). Three innovations power the platform. (1) Geo-Native Signal Harvesting: a LangGraph multi-agent engine crawls 60+ multilingual sources like Mandarin worker forums, regional NGO reports, government portals using local-country IPs via Bright Data Residential Proxies, SERP API, Web Unlocker, Scraping Browser, and the MCP Server. (2) Violation Velocity Scoring: every harvested signal is enriched by the AI/ML API intelligence layer (category, severity, sentiment, summary), then scored 0–100 across four risk stages. (3) Regulatory Mandate Mapper: signals become submission-ready reports in each regulator's exact format. Meridian also offers voice-enabled monitoring: Speechmatics transcribes audio evidence (worker testimony, press conferences, broadcasts), and the AI/ML API turns transcripts into structured compliance signals feeding the same scoring pipeline. The stack is a 3-service architecture: Next.js 15 frontend, a Hono/TypeScript API, and a Python FastAPI + LangGraph AI backend, deployable to Vercel and Railway/Render with Supabase, Upstash, and Qdrant Cloud.