SupplyShift vs Motive

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Motive leads in AI visibility (85 vs 54)
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SupplyShift

ChallengerSupply Chain

Supply Chain Sustainability

Santa Cruz-based supply chain sustainability platform founded in 2013; helps brands collect ESG data from suppliers, score performance, and manage labor, environmental, and diversity risks.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
C54
Category Rank
#97 of 263
AI Consensus
78%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
51
Perplexity
56
Gemini
53

About

SupplyShift is a Santa Cruz, California-based supply chain sustainability platform that helps companies collect, analyze, and act on sustainability and ESG data from their supplier networks. Founded in 2013, SupplyShift provides a digital supplier engagement platform that enables brands and manufacturers to send tailored sustainability questionnaires, collect supplier-reported data, score and benchmark supplier performance, and build risk heat maps across their supply chains. The platform covers a range of ESG topics including labor rights, environmental impact, ethical sourcing, and diversity and inclusion, with assessment templates aligned to global standards including the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Sedex, and industry-specific frameworks.\n\nSupplyShift's collaboration model emphasizes supplier engagement and improvement over pure compliance auditing. Rather than treating suppliers as subjects of one-directional data demands, the platform includes tools that help suppliers understand their scores, benchmark themselves against peers, and access educational resources to improve their sustainability performance over time. This capacity-building approach is intended to create genuine supply chain improvement rather than checkbox compliance, and has resonated with companies that want to demonstrate real-world ESG impact to investors and customers rather than just documenting risk disclosure.\n\nSupplyShift has built a network effect through its shared supplier database, which reduces data collection burden when multiple brands use the platform with the same supplier—the supplier can complete their profile once and share it across multiple customer requests, reducing survey fatigue. The company serves customers across technology, consumer goods, retail, and food sectors. SupplyShift competes with EcoVadis, Sedex, and TrusTrace in the supplier sustainability assessment market, differentiating on platform flexibility, supplier development focus, and the shared supplier data network that reduces collection friction.

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Motive

LeaderTransportation

AI Fleet Management

San Francisco fleet management platform (formerly KeepTruckin) serving 120K+ customers with AI dashcams, ELD compliance, and GPS; $2.85B valuation competing with Samsara for commercial fleet telematics.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A85
Category Rank
#9 of 263
AI Consensus
78%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
84
Perplexity
81
Gemini
87

About

Motive (formerly KeepTruckin, rebranded 2022) is a San Francisco-based fleet management and physical operations platform providing AI-powered telematics — video dashcams, GPS tracking, electronic logging device (ELD) compliance, driver safety coaching, and fleet spend management — to trucking, construction, oil and gas, agriculture, and field service companies managing commercial vehicles. Founded in 2013 by CEO Shoaib Makani and backed with $400+ million raised including a $150 million Series E in 2021 at a $2.85 billion valuation from investors including CapitalG (Google) and Andreessen Horowitz, Motive serves 120,000+ customers managing 1 million+ physical assets.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

54
Overall Score
85
#97
Category Rank
#9
78
AI Consensus
78
stable
Trend
stable
51
ChatGPT
84
56
Perplexity
81
53
Gemini
87
59
Claude
90
59
Grok
88

Key Details

Category
Supply Chain Sustainability
AI Fleet Management
Tier
Challenger
Leader
Entity Type
brand
brand

Capabilities & Ecosystem

Capabilities

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Supply Chain Sustainability
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AI Fleet Management

Integrations

Only Motive

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