P1 · Verifiable Origin

Supply Chain Component Provenance

Hide supplier-internal transaction data
Prove the part carries a legitimate provenance chain

Chain per-lot component provenance — issuer-signed at every supplier tier — into a ZK proof the assembler can verify.

Manufacturing · Automotive · Electronics supply chain 6 min read
live in production since 2025 · Public-infrastructure PoC in production · ETHGlobal AI Agents 2026 Finalist
01 · WHO IT'S FOR

Who this is for.

Are you still receiving component provenance (country of origin, manufacturing lot, modification history) as Excel sheets and supplier-submitted PDFs, then aggregating internally? Does it feel like there's no structural way to detect tampering several tiers back?

  • Procurement leads and supply chain management at manufacturers (automotive, electronics, industrial equipment)

  • Quality assurance teams setting up traceability and recall-response evidence at the component level

  • Teams building per-component provenance chains for Digital Product Passport (DPP) compliance

02 · THE SHIFT

Hand over the source, or just the facts?

Change what reaches the AI, and the leakage risk goes with it.

Without Lemma
Hand over the original
component_id:
COMP-ABC-001
part_name:
motor control board
supplier_tier_1:
Corp A
supplier_tier_2:
Corp B
supplier_tier_3:
Corp C
batch:
2024-Q3-15
↓ all of it goes to the AI / outside
With Lemma
Hand over just the facts
subject:
did:lemma:component-COMP-ABC-001
issuer:
did:lemma:supplier-A
sourceHash:
0x3c8d…f7a2
lineageChain:
[tier-3, tier-2, tier-1, assembly]
recordedAt:
2024-08-15T08:00:00Z
integrity:
poseidon-merkle
ZK verified:
✓ VALID
↓ only the necessary facts to the AI

Lemma lets every supplier tier issue component attributes (country of origin, manufacturing lot, modification history, quality test results) as issuer-signed attestations, with per-component cryptographic links to upstream tiers. Supplier names, contract terms, and cost data stay under the issuer's control. What crosses to the receiving side is only a ZK proof: "this part was produced in a certified Tier-3 facility," "this lot passed the specified test threshold."

Autonomous procurement agents can verify the per-component provenance chain as a ZK proof before confirming an order. Tampering attempts, counterfeit lot injection, and gray-market entry are structurally detectable as chain-integrity breaks — execution stops at the boundary without tracing all the way upstream manually.

How this provenance chain fits your procurement structure and DPP / traceability requirements is what we map out in a first conversation.

See the technical details ↗
03 · HOW TO CHOOSE

Choose on three criteria.

Only work that needs all three at once — pass without exposing, independent verification, tamper-proof — is Lemma's domain.

Method Pass without exposing Independent verification Tamper-proof
Access control only
Masking / anonymization
Encryption only
Lemma (ZK proof)the only one with all 3
04 · HOW IT WORKS

What's next

We enter through adoption support and a PoC, and stay alongside you through to operations.

  1. A 30-minute review — identify components / procurement paths still received as supplier-submitted documents (Excel, PDF), where tampering several tiers back can't be detected.
  2. Narrow to 1–2 decisions (results) to prove — e.g. "produced in a certified Tier-3 facility," "this lot passed the specified test threshold" — facts to verify before an order. Not supplier names, contract terms, or cost.
  3. Design connection and the provenance chain — connection to your existing PLM / MES / ERP, and per-component linking of issuer-signed attributes from each supplier tier.
  4. Prove one path via a (quote-based) PoC — confirm the provenance chain works on one component procurement path.
  5. Hands-on support from rollout through operations — existing plan tiers (Civic / Critical / Compliance) serve only as a cost reference; the setup and pricing are designed together.

Tell us one component procurement path that carries the most provenance risk, in the first 30 minutes. No disclosure of supplier contracts or cost information required.

The bigger picture

The bigger picture this use case belongs to.

We map use scenarios across industries and workflows by the four axes.

See use scenarios for Verifiable Origin in Solutions →

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