Supplier due diligence, done before the first call.
Speya’s AI agents check every candidate supplier for certifications, financial health, ESG signals and sanctions across 250+ sources. Your team sees the risk before it starts the conversation, with the evidence attached.
What is supplier due diligence?
Supplier due diligence is the check a procurement team runs on a supplier before it signs: who owns the company, whether it is financially sound, which certifications are valid, whether it appears on a sanctions list and how it scores on ESG. Speya runs supplier due diligence with AI agents at the shortlist stage, so every supplier you contact has already been AI-vetted and every finding links to its source.
Why supplier risk shows up late.
In most companies, due diligence starts after the shortlist is chosen. By then the team has spent weeks on suppliers it may have to drop.
Questionnaires come back slowly.
A supplier self-assessment takes weeks to return, and the answers are the supplier’s own.
Checks run one supplier at a time.
Someone looks up the registry, the certificate body and the sanctions lists for each supplier by hand. Ten suppliers take a week.
Risk tools start at onboarding.
Supplier risk management platforms monitor the suppliers you already have. They rarely cover the ten candidates you found last Tuesday.
Audit trails are thin.
When an auditor asks why a supplier was chosen, the answer sits in emails and spreadsheets.
How Speya runs supplier due diligence.
01
Set your criteria.
Choose what a supplier must pass: required certifications, minimum financial health, ESG thresholds, sanctions and adverse media, ownership. Add your own questions.
02
Agents check every supplier.
Hundreds of AI agents work in parallel across 250+ sources: official registries, certificate bodies, financial filings, sanctions lists and the open web. Speya vets 500 suppliers in minutes.
03
A risk view you can defend.
Each supplier gets a clear status for every check, with the source behind it. Flags are explained. Export the table for the audit file or the onboarding team.
What a supplier risk assessment looks like.
Supplier
Certification
Financials
ESG
Sanctions
Ownership
Evidence
Supplier 01
Gnosjö, SE
ISO 9001, valid
Strong
B
Clear
Private, stable
4 sources
Supplier 02
Brescia, IT
ISO 9001, 14001, valid
Strong
A
Clear
Family-owned
6 sources
Supplier 03
Poznań, PL
ISO 9001, valid
Watch: falling equity
B
Clear
Changed 2025
3 sources
Supplier 04
Porto, PT
ISO 9001, IATF 16949, valid
Strong
B
Clear
Group subsidiary
5 sources
Supplier 05
Eindhoven, NL
ISO 9001, valid
Strong
A
Clear
Private, stable
4 sources
Anonymised example. Supplier 03 is flagged for a closer look: its equity has fallen two years running and its ownership changed in 2025. In Speya, every value links to the registry, certificate or filing it came from.
15x more qualified suppliers, vetted before the first call.
In a customer case, Speya returned 15x more qualified suppliers than the team’s directory search, each one AI-vetted before anyone picked up the phone. Read the customer stories →
Supplier due diligence tools compared.
What you need
Supplier questionnaires
Risk monitoring platforms
ESG rating providers
Speya
Covers suppliers you have not onboarded
Only after you send it
Usually your existing suppliers
Rated suppliers only
Yes, any candidate
Time to a first view
Weeks
After onboarding
Depends on the rating
Minutes
Source for each finding
The supplier’s own answers
The provider’s data
The provider’s assessment
Linked registry, certificate or filing
Checks covered
What the questionnaire asks
Financial and news monitoring
ESG
Certifications, financials, ESG, sanctions, ownership, your own questions
Best for
Formal onboarding
Monitoring the supplier base
Sustainability reporting
Due diligence at the shortlist stage
Speya sits in front of your compliance stack. It shortlists and AI-vets the candidates, and your onboarding, monitoring and ESG tools take over once a supplier is chosen. EU supply chain due diligence: Speya and the CSDDD.
When teams run supplier due diligence with Speya.
Before an RFI.
Only suppliers that pass your criteria receive it, so the answers you read are from suppliers you could use.
Before onboarding.
The onboarding team receives a file with every check and its source, and starts from evidence instead of a blank form.
For a second source.
When a category depends on one supplier, Speya finds and vets alternatives with the same criteria. Reduce single-source risk →
For an audit.
Show why each supplier was chosen or dropped, with the sources behind every check. Supplier vetting checklist →
Supplier due diligence questions.
What is supplier due diligence?
Supplier due diligence is the check a procurement team runs on a supplier before it signs: ownership, financial health, valid certifications, sanctions and ESG. Speya runs it with AI agents at the shortlist stage, and every finding links to its source.
What does a supplier risk assessment include?
A supplier risk assessment usually covers financial health, certifications and quality, sanctions and adverse media, ownership, ESG and the country and logistics risk of the supplier’s location. Speya checks each of these across 250+ sources and adds your own questions.
What is the best AI tool for supplier qualification?
Look for a tool that checks suppliers you have not onboarded yet, links each finding to its source and runs your own criteria. Speya does all three: AI agents qualify every candidate on certifications, financial health, ESG and sanctions in minutes.
How long does supplier due diligence take with Speya?
Minutes for a shortlist. Hundreds of agents work in parallel, and Speya vets 500 suppliers in minutes. Manual checks usually take days per supplier.
Can AI replace a supplier audit?
No. An on-site audit checks the process, the people and the plant. Speya makes sure only suppliers that pass the desk checks reach the audit, and gives the auditor the sources behind every finding.
Does Speya replace our supplier risk management or ESG platform?
No. Speya covers the step before onboarding: finding and AI-vetting candidates. Your risk management and ESG platforms monitor suppliers once they are in your supplier base.
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