Know the company — and who's behind it

Verification starts by reconstructing how the company is owned and controlled. Rather than reading a single registry line, the platform maps the ownership and control structure as a graph: the company, its parent and holding entities, subsidiaries, and the shareholding and control relationships that connect them. Following those edges upward resolves the ultimate beneficial owners — the natural persons who own or control the business once the corporate layers are removed. Because the structure is a graph, an offshore vehicle or an intermediate holding company that would hide a beneficial owner from a name-only check becomes a visible node on the path, with its relationship to the company and its stake shown explicitly, so you can see exactly where control actually sits.

Ownership is only part of who runs a company. The verification also identifies the directors and officers of record and the related entities in the group — subsidiaries, affiliates, and companies sharing owners or controllers. These are the parties whose conduct a regulator will attribute to the counterparty and the connections through which risk typically travels. Surfacing them turns a single company lookup into a picture of the network around it, so a problem at a sister company or a director with adverse history is visible before it becomes your problem. Each related party is placed in the ownership graph with its role, giving analysts a structured map to work from rather than a disconnected list of names.

Discovering the beneficial owners and directors is only useful if you then screen them. Every related person the verification surfaces is checked against the platform's sanctions sources, its dedicated PEP domain of 750,000+ structured records, and its criminal watchlists — the same coverage as a standard screening, applied to the people behind the company rather than only the company itself. This is what catches the case a name-only check misses: the registered entity is clean, but a beneficial owner is sanctioned, a director is a politically exposed person, or a controller appears on a wanted list. You see the exposure attached to the humans who own and run the business, which is where onboarding and investment risk actually lives.

Every KYB and UBO verification is captured as a point-in-time dossier and exported as a PDF that reproduces the result exactly as it stood on the date of the check — it is never recalculated. The dossier records the ownership graph, the beneficial owners and directors, the related entities, and the screening outcomes for the people behind the company, with sources. This is the artefact your auditor, regulator, or investment committee actually wants: a dated, self-contained account of who owned and controlled the counterparty and what you found, defensible months or years later when a decision is questioned. Choose the tier — Lite through Enhanced Due Diligence — that matches the weight of the decision.