Supply chain technology company Exiger has launched an open-access website that allows businesses, governments, nonprofits and individuals to review whether a company's supply chain might have ties to state-sponsored forced labor.

According to a January 20 release, Exiger's tool allows users to input a company's name, and then access an artificial intelligence model to find out whether that company has subsidiaries, factories or suppliers that could be connected to state-sponsored forced labor anywhere in its supply chain. The website includes businesses across virtually every major industry, including retail, automotive, consumer goods, industrial manufacturing, electronics and agricultural products.

"Modern slavery is a blight on humanity," said Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels. "An estimated 50 million people are trapped in modern slavery, many of whom are hidden in opaque supply chains."

The tool is meant to serve as a starting point rather than a final judgment, Exiger noted, offering an early warning of potential forced labor risks in regions based on publicly available data, such as trade records, corporate filings, sanctions lists and enforcement actions. By making the platform freely accessible, the company said its aim is to broaden awareness of forced labor exposure across global supply chains, particularly for smaller organizations and individuals that may not have the resources to conduct their own in-depth supplier investigations.

The platform also has a special focus on identifying subsidiaries and suppliers based out of China's controversial Xinjiang region, which has been the subject of widespread allegations of state-sponsored forced labor, and has faced heightened scrutiny under U.S. trade enforcement measures such as the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

"Corporate actors must be open-eyed and take action to avoid complicity in this abuse and billions of dollars in global supply chains that rely on the CCP's persecution of the Uyghurs," said Republican U.S. Representative John Moolenaar.