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How investigators can strengthen their open-source intelligence

More and more, an investigation rises or falls on open-source intelligence, and yet that intelligence sits scattered across hundreds of sanctions lists, registries, court records, and news sites, which makes assembling it by hand a slow business. There is a better way, and it starts with consolidation. Pull a person or entity across every relevant public source in a single step, chart their ownership and connections, and keep the whole picture up to date. Beady turns that idea into something you can actually use, carrying out a source-verified search across 100,000+ public sources in minutes and watching persons and entities of interest as time goes on, so your team spends its hours on the case rather than the hunt for records.

Beady OSINT search covering sanctions, registries, courts and adverse media in one pass
Why traditional and manual investigative research falls short

Manual research can’t keep pace with an investigation. Checking a subject across sanctions lists, most-wanted registries, court records, company filings, and the news, one source at a time, takes hours, and it’s easy to miss something. Ownership and connections are the hardest part: the real people behind a company, and the links between subjects, are buried under layers a manual search rarely untangles. And a search is a one-time snapshot. A person or entity that looked clean last month can be charged, sanctioned, or exposed today, and a manual check won’t tell you unless you run it all again.

Manual investigative research compared with Beady: gaps, hidden ownership and stale checks
Why fast, source-verified intelligence matters

In an investigation, speed and defensibility both matter. Moving fast means finding the connection, the asset, or the record before a subject reacts, and slow manual research can cost you that window. But intelligence is only useful if it holds up, so every finding has to trace back to its source for a case file, a warrant, or a court. Beady delivers both: a complete picture in minutes, with every result linked to the public record it came from, so your team can move quickly and stand behind what it found.

Source-verified investigative findings, each linked back to its public record
What a missed connection or slow search costs an investigation

In an investigation, a missed connection or a slow search can cost far more than time. A suspect who is never linked to a company or an associate can slip through. An asset that goes untraced can move out of reach. A network that stays hidden simply keeps operating. And the hours lost to manual searching are hours never spent on the case itself. Beady helps prevent all of that, pulling a complete, source-verified picture of a person or entity, and the connections around them, in minutes, so a lead is not missed and a case does not stall for want of the full picture.

What a missed connection or slow search costs a law-enforcement investigation
How AI makes investigative research better

AI is what lets an investigator cover every source without doing it by hand. Beady searches a person or entity across sanctions, most-wanted lists, criminal records, litigation, adverse media, and 100,000+ sources in minutes, maps ownership across 200M+ entities and officers, and strips out up to 95% of the noise, so your team sees the results that matter, not thousands of false matches. Then it can keep monitoring a subject over time, flagging a new charge, sanction, or connection as it appears. Every finding links back to its source, so the intelligence is fast and defensible.

How AI covers every source and removes up to 95% of false matches for investigators
01 Build a Complete Profile of Any Person or Entity Fast
An investigation starts with knowing who you’re dealing with. Beady builds a complete profile of a person or entity in minutes, pulling sanctions, criminal, litigation, ownership, and adverse-media data from 100,000+ public sources into one place, so your team starts with the full picture, not a blank page.
02 Map Ownership and Uncover Hidden Networks and Connections
The connection that breaks a case open is frequently the one a manual search would miss. Beady works across more than 200 million entities and officers to map ownership, bringing out the people behind a company, the links that run between subjects, and the networks they move through. What would have stayed a gap becomes a lead instead.
03 Check Subjects Against Sanctions, Most-Wanted and Criminal Lists
Some checks can’t be missed. Beady screens a person or entity against global sanctions, international most-wanted lists, and criminal and watchlist data, refreshed daily, so a flagged subject is identified immediately, with the match 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 100,000+ news sources and public social data for adverse media and open-source signals on a subject, surfacing the reporting, allegations, and links that a manual search would take days to find, if it found them at all.
05 Trace Assets and Companies Across Borders
Following the money means following the companies. Beady traces the entities and ownership connected to a subject across a database of 200M+ entities and officers and multiple jurisdictions, so assets and companies hidden behind holding structures and borders 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 it never invents or embellishes anything. So whatever you surface can be checked by someone else and stand behind a case file, a report, or a decision.
07 Monitor Persons and Entities of Interest Continuously
A subject’s circumstances rarely stay still. Beady holds persons and entities of interest under continuous watch, which means a new charge, sanction, company, or connection gets flagged as soon as it surfaces. Your open investigation stays current, and there is no need to run every search again by hand.
08 Work Faster Across 100,000+ Sources in One Place
Jumping from one database or search tool to the next drags the whole process down. Beady pulls sanctions, criminal, litigation, ownership, adverse media, and 100,000+ other public sources into one search, which lets your team find in minutes what once took hours spread across many systems.

Where Beady Fits Across Investigations

From the first name on a case file to an ongoing watch, Beady gives investigators a fast, source-verified picture at every stage.
Subject research and profiling workflow for investigators using Beady
Subject Research and Profiling
When a name comes across your desk, build the picture fast. Beady profiles a person or entity across sanctions, criminal, litigation, ownership, and adverse-media sources in minutes, so an investigator starts with a complete, source-verified view rather than piecing it together by hand.
Entity and ownership mapping workflow for network analysis in investigations
Entity and Ownership Mapping
Connections are what cases turn on. Beady charts the ownership and links surrounding a subject across upward of 200 million entities and officers, bringing to light the people behind companies, the related parties, and the networks that connect one subject to another, so that hidden relationships turn into visible leads.
Sanctions, most-wanted and watchlist screening workflow for law enforcement
Sanctions, Most-Wanted and Watchlist Checks
Some checks are non-negotiable. Beady screens a subject against global sanctions, international most-wanted lists, and criminal and watchlist data in one pass, refreshed daily, so a flagged person or entity is identified at once, with every match source-linked.
Adverse-media and OSINT gathering workflow across 100,000+ news sources
Adverse-Media and OSINT Gathering
The open web is full of intelligence, provided you can actually find it. Beady scans more than 100,000 news sources and public social data for adverse media and open-source signals on a subject, cutting through the noise so your team gets the relevant reporting fast rather than a flood of mentions.
Asset tracing and financial-crime investigation workflow across jurisdictions
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, surfacing the companies, related parties, and structures behind them, so that assets and money movements hidden behind layers come into view.
Ongoing monitoring of persons and entities of interest during an open case
Ongoing Monitoring of Persons of Interest
An open case calls for intelligence that keeps up with events. Beady maintains an ongoing watch over persons and entities of interest, so that a new charge, sanction, company, or connection is flagged as it appears. In this way, your team remains informed without the burden of repeating every search.
Vetting and background-check workflow for agency roles and clearances
Vetting and Background Checks
Agencies vet people too, for roles, clearances, and partnerships. Beady runs a fast, source-verified background check across sanctions, criminal, litigation, and adverse-media sources, so a vetting decision rests on a complete picture, documented and traceable.

One missed connection can cost a case

Subjects, associates and companies checked across sanctions, criminal and media sources.
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What Beady Checks

People

Most investigations come down to a person, and Beady puts together a complete picture of who that person is. It runs a subject, together with the individuals connected to them, against sanctions, politically exposed persons records, international most-wanted and criminal lists, and adverse media spanning more than 100,000 sources, and it highlights politically exposed people whose position bears on a case. Rather than searching one database at a time, Beady draws it all into a single source-verified search, so your team can see who a person really is, what their record holds, and who they associate with, in minutes instead of hours.

What Beady checks on people: sanctions, PEP, most-wanted, criminal lists and adverse media
Organizations

More often than not, a case leads to a company, and that is exactly where evidence tends to hide. Beady searches a company, its related entities, and the counterparties surrounding it against sanctions, litigation, adverse media, and watchlists. Shell companies and opaque structures draw particular scrutiny, since these are the arrangements used to mask who truly controls a business or to shift money out of view. Tracing ownership across upward of 200 million legal entities and their officers, Beady lets investigators see the real organisation behind a name, together with the structures a subject makes use of, all source-verified and prepared for a file.

What Beady checks on organizations: sanctions, litigation, shell structures and adverse media
Ownership and Connections

For an investigation, connections are everything, and they’re usually hidden on purpose. Beady maps beneficial ownership and the web of connections around a person or company across a database of 200M+ entities and their officers, tracing through holding companies and intermediaries to who really owns and controls a business. It surfaces related parties, associates, and links between subjects, so the network behind a case, the people, companies, and relationships a subject relies on, comes into view, with every link traceable to its source.

Beneficial ownership and connection mapping across 200M+ entities and officers

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, whatever kind of agency or unit you work in.
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Beady for police and law enforcement investigators
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, so investigators start with the full picture.
Beady for financial-crime units
For Financial-Crime Units
Trace the companies, ownership, and money movements behind a subject across 200M+ entities and jurisdictions, so financial-crime cases follow the evidence wherever it leads.
Beady for anti-corruption agencies
For Anti-Corruption Agencies
Screen officials, associates, and the entities around them against sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media sources, and map their connections, so corruption networks come into view.
Beady for intelligence units gathering open-source intelligence
For Intelligence Units
Gather open-source intelligence on a subject across 100,000+ public sources at once, with ownership and connections mapped and every finding traced to its source.
Beady for customs and border agencies
For Customs and Border
Screen people and companies against sanctions, most-wanted, and watchlist data in a matter of minutes, and trace the entities behind a shipment or a subject, source-verified throughout.
Beady for regulatory and enforcement bodies
For Regulatory and Enforcement Bodies
Look into the parties you regulate across sanctions, litigation, ownership, and adverse-media sources, and build a documented, defensible picture that stands behind an enforcement action.
Beady for asset-recovery units
For Asset-Recovery Units
Trace the assets, companies, and ownership connected to a subject across jurisdictions, so hidden holdings behind shell structures and borders come into view.
Beady for counter-terrorism financing teams
For Counter-Terrorism Financing
Check subjects and entities against global sanctions, most-wanted, and terrorism-related lists, and map the networks and the money behind them, all source-verified and refreshed each day.
Beady for fraud investigation teams
For Fraud Investigation Teams
Build a complete picture of a suspect or company across criminal, litigation, ownership, and adverse-media sources, so a fraud investigation starts with the connections and the evidence already in hand.

Across the Investigations You Run

Investigations take many forms, and so does Beady. Build a source-verified picture of the people and entities behind any case, whatever you’re working.
Financial-crime investigations with Beady
Financial Crime
Trace the companies, ownership, and connections behind a subject, so financial-crime cases follow the evidence across entities and jurisdictions.
Fraud investigations with Beady
Fraud
Build a complete picture of a suspect or company across criminal, litigation, and adverse-media sources, surfacing the connections behind a scheme.
Money-laundering investigations with Beady
Money Laundering
Trace the entities, ownership and structures a subject uses, so that the companies and layers standing behind money movement come clearly into view.
Corruption investigations with Beady
Corruption
Screen officials and associates against sanctions, PEP, and adverse media, and map their connections, so corruption networks surface.
Sanctions-evasion investigations with Beady
Sanctions Evasion
Screen subjects and entities against global sanctions and map the ownership and links they use to evade them, refreshed daily.
Organized-crime network mapping with Beady
Organized Crime
Map the networks, companies, and associates around a subject across 200M+ entities, so the structure behind organized crime comes into view.
Asset-recovery investigations with Beady
Asset Recovery
Trace assets, companies and ownership connected to a subject across jurisdictions, so hidden holdings can be found and pursued.
Counter-terrorism financing investigations with Beady
Counter-Terrorism Financing
Screen subjects against sanctions, most-wanted, and terrorism-related lists, and map the money and networks behind them.
Cybercrime-related investigations with Beady
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 with Beady
Fugitive and Person-of-Interest Tracking
Screen a subject against international most-wanted and criminal lists, and monitor for new records, charges, or connections as they appear.
Background checks and vetting with Beady
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 on vendors and contractors with Beady
Agency Due Diligence
Screen the vendors, partners, and contractors your agency engages against sanctions, ownership, and adverse-media risk, source-verified.
Open-source intelligence gathering with Beady
Intelligence Gathering
Pull open-source intelligence on a subject across 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 complete search when a case opens, then ongoing monitoring of the persons and entities that matter. Search once, watch as long as the case runs.

One-Time Screening

When a name enters a case, Beady runs a complete search on a person or entity, and the people and companies connected to them, across sanctions, most-wanted, criminal records, ownership, and adverse media, in a single pass. It’s built to give an investigator the full picture in minutes, source-verified and ready for a file, so a case starts on solid ground rather than a scattered manual search.

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

Ongoing Monitoring

An open case needs current intelligence, so a single search isn’t enough. Beady keeps persons and entities of interest under ongoing watch, so a new charge, sanction, company, or connection reaches your team as it appears rather than at the next manual review. Search a subject once, then keep them under a live, source-verified watch 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 just formal records. Intelligence on a subject, an admission, a location, a connection, a change in circumstances, often surfaces on social media before it reaches any official record.

How much appears varies by subject, but social monitoring runs across the persons and entities you’re tracking, so your team catches open-source signals as early as possible.
Social Signals Monitoring
Messenger Integration for Daily Risk Alerts
Beady connects to messaging platforms like Telegram to send daily alerts on the most important changes across the subjects you’re 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 source behind every finding.
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 record it came from.

And the AI never invents or embellishes. Each result can be checked against its original source, so the intelligence in a case file rests on evidence that holds up, not assumptions.
Quality of the Data Provided
Report Consolidation
Bookmark the findings that matter to build a report around a subject, a network, or a case. Share it in a couple of clicks with your team, a supervisor, or a partner agency.

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

How It Works

A step-by-step look at how a name becomes a complete, source-verified intelligence picture, then an ongoing watch.
Add the Party
Step 1
Add the Subject
Enter the person, company, or entity you want to investigate, by name, to begin. No documents required.
Screen
Step 2
Search
Beady searches the subject across sanctions, most-wanted, criminal, adverse media, ownership, and 100,000+ other public sources in a single pass.
Map and Filter
Step 3
Map and Filter
The AI maps ownership and connections, filters out noise and false matches, and surfaces only the results that genuinely apply.
Build the Profile
Step 4
Build the Profile
Confirmed findings go into a single, source-verified profile, with connections mapped and each 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 it.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Beady do for law enforcement?
For investigators, Beady serves as an open-source intelligence tool. It looks up a person or entity across sanctions, most-wanted, criminal, litigation, and adverse-media sources, charts their ownership and connections across upward of 200 million entities, and monitors subjects as time goes on, drawing entirely on publicly available data and verifying every source. The result is that an investigator can assemble a complete, defensible picture in minutes instead of hours.
Beady relies solely on publicly available data, including open sources, sanctions and watchlists, court and corporate registries, news, and public social data. It has no access to classified systems, private law-enforcement databases, or non-public records. Instead, it gathers open-source intelligence into a single place and ties every finding back to the public record behind it, which means it works alongside your official systems rather than taking their place.
Yes. Beady maps beneficial ownership and the web of connections around a person or company across 200M+ entities and officers, tracing through holding companies to who really controls a business and surfacing the links between subjects. It’s built to turn hidden relationships into visible, source-verified leads.
Yes, it can. Beady screens a person or entity against global sanctions regimes, international most-wanted lists, and criminal and watchlist data in a single pass, all refreshed daily, so that a flagged subject is identified immediately. Every match is then traced back to its public source for your records.
Yes. Beady traces the companies, ownership, and connections around a subject across 200M+ entities and multiple jurisdictions, surfacing the entities and structures behind them. It’s built to help investigators follow the companies and connections that financial-crime and asset-recovery cases turn on.
Yes, it can. Beyond a one-time search, Beady keeps the persons and entities of interest under ongoing watch, so a new charge, sanction, company, or connection is flagged the moment it appears rather than at your next manual review. You can choose to receive these alerts within the platform or through Telegram.
Every finding links back to the public record it came from, and Beady never invents or embellishes anything, which means any result can be verified independently. That gives investigators a documented, source-verified trail suitable for a case file or report. How evidence is ultimately used and admitted, however, is always governed by your own processes and by local law.
Beady draws on more than 100,000 publicly available sources. These include global sanctions lists from OFAC, the EU, the UN, and the UK HMT, international most-wanted and criminal registries, and databases of politically exposed persons. The coverage extends to regulatory and enforcement lists, litigation and court records, and adverse media across more than 100,000 news sources. On top of that, it reaches into corporate registries spanning over 200 million entities and officers, as well as public social sources. Every one of these sources is refreshed daily.
Keyword alerts flood you with mentions and leave you on your own to make sense of them. Beady takes a different path, since it was built for investigations. Its artificial intelligence verifies that a hit truly concerns your subject, judges its relevance, clears away up to 95 percent of the noise, and gathers sanctions, ownership, criminal, and litigation data together with the news, each item traced back to its source. The result is verified intelligence, not an unfiltered stream.

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