Load Factor

For primes, OEMs and buyers

Ask who supplies what in aerospace and defense

Free to search. Every fact carries a public source you can open. Your introduction or RFQ goes only to the suppliers you pick, screened and logged.

The record

Thirty days · published as it is verified · updated 4 October 2026

  • 381

    verified entries

  • 193

    on the titles

  • 226

    companies named

  • 78

    sources read

  • 64

    orders and awards

  • 3

    titles

Latest in the record

Northrop Grumman’s autonomous cost-cutter Talon Blue takes first flight

Northrop Grumman · AeroTime · 4 October 2026

Read the titlesEvery entry links its source

The graph

Every fact has a source you can open.

A profile for each company that sells into aerospace and defense: what it makes, its certifications, locations, people and documents. We build it from the public record and the registers, above a floor of three sourced facts. Every fact carries a source you can reach, and every profile carries a correction route. A claimed profile is one the company has confirmed. A Verified profile is one we write and keep current under the Verified mark, and the mark says that about the profile's upkeep, nothing about the company itself. The graph is organised by category, with a buyer's guide for each, so you can read a category before you shortlist in it. Start at every company named.

The assistant

Ask in plain words. Free.

Ask in plain words: AS9100 machine shops in Ohio with a DoD award in the last year and a TSO. The assistant answers from the verified graph, with the source on every fact, and it costs nothing. Introductions and RFQ requests go to the suppliers you pick, screened and logged. Your own AI can read the same graph: a free key opens the public graph and the record over the API and the MCP server, read-only, so your copilot answers from the record. The key is on the record as a file.

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The seat

One question, or your whole portfolio.

The seat is the assistant with a private layer, for a team that sources at portfolio scale. Your target-account list is matched to the verified graph, and it stays yours. Introductions and RFQs route from your own systems, and alerts cover the suppliers you name. Anything the record publishes about them reaches you within twenty minutes, and daily for the registers, which is as often as they publish. Portfolio monitoring reads the public record across your whole supplier list: new certifications and lapses, awards, ownership and filing changes, restricted-party changes, each row with its source. All of it is delivered into your own systems and your own AI through MCP. The free assistant is the trial, and the price is on the price list.

  • The sourcing assistant

    Free

    Ask the verified graph in plain words: AS9100 machine shops in Ohio with a DoD award in the last year and a TSO. Introductions and RFQ requests go to the suppliers you pick, screened and logged.

  • Sourcing seat

    $25,000 to $50,000a year, to $100,000 for a large portfolio

    The assistant with a private layer: your target-account list matched to the verified graph, with RFQ and introduction routing. Alerts cover the suppliers you name. Anything the record publishes reaches you within twenty minutes; the registers are read daily, which is as often as they publish. Portfolio monitoring reads the public record across your whole list, with the source on every row. Delivered into your own systems and your own AI through MCP, and never a place in the record.

Never for sale

The record is never for sale.

The record. An entry gets in when it passes the seven tests on the standard, and a seat, a profile or a channel buys no place in it. The Verified mark is a fact about a profile's upkeep, never a judgement about a company. Where a company named in an entry has a paid channel, the entry says so.

The routing

Picked by you, screened, logged.

You pick the suppliers; nothing is broadcast. The introduction or RFQ request is screened, routed to the supplier you named, and logged. The supplier's weekly referral report is built from the same log, so both sides see the same facts about what reached them and from where.

Questions

The questions buyers ask first.

What does it cost to search?

Nothing. The assistant, the graph and the record are free to read, and the free key opens them to your own AI over the API and the MCP server, read-only. The Sourcing seat is the paid product, and its price is on the price list.

Does a seat put a supplier in the record?

No. The record is edited on its own terms, and an entry gets in when it passes the tests on the standard. What a supplier can buy is a profile kept by us, a channel for its own words and delivery into its own systems, and each is labelled as what it is.

What do we send a supplier we pick?

An introduction or an RFQ request, in your own words, screened and logged. The supplier answers you directly, and the log shows both of you what was sent and when.

Where do the graph's facts come from?

The public record and the registers, and the company's own published material where the profile is claimed or Verified. Every fact carries its source, and every profile carries a correction route.

What does the seat add over the free assistant?

The private layer. Your account list matched to the graph, routing from your own systems, and alerts on the suppliers you name: within twenty minutes for anything the record publishes, and daily for the registers. Portfolio monitoring across your whole list, with the source on every row, delivered into your own AI through MCP. The assistant answers one question at a time. The seat watches your whole portfolio.

Can our copilot use the graph without a seat?

Yes. The free key is read-only over the public graph and the record, and it returns nothing the site would not publish. The seat and the Data plan add the private and commercial layers, and both are on the price list.

Ask the record for what you source.

An introduction or an RFQ request goes to the suppliers you pick, screened and logged.