EiQ Launches AI Agent, Delivering Real-Time Supply Chain Sustainability Risk Intelligence to Businesses

Optimising responsible sourcing with instant, data-driven risk intelligence

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, March 4, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- EiQ, a leading supply chain intelligence solution, has launched its new Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent, AskEiQ, that delivers instant, actionable supply chain sustainability and risk insights to businesses. With AskEiQ, businesses will gain instant answers to complex sourcing, labour, environmental and reputational risk questions.

Built on EiQ’s industry-leading dataset – derived from more than 30,000 annual onsite audits, as well as civil society data, media and public domain research – AskEIQ helps procurement, responsible sourcing and sustainability teams identify emerging risks, assess supplier vulnerabilities and make smarter sourcing decisions in real time.

AskEiQ is being introduced through a phased release. In this initial phase, the platform leverages EiQ’s aggregate and public domain data to deliver digestible supply chain insights via a conversational AI agent. A portion of these insights will be made publicly accessible to help advance industry-wide maturity, while EiQ clients will soon benefit from more in-depth intelligence connected to their own supply chains. EiQ’s full dataset remains available through the EiQ platform, which provides structured supplier scorecards, geographic and product risk profiles and individual incident alerts.

Kevin Franklin, EiQ CEO, said:

“EiQ and LRQA have built one of the world’s most comprehensive supply chain sustainability data sets, now covering more than 100 million data points verified by our teams on the ground. With AskEiQ, organisations can instantly receive this unparalleled data in digestible insights from an AI-powered assistant, eliminating hours of analysis and delivering tailored intelligence.”

Empowered insights for better sourcing decisions

Along with comprehensive responses, AskEiQ provides actionable recommendations tailored to a company’s sourcing profile and risk tolerance. The AI-powered assistant previews adverse media and supplier alerts drawn from EiQ’s continuous monitoring of more than 2 million suppliers per month.

Questions for AskEiQ may centre around risk exposure, historical incidents, sourcing market comparisons, and so much more. Example questions may look like:
- What emerging sustainability risks should I expect in my top five sourcing countries over the next 12 months?
- Which sourcing geographies show weak environmental management but improving labour frameworks and how do I adjust compliance expectations
- How concentrated is my textile sourcing and what geographic distribution would reduce risk exposure?
- Give me recent evidence of labour issues in specific sectors and how those incidents should influence sourcing strategy.

Each response is grounded in EiQ’s proprietary audit data, civil society research and public domain sources and includes recommended next steps to reduce exposure and strengthen supplier engagement.

About EiQ data

EiQ’s dataset combines tens of thousands of annual onsite audits, as well as trusted civil society data and public domain research to produce highly granular, verifiable risk insights. EiQ data covers more than 100 sourcing geographies with provincial-level data in countries such as the United States, China, Mexico, Italy, Turkey and Vietnam. EiQ also covers risk scores for more than 500 products and services, providing insight into their social and environmental exposure, as well as risk scores for more than 2 million supplier entities including scorecards and media incident histories, enabling AskEiQ to surface risk at the supplier, regional and commodity level and translate complexity into clear, operational guidance.

Who should use AskEiQ

AskEiQ is designed for responsible sourcing professionals, supply chain sustainability teams, procurement leaders and any organisation seeking to reduce social and environmental risk across global supply chains. It is particularly valuable for teams that need fast, defensible answers to support sourcing decisions, supplier prioritisation and remediation planning.

Availability and next steps

AskEiQ is available now. Organisations interested in a demonstration or pilot can start a conversation with AskEiQ to explore tailored use cases, sample queries and integration options. This launch represents the first phase of AskEiQ as a freemium tool, with additional functionalities scheduled to roll out through Q2 and further enhanced capabilities for EiQ clients.

About EiQ

EiQ helps global brands and retailers transform responsible sourcing and facilitate sustainable trade. The supply chain intelligence platform centralises fragmented risk information and delivers granular, real‑time insights so teams can manage human rights and environmental risk with clarity and speed. EiQ uncovers blind spots, reduces manual effort and accelerates decision‑making, enabling procurement and sustainability teams to prioritise risk, scale automation and achieve total supply chain confidence.

Andy Gibbard
LRQA
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