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Watchtower: a manufacturing control tower

Battery manufacturing now runs under overlapping sourcing, tariff, and evidence regimes. Watchtower puts every compliance question for a component into one view and one exportable record.

Role
Principal architect, pilot design & systems
Built for
Graphene EV · Pilot proof-of-value · EV battery manufacturing supply chain · Southeast US
Disciplines
Software · Systems
Status
Pilot proof-of-value · illustrative data
Stack
Single-file control console · seeded pilot dataset · audit export
Manufacturing control tower console showing sourcing, tariff, evidence, and passport status for a battery component.
Watchtower for Graphene EV: five compliance obligations in one view. End customers shown as OEM, plant as Southeast US. Illustrative pilot data.
The problem

Compliance evidence scattered across the supply chain.

For an EV battery manufacturer, a single component can carry foreign-entity sourcing restrictions, tariff exposure, forced-labor evidence obligations, and battery-passport reporting at once. The evidence sits with suppliers, brokers, carriers, and internal systems, each holding a fragment. The question was whether every one of those obligations could be answered from one coordinated view, with evidence an auditor would accept.

The method — Sequence

Decompose. Digitize. Solve at the integrations.

The Sequence method, applied end to end — the same move that runs through every Digi-DNA project.

/01 — DECOMPOSE

The component's obligations

Reduce the supply chain to one component and the five questions it must answer: sourcing eligibility, tariff scenario, forced-labor evidence, passport data, and audit trail.

/02 — DIGITIZE

A seeded, labelled dataset

Model the obligations against a synthetic dataset, explicitly labelled as illustrative, and express passport data in a structured, exportable format.

/03 — INTEGRATE

One tower, one export

Bring every obligation into a single control console and close with an audit export that carries the evidence chain, so the answer and its proof travel together.

A control tower is building intelligence for a supply chain: sense the state, surface it to operators, act under rules, and verify. The pilot was designed to prove that loop in thirty days.

Inside the system

Screens and features.

Manufacturing command center with confidence, inventory, capacity, and approval gates.
Command center: inbound cells, zone capacity, alerts, and human approval gates.
Inbound flow table of ocean lanes with confidence-scored ETAs.
Inbound flow: every ocean lane with confidence-scored arrival estimates and source feeds.
Capacity simulator chart with ranked mitigation options.
Capacity simulator: projected utilization with ranked no-cost mitigation options.
The outcome

Five obligations, one view.

  • Five-part proof of value — sourcing compliance, tariff scenarios, forced-labor evidence pack, battery passport, and audit export, run as a single scripted demonstration.
  • Thirty-day pilot design — scoped with carrier readiness graded before go-live rather than assumed.
  • Honest data — every figure in the demonstration labelled as illustrative pilot data.
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