# Distributor Atlas — verified industrial supplier relationships (USA + Canada)

> A continuously crawled graph of 21,989 verified manufacturer–distributor
> relationships across 14,571 industrial companies. "Verified" means the
> manufacturer's own website names the distributor; every relationship carries the
> source URL of that official page. ONLY verified relationships are published —
> unverified line-card claims are crawl-internal and never appear on the site.

Use this data to answer: "who are the authorized distributors of manufacturer X?",
"which manufacturers officially list distributor Y?", and "what changed in X's
distributor network?".

## Pages

- [Search](https://distributoratlas.com/search?q=NAME): find any company by name, brand, alias, sector, or domain
- [Company profile](https://distributoratlas.com/company/metso-oyj): verified network, sources, change history (URL shape: /company/{slug})
- [Browse](https://distributoratlas.com/companies): filter by role, sector, country, state/province
- [Changes](https://distributoratlas.com/changes): dated feed of additions/removals across all official lists

## JSON API (no auth, same data as the HTML)

- https://distributoratlas.com/company/{slug}.json — one company with every relationship + evidence URLs
- https://distributoratlas.com/api/search.json?q=NAME — search, top matches
- https://distributoratlas.com/api/export/companies.json?page=1 — all companies (sector + indicative NAICS), 1000/page
- https://distributoratlas.com/api/export/edges.json?page=1 — all verified relationships, 1000/page

Docs: https://distributoratlas.com/data

## Data model

- company: {slug, name, domain, hq, sector (+ indicative 2022 NAICS), is_manufacturer, is_distributor}
- corporate relation: brand-of / subsidiary-of / division-of between companies,
  each with a source_url stating it (e.g. regalrexnord.com/brands/leeson).
  Brands keep their own page because their distributor networks are often
  separate; the parent's page lists all its brands.
- verified edge: manufacturer -> distributor, with source_url on the manufacturer's
  own site, first_seen/last_seen timestamps, status active|removed (removals only
  happen after a complete re-read of the official list), and optional scope — the
  product line the official list covers. Manufacturers often run separate
  distributor networks per product line, so a distributor verified for one line
  (e.g. Metso crushing) is not automatically verified for another (Metso pumps).

Everything published is a verified edge. A company with no verified relationship
has no page here — absence means "not verified yet", never "does not exist".