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What is Know Your Business, KYB?

KYB, short for Know Your Business, is the process of verifying a company before you work with it: confirming it is real and registered, identifying who ultimately owns and controls it, and checking whether it or its owners carry any risk. It is the corporate counterpart to KYC, and it is harder, because companies can hide behind layers of ownership, shell structures, and cross-border registrations. Done properly, KYB tells you not just that a business exists, but who is really behind it and whether they’re safe to deal with. Beady automates that whole check from public data.

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

Manual KYB is a slog. Verifying one company means pulling registry documents, tracing ownership by hand across jurisdictions, and checking each name against list after list, which can take days or weeks per business. Ownership is the hardest part: the real owners are often buried under holding companies and nominees a manual search never untangles. And like manual KYC, it is a one-time snapshot. You clear a company at onboarding and never look again, so a new sanction, lawsuit, or change of ownership goes unnoticed until it’s already a problem. Accuracy and coverage both suffer.

Why traditional and manual KYB fails
KYB with AI makes it better

KYB automation turns weeks of work into minutes. Beady verifies a company against public registries, maps its ownership across a database of 200M+ entities and officers, and screens it and its owners against sanctions, adverse media, and litigation, all in one automated pass. Its AI reads context rather than matching names, stripping out roughly 95% of the noise so you see real risk, not false positives. And it keeps monitoring after onboarding, flagging a new sanction, lawsuit, or ownership change within hours. You get a complete, verified picture of a business without collecting a single document.

KYB with AI makes it better
01 Preventing Financial Crimes
Businesses are used to launder money, move sanctioned funds, and front for fraud, often behind a legitimate-looking shell. KYB screening uncovers those red flags before you’re connected to them, so your company isn’t unknowingly used as a channel for someone else’s financial crime.
02 Identifying Ultimate Beneficial Owners
You cannot assess a company’s risk without knowing who really controls it. Beady traces beneficial ownership through holding companies and nominees to the actual people behind a business, so you’re not just checking a corporate name but the individuals who ultimately own and run it.
03 Regulatory Compliance
KYB is a legal requirement across finance and many other regulated sectors, and regulators expect proof you did it. Beady verifies businesses and screens their owners, and keeps a source-linked record of every check, so you can meet your obligations and evidence them on demand.
04 Mitigating Fraud Risks
Fake companies, front businesses, and firms with a hidden history of fraud all look fine on the surface. Beady digs past that surface, checking a business and its owners for the fraud signals and red flags that reveal a risky counterparty before it costs you.
05 Sanction and Reputation Screening
A company can be sanctioned, or quietly owned by someone who is. Beady screens both the business and its beneficial owners against global sanctions lists and adverse media, so a sanctioned party hiding behind a corporate structure doesn’t slip through your checks unnoticed.
06 Safeguarding Supply Chains
Every supplier and vendor you onboard is a door into your business. Beady runs KYB on the companies in your supply chain, screening for sanctions, legal, and reputational risk, so a problem partner doesn’t quietly expose you to disruption, penalties, or scandal down the line.
07 Building Investor Trust
Investors and acquirers want confidence that the businesses in a portfolio are clean. Thorough KYB, with verified ownership and documented screening, shows diligence was done properly, so you can build trust with investors and stand behind the companies you have backed.
08 Reputation and Brand Protection
The companies you partner with reflect on yours. If a business you work with is later exposed for fraud or sanctions breaches, the reputational damage spreads to you too. KYB screening surfaces that risk before you’re associated with it, protecting the trust behind your brand.

What KYB Screening Software Checks and Automates

Registry Verification and Active Status
Registry Verification and Active Status
Confirm a company is real and in good standing. Beady verifies businesses against official public registries, checking incorporation, registration details, and current status, so you know a company genuinely exists and is active before you commit to working with it.
UBO mapping: beneficial ownership across jurisdictions
UBO Mapping
Company names hide the people behind them. Beady maps beneficial ownership, tracing the individuals who ultimately own or control a business across a database of 200M+ entities and officers, so you can see who you’re really dealing with, not just the name on the paperwork.
Global Sanctions and Blacklists Screening
Global Sanctions and Blacklists Screening
Check every company and its owners against the sanctions regimes and watchlists that matter, including OFAC, the EU, the UN, and the UK’s HMT. Refreshed daily, Beady flags a match the moment it appears, so a sanctioned party never slips 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 tied to a company or its owners, and keeps watching, so a new lawsuit or judgment against a business you work with reaches you as it happens, not months later.
Adverse Media and Social Risk Intelligence
Adverse Media and Social Risk Intelligence
Some risks show up in the news and on social media long before they reach an official record. Beady scans 100K+ news sources and social channels for negative coverage tied to a business or its owners, surfacing fraud, scandal, and reputational red flags 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 that point 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 pass, in minutes instead of weeks.
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Built for Every Kind of Company

Every company that onboards suppliers, partners, or corporate customers needs to know who it’s really dealing with. Beady automates business verification, whatever your size or sector.
Beady for Fintechs and Crypto
For Fintechs and Crypto
Onboard business customers and partners at speed while verifying each one and screening its owners against sanctions and adverse media, and keep them monitored as you scale into new markets.
Beady for Venture Funds
For Venture Funds
Run KYB on target companies before you invest, mapping ownership and screening for risk, then keep your portfolio businesses monitored, so a sanction, lawsuit, or ownership change reaches you as it happens.
Beady for Investment Companies
For Investment Companies
Verify and continuously monitor every company in your portfolio, so a new risk or ownership shift in a holding surfaces within hours rather than at the next quarterly cycle.
Beady for procurement and vendor teams
For Procurement and Vendor
Verify suppliers and vendors and map who owns them before you sign, screening for sanctions, legal, and reputational risk, so a problem business doesn’t slip into 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 for records that hold up under examination.
Beady for Law Firms
For Law Firms
Run fast, defensible KYB on companies for M&A, client onboarding, and due diligence, with verified ownership and every finding traceable back to its original public source.
Beady for Financial Institutions
For Financial Institutions
Meet KYB and AML obligations at scale, verifying corporate customers and counterparties and monitoring them continuously, so a newly sanctioned or high-risk business is flagged the day it appears.
Beady for Regulated Industries
For Regulated Industries
Meet sector-specific KYB and AML rules, from iGaming to insurance to healthcare, with business verification and screening tuned to the checks your regulator requires.
Beady for Large Corporates
For Large Corporates
Verify and screen the suppliers, vendors, and partners across your enterprise, mapping ownership and monitoring risk, thoroughly, at scale, and all in one place.

Works Across Industries

One platform, every industry. Verify the businesses you deal with and screen their owners against sanctions, litigation, and adverse media wherever you operate.
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Software and Technology industry illustration
Software and Technology
Verify investors, acquirers, and enterprise partners and map who owns them before you commit, and keep key business relationships monitored through funding, M&A, and growth.
Finance and Insurance industry illustration
Finance and Insurance
Meet KYB and AML obligations with automated business verification, UBO mapping, and continuous monitoring that flags newly restricted corporate clients and counterparties the day they emerge.
Supply Chain industry illustration
Supply Chain
Verify every supplier and vendor and trace their ownership across your tiers, screening for sanctions and legal risk before onboarding and continuously afterward.
Government industry illustration
Government
Verify contractors, grant recipients, and procurement partners and map their ownership, with source-linked evidence for full public accountability.
Law Enforcement industry illustration: 100,000+ open sources, source-verified leads
Law Enforcement
Accelerate investigations with source-verified searches across corporate registries, 200M+ entities and officers, sanctions, and litigation records in one place.
Human Resources industry illustration
Human Resources
Verify the staffing agencies, umbrella companies, and contractor firms you engage, screening them and their owners for sanctions and legal risk before you rely on them.
Healthcare industry illustration
Healthcare
Verify provider organisations, vendors, and partner companies and map their ownership, screening for sanctions and exclusion risk to protect patients and your standing.
Trading industry illustration
Trading
Verify counterparty companies and the people behind them against sanctions, ownership, and adverse-media risk in minutes, before you take a position.
iGaming industry illustration
iGaming
Verify partner and supplier companies and map their owners, screening for sanctions and AML risk to meet licensing obligations without slowing 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 across every market you operate in.
Manufacturing industry illustration
Manufacturing
Verify suppliers, distributors, and partner companies across 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 enter into agreements.
Retail industry illustration
Retail
Verify suppliers, franchisees, and wholesale partners and map their ownership, screening for sanctions and reputational risk as you expand.

Set Once. Monitor Daily

Choose the KYB that fits the moment: a fast, one-time verification before you onboard a business, or continuous daily monitoring that keeps watching for as long as the relationship lasts.

One-Time Scan

A fast, initial KYB check that verifies a company against registries, maps its ownership, and screens it and its owners against sanctions, litigation, and adverse media in a single pass, no documents required.

It’s built for the onboarding decision in front of you, 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 end at onboarding, and neither does Beady. Ongoing monitoring rescreens every company daily, keeping each one and its owners under continuous watch. Unlike a one-time check, it delivers a live view of risk.

By drawing on multiple sources refreshed daily, Beady flags a new sanction, lawsuit, or ownership change the moment it appears, long before your next scheduled review would catch it.

Ongoing Monitoring

Clear Intelligence, Built for Your Workflow

Trace every finding to its source, produce audit-ready reports, and feed KYB results straight into the tools your team already uses.
Social Signals Monitoring
Beady watches public social sources in real time, not just official records. Risk signals tied to a business or its owners, an accusation, an arrest, a brewing scandal, often surface on social media hours or days before they reach the news or a registry.

How early they appear varies by company and sector, but social monitoring runs across every business you screen, so you get the earliest possible warning of new risk.
Social Signals Monitoring
Messenger Integration for Daily Risk Alerts
Beady connects to messaging platforms to send daily alerts on the most important KYB findings from your monitoring, with no need to log into the portal each day.

Skim a short summary on your phone, and 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 works only with publicly available data, refreshed daily and updated as soon as a change appears. Every finding carries a direct link to the registry or record it came from.

And the AI never invents or embellishes. Each result can be checked against its original source, so a KYB decision rests on evidence you can verify, not assumptions.
Quality of the Data Provided
Report Consolidation
Bookmark the findings that matter to build a KYB report around a specific company, case, or decision. Share it in a couple of clicks with an analyst, the compliance team, or an auditor.

Everyone works from the same set of verified findings, so no one has to reassemble the file by hand.
Report Consolidation

How It Works

A step-by-step look at how a company name becomes a complete, verified KYB profile, with ownership mapped and risk screened, and no documents to collect.
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Add the Party
Step 1
Add the Company
Enter the business you want to verify, by legal name, trade name, or registration, to begin.
Screen
Step 2
Verify and Map
Beady confirms the company against public registries and maps its ownership across 200M+ entities and officers, revealing who really controls it.
Map and Filter
Step 3
Screen
The business and its owners are automatically screened against sanctions, adverse media, litigation, and 100,000+ other sources for risk.
Build the Profile
Step 4
Process and Build the Profile
The AI filters out noise and false matches, then builds a single KYB profile ranked by severity, with each finding linked to its source.
Monitor and Share
step 5
Monitor and Share
Keep the company under daily monitoring for new risk, and share a clean, audit-ready report with your team whenever you need it.

Less Spend, Faster Answers

How Beady compares with the two models most compliance teams use today.

Report-based due diligence
Screening databases
01 / 07 How you pay
Beady
One plan sized by entities watched
Report-based due diligence
Per report, every refresh is a new order
Screening databases
By screening volume, add-ons billed separately
02 / 07 Ongoing monitoring
Beady
Included, through the day
Report-based due diligence
Not included, a report is a snapshot
Screening databases
Rescreens its own database, updated by researchers
03 / 07 Changing your watchlist
Beady
Swap entities any time
Report-based due diligence
Each new name is 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, with heavy noise
05 / 07 Evidence
Beady
Every finding linked to its source
Report-based due diligence
Sources inside 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 whole report
Screening databases
Your team clears them by hand
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 with typical pricing and delivery models on 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 the process of verifying a company you plan to work with: confirming it’s real and registered, identifying its ultimate owners, and screening it and them for risk. It’s necessary because businesses can be used to hide fraud, launder money, or mask sanctioned parties, and because regulators require it. Beady automates the whole process from public data.
Beady verifies a company’s registration and status against official public registries, and builds out its corporate profile: legal and trade names, incorporation details, directors and officers, and ownership structure. Drawing on a database of 200M+ legal entities and their officers, it maps how a business is owned and controlled and who is connected to it.
Beady traces ownership through the layers most businesses sit behind, holding companies, intermediaries, and nominees, across a database of 200M+ entities and their officers, to reach the individuals who ultimately own or control a company. Rather than stopping at the name on the registration, it follows the chain to the real people behind the business.
Beady screens both the business and its owners against the major sanctions regimes, including OFAC, the EU, the UN, and the UK’s HMT, plus PEP databases, international most-wanted and criminal registries, regulatory and law-enforcement watchlists, and adverse media across 100,000+ news sources. Every source is refreshed daily, so each screen reflects current data.
Yes. Beyond verification and sanctions, Beady screens for adverse media, litigation, and fraud signals tied to a business and its owners, and keeps monitoring them after onboarding. If a company you work with is hit by a lawsuit, a scandal, or a fraud allegation, you’re alerted as it happens, not at your next review.
Minutes, not the days or weeks a manual check can take. Beady verifies the company, maps its ownership, and screens it and its owners across 100,000+ sources in a single automated pass, returning a consolidated, source-linked profile you can act on straight away, with no documents to collect first.

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