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Screen customers, vendors and partners for sanctions, ownership and adverse media risk. Then keep checking.
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How mid-size companies can scale their risk screening

As a company grows from a startup into the mid-market, the number of people and companies it deals with grows too: customers, vendors, suppliers, partners and acquisition targets. So does the risk each one brings. The manual checks and spreadsheets that worked when you were smaller start to break, but you’re not ready for a full enterprise compliance team either. Beady fills that gap. It gives a growing company enterprise-grade screening without the overhead, checking the people and companies behind every relationship against sanctions, ownership and adverse media in minutes, and monitoring them as you grow. For a UAE business expanding across the Gulf and beyond, that list of counterparties gets long quickly.

How mid-size companies can scale their risk screening
Why manual checks stop working as you grow

Manual screening doesn’t scale. When you had a handful of vendors and customers, a quick search was enough. At mid-market size, with hundreds of third parties across procurement, sales and partnerships, checking each one by hand isn’t possible, and most end up not checked at all. Ownership is a blind spot. The real party behind a company is often hidden behind holding structures a quick search never untangles. And a one-off check only shows one moment. A customer, vendor or partner that was clean when you onboarded them can be sanctioned, charged or exposed later, and a stretched team will rarely notice in time.

Why manual checks stop working as you grow
Why consistent screening and ongoing monitoring matter as you grow

As you grow, two things matter more: consistency and keeping checks current. Consistency, because when procurement, sales and legal each screen differently, or don’t screen at all, risk slips through the gaps. Keeping checks current, because a party you cleared once can become a risk months later, and at scale you can’t recheck everyone by hand. Beady handles both. Every team runs the same source-linked check, and continuous monitoring flags a new sanction, charge or scandal as it happens. Your screening holds up across the business and stays up to date as you grow.

Why consistent screening and ongoing monitoring matter as you grow
What one bad third party costs a growing company

One bad third party can cost a growing company more than the deal it came with. Onboard or pay a sanctioned party and you can break the law, with fines and enforcement that hurt more than they would at a large enterprise. In the UAE, regulators expect sanctions hits to be acted on without delay. A compromised vendor or partner can disrupt your operations or put your data at risk. A bad acquisition can bring hidden liabilities onto your books. And as you get more professional and start facing audits, unmanaged third-party risk becomes an audit finding. Most of this is avoidable with proper screening. Beady checks every customer, vendor and partner, and whoever owns them, against sanctions and adverse media before you’re exposed, and then keeps watching.

What one bad third party costs a growing company
How AI gives a lean team enterprise-grade coverage

AI lets a lean compliance or risk team cover a growing list of third parties without hiring to match. Beady checks a customer, vendor or partner, and the people and companies behind them, against sanctions, adverse media, litigation 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. Your team sees real risk, not false positives. After that it monitors daily and flags a new sanction, charge or scandal within hours. Every finding links back to its source, which keeps your compliance defensible as the business grows.

How AI gives a lean team enterprise-grade coverage
01 Screen Customers and Buyers at Scale
The more markets you sell into, the bigger your sanctions and export exposure. Beady screens your customers and buyers for sanctions and adverse media risk in minutes, so a restricted or high-risk customer is caught before you close, even when your sales operation is too big to check by hand.
02 Screen Vendors, Suppliers and Subprocessors
Your vendor base grows with you, and so does the risk in it. Beady screens the companies and people behind your suppliers and subprocessors for sanctions, ownership and adverse media risk, so a compromised or high-risk vendor doesn’t become a problem for your operations, your data or your compliance.
03 Screen Partners, Resellers and Distributors
As you build a partner and distribution network, every partner carries your brand and your risk. Beady screens partners, resellers and distributors, and the people behind them, for sanctions and adverse media risk. A bad partner can’t damage your reputation or pass its risk back to you.
04 Check Acquisition Targets and Investors
Mid-market growth often means M&A and new investors. Beady checks acquisition targets, investors and the people behind them for sanctions, litigation, ownership and adverse media risk. Every deal starts with a clear view of who and what you’re taking on, with no hidden liabilities.
05 Map Ownership and See Who’s Really Behind a Party
A customer, vendor or partner is only as clean as whoever really controls it. Beady maps ownership across more than 200M entities and officers and shows the real owners and hidden links behind a company, whether it sits on the mainland, in a free zone or offshore. A sanctioned or high-risk party can’t hide behind a respectable-looking name.
06 Screen for Sanctions and PEP Exposure
As you grow and go international, sanctions and PEP screening become real obligations. Beady screens every customer, vendor and partner against the UAE Local Terrorist List, the UN, OFAC, the EU and the UK’s HMT, along with politically exposed persons (PEP) data, all refreshed daily. A sanctioned or politically exposed party gets caught before you deal with them.
07 Give a Lean Compliance or Risk Team More Reach
Most teams like yours are in the same position: a real compliance or risk function, but not enough people. Beady closes that gap. It automates the screening that eats up the day, cuts the false positives and pulls together what’s left. Your existing small team can cover as many third parties as an enterprise does, without you hiring more people to get there.
08 Keep Screening Consistent and Audit-Ready Across the Business
The more professional you get, the more regulators, auditors and customers expect consistency. Beady gives every team the same source-linked check and keeps a full record of each screening. Screening is consistent across procurement, sales and legal, and ready the moment an auditor or a regulator like the CBUAE, DFSA or Ministry of Economy asks to see it.

Where Beady Fits Across a Mid-Size Business

Every team brings in new people and companies to deal with. Here’s where Beady fits, from a sales deal to an acquisition.
Customer and Sales Deal Screening
Customer and Sales Deal Screening
Your sales team closes more deals, and faster, than any manual check could keep up with. Beady checks customers and buyers, and the people behind them, for sanctions and adverse media risk in minutes. A sanctioned or high-risk customer is caught before the deal closes, and sales never has to slow down.
Vendor and Supplier Onboarding
Vendor and Supplier Onboarding
Bringing on a vendor or supplier means knowing the company and who owns it. Beady runs KYB checks and maps ownership, screening for sanctions, litigation and adverse media. High-risk vendors stay out of your supply base, and procurement gets the same check to run every time.
Partner, Reseller and Distributor Screening
Partner, Reseller and Distributor Screening
Your partner network takes your brand out into the market, and your risk goes with it. Beady checks partners, resellers and distributors, and the people behind them, for sanctions and adverse media risk before you sign, so a bad partner never gets near your customers or your reputation.
M&A and Acquisition Due Diligence
M&A and Acquisition Due Diligence
Grow by acquisition and you inherit everything you didn’t spot. Beady runs a target, its owners and its key people against sanctions, litigation and adverse media, all in one report. Hidden risks and liabilities show up while you’re still doing diligence, not after the contract is signed.
Executive and Key Hire Screening
Executive and Key Hire Screening
Senior hires bring the most risk, yet they often get the lightest vetting. Beady checks executives, board members and key hires against sanctions, criminal and adverse media sources before they start, and catches integrity risks a reference check and an interview would never uncover.
Ongoing Monitoring Across Your Third Parties
Ongoing Monitoring Across Your Third Parties
Risk keeps changing long after onboarding, and at scale you can’t recheck everyone by hand. Beady watches your customers, vendors and partners every day, so a new sanction, charge or scandal comes up as it happens and your whole third-party base stays up to date.
Investigations, Alerts and Escalations
Investigations, Alerts and Escalations
When an alert fires, or your gut tells you something is off, the clock is already ticking. Beady gives your compliance or risk team what it needs to answer: a source-linked view of any company or person across sanctions, criminal, litigation and adverse media sources. The escalation gets resolved quickly, and you have a record of how the decision was made.

One bad partner can cost more than the deal

Customers, vendors, partners, targets and hires screened before you commit.

What Beady Checks

People

Behind every customer, vendor, partner and hire there’s a person, and that’s often where the risk is. Beady screens the individuals you deal with: owners, executives, directors, key hires and the people behind your customers and suppliers. It checks each of them against sanctions, PEP, criminal and most-wanted lists, and adverse media from more than 100,000 sources, and flags PEPs whose position adds risk. Instead of stopping at a company name on a contract, Beady looks at who really stands behind the relationship, so you know exactly who you’re dealing with as the business grows.

People
Organisations

Every company you sell to, buy from or partner with brings risk, and you rarely see it from the logo. Beady screens customers, vendors, partners, acquisition targets and the entities connected to them against sanctions, litigation, adverse media and watchlists. Shell companies and opaque structures get extra attention, because they’re so often used to hide who really controls a business. Beady traces ownership across more than 200 million legal entities and their officers, so a growing company can see the real organisation behind a name before it signs, buys or acquires.

Organisations
Ownership and Connections

Look past any company and you’ll often find the part that matters most: who owns it. That’s where the real risk tends to hide, and it’s exactly what a quick check skips. Beady traces it. It maps beneficial ownership and the connections around a company across more than 200 million entities and their officers, and doesn’t stop until it reaches the people with real ownership and control, however many holding companies and intermediaries sit in between. Related parties, conflicts and links to sanctioned or high-risk entities all come into view. You understand the customer or vendor and, more importantly, everyone behind it.

Ownership and Connections

Across the Sectors You Operate In

Mid-size companies work in every sector, and Beady works in all of them. Screen and monitor the people and companies you deal with, whatever your business.
Software and Technology
Software and Technology
Screen customers, vendors and partners for sanctions and adverse media risk as you grow into new markets and deals.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Screen suppliers, distributors and customers for sanctions, export control and adverse media risk across your supply chain.
Financial Services
Financial Services
Screen customers, counterparties and partners against sanctions, PEP and adverse media, and keep up with growing AML obligations under the CBUAE, DFSA and FSRA.
Healthcare
Healthcare
Screen vendors, providers and partners against exclusion lists, sanctions and adverse media as you expand, and protect your standing with the DHA, DoH or MOHAP.
Retail and Consumer
Retail and Consumer
Screen suppliers, sellers and partners for sanctions, forced labour and adverse media risk across your products and channels.
Professional Services
Professional Services
Screen clients and partners for sanctions, adverse media and integrity risk, so a relationship doesn’t expose your firm.
Logistics and Supply Chain
Logistics and Supply Chain
Screen carriers, suppliers and partners for sanctions and adverse media risk across a growing network, from Jebel Ali to your overseas lanes.
Energy and Utilities
Energy and Utilities
Screen partners, contractors and suppliers for sanctions and reputational risk across your operations.
Construction and Real Estate
Construction and Real Estate
Screen contractors, suppliers and partners for sanctions and adverse media risk on every project, from Dubai developments to Abu Dhabi infrastructure.
Media and Telecom
Media and Telecom
Screen partners, advertisers and vendors for sanctions and adverse media risk, and protect your brand.
Education
Education
Screen suppliers, partners and vendors for sanctions and adverse media risk as you grow.
Hospitality
Hospitality
Screen suppliers, partners and vendors for sanctions and adverse media risk across your hotels, restaurants and venues.
Industrial and Machinery
Industrial and Machinery
Screen suppliers, distributors and partners for sanctions and adverse media risk across a complex supply base.

Set Once. Monitor Daily

For a growing company, this is the right balance: a thorough check when you onboard someone, then continuous monitoring, all without a big compliance team. Screen once and keep watching.

One-Time Screening

When you take on a customer, vendor, partner or hire, Beady runs a full check on the company or person, and the people who own it, against sanctions, PEP, criminal records, ownership and adverse media, in one pass and with no documents needed. It’s built for the decision in front of you, so your team can approve a clean party quickly or flag a risky one before you commit.

One-Time Screening

Ongoing Monitoring

Once a party is onboarded, that check turns into continuous coverage. Beady rescreens every customer, vendor and partner daily. A new sanction, charge or scandal reaches you within hours, not at a periodic review you may not have the people to run. Screen a party once, then keep all your third parties under a live watch as you grow.

Ongoing Monitoring

Clear Intelligence, Built for Your Workflow

Trace every finding to its source, produce audit-ready reports and bring risk intelligence straight into the tools your team already uses.
Social Signals Monitoring
Beady watches public social sources in real time, not only official lists. Risk signals about a customer, vendor or partner, like an accusation, an arrest or a scandal starting to build, often show up on social media hours or days before they reach the news.

How early they show up varies, but social monitoring runs across everyone you screen, so even a small team gets the earliest possible warning.
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 your customers, vendors and partners. 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 evidence behind every flag.
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 a decision, or what you show an auditor, rests on evidence you can verify, not guesswork.
Quality of the Data Provided
Report Consolidation
Bookmark the findings that matter and build a report around a customer, a vendor or a deal. Sharing it with your compliance, legal or procurement team 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 name to a complete, verified risk profile, and then to ongoing monitoring. Here’s how it goes.
Add the Party
Step 1
Add the Party
Type in the name of the customer, vendor, partner or person you want to check. No documents needed.
Screen
Step 2
Screen
Beady checks it against sanctions, PEP, criminal, adverse media and ownership data, plus more than 100,000 other sources, all in one go.
Map and Filter
Step 3
Map and Filter
The AI maps ownership, throws out noise and false matches, and keeps only the risks that actually apply.
Build the Profile
Step 4
Build the Profile
What’s confirmed goes into one audit-ready profile, sorted by severity, with a source for every finding.
Monitor and Share
Step 5
Monitor and Share
Add the party to daily monitoring and share the report with your compliance, legal or procurement team whenever you need to.

Ready to get started?

You can be live in 24 hours instead of weeks.

Frequently Asked Questions

Beady screens the customers, vendors, partners, acquisition targets and hires you deal with, and their owners, against sanctions, PEP databases, criminal records, litigation and adverse media. It also maps their ownership across more than 200 million entities and keeps monitoring them. A growing company gets enterprise-grade screening without the overhead, and its risk coverage keeps up as the business grows.
That’s exactly the gap Beady fills. It automates the screening that manual checks and spreadsheets can’t keep up with, without the cost and complexity of a heavy enterprise GRC suite. A lean compliance or risk team gets enterprise-grade coverage across a growing number of third parties and can scale it up as the company grows.
Yes. Beady automates the screening that would otherwise swamp a stretched team. It cuts up to 95% of the noise, pulls findings together and monitors without a break. A small compliance or risk function can cover a large number of third parties as thoroughly as an enterprise team, without adding headcount.
Yes. As you grow and sell into more markets, your sanctions and export exposure grows with you. Beady screens your customers, vendors and partners against the main sanctions lists, starting with the UAE Local Terrorist List and the UN, plus OFAC, the EU and UK HMT, all refreshed daily. It also maps ownership to catch a restricted party hiding behind a company, which keeps you compliant as you grow.
Yes. Growing by acquisition means inheriting whatever you don’t catch. Beady screens a target, its owners and its key people for sanctions, litigation, ownership and adverse media risk in one report, so hidden risks and liabilities come up during diligence rather than after the deal is done.
Yes, and that’s one of its biggest benefits. When procurement, sales and legal each screen in their own way, risk slips through the gaps. Beady gives every team the same source-linked check and keeps a full record of every screening. Screening stays consistent across the business and audit-ready whenever a regulator, auditor or customer asks.
No. Beady screens the people and companies you deal with, such as customers, vendors and partners, for sanctions, ownership, fraud and reputational risk. It isn’t a SOC 2 or security compliance tool, or a full enterprise GRC suite. It does screening and monitoring, does them well, and works alongside those systems by telling you who you’re dealing with.
Usually a few seconds, a few minutes at most. In one pass, Beady goes through every source, works out the ownership, removes the noise and builds one combined profile. For a growing business, that means you can screen a customer, a vendor or a hire and get on with your day.
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 PEP databases, international most-wanted and criminal registries, and regulatory and enforcement lists. Beady also covers 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.