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How investigators can get more out of open-source intelligence

More and more cases now turn on open-source intelligence. The trouble is that it’s spread across hundreds of sanctions lists, registries, court records and news sites, and pulling it together by hand is slow. The better way starts with putting it all in one place. Run a person or entity across every relevant public source in one step, map who they own and who they’re linked to, and keep that picture current. That’s what Beady does. It runs a source-verified search across more than 100,000 public sources in minutes and keeps watching persons and entities of interest afterwards. Your team spends its time on the case, not on chasing records. For investigators in the UAE, where cases often lead to companies and people in other jurisdictions, that matters a lot.

How investigators can get more out of open-source intelligence
Why manual investigative research falls short

Manual research can’t keep up with a live investigation. Checking a subject against sanctions lists, most-wanted registries, court records, company filings and the news, one source at a time, takes hours, and things get missed. Ownership and connections are the hardest part. The real people behind a company, and the links between subjects, sit under layers that a manual search rarely gets through. And any search is only a snapshot. Someone who looked clean last month can be charged, sanctioned or exposed today, and you won’t know unless you run every check again.

Why manual investigative research falls short
Why fast, source-verified intelligence matters

In an investigation you need speed, and you need findings that hold up. Speed means finding the connection, the asset or the record before the subject reacts, and slow manual work can lose you that window. But intelligence only helps if it stands up, so every finding has to trace back to its source, whether it’s going into a case file, a request for a warrant or a referral to the Public Prosecution. Beady gives you both. You get a complete picture in minutes, and every result links to the public record it came from, so your team can move quickly and stand behind what it found.

Why fast, source-verified intelligence matters
What a missed connection or a slow search costs a case

A missed connection or a slow search can cost a lot more than time. A suspect who’s never linked to a company or an associate can slip through. An asset nobody traced can be moved out of reach. A network that stays hidden just keeps operating. And every hour spent searching by hand is an hour not spent on the case. Beady helps you avoid that. It pulls together a complete, source-verified picture of a person or entity, and the people and companies around them, in minutes. Leads don’t get missed and cases don’t stall because part of the picture was missing.

What a missed connection or a slow search costs a case
How AI makes investigative research better

AI lets an investigator cover every source without doing it all by hand. Beady searches a person or entity across sanctions, most-wanted lists, criminal records, litigation, adverse media and more than 100,000 other sources in minutes. It maps ownership across more than 200M entities and officers and removes up to 95% of the noise, so your team sees what matters instead of thousands of false matches. After that it can keep monitoring the subject and flag a new charge, sanction or connection when it appears. Every finding links back to its source, so the intelligence is quick to get and easy to defend.

How AI makes investigative research better
01 Build a Complete Profile of Any Person or Entity, Fast
Every investigation starts with knowing who you’re dealing with. Beady builds a full profile of a person or entity in minutes, bringing sanctions, criminal, litigation, ownership and adverse media data from more than 100,000 public sources into one place. Your team starts with the whole picture, not a blank page.
02 Map Ownership and Uncover Hidden Networks
The connection that breaks a case open is often the one a manual search would miss. Beady works across more than 200 million entities and officers to map ownership and show the people behind a company, the links between subjects and the networks they move in. What would have stayed a gap turns into a lead.
03 Check Subjects Against Sanctions, Most-Wanted and Criminal Lists
Some checks you can’t afford to miss. Beady screens a person or entity against the UAE Local Terrorist List, UN and other global sanctions, international most-wanted lists, and criminal and watchlist data, refreshed every day. A flagged subject shows up straight away, and the match is traced back to its source for your records.
04 Gather Adverse Media and Open-Source Intelligence at Scale
The open web holds intelligence no single database has. Beady scans more than 100,000 news sources and public social data for adverse media and open-source signals on a subject. It brings up the reporting, allegations and links that would take days to find by hand, if you found them at all.
05 Trace Assets and Companies Across Borders
Following the money means following the companies. Beady traces the entities and ownership linked to a subject across a database of more than 200M entities and officers in many jurisdictions. Assets and companies hidden behind holding structures, free zone entities and offshore vehicles come into view.
06 Keep Every Finding Source-Verified and Traceable
Intelligence is only useful if it holds up. Beady links every finding to the public record it came from and never makes anything up or dresses it up. Whatever you find can be checked by someone else and can support a case file, a report or a decision.
07 Monitor Persons and Entities of Interest Continuously
A subject’s situation rarely stays the same. Beady keeps persons and entities of interest under continuous watch, so a new charge, sanction, company or connection is flagged as soon as it appears. Your open case stays current and nobody has to rerun every search by hand.
08 Work Faster Across 100,000+ Sources in One Place
Jumping between databases and search tools slows everything down. Beady brings sanctions, criminal, litigation, ownership, adverse media and more than 100,000 other public sources into a single search. Your team finds in minutes what used to take hours across several systems.

Where Beady Fits Across Investigations

From the first name on a case file to long-term monitoring, Beady gives investigators a fast, source-verified picture at every stage.
Subject Research and Profiling
Subject Research and Profiling
When a name lands on your desk, get the picture quickly. Beady profiles a person or entity across sanctions, criminal, litigation, ownership and adverse media sources in minutes. The investigator starts with a complete, source-verified view instead of piecing it together by hand.
Entity and Ownership Mapping
Entity and Ownership Mapping
Cases turn on connections. Beady maps the ownership and links around a subject across more than 200 million entities and officers. It shows the people behind companies, the related parties and the networks that tie one subject to another, so hidden relationships become leads you can follow.
Sanctions, Most-Wanted and Watchlist Checks
Sanctions, Most-Wanted and Watchlist Checks
Some checks aren’t optional. Beady screens a subject against the UAE Local Terrorist List, global sanctions, international most-wanted lists, and criminal and watchlist data in one pass, refreshed daily. A flagged person or entity shows up at once, and every match comes with its source.
Adverse Media and OSINT Gathering
Adverse Media and OSINT Gathering
The open web is full of intelligence, if you can find it. Beady scans more than 100,000 news sources and public social data for adverse media and open-source signals on a subject. It cuts through the noise, so your team gets the relevant reporting quickly instead of a flood of mentions.
Asset Tracing and Financial Crime Investigations
Asset Tracing and Financial Crime Investigations
Financial crime cases follow companies and money. Beady traces the entities, ownership and connections around a subject across jurisdictions and brings up the companies, related parties and structures behind them. Assets and money flows hidden behind layers of companies come into view.
Ongoing Monitoring of Persons of Interest
Ongoing Monitoring of Persons of Interest
An open case needs intelligence that keeps up. Beady keeps persons and entities of interest under ongoing watch and flags a new charge, sanction, company or connection when it appears. Your team stays informed without repeating every search.
Vetting and Background Checks
Vetting and Background Checks
Agencies vet people too, for roles, security clearances and partnerships. Beady runs a fast, source-verified background check across sanctions, criminal, litigation and adverse media sources. The vetting decision rests on a complete picture that’s documented and traceable.

One missed connection can cost a case

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What Beady Checks

People

Most investigations come down to a person, and Beady builds a full picture of who that person is. It checks the subject, and the people connected to them, against sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEP) records, international most-wanted and criminal lists, and adverse media from more than 100,000 sources. It also flags PEPs whose position matters to the case. Instead of searching one database at a time, you get one source-verified search that shows who a person really is, what’s on their record and who they deal with, in minutes rather than hours.

People
Organisations

Cases usually lead to a company sooner or later, and that’s often where the evidence hides. Beady checks a company, its related entities and the counterparties around it against sanctions, litigation, adverse media and watchlists. Shell companies and opaque structures get extra attention, because they’re the usual way to hide who controls a business or to move money out of sight. With ownership traced across more than 200 million legal entities and their officers, investigators can see the real organisation behind a name, whether it’s registered on the mainland, in a free zone or offshore, along with the structures a subject uses. Everything is source-verified and ready for the file.

Organisations
Ownership and Connections

In an investigation, connections are everything, and they’re usually hidden on purpose. Beady maps beneficial ownership and the web of links around a person or company across a database of more than 200M entities and their officers. It traces through holding companies and intermediaries to who really owns and controls a business, and brings up related parties, associates and links between subjects. You see the network behind the case, the people, companies and relationships a subject depends on, and every link traces back to its source.

Ownership and Connections

Built for Every Kind of Agency

Whatever you investigate, it starts with knowing who and what you’re dealing with. Beady gives investigators a fast, source-verified picture, whichever agency or unit you work in.
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For Police and Law Enforcement
For Police and Law Enforcement
Build a complete, source-verified picture of a person or entity in minutes across sanctions, criminal, ownership and adverse media sources. Investigators start with everything in front of them.
For Financial Crime Units
For Financial Crime Units
Trace the companies, ownership and money flows behind a subject across more than 200M entities and many jurisdictions. Financial crime cases follow the evidence wherever it goes, including well beyond the UAE.
For Anti-Corruption Agencies
For Anti-Corruption Agencies
Screen officials, their associates and the entities around them against sanctions, PEP and adverse media sources, and map how they’re connected. Corruption networks become visible.
For Intelligence Units
For Intelligence Units
Gather open-source intelligence on a subject across more than 100,000 public sources at once, with ownership and connections mapped and every finding traced to its source.
For Customs and Border
For Customs and Border
Screen people and companies against sanctions, most-wanted and watchlist data in minutes, and trace the entities behind a shipment or a subject. Useful for teams at busy ports, airports and free zones, and source-verified throughout.
For Regulatory and Enforcement Bodies
For Regulatory and Enforcement Bodies
Look into the firms and people you supervise across sanctions, litigation, ownership and adverse media sources. Build a documented, defensible picture that can support an enforcement action.
For Asset Recovery Units
For Asset Recovery Units
Trace the assets, companies and ownership linked to a subject across jurisdictions. Holdings hidden behind shell structures and borders come into view.
For Counter-Terrorism Financing
For Counter-Terrorism Financing
Check subjects and entities against the UAE Local Terrorist List, UN and other global sanctions, most-wanted and terrorism-related lists. Map the networks and money behind them, all source-verified and refreshed daily.
For Fraud Investigation Teams
For Fraud Investigation Teams
Build a full picture of a suspect or company across criminal, litigation, ownership and adverse media sources. A fraud investigation starts with the connections and evidence already in hand.

Across the Investigations You Run

Investigations come in many forms, and Beady works for all of them. Build a source-verified picture of the people and entities behind any case, whatever you’re working on.
Financial Crime
Financial Crime
Trace the companies, ownership and connections behind a subject, so financial crime cases follow the evidence across entities and jurisdictions.
Fraud
Fraud
Build a full picture of a suspect or company across criminal, litigation and adverse media sources and bring up the connections behind a scheme.
Money Laundering
Money Laundering
Trace the entities, ownership and structures a subject uses, and see the companies and layers behind the movement of money.
Corruption
Corruption
Screen officials and associates against sanctions, PEP and adverse media, and map their connections to expose corruption networks.
Sanctions Evasion
Sanctions Evasion
Screen subjects and entities against global sanctions and map the ownership and links they use to get around them, refreshed daily.
Organised Crime
Organised Crime
Map the networks, companies and associates around a subject across more than 200M entities and see the structure behind organised crime.
Asset Recovery
Asset Recovery
Trace assets, companies and ownership linked to a subject across jurisdictions, so hidden holdings can be found and pursued.
Counter-Terrorism Financing
Counter-Terrorism Financing
Screen subjects against sanctions, most-wanted and terrorism-related lists, including the UAE Local Terrorist List, and map the money and networks behind them.
Cybercrime-Related
Cybercrime-Related
Build a picture of the people and entities behind a cyber-enabled case across sanctions, criminal and adverse media sources.
Fugitive and Person-of-Interest Tracking
Fugitive and Person-of-Interest Tracking
Screen a subject against international most-wanted and criminal lists, and watch for new records, charges or connections as they appear.
Background and Vetting
Background and Vetting
Run a fast, source-verified background check across sanctions, criminal, litigation and adverse media sources for a role, clearance or partnership.
Agency Due Diligence
Agency Due Diligence
Screen the vendors, partners and contractors your agency works with for sanctions, ownership and adverse media risk, all source-verified.
Intelligence Gathering
Intelligence Gathering
Pull open-source intelligence on a subject from more than 100,000 public sources into one place, with connections mapped and everything traceable.

Set Once. Monitor Daily

For an investigator, this is the right balance: a full search when a case opens, then ongoing monitoring of the people and entities that matter. Search once and keep watching for as long as the case runs.

One-Time Screening

When a name comes into a case, Beady runs a full search on the person or entity, and the people and companies linked to them, across sanctions, most-wanted, criminal records, ownership and adverse media in one pass. The investigator gets the whole picture in minutes, source-verified and ready for the file, so the case starts on solid ground instead of a scattered manual search.

One-Time Screening

Ongoing Monitoring

An open case needs current intelligence, and one search isn’t enough. Beady keeps persons and entities of interest under ongoing watch. A new charge, sanction, company or connection reaches your team when it appears, not at the next manual review. Search a subject once, then keep a live, source-verified watch on them for as long as the investigation runs.

Ongoing Monitoring

Clear Intelligence, Built for Your Workflow

Trace every finding to its source, produce case-ready reports and bring open-source intelligence into the tools your team already uses.
Social Signals Monitoring
Beady watches public social sources in real time, not only formal records. Useful details about a subject, like an admission, a location, a new contact or a change in circumstances, often show up on social media well before they reach any official record.

How much turns up depends on the subject, but social monitoring runs across every person and entity you’re tracking, so your team picks up open-source signals as early as possible.
Social Signals Monitoring
Messenger Integration for Daily Risk Alerts
Beady connects to messaging platforms like Telegram and sends a daily alert on the most important changes across the subjects you’re monitoring. No need to log in to the portal every day.

Read a short summary on your phone. When something needs a closer look, sign in for the full report and the source behind each finding.
Messenger Integration for Daily Risk Alerts
Quality of the Data Provided
Beady uses only publicly available data, refreshed daily and updated as soon as something changes. Every finding comes with a direct link to the record it came from.

And the AI never makes anything up or exaggerates. Each result can be checked against its original source, so what goes into a case file rests on evidence, not assumptions.
Quality of the Data Provided
Report Consolidation
Bookmark the findings that matter and build a report around a subject, a network or a case. Sharing it with your team, a supervisor or a partner agency takes a couple of clicks.

Everyone works from the same verified findings, so nobody has to rebuild the picture by hand.
Report Consolidation

How It Works

From a single name to a complete, source-verified intelligence picture, and then to ongoing monitoring. Here’s how it goes.
Add the Subject
Step 1
Add the Subject
Type in the name of the person, company or entity you want to look into. No documents needed.
Search
Step 2
Search
Beady searches the subject across sanctions, most-wanted, criminal, adverse media and ownership data, plus more than 100,000 other public sources, all in one go.
Map and Filter
Step 3
Map and Filter
The AI maps ownership and connections, throws out noise and false matches, and keeps only what actually applies.
Build the Profile
Step 4
Build the Profile
What’s confirmed goes into one source-verified profile, with connections mapped and every result linked to its public source.
Monitor and Share
Step 5
Monitor and Share
Add the subject to ongoing monitoring and share the profile with your team, a supervisor or a partner agency whenever you need to.

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Frequently Asked Questions

For investigators, Beady is an open-source intelligence tool. It looks up a person or entity across sanctions, most-wanted, criminal, litigation and adverse media sources, maps their ownership and connections across more than 200 million entities, and keeps monitoring subjects over time. It works only with publicly available data and every finding has a source. An investigator can put together a complete, defensible picture in minutes instead of hours.
Beady uses only publicly available data: open sources, sanctions lists and watchlists, court and corporate registries, news and public social data. It has no access to classified systems, police databases or any non-public records. What it does is bring open-source intelligence into one place and link every finding to the public record behind it. It works alongside your agency’s official systems. It doesn’t replace them.
Yes. Beady maps beneficial ownership and the web of connections around a person or company across more than 200M entities and officers. It traces through holding companies to who really controls a business and shows the links between subjects. Hidden relationships become visible, source-verified leads.
Yes. Beady screens a person or entity against the UAE Local Terrorist List, the UN and other global sanctions regimes, international most-wanted lists, and criminal and watchlist data in one pass, all refreshed daily. A flagged subject shows up straight away, and every match is traced back to its public source for your records.
Yes. Beady traces the companies, ownership and connections around a subject across more than 200M entities and many jurisdictions, and brings up the entities and structures behind them. It helps investigators follow the companies and links that financial crime and asset recovery cases depend on.
Yes. Beyond a one-time search, Beady keeps persons and entities of interest under ongoing watch. A new charge, sanction, company or connection is flagged as soon as it appears, not at your next manual review. You can get these alerts in the platform or on Telegram.
Every finding links back to the public record it came from, and Beady never makes anything up or exaggerates, so any result can be checked independently. That gives investigators a documented, source-verified trail for a case file or report. How evidence is used and admitted is always a matter for your own procedures and UAE law, including the requirements of the Public Prosecution and the courts.
More than 100,000 public sources. These include sanctions lists such as the UAE Local Terrorist List, the UN, OFAC, the EU and UK HMT, along with international most-wanted and criminal registries and PEP databases. Beady also covers regulatory and enforcement lists, litigation and court records, adverse media from more than 100,000 news outlets, corporate registries covering more than 200 million entities and officers, and public social media. Every source is refreshed daily.
Keyword alerts bury you in mentions and leave you to sort them out. Beady was built for investigations, so it works differently. The AI checks that a hit really is about your subject, judges how relevant it is and clears out up to 95% of the noise. It also brings sanctions, ownership, criminal and litigation data together with the news, each item traced to its source. You get verified intelligence, not a raw feed.