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What is Know Your Business (KYB)?

KYB, short for Know Your Business, means checking a company before you start working with it. You confirm it exists and is properly registered, find out who ultimately owns and controls it, and check whether the company or its owners carry any risk. It’s the business version of KYC, and it’s harder, because companies can sit behind layers of ownership, shell structures and registrations in several countries. In the UAE that often means a mainland licence, a free zone entity and an offshore holding company all in the same group. Proper KYB tells you more than whether a business exists. It tells you who is behind it and whether they’re safe to deal with. Beady automates the whole check using public data.

What is KYB (Know Your Business)?
Why manual and traditional KYB falls short

Manual KYB takes forever. To verify one company you have to pull registry documents, trace ownership by hand across jurisdictions and check every name against one list after another. That can take days or even weeks per business. In the UAE it’s slower still, because company records are split between each emirate’s economic department, more than 40 free zones, and the DIFC and ADGM registrars. Ownership is the hardest part. The real owners are often hidden behind holding companies and nominee shareholders, and a manual search rarely gets to the bottom of it. Manual KYB is also a one-off, just like manual KYC. You approve a company at onboarding and never check it again, so a new sanction, lawsuit or change of ownership goes unnoticed until it turns into a problem. Accuracy and coverage both take a hit.

Why traditional and manual KYB fails
How AI makes KYB better

With automation, weeks of KYB work take minutes. Beady checks a company against public registries, maps its ownership using a database of more than 200M entities and officers, and screens the company and its owners for sanctions, adverse media and litigation in a single automated run. The AI looks at context instead of just matching names, which removes around 95% of the noise, so what you see is real risk and not a pile of false positives. Monitoring carries on after onboarding too. If there’s a new sanction, lawsuit or ownership change, you’ll hear about it within hours. You get a full, verified picture of the business without collecting a single document.

KYB with AI makes it better
01 Preventing Financial Crime
Companies get used to launder money, move sanctioned funds and front for fraud, usually behind a shell that looks perfectly legitimate. KYB screening brings those red flags to the surface before you’re linked to them, so your business doesn’t end up as a channel for someone else’s financial crime without you knowing.
02 Identifying Ultimate Beneficial Owners
You can’t judge a company’s risk if you don’t know who really controls it. Beady follows beneficial ownership through holding companies and nominees to the actual people behind a business. You end up checking the individuals who own and run it, and not just a company name. That’s also what UAE beneficial ownership rules expect from you.
03 Regulatory Compliance
KYB is a legal requirement in finance and many other regulated sectors, and UAE regulators such as the CBUAE, DFSA, FSRA, VARA and the Ministry of Economy expect you to prove you did it. Beady verifies businesses, screens their owners and keeps a record of every check with the source attached, so you can meet your obligations and show the evidence whenever you’re asked.
04 Mitigating Fraud Risks
Fake companies, front businesses and firms with a history of fraud usually look fine at first glance. Beady looks further, checking the business and its owners for the fraud signals and red flags that point to a risky counterparty, before it costs you anything.
05 Sanctions and Reputation Screening
A company can be sanctioned itself, or it can be quietly owned by someone who is. Beady screens both the business and its beneficial owners against the UAE Local Terrorist List, other global sanctions lists and adverse media, so a sanctioned party hiding behind a corporate structure doesn’t get past your checks.
06 Safeguarding Supply Chains
Each supplier and vendor you take on is another way into your business. Beady runs KYB on the companies in your supply chain and screens them for sanctions, legal and reputational risk, so a bad partner doesn’t expose you to disruption, penalties or a scandal later on. This is especially relevant if you source through Jebel Ali or the free zones and work with suppliers in many countries.
07 Building Investor Trust
Investors and acquirers want to know the companies in a portfolio are clean. Solid KYB, with verified ownership and documented screening, shows the due diligence was done properly. That helps you earn investors’ trust and stand behind the companies you’ve backed.
08 Reputation and Brand Protection
The companies you partner with reflect on you. If a business you work with is later exposed for fraud or sanctions breaches, some of that damage lands on your name too, and in a market as relationship-driven as the UAE, a reputation is hard to win back. KYB screening shows you that risk before you’re associated with it and protects the trust your brand is built on.

What KYB Screening Software Checks and Automates

Registry Verification and Active Status
Registry Verification and Active Status
Make sure a company is real and in good standing. Beady checks businesses against official public registries, looking at incorporation, registration details and current status, so you know the company actually exists and is active before you agree to work with it.
UBO mapping: beneficial ownership across jurisdictions
UBO Mapping
A company name tells you nothing about the people behind it. Beady maps beneficial ownership and traces the individuals who ultimately own or control a business, using a database of more than 200M entities and officers. You see who you’re actually dealing with, not just the name on the documents.
Global Sanctions and Blacklists Screening
Global Sanctions and Blacklists Screening
Check every company and its owners against the sanctions lists and watchlists that matter, including the UAE Local Terrorist List, the UN, OFAC, the EU and the UK’s HMT. Lists are refreshed daily and Beady flags a match as soon as it appears, so sanctioned parties don’t get past your checks.
Continuous Litigation and Court Records Tracking
Continuous Litigation and Court Records Tracking
Legal trouble is a red flag that rarely announces itself. Beady tracks litigation and court records linked to a company or its owners and keeps checking, so if a business you work with is hit by a new lawsuit or judgment, you hear about it straight away and not months later.
Adverse Media and Social Risk Intelligence
Adverse Media and Social Risk Intelligence
Some risks show up in the news or on social media well before they reach an official record. Beady scans more than 100K news sources and social channels for negative coverage about a business or its owners and picks up fraud, scandals and reputational red flags that others miss.
Shell Company and Risk Indicator Flagging
Shell Company and Risk Indicator Flagging
Shell companies and opaque structures are often used to hide who’s really in control and to move money out of sight. Beady flags the risk indicators linked to them, so you can spot a suspicious structure before it becomes your problem.

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Registry, UBO, officers and risk screening in one go. Minutes instead of weeks.
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Built for Every Kind of Company in the UAE

Any company that onboards suppliers, partners or corporate clients needs to know who it’s really dealing with. Beady automates business verification for companies of any size and in any sector, from funds in DIFC to traders in DMCC and groups on the mainland.
Beady for Fintechs and Crypto
For Fintechs and Crypto
Onboard business customers and partners quickly while verifying each one and screening its owners for sanctions and adverse media, and keep monitoring them as you expand into new markets. Works well for companies licensed by VARA, the DFSA or the FSRA.
Beady for Venture Funds
For Venture Funds
Run KYB on target companies before you invest, mapping ownership and checking for risk, then keep monitoring your portfolio companies so you hear about a sanction, lawsuit or ownership change as soon as it happens.
Beady for Investment Companies
For Investment Companies
Verify and keep monitoring every company in your portfolio, so a new risk or change of ownership at one of your holdings comes up within hours instead of at the next quarterly review.
Beady for procurement and vendor teams
For Procurement and Vendor Teams
Verify suppliers and vendors and find out who owns them before you sign, screening for sanctions, legal and reputational risk so a problem company doesn’t end up in your supply chain.
Beady for Compliance Teams
For Compliance Teams
Automate business verification and owner screening, cut false positives by up to 95%, and attach source-linked evidence to every KYB decision so your records hold up during an inspection.
Beady for Law Firms
For Law Firms
Run quick KYB checks you can defend for M&A, client onboarding and due diligence, with verified ownership and every finding linked to its original public source.
Beady for Financial Institutions
For Financial Institutions
Meet KYB and AML obligations at scale. Verify corporate customers and counterparties and keep monitoring them, so a business that’s newly sanctioned or high-risk gets flagged the day it happens. Suitable for banks, exchange houses and finance companies supervised by the CBUAE.
Beady for Regulated Industries
For Regulated Industries
Meet the KYB and AML rules for your sector, whether that’s iGaming, insurance, healthcare, real estate or precious metals, with verification and screening set up around the checks your regulator asks for.
Beady for Large Corporates
For Large Corporates
Verify and screen suppliers, vendors and partners across the whole group, mapping ownership and monitoring risk properly and at scale, all from one place.

Works Across Industries

One platform for every industry. Verify the businesses you work with and screen their owners for sanctions, litigation and adverse media, whether you’re based in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah or anywhere else in the Emirates.
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Software and Technology industry illustration
Software and Technology
Verify investors, acquirers and enterprise partners and see who owns them before you commit, then keep monitoring key business relationships through funding rounds, M&A and growth.
Finance and Insurance industry illustration
Finance and Insurance
Meet KYB and AML obligations with automated business verification, UBO mapping and ongoing monitoring that flags restricted corporate clients and counterparties the day it happens.
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Supply Chain
Verify every supplier and vendor and trace their ownership across all tiers, screening for sanctions and legal risk before onboarding and on an ongoing basis.
Government industry illustration
Government
Verify contractors, grant recipients and procurement partners and map their ownership, with linked sources to support full public accountability.
Law Enforcement industry illustration: 100,000+ open sources, source-verified leads
Law Enforcement
Speed up investigations by searching corporate registries, more than 200M entities and officers, sanctions and litigation records in one place, with every result backed by a source.
Human Resources industry illustration
Human Resources
Verify the staffing agencies, manpower supply companies and contractor firms you use, and screen them and their owners for sanctions and legal risk before you rely on them.
Healthcare industry illustration
Healthcare
Verify healthcare providers, vendors and partner companies and map their ownership, screening for sanctions and exclusion risk to protect patients and your standing with health regulators.
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Trading
Check counterparty companies and the people behind them for sanctions, ownership and adverse media risk in minutes, before you take a position. Especially useful for commodities, gold and re-export businesses.
iGaming industry illustration
iGaming
Verify partner and supplier companies and map their owners, screening for sanctions and AML risk so you meet your licensing obligations under the UAE’s commercial gaming rules without slowing down onboarding.
Energy and Utilities industry illustration
Energy and Utilities
Verify partners, contractors and joint venture companies and trace their ownership, screening for sanctions and reputational risk in every market where you operate.
Manufacturing industry illustration
Manufacturing
Verify suppliers, distributors and partner companies in different markets, mapping ownership and screening for sanctions and legal risk to keep your networks clean.
Media and Telecom industry illustration
Media and Telecom
Verify advertisers, vendors and partner companies and screen them for sanctions and adverse media risk before you sign any agreements.
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Retail
Verify suppliers, franchisees and wholesale partners and map their ownership, screening for sanctions and reputational risk as you grow.

Set Once. Monitor Daily

There are two options. Run a quick one-time check before you onboard a business, or switch on daily monitoring that runs for as long as the relationship lasts.

One-Time Scan

A quick first KYB check. It verifies a company against registries, maps its ownership and screens the company and its owners for sanctions, litigation and adverse media in one go, without asking for any documents.

It’s designed for the onboarding decision you need to make now, so you can clear red flags and confirm a business is safe to work with before you commit.

One-time scan of a name across news, profiles, legal bases and additional sources

Ongoing Monitoring

KYB doesn’t stop at onboarding, and Beady doesn’t either. Ongoing monitoring rescreens every company each day and keeps watching the company and its owners. A one-time check shows you one moment. Monitoring shows you risk as it changes.

Beady uses multiple sources that are refreshed daily, so it flags a new sanction, lawsuit or ownership change as soon as it shows up, long before your next scheduled review would.

Ongoing Monitoring

Clear Intelligence, Built for Your Workflow

Trace every finding back to its source, create reports ready for audit and send KYB results to the tools your team already uses.
Social Signals Monitoring
Beady tracks public social media in real time as well as official records. Signals about a business or its owners, like an accusation, an arrest or a scandal that’s starting to build, often appear on social media hours or days before they reach the news or a registry.

How early depends on the company and the sector, but social monitoring runs on every business you screen, so you get the earliest warning available.
Social Signals Monitoring
Messenger Integration for Daily Risk Alerts
Beady can send daily alerts to messaging apps with the most important KYB findings from your monitoring, so you don’t have to log in to the portal every day.

Read the short summary on your phone, and if something needs a closer look, log in to see the full report and the evidence behind each flag.
Messenger Integration for Daily Risk Alerts
Quality of the Data Provided
Beady uses publicly available data only. It’s refreshed every day and updated as soon as something changes, and every finding links directly to the registry or record it came from.

The AI doesn’t invent or exaggerate anything. You can check every result against its original source, so your KYB decisions are based on evidence you can verify and not on guesswork.
Quality of the Data Provided
Report Consolidation
Bookmark the findings that matter and build a KYB report for a specific company, case or decision. You can share it with an analyst, the compliance team, your MLRO or an auditor in a couple of clicks.

Everyone works from the same verified findings, so nobody has to put the file together again by hand.
Report Consolidation

How It Works

Here’s how a company name turns into a complete, verified KYB profile with ownership mapped and risks screened, step by step, without collecting any documents.
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Add the Party
Step 1
Add the Company
Enter the business you want to verify by its legal name (as shown on the trade licence), trade name or registration number to get started.
Screen
Step 2
Verify and Map
Beady checks the company against public registries and maps its ownership using more than 200M entities and officers, showing who really controls it.
Map and Filter
Step 3
Screen
The business and its owners are automatically screened against sanctions lists, adverse media, litigation records and more than 100,000 other sources.
Build the Profile
Step 4
Process and Build the Profile
The AI removes noise and false matches and builds a single KYB profile sorted by severity, with each finding linked to its source.
Monitor and Share
Step 5
Monitor and Share
Keep the company on daily monitoring for new risks and share a clean, audit-ready report with your team whenever you need to.

Less Spend, Faster Answers

Here's how Beady compares with the two approaches most UAE compliance teams use now.

Report-based due diligence
Screening databases
01 / 07 How you pay
Beady
One plan based on the number of entities monitored
Report-based due diligence
Per report, and every refresh is a new order
Screening databases
By screening volume, with add-ons billed separately
02 / 07 Ongoing monitoring
Beady
Included, throughout the day
Report-based due diligence
Not included, a report is a one-off snapshot
Screening databases
Rescreens its own database, updated by researchers
03 / 07 Changing your watchlist
Beady
Swap entities whenever you like
Report-based due diligence
Every new name means a new report
Screening databases
New records add to the bill
04 / 07 Time to first result
Beady
Minutes
Report-based due diligence
Hours to days
Screening databases
Minutes, but with heavy noise
05 / 07 Evidence
Beady
Every finding linked to its source
Report-based due diligence
Sources buried in a static document
Screening databases
Database hit, source often not shown
06 / 07 False positives
Beady
Up to 95% removed before review
Report-based due diligence
Analyst reads the entire report
Screening databases
Your team clears them manually
07 / 07 Getting started
Beady
Live the same day, 2 weeks free
Report-based due diligence
Onboarding and sample orders
Screening databases
Weeks of setup and integration
1 / 7
Comparison based on typical pricing and delivery models in the market. Individual providers may differ.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is KYB verification and why is it necessary?
KYB, or Know Your Business, is how you verify a company you plan to work with. You confirm it’s real and registered, identify its ultimate owners, and screen both the company and the owners for risk. It’s needed because businesses can be used to hide fraud, launder money or cover for sanctioned parties, and because UAE regulators require it. Beady automates the whole process using public data.
Beady checks a company’s registration and status against official public registries and builds its corporate profile, including legal and trade names, incorporation details, directors and officers, and ownership structure. Using a database of more than 200M legal entities and their officers, it shows how a business is owned and controlled and who is connected to it.
Most businesses sit behind several layers, such as holding companies, intermediaries and nominees. Beady traces ownership through those layers, using a database of more than 200M entities and their officers, to reach the people who ultimately own or control the company. It doesn’t stop at the name on the registration and follows the chain all the way to the real people behind the business.
Beady screens the business and its owners against the main sanctions lists, starting with the UAE Local Terrorist List and the UN Security Council Consolidated List, plus OFAC, the EU and the UK’s HMT. It also checks PEP databases, international most-wanted and criminal registries, regulatory and law enforcement watchlists, and adverse media from more than 100,000 news sources. All sources are updated daily, so each check uses current data.
Yes. On top of verification and sanctions, Beady screens for adverse media, litigation and fraud signals linked to a business and its owners, and keeps monitoring after onboarding. If a company you work with is hit by a lawsuit, a scandal or a fraud allegation, you get an alert when it happens instead of finding out at your next review.
Minutes. A manual check can take days or weeks. Beady verifies the company, maps its ownership and screens the company and its owners across more than 100,000 sources in one automated run, then gives you a single profile with linked sources that you can act on straight away. There are no documents to collect first.
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