From scattered public evidence to counterparties you can qualify

1. Collect public evidence, per market

Each commodity has its own evidence sources. The source that finds a good used cooking oil collector is useless for monopropylene glycol. The main source types are:

• Certification databases, such as ISCC certificates, where the material name and the certified scope (collecting point, trader with storage, biodiesel plant, HVO plant) are the strongest public qualification signals for renewable feedstocks.
• Regulatory registrations, such as REACH registrations for chemicals, which establish identity (who manufactures or imports), not commercial appetite. Animal by-product establishment approvals play the same eligibility role for fats; they are not yet attached systematically in OxyLens.
• Company websites: product pages, grades, "we buy" language, feedstock or procurement desks, and published contacts.
• Safety data sheets and product specifications, which sometimes name the real manufacturer behind a reseller, and often don't.
• Customs classifications and official trade statistics, used at country and origin level to benchmark flows, never to guess which company is behind a number.

What OxyLens deliberately does not do is dump whole registers. A national waste-carrier list cannot tell a 20-tonne aggregator from a van with a drum, so it floods a search instead of focusing it.

2. Resolve canonical companies and facilities

Every legal person gets one stable identity, based on a registry number, VAT or equivalent where available, and never on a website or a fuzzy name match. Every site gets its own identity too, because sites outlive operators and one group can run many plants.

• Company and facility are different objects. A company operates or owns a facility; the facility handles or produces the commodity.
• Relationships are explicit. Two companies at one address, a parent and its operating subsidiary, or a tolling partner are linked as related, not merged into one.
• Combined labels stay unresolved. "Company A / Company B" from a research note is not turned into a company until evidence decides it.
• Location precision is recorded. An exact plant, a geocoded address, a city or a region. Straight-line distances are only computed between real sites.

3. Record roles as evidence, not labels

A company's position in a market is a set of statements: it buys, sells, trades, produces or handles a commodity. Each statement carries its source and a status:

Specifications, certificates, customs codes and grades are attached as evidence on the same records. Specifications are never invented: if no public intake limit exists, OxyLens says so.

4. Surface explainable commercial opportunities

With companies, sites and roles in one graph, OxyLens derives leads that a directory cannot show:

• Multi-commodity counterparties: one company buying in one market and selling in another.
• Role reversals: a supplier of one grade that is also a buyer of another, such as a glycerine refiner that takes crude and sells refined.
• Coproduct chains: processes that make two merchant products at once, such as fat splitting yielding fatty acids and glycerine.
• Geographic pairs: sites close enough to supply each other, with the supply direction stated only where evidence supports it.
• Facility hubs: sites that handle several feedstocks.

An opportunity is only fact-grade when every leg behind it is fact-grade. Otherwise it is shown as an inference. None of them is an observed trade between two companies.

5. Qualify with people who know the market

Public evidence only goes so far. OxyLens includes a review workflow in which a commodity expert marks each candidate: already known or new, already contacted or not, and how relevant it is. Those marks are kept separate from the public evidence. They tell the team whether discovery is finding new counterparties or rebuilding a known book, and they stop the engine from mistaking a well-known name for a discovery.

6. Next: private history on the same graph

A company's own invoices, certificates of analysis and shipment history belong on the same company and facility records, in a separate private lane. OxyLens is designed for that, but it is not a feature available today. Today's product uses public evidence only.

See it applied to a market