Adverse media checks with clickable evidence

When you run an adverse media check, the platform performs a fresh open-source investigation rather than querying a cached index. An AI agent searches current public sources — news, regulatory notices, court records, corporate filings — for the entity you entered, reads what it finds, and assembles the negative signals that matter: fraud, corruption, sanctions evasion, financial crime, regulatory action. Because the search runs at the moment of the check, a report published yesterday is in scope, where a pre-crawled index would miss it until its next refresh. This is the difference between screening against a snapshot of the internet and screening against the internet as it is right now, which is what a defensible adverse media decision requires.

Adverse coverage rarely arrives in English. A procurement fraud in Warsaw, a regulatory settlement in Jakarta, or a corruption indictment in São Paulo is first — and often only — reported in the local language. The adverse media check expands each query beyond English so the investigation searches and reads sources in the languages where the risk is actually documented. English-only tools systematically miss regional reporting and give a false all-clear on entities that are, in fact, well covered abroad. By searching in local languages the check surfaces findings a monolingual crawler never sees, which is exactly where cross-border counterparties tend to carry undisclosed exposure.

Every negative signal the check returns is linked to the source it came from. Instead of an unattributed snippet or a risk score you cannot interrogate, you get a short summary of each finding alongside the clickable source URLs behind it — the article, the notice, the filing. An analyst can open the link, confirm the claim, judge its relevance, and dismiss or escalate it on the evidence rather than on the tool's say-so. The summary and its citations are captured in the point-in-time evidence record for the check, so the finding is documented for your file and defensible to an auditor who asks where a conclusion came from.

When an adverse media check surfaces something serious, you rarely want to stop at a summary. The check is the entry point to the platform's Deep Research tiers: escalate the same entity into a Deep Research Lite or full Deep Research Report for an analyst-grade dossier that combines ownership, related parties, and a fuller adverse-media investigation into one point-in-time PDF. This keeps routine screening cheap — a €1.49 check clears the majority of counterparties — while giving you a clear, priced path to depth on the few that warrant enhanced due diligence, without switching tools or re-entering the case.