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What is one-time screening?

One-time screening, sometimes called prescreening, is a single check on a person or company at the point where you need to make a decision. Before you onboard a customer, sign a supplier, close a deal or make a hire, you run their name against sanctions, PEP, ownership, adverse media and other risk sources, and get a clear picture of who they are and what risk they bring. It’s the quick “should we go ahead?” check. Everything you need to clear a party, in one go, without collecting a single document.

What is one-time screening (prescreening)?
Why manual and traditional screening falls short

Screening a name by hand is slow and unreliable, and it usually happens exactly when you’re short on time. Checking sanctions, ownership and news manually across different lists and databases takes hours per party, so due diligence ends up holding up the onboarding or the deal. Manual checks also miss things: an ownership link buried a few layers down, a news story in Arabic or another language, someone with the same name mistaken for the real person. Older tools aren’t much better. They match names without checking relevance and leave you with piles of false positives. When you need to be both fast and accurate, the old way puts you at risk on both.

Why traditional and manual screening fails
What missing a sanction actually costs

Missing a sanctioned party has serious consequences. Regulators can impose fines running into millions of dirhams, and sanctions breaches can bring personal and even criminal liability for the people responsible. Your funds can be frozen mid-transfer, your correspondent banks can cut you off, and the damage from being linked to a sanctioned entity can last longer than the fine. Nearly all of this can be avoided with one check. Beady screens a party against every major sanctions list, including the UAE Local Terrorist List, before you onboard or pay them, so a sanctioned name is stopped at the door and not discovered by a regulator later.

What missing a sanction actually costs
How AI makes screening better

AI makes a thorough screen fast and accurate at the same time. Beady checks a name against sanctions, PEP, ownership, adverse media and more than 100,000 other sources in one automated run and gives you results in minutes instead of hours. Its models look at context instead of just matching names and remove about 95% of the noise, so you get a short list of real, source-verified hits and not a pile of false positives to go through. Every finding links back to its source, so you can approve or decline a party with evidence you can stand behind.

Screening with AI makes it better
01 Instant Risk Assessment for Immediate Decisions
Sometimes you need an answer today, not next week. One-time screening gives you a full risk picture on a person or company in minutes, so you can make an onboarding, payment or partnership decision on the spot, based on evidence and not gut feeling.
02 On-the-Spot Sanctions, PEP and Adverse Media Screening
Three checks do most of the work in any screen, and Beady runs all three at once. A name is checked against sanctions lists, PEP databases and more than 100,000 news sources in one go. So a single check tells you whether a party is sanctioned, whether they’re politically exposed and whether there’s negative coverage about them.
03 Immediate Regulatory Compliance and AML/KYC Alignment
Often a one-time screen is the compliance step that makes onboarding possible in the first place. Beady runs the sanctions, PEP and adverse media checks that your AML and KYC obligations under UAE rules require and records source-linked evidence for each one. That means you’re in line with the rules from the first time you deal with a party.
04 Point-in-Time Fraud Detection and Revenue Protection
Catch a bad actor before any money changes hands. A one-time screen picks up fraud signals linked to a party, such as arrests, bankruptcies or adverse media, at the moment you’re deciding whether to work with them, so you can walk away before a fraudster costs you anything.
05 Snapshot Due Diligence for M&A and Investment
When you’re about to buy a company or invest in one, you need a quick, defensible view of the target and the people behind it. Beady gives you snapshot due diligence covering ownership, sanctions, litigation and adverse media in one report. The timing is what makes it useful. Risk becomes part of the deal early, while you can still act on it, instead of coming up after everything is signed.
06 Threat Mitigation Before Contract Signing
Once a contract is signed, you have far fewer options. That’s why the time to screen a counterparty is right before signing. Anything that should make you stop, like a sanction, a pending lawsuit or a red flag in the ownership, comes up while you can still renegotiate or walk away.
07 Baseline Reputation and Brand Protection for New Partnerships
Every new partner brings their reputation into yours, and in a market as relationship-driven as the UAE, that counts for a lot. A one-time screen gives you a clean starting point before you put your brand next to theirs, so you don’t find out about a partner’s fraud or sanctions history after you’ve publicly linked yourself to them.

What One-Time Screening Checks

Corporate Ownership and Beneficial Owners

A company name on its own tells you very little. What matters is ownership, and that’s exactly what a one-time screen looks at. Using a database of more than 200 million companies and officers, Beady maps out who is behind a business: its beneficial owners, its directors, the entities it’s connected to and any recent change in control. If the company you’re about to deal with is owned by a sanctioned or high-risk party, or has just been linked to one, the screen shows it. Before you commit, you see the real people behind the company name and not just what’s on the trade licence or registration.

Corporate Ownership and Beneficial Owners
Wanted Lists and Interpol Notices

Some of the most serious risk signals come directly from law enforcement. In a single screen, Beady checks a person or company against international most-wanted lists, Interpol-style notices and criminal registries. If the party is wanted, has been charged or appears on a law enforcement list, the check shows it straight away, together with the source. A basic identity or registry check would never find this. A party can look completely legitimate on paper while their name is on a wanted list you’d never think to search by hand.

Wanted Lists and Interpol Notices
Regulatory Disputes and Enforcement

Problems with regulators are a strong sign that a company is in trouble, and they rarely make the front page. A Beady screen looks for regulatory actions, enforcement notices, fines, disputes and claims linked to the party you’re checking, so you know if a business is under regulatory pressure before you take it on. These signals often come before bigger problems, like a revoked licence, a company being wound up or a scandal, so catching them at the screening stage gives you a clear reason to pause, look deeper or walk away.

Regulatory Disputes and Enforcement
Global Sanctions and PEP Lists

Sanctions and PEP screening is the core of any one-time check, and it’s where mistakes are punished most heavily. Beady screens the party against the main sanctions lists, including the UAE Local Terrorist List, the UN, OFAC, the EU and the UK’s HMT, plus PEP databases, all refreshed daily so the screen reflects today’s designations and not last quarter’s. If the person or company is sanctioned or politically exposed, you know straight away, and every match links back to the list it came from, giving you solid evidence that you checked before you acted.

Global Sanctions and PEP Lists
Adverse Media and Negative Press

Not every risk is on an official list. Fraud, corruption and scandals often break in the news well before they reach a sanctions list or court record. In a single screen, Beady searches more than 100,000 news sources in multiple languages for negative coverage about the party and uses AI to separate real, relevant stories from the noise. Instead of a pile of articles, you get a short list of findings with duplicates removed, so a fraud allegation or corruption investigation involving a prospective customer or partner is right there in the report.

Adverse Media and Negative Press
Operational and Structural Anomalies

Sometimes the warning sign is how a company is set up at the moment you check it. A recent wave of director resignations, an unusual registered address, a shell-like structure, a jump in litigation or a company that’s gone dormant can all point to deeper problems. A Beady screen flags these operational and structural anomalies from public data, so you can spot the signs that a counterparty may not be as solid as it looks before you rely on it. A simple name or sanctions check wouldn’t give you this context.

Operational and Structural Anomalies
Activity on Social Networks

Risk often shows up on social media before anywhere else. In a single screen, Beady checks public social sources for signals about the party, like an accusation, a leaked document or an early scandal, that may not have reached the mainstream press yet. It also catches impersonation and fake accounts using a company’s or executive’s name. With social signals included, a one-time screen gives you the most current view of a party’s risk at the moment you’re deciding, not just what the slower official records have caught up with.

Activity in Social Networks

Built for Every Kind of Company in the UAE

Sooner or later every business asks the same question. Can we trust this customer, this partner, this new hire? Beady screens them quickly and gives you the full picture, whether you’re a five-person startup in a free zone or a large group with offices across the Emirates.
Beady for Fintechs and Crypto
For Fintechs and Crypto
Screen every new user and counterparty against sanctions, PEP and adverse media at onboarding. Good customers get approved in minutes and risky ones are stopped at the door. Works well for companies licensed by VARA, the DFSA or the FSRA.
Beady for Venture Funds
For Venture Funds
Screen a target company and its founders before you invest, with ownership, sanctions, litigation and adverse media in one report, so the risk is on the table before the term sheet is.
Beady for Investment Companies
For Investment Companies
Run a quick, defensible screen on any company before you take a position, so you know exactly what risk you’re buying into before the deal closes.
Beady for HR Departments
For HR Departments
Screen executives, candidates and contractors against sanctions, PEP and adverse media before you send the offer letter, and catch risks that a reference call and an interview won’t reveal.
Beady for Compliance Teams
For Compliance Teams
Run the sanctions, PEP and adverse media checks your policy requires in one go, cut false positives by up to 95% and log source-linked evidence for every decision.
Beady for Law Firms
For Law Firms
Run quick, defensible screens on clients and counterparties for onboarding, M&A and litigation, with verified findings linked to their sources.
Beady for Financial Institutions
For Financial Institutions
Screen customers and counterparties at onboarding against sanctions, PEP and adverse media and meet your KYC and AML obligations from the very first interaction. Suitable for banks, exchange houses and finance companies supervised by the CBUAE.
Beady for Regulated Industries
For Regulated Industries
Run the point-in-time checks your sector requires, whether that’s iGaming, insurance, healthcare, real estate or precious metals, set up around the sanctions and AML requirements your regulator expects.
Beady for Large Corporates
For Large Corporates
Screen new suppliers, vendors and partners across the whole group before you onboard them and catch sanctions and reputational risk in a single check.

One name, one check, one clear decision

Sanctions, PEP, courts, ownership and media in one check, with no subscription.
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Works Across Industries

One platform for every industry. Screen any person or company you’re about to deal with for sanctions, ownership and adverse media in a single check, whether you’re in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah or anywhere else in the Emirates.
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Software and Technology
Screen investors, acquirers and enterprise partners before you commit, so every deal, funding round or partnership starts with a clear view of who you’re dealing with.
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Finance and Insurance
Screen customers and counterparties at onboarding against sanctions, PEP and adverse media and meet KYC and AML obligations from the first interaction.
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Supply Chain
Screen a new supplier or vendor before you onboard them and check sanctions, ownership and adverse media risk in one go.
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Government
Screen contractors, grant recipients and partners before you engage them, with source-linked evidence ready for public accountability.
Law Enforcement industry illustration: 100,000+ open sources, source-verified leads
Law Enforcement
Run fast checks across sanctions, most-wanted lists, and criminal and litigation records, with every result backed by a source, to support an investigation or a decision.
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Human Resources
Screen a candidate, contractor or executive against sanctions and adverse media before you hire, and catch integrity risks a standard check leaves out.
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Healthcare
Screen a provider, vendor or partner against sanctions, exclusion lists and adverse media before you rely on them, to protect patients and your standing with health regulators.
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Trading
Screen a counterparty in minutes against sanctions, ownership and adverse media before you take a position, so the exposure is clear from the start. Especially useful for commodities, gold and re-export businesses.
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iGaming
Screen a player or partner against sanctions, PEP and adverse media at onboarding and meet AML and licensing obligations under the UAE’s commercial gaming rules without slowing down sign-up.
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Energy and Utilities
Screen a partner, contractor or joint venture counterparty for sanctions and reputational risk before you enter a market or a deal.
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Manufacturing
Screen a supplier, distributor or partner for sanctions and legal risk before you bring them into your network.
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Media and Telecom
Screen an advertiser, talent or partner against sanctions and adverse media before you sign an agreement, and protect your brand from risky associations.
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Retail
Screen a supplier, franchisee, partner or influencer for sanctions and reputational risk before you sign, so the relationship starts clean.

Set Once. Monitor Daily

A one-time screen is a good place to start. If you need to keep watching a party after the check, Beady turns that screen into continuous monitoring, so you get the right level of coverage for each situation.

One-Time Screening

A one-time screen gives you the full risk picture at one point in time. Sanctions, PEP, ownership, adverse media, litigation and more, all covered in one automated run. It’s built for the decision in front of you, whether that’s onboarding a customer, signing a supplier or closing a deal, so you can approve or turn down a party with confidence. No documents needed.

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

Ongoing Monitoring

If the relationship continues after the first check, one screen isn’t enough. Ongoing monitoring rescreens the entity every day, so a new sanction, lawsuit or scandal that comes up after onboarding reaches you within hours instead of at the next review. Start with a one-time screen, then keep the parties that matter under continuous watch.

Ongoing Monitoring

Clear Intelligence, Built for Your Workflow

Every finding can be traced back to its source, reports are ready for audit, and screening results go straight into the tools your team already uses.
Social Signals Monitoring
A one-time screen isn’t limited to official records. It also checks public social sources in real time. That matters, because social media is often where a risk shows up first. An accusation appears there, or an arrest, or the early buzz around a developing scandal, often hours or days before the news picks it up or an official record is updated.

So the screen reflects the latest situation and flags things that have come up online but haven’t reached the slower, more formal sources yet.
Social Signals Monitoring
Messenger Integration for Daily Risk Alerts
When you move a screened party into ongoing monitoring, Beady can send daily alerts to messaging apps such as Telegram with the most important changes, 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 in a screen links directly to the record it came from.

The AI doesn’t invent or exaggerate anything. You can check every result against its original source, so the decision you make based on a screen rests on evidence you can verify and not on guesswork.
Quality of the Data Provided
Report Consolidation
Every one-time screen produces one consolidated report, ranked and linked to its sources. You can share it with an analyst, the compliance team, your MLRO or a decision-maker in a couple of clicks.

Everyone works from the same verified findings, so the whole team acts on one clear picture instead of chasing details separately.
Report Consolidation

How It Works

Here’s how a single name turns into a complete, verified risk report in minutes, step by step.
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Add the Party
Step 1
Add the Name
Enter the person or company you want to screen by legal name (as on the trade licence), trade name or brand to get started. No documents needed.
Screen
Step 2
Screen
Beady checks the name against sanctions, PEP, ownership, adverse media, litigation and more than 100,000 other sources in one automated run.
Map and Filter
Step 3
Filter the Noise
The AI reads, matches and deduplicates every result, removing wrong-person hits and repeats so only real, relevant findings are left.
Build the Profile
Step 4
Build the Report
Every confirmed finding goes into one report, sorted by severity, and each one links back to its source.
Monitor and Share
Step 5
Decide and Share
Review the report, approve or decline the party and share the evidence-backed result with your team, or move them into ongoing monitoring.

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 Beady's One-Time Screening?
One-Time Screening is a check on a person or company at a single point in time. Beady runs the name through sanctions, PEP, ownership, adverse media, litigation and more than 100,000 other public sources in one automated run. You get a consolidated report in minutes, with every result linked to its source, and there are no documents to collect first. Teams usually use it right before a decision, for example before onboarding a client, signing a contract, hiring an executive or making an investment.
A one-time screen tells you how risky a party is at the moment you run it, which is ideal for an onboarding, deal or hiring decision. Continuous monitoring then checks that party every day and tells you when something changes. Screening answers “is this safe right now?”, and monitoring makes sure that answer stays up to date. Many teams screen first and then keep monitoring the relationships that continue.
Beady screens against all the main sanctions lists: the UAE Local Terrorist List, the UN Security Council Consolidated List, OFAC, the EU and the UK’s HMT. It also checks PEP databases, international most-wanted and criminal registries, and watchlists from regulators and law enforcement. On top of that, it scans adverse media across more than 100,000 news sources and uses corporate registries covering over 200 million legal entities and officers. All of these sources are refreshed daily, so what you see in a screen reflects the situation right now.
Minutes. In one automated run, Beady goes through every source, filters out anything irrelevant and builds a single report from what’s left. A check that used to take hours of manual work is done almost straight away. And because each result links to where it came from, you can act on it immediately.
Yes. As well as screening one party at a time, Beady can run one-time screens across your existing customers, suppliers or portfolio companies, so you get a clean risk baseline for your whole database at once and not just for new parties from now on.
Yes. PEP screening and adverse media checks aren’t add-ons. They’re included as standard in every screen, along with sanctions, ownership and the rest of the risk picture. One check tells you three things at once: whether the party is sanctioned, whether they’re politically exposed and whether there’s negative press about them. It all goes into the same report.
The ones that benefit most deal with third parties every day, whether they’re onboarding them, investing in them or signing contracts with them. That includes fintech and crypto, financial services and insurance, iGaming, healthcare, real estate, gold and precious metals, supply chain, government, law firms and large corporates. If your work regularly comes down to a quick, defensible “should we go ahead?” decision, this kind of screening fits.
It’s built for the moment right before you commit. A new customer coming on board, a supplier you’re about to sign, an acquisition or investment about to close, an executive hire or a new partnership. If you already have a database of parties, a one-off baseline screen across all of them makes sense too. The idea is always the same: know who you’re dealing with before you’re tied to them.
Beady looks at a party from many angles. Who owns the company and who is really behind it. Whether the party appears on sanctions lists or is a politically exposed person. What the press has said about them, good or bad. It also checks court cases, regulatory action, any appearance on a most-wanted or criminal list, weaknesses in how the business is structured or run, and what shows up on social media. And it does all of this for you. It searches, matches the records, removes the noise and writes the report. Your team doesn’t run the checks. They just read a clean, verified result.
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