Founder Letter / Vol. 01 mySupplyChain.ai — Operational Foundations for AI Est. 2026
About the company

A small startup, building one thing well.

mySupplyChain.ai is a 2026 founder-led startup helping mid-market operations teams build the documentation foundation that AI actually needs to be useful. We're early. We'd rather tell you what's true than pretend otherwise.

Most operations leaders we talk to have already sat through the AI demo. The one where the vendor promises optimization, prediction, autonomous decisions — and somewhere around minute twenty it becomes obvious the tool has no idea how their operation actually runs.

The problem isn't the AI. The AI is genuinely getting better every quarter. The problem is that operational reality lives in places no model can see: tribal knowledge in a plant manager's head, a spreadsheet on someone's laptop, a workaround nobody wrote down because everyone already knows.

We started mySupplyChain.ai in 2026 to fix that gap. Not by building yet another AI optimizer — there are plenty — but by helping operations teams capture the foundation that every AI tool needs: a working model of how the operation actually runs today. You own it. You maintain it. As AI capabilities advance, the same foundation keeps unlocking more.

We're a small team working closely with a handful of design partners while we shape the product. The website talks about the destination because that's what websites do. This page is about where we actually are: early, opinionated, and building the thing we wish existed when we worked in operations ourselves.

If that's interesting to you — especially if you're an operations leader at a mid-market manufacturer, distributor, or contract producer — we'd like to talk.

Brian Malec Founder · mySupplyChain.ai

What we are, and what we are not.

We are

  • A small, focused 2026 startup.
  • Founder-led, with operations and AI experience behind it.
  • Working hand-in-hand with a handful of design partners.
  • Building one product carefully, in the open with our partners.
  • Honest about what works today versus what's still being built.

We are not

  • A 500-person consultancy with global delivery offices.
  • A polished platform with thousands of customers.
  • The right fit if you need turnkey software today.
  • The cheapest option, or a free trial.
  • Pretending to be further along than we are.

Four things we refuse to compromise on.

P / 01

Reality over wishful thinking.

We document operations as they are, not as the org chart says they should be. The whole point is to capture what AI tools cannot see on their own — workarounds, tribal knowledge, the actual constraints.

P / 02

You own the model.

Open formats. No proprietary lock-in. The operational foundation is yours to maintain, port, and use with whatever AI tooling makes sense — including tools we don't build.

P / 03

Build with users, not for them.

Everything we ship comes out of real conversations with real operations teams. Design partners shape the roadmap. Generic best-practice templates are not what we sell.

P / 04

Honest about state.

We will tell you what works today, what's prototype, and what's still on the page rather than in code. If the answer is "not yet," we say so. If a competitor fits better, we say that too.

The build, in plain language.

Updated · Q2 2026
Active Operational model authoring The core product. AI-assisted authoring of a working operational model — systems, processes, constraints, information flow — in a format that's both human-editable and AI-readable.
Prototype Scenario simulation Running what-if questions against the model — capacity, shifts, capital decisions, system changes. In design-partner trials. Useful, not yet polished.
Next Industry templates Pre-built operational hypotheses by industry so model authoring starts at 70–80% complete instead of zero. Manufacturing first, then distribution.
Next Use case library A growing set of documented business questions teams can answer once a foundation is in place — capacity, capital planning, customer commitments, operational change.

If this sounds like the company you'd want to work with — let's talk.

We're talking with mid-market operations leaders who are tired of AI demos that don't fit their reality. A 30-minute conversation, no pitch deck.

Start a conversation
Or write directly · info@mysupplychain.ai