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Find the beneficial owners, directors and officers behind a company, screen each of them and keep them under watch.
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Why UBO and officer screening matters

A company is only as clean as the people who own and run it. Sanctions, fraud and corruption risk rarely sits with the company name. It sits with a beneficial owner hidden two holding companies down, a director with a trail of failed companies, or a nominee shareholder standing in for someone on a watchlist. In the UAE, where one group can have a mainland company, several free zone entities and an offshore holding company, those layers add up quickly. Every supplier, customer, counterparty and investment has people behind it, and any of them can expose you. Beady finds those people using a database of more than 200M companies and officers and screens every one of them, so you know exactly who you’re dealing with and not just the entity on the contract.

Why UBO and officer screening matters
Why manual UBO and officer checks fall short

Tracing ownership by hand means pulling filings from different registries, following holding chains across countries and guessing at nominee arrangements. In the UAE that can mean checking the economic department of the emirate concerned, one or more free zone authorities, and the DIFC or ADGM registrars. It takes hours, misses connections and gives you a picture that’s incomplete on the day you build it. Officer checks are no better. A director’s past companies, disqualifications and court cases are spread across different places and languages. And a manual check is a one-off. When an owner changes, a new director is appointed or someone on the cap table is sanctioned, nobody goes back to check, so the risk sits there unnoticed until it becomes a problem.

Why manual UBO and officer checks fall short
How AI makes UBO and officer screening better

Beady turns a company name into a full picture of the people behind it. It maps ownership through every layer to the ultimate beneficial owners, pulls the directors and officers from registries covering more than 200M companies and officers, and screens each person against sanctions, PEP lists, litigation, criminal records and adverse media in one go. Its models look at context instead of just matching names and remove about 95% of the noise, so a common name like Mohammed or Khan doesn’t turn into a false alert. With ongoing monitoring, it keeps watching and flags a new owner, a new appointment or a new designation within hours. Every finding links to its public source.

How AI makes UBO and officer screening better
01 Preventing Financial Crime
Money laundering, sanctions evasion and fraud are carried out by people, and companies are the vehicles they use. Screening the owners and officers behind every entity you deal with brings those red flags to light before you’re linked to them, so your business doesn’t become a channel for someone else’s crime.
02 Identifying Ultimate Beneficial Owners
You can’t judge a company’s risk without knowing who controls it. Beady traces ownership through holding companies, trusts and nominees to the people who ultimately own the business, applies the ownership thresholds regulators use, such as the 25% threshold in UAE beneficial ownership rules and the 50% rule used for sanctions, and screens each of them by name.
03 Screening Directors and Officers
The people who run a company carry as much risk as the people who own it. Beady pulls current and former directors, officers and authorised signatories from public registries, checks their other appointments and any disqualifications, and screens them for sanctions, PEP status and adverse media.
04 Meeting Regulatory Requirements
UAE AML rules, like those in most regulated sectors worldwide, require you to identify and verify beneficial owners and screen the people behind a business, and the CBUAE, DFSA, FSRA, VARA and the Ministry of Economy expect proof. Beady keeps a source-linked record of every UBO and officer check as part of KYB, so you can meet the obligation and show the evidence whenever you’re asked.
05 Catching Sanctions Exposure Through Ownership
A company can be clean under its own name and still be blocked because a sanctioned person owns 50% or more of it. Beady screens beneficial owners and officers against sanctions lists, including the UAE Local Terrorist List, the UN, OFAC, the EU and the UK’s HMT, and applies the ownership rule, so a listed person hiding behind a corporate structure doesn’t slip through.
06 Mitigating Fraud Risks
Shell companies, front businesses and repeat fraudsters look fine on paper. Beady looks at the people instead: a director linked to a string of dissolved companies, an owner named in a lawsuit, a signatory with a criminal record. These are the red flags that reveal a risky counterparty before it costs you.
07 Safeguarding Supply Chains
Every supplier you onboard is run by someone. Beady screens the owners and officers behind the companies in your supply chain, so forced labour links, sanctions or a history of fraud in a supplier’s leadership come up before the first order, not after a shipment is held at Jebel Ali.
08 Building Investor and Partner Trust
Investors, acquirers and banks want to know that the people behind the companies you work with are clean. Documented UBO and officer screening shows the due diligence was done properly, so you can stand behind every counterparty, partner and portfolio company you’ve put your name to.

What Beady Checks

Beneficial Owners

Beady traces ownership through every layer of holding companies, trusts and nominee arrangements to the individuals who ultimately own or control a company, using more than 200M companies and officers. Each UBO is screened against sanctions lists and watchlists, PEP lists, litigation, criminal records and adverse media, with the ownership chain and percentages shown. You can see exactly how control is held and apply the thresholds your regulator expects, including the 25% threshold in UAE beneficial ownership rules.

Beneficial Owners
Directors and Officers

The people who run a company are pulled from public registries: current and former directors, officers, secretaries, managers and authorised signatories. Beady checks their other appointments, any disqualifications and the companies they’ve been linked to, and screens each of them for sanctions, PEP status and adverse media, so a director with a history of failed or sanctioned companies is visible before you sign.

Directors and Officers
Ownership Structures and Control

Beady maps the full structure: parent companies, subsidiaries, shell layers and cross-holdings, across countries and registries. It applies the 50% ownership rule used by OFAC and the EU, flags circular or opaque structures set up to hide control, and screens every legal entity in the chain against sanctions lists, so a sanctioned party sitting one level up doesn’t go unnoticed.

Ownership Structures and Control

Built for Every Kind of Company in the UAE

Every company deals with other companies and needs to know who owns and runs them. Beady screens the people behind the entities you work with, whether you’re a fund in DIFC, a trading house in DMCC or a business on the mainland, and whatever your size or sector.
For Fintechs and Crypto
For Fintechs and Crypto
Identify and screen the beneficial owners and directors behind every business you onboard, meet UBO verification rules in each market you operate in, and keep watching those people as you grow. Works well for companies licensed by VARA, the DFSA or the FSRA.
For Venture Funds
For Venture Funds
Screen the founders, owners and officers of a target before you invest, check the cap table, and keep watching the people behind every portfolio company for sanctions and litigation.
For Investment Companies
For Investment Companies
Keep an up-to-date view of who owns and runs every company in your portfolio, so an ownership change, a new director or a new designation comes up within hours, not at the next review.
For HR Departments
For HR Departments
Screen the executives and directors you hire, and the owners behind the contractors and agencies you use, against sanctions, PEP lists and adverse media before you rely on them.
For Compliance Teams
For Compliance Teams
Verify UBOs and officers at onboarding and during periodic reviews, cut false positives by up to 95%, and attach source-linked evidence to every decision so your records hold up during an inspection.
For Law Firms
For Law Firms
Identify and screen the owners and officers behind clients and counterparties for M&A, client onboarding and due diligence, with every finding linked to its public source.
For Financial Institutions
For Financial Institutions
Meet beneficial ownership and KYB obligations for corporate customers and counterparties, with owners and officers screened at onboarding and rechecked daily. Suitable for banks, exchange houses and finance companies supervised by the CBUAE.
For Regulated Industries
For Regulated Industries
Meet your sector’s rules on knowing the people behind the businesses you work with, whether you’re in iGaming, insurance, healthcare, real estate or precious metals, set up around your regulator’s expectations.
For Large Corporates
For Large Corporates
Screen the owners and officers behind suppliers, vendors and partners across the whole group, mapping ownership and monitoring risk at scale, all in one place.

Look past the name on the contract

Beneficial owners, directors and officers identified, screened and kept up to date, not filed away and forgotten.
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Works Across Industries

One platform for every industry. Identify and screen the owners and officers behind the companies you deal with for sanctions, PEP status, litigation and adverse media, whether you’re in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah or anywhere else in the Emirates.
Software and Technology
Software and Technology
Screen the owners and officers behind investors, acquirers and enterprise partners through funding rounds, M&A and growth, so you always know who is behind a deal.
Finance and Insurance
Finance and Insurance
Verify beneficial owners and screen directors at onboarding and every day after that, with new sanctions or a change of control flagged the day it happens.
Supply Chain
Supply Chain
Screen the owners and officers behind every supplier before onboarding and on an ongoing basis, so sanctions and forced labour links in a supplier’s leadership come up early.
Government
Government
Identify the owners behind contractors, grant recipients and partners and screen them for sanctions and conflicts of interest, with source-linked evidence for public accountability.
Law Enforcement
Law Enforcement
Investigate who owns and controls a corporate structure by searching more than 200M entities and officers, sanctions lists, litigation and criminal records, with every result backed by a source.
Human Resources
Human Resources
Screen senior hires and the owners behind contractors and agencies for sanctions, PEP status and adverse media, and catch risks a standard background check leaves out.
Healthcare
Healthcare
Screen the owners and officers behind healthcare providers, vendors and partners for sanctions and exclusion risk to protect patients and your standing with health regulators.
Trading
Trading
Know the people behind a counterparty and screen them for sanctions and adverse media risk in minutes, before you take a position. Especially useful for commodities, gold and re-export businesses.
iGaming
iGaming
Screen the owners and officers behind partner and supplier companies for sanctions and AML risk to meet beneficial ownership requirements under the UAE’s commercial gaming licensing rules.
Energy and Utilities
Energy and Utilities
Trace the owners behind partners, contractors and joint venture companies and screen them for sanctions and reputational risk in every market.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Screen the owners and officers behind suppliers, distributors and partner companies in all your markets, so a sanctioned or high-risk person in the chain is caught early.
Media and Telecom
Media and Telecom
Know the people behind advertisers, vendors and partners, and screen them for sanctions and adverse media risk before you sign any agreements.
Retail
Retail
Screen the owners and officers behind suppliers, franchisees and wholesale partners for sanctions and reputational risk as you expand.

Set Once. Monitor Daily

Screen the people behind a company once, then let Beady keep watching them. Choose a one-time check on a company’s owners and officers, or daily monitoring for as long as the relationship lasts.

One-Time Screening

A one-time check identifies a company’s beneficial owners, directors and officers from public registries and screens each of them against sanctions, PEP lists, litigation, criminal records and adverse media in one go, with no documents needed. It’s built for the moment you need to know who’s behind a business, before you onboard, invest or sign.

One-Time Screening

Ongoing Monitoring

Owners and officers change, and so does their risk. Ongoing monitoring rescreens every person behind the companies you watch every day, so a new designation, a new director or a change of control reaches you within hours instead of at the next review. Using more than 100,000 sources refreshed daily, Beady keeps your view of every owner and officer up to date.

Ongoing Monitoring

Clear Intelligence, Built for Your Workflow

Trace every finding back to its source, create reports ready for audit and send owner and officer intelligence to the tools your team already uses.
Social Signals Monitoring
Beady tracks public social media in real time as well as registries. Signals about an owner or a director, 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 an official record. Social monitoring runs on every person you watch, so you get the earliest warning available.
Social Signals Monitoring
Messenger Integration for Daily Risk Alerts
Beady can send daily alerts to messaging apps such as Telegram with the most important changes across the owners and officers you watch, 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 ownership link and finding links directly to the registry or record it came from. The AI doesn’t invent or exaggerate anything, so your view of who owns and runs a company is based on evidence you can verify and not on guesswork.
Quality of the Data Provided
Report Consolidation
Bookmark the owners, officers and findings that matter and build a 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 piece the ownership picture together again by hand.
Report Consolidation

How It Works

Here’s how a company name turns into a complete, verified and always up-to-date picture of the people who own and run it, step by step.
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Add the Entity
Step 1
Add the Entity
Enter the company whose owners and officers you want to screen by legal name (as shown on the trade licence), trade name or registration number to get started.
Identify Owners and Officers
Step 2
Identify Owners and Officers
Beady maps ownership through every holding layer to the ultimate beneficial owners and pulls the directors and officers from public registries covering more than 200M companies and officers.
Screen
Step 3
Screen
Each owner and officer is automatically screened against sanctions, PEP lists, litigation, criminal records, adverse media and more than 100,000 other sources.
Build the Profile
Step 4
Build the Profile
The AI filters out people with the same name and other noise, then builds a single profile of the company and its people sorted by severity, with each finding linked to its source.
Monitor and Share
Step 5
Monitor and Share
Put the owners and officers under daily watch for anything new, and give your team a clean, audit-ready report whenever it’s needed.

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

UBO screening identifies the ultimate beneficial owners of a company, meaning the people who ultimately own or control it, usually above a threshold of 25% of shares or voting rights, which is also the threshold used in UAE beneficial ownership rules. It then checks each of them against sanctions, PEP lists, litigation and adverse media. Beady does both parts. It traces ownership through holding companies and nominees to the real people, then screens them by name with the evidence attached.
Officers are the people who run a company: directors, managers, company secretaries, executives and authorised signatories. They may own nothing and still carry risk. A director who has been disqualified, sits on the board of a sanctioned company or is named in a fraud case is a problem for anyone dealing with that business. Beady pulls officers from public registries and screens each of them the same way it screens owners.
Beady works through the structure layer by layer, following shareholdings across registries in different countries until it reaches real people, and shows the chain and the percentages at each step. It flags nominee arrangements, circular holdings and opaque layers set up to hide control, and applies the ownership thresholds regulators use, including the 50% rule for sanctions, so you see who is really behind the company and why.
Manual checks can’t keep up. Ownership data is spread across registries, filings and languages, and it changes all the time. Following a chain of holding companies by hand takes hours and still misses connections, and once you have more than a handful of counterparties nobody rechecks them. So the picture is incomplete on the day you build it and out of date soon after. Those gaps are where the risk sits.
You can pull the owners, officers and findings that matter into one place and turn them into whatever you need: a UBO report for onboarding, an audit file, a board pack or a due diligence summary. Sharing takes a couple of clicks. Because every ownership link and finding traces back to its public source, the reports are audit-ready without any extra work.
Yes. Beady monitors the owners and officers behind the companies you watch every day and can alert you as soon as something changes, such as a new sanction, a new director or a change of control. You can get alerts in the platform or as daily summaries on Telegram, so you don’t need to log in to stay on top of the people behind your counterparties.