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Map ownership and monitor the entities you're connected to for sanctions, litigation, and adverse media.
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Why entity management matters for you

Managing legal entities is not just about keeping your own paperwork in order. It is about knowing the companies you deal with: who really owns them, who sits behind them, and whether they carry risk you would never spot on a registration certificate. Every supplier, every customer, every counterparty, and every investment is a legal entity, and each one can expose you to sanctions, fraud, or reputational damage. Beady’s Legal Entities Watch gives you a live, connected view of those entities and the people behind them, drawing on a database of more than 200 million companies and officers, so you always know who you are really dealing with.

Why traditional and manual legal entity management fails

The manual way of keeping track of entities falls apart fast. Company data lives in scattered registries, spreadsheets, and PDFs, ownership is buried under holding companies and nominees, and none of it updates itself. Tracing who really controls a company by hand takes hours and still misses connections. Worse, it’s a one-time snapshot: you check an entity once and never look again, so a change of ownership, a new sanction, or a lawsuit goes unnoticed until it’s a problem. You end up with a corporate picture that’s incomplete the day you build it and out of date soon after.

Why legal entity management with AI makes it better

AI turns a static, incomplete picture into a live one. Beady maps an entity’s ownership across a database of 200M+ companies and officers, revealing the real people and businesses behind a name, and screens each one against sanctions, litigation, and adverse media in a single pass. Its models read context rather than matching names, stripping out roughly 95% of the noise, so you see real risk, not false positives. And it keeps watching, flagging a new owner, sanction, or lawsuit within hours. You get a complete, current, source-linked view of every entity, without the manual work.

01 Preventing Financial Crimes
Companies get used to launder money, to move sanctioned funds, and to front for fraud, very often behind a shell that looks perfectly legitimate on the surface. Watching the legal entities you deal with brings those red flags to light before you are ever connected to them, so your business does not end up serving as a channel for someone else’s financial crime.
02 Identifying Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs)
You can’t judge an entity’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 watching a corporate name but the individuals who ultimately own and run it.
03 Regulatory Compliance
Understanding the entities you deal with is a legal requirement throughout finance and a good many other regulated sectors, and regulators expect to see the proof. Beady screens companies along with their owners, and it maintains a source-linked record of every single check, so you are able to meet your obligations and back them up with evidence whenever the demand comes.
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 an entity and its owners for the fraud signals and red flags that reveal a risky counterparty before it costs you.
05 Sanction & Reputation Screening
An entity can carry sanctions on its own name, or it can be owned behind the scenes by someone who does. Beady screens the company and its beneficial owners alike, comparing them against global sanctions lists and adverse media, so that a sanctioned party hiding inside a corporate structure does not manage to slip through unnoticed.
06 Safeguarding Supply Chains
Every supplier and vendor you onboard is a legal entity, and a door into your business. Beady watches 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.
07 Building Investor Trust
Both investors and acquirers want the assurance that the entities inside a portfolio are clean. A live picture of ownership and risk, paired with documented screening, makes it clear that diligence was carried out properly. With that in hand, you can build genuine trust with investors and stand behind every company you have put your name to.
08 Reputation & Brand Protection
Who you partner with reflects directly on your own reputation. Should a company you do business with end up exposed for fraud or sanctions violations, that damage does not stop at their door. It reaches you too. Watching your entities closely surfaces that kind of risk early, before you are ever associated with it, and that is how you protect the trust that sits behind your brand.

What Beady Checks

People

Risk usually attaches to people, so Beady screens all of them. That means your customers, the beneficial owners (UBOs) behind the companies you deal with, company directors, employees, and the agents acting on a business’s behalf. It also flags politically exposed persons (PEPs), whose position carries a higher risk of bribery or corruption and calls for closer scrutiny. Crucially, Beady looks past the name on the paperwork to the individuals behind it, drawing on a database of 200M+ companies and officers, so you screen who you’re actually dealing with, not just the entity on the contract.

Organizations

Companies get flagged as often as people, and the risk isn’t always obvious from the name above the door. Beady screens corporate entities, the supplier businesses in your chain, and the counterparties on the other side of your deals against global sanctions and watchlists. It pays particular attention to shell companies, the opaque structures often used to disguise who really owns or controls a business and to move sanctioned money out of sight. By tracing ownership across 200M+ legal entities and their officers, Beady helps you see the real organisation behind a name before you commit to working with it.

Assets & Transport

Risk doesn’t only attach to people and companies. Sanctions and watchlists also name specific assets, and dealing with one can create exposure just as easily. Beady screens vessels and aircraft against sanctions lists, checking identifiers like IMO and tail numbers, so a ship or plane tied to a sanctioned owner or route doesn’t slip into your operations unnoticed. This matters most in shipping, trade finance, logistics, and insurance, where a single flagged vessel or aircraft can expose an entire transaction. Screening the asset, not just the party behind it, closes a gap that name-only checks leave wide open.

Built for Every Kind of Company

Every company deals with other companies, and needs to know who’s behind them. Beady watches the legal entities you’re connected to, whatever your size or sector.
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For Fintechs & Crypto Firms
Know the businesses and owners you onboard, screening each company and the people behind it against sanctions and adverse media, and keep them watched as you scale into new markets.
For Venture Funds
Map the ownership of target companies before you invest and screen the people behind them, then keep your portfolio’s entities watched for new sanctions, litigation, or ownership changes.
For Investment Companies
Keep a live view of every company in your portfolio and the people who control it, so a new risk or ownership shift surfaces within hours rather than at the next quarterly cycle.
For HR Departments
Screen the people tied to the entities you engage, executives, directors, and the businesses behind contractors, against sanctions and adverse media before you rely on them.
For Compliance Departments
Watch the companies and owners you deal with, cut false positives by up to 95%, and attach source-linked evidence to every entity decision for records that hold up under examination.
For Law Firms
Map ownership and screen the entities behind clients and counterparties for M&A, onboarding, and due diligence, with every finding traceable back to its public source.
For Financial Institutions
Keep a live, risk-aware view of the corporate customers and counterparties you deal with, so a newly sanctioned or high-risk entity is flagged the day it changes.
For Regulated Industries
Meet sector-specific requirements to know and monitor the entities you work with, from iGaming to insurance to healthcare, tuned to your regulator’s expectations.
For Large Corporates
Watch the suppliers, vendors, and partners across your enterprise, mapping ownership and monitoring risk, thoroughly, at scale, and all in one place.

The name on the contract is rarely the whole company.

Ownership chains, directors and status changes mapped across jurisdictions — and kept current, not filed away.
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Works Across Industries

One platform, every industry. Know and monitor the legal entities you deal with, and the people behind them, against sanctions, litigation, and adverse media wherever you operate.
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Software & Technology
Map the ownership of investors, acquirers, and enterprise partners and watch them through funding, M&A, and growth, so you always know who’s behind a deal.
Finance & Insurance
Keep a live, risk-aware view of corporate customers and counterparties, with ownership mapped and new sanctions or risk flagged the day they emerge.
Supply Chain
Watch the companies in your supply chain and trace their ownership, screening for sanctions and legal risk before onboarding and continuously afterward.
Government
Map the ownership of contractors, grant recipients, and partners and watch them for risk, with source-linked evidence for public accountability.
Law Enforcement
Investigate corporate structures with source-verified searches across 200M+ entities and officers, sanctions, litigation, and criminal records in one place.
Human Resources
Screen the people and businesses behind the contractors and partners you engage, catching entity-level risk a standard check leaves out.
Healthcare
Map ownership and watch the provider organisations, vendors, and partners you rely on, screening for sanctions and exclusion risk to protect patients and your standing.
Trading
Know the counterparty companies and the people behind them, screening for sanctions and adverse-media risk in minutes before you take a position.
iGaming
Map ownership and watch the partner and supplier companies you work with, screening for sanctions and AML risk to meet licensing obligations.
Energy & Utilities
Trace the ownership of partners, contractors, and joint-venture companies and watch them for sanctions and reputational risk across every market.
Manufacturing
Map ownership and watch the suppliers, distributors, and partner companies across your markets, screening for sanctions and legal risk to keep networks clean.
Media & Telecom
Know the companies behind advertisers, vendors, and partners, screening them for sanctions and adverse-media risk before you enter agreements.
Retail
Map ownership and watch the suppliers, franchisees, and wholesale partners you work with, screening for sanctions and reputational risk as you expand.

Set Once. Monitor Daily

Know an entity once, then let Beady keep watching it. Choose a one-time check on a company and its owners, or continuous daily monitoring for as long as the relationship lasts.

One-time Screening

A one-time check 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 moment you need to know who’s behind a business, before you onboard, invest, or sign, so you can clear an entity or decline it with confidence.

Ongoing Monitoring

Knowing an entity once isn’t enough when the relationship continues. Ongoing monitoring rescreens every company and its owners daily, so a new sanction, lawsuit, or ownership change reaches you within hours rather than at the next review.
By drawing on 100+ sources refreshed daily, Beady keeps your view of every entity current, flagging change the moment it appears.

Clear Intelligence, Built for Your Workflow

Trace every finding to its source, produce audit-ready reports, and feed entity intelligence straight into the tools your team already uses.
Social Signals Monitoring
Beady watches public social sources in real time, not just registries. Risk signals tied to an entity or its owners, an accusation, an arrest, a brewing scandal, often surface on social media hours or days before they reach the news or an official record.
How early they appear varies by company and sector, but social monitoring runs across every entity you watch, so you get the earliest possible warning of new risk.
Messenger Integration for Daily Risk Alerts
Beady connects to messaging platforms like Telegram to send daily alerts on the most important changes across the entities you watch, 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.
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 your view of an entity rests on evidence you can verify, not assumptions.
Report Consolidation
Bookmark the entities and findings that matter to build a 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 picture by hand.

How It Works

A step-by-step look at how a company name becomes a complete, verified, always-current view of an entity and the people behind it.
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Step 1
Add the Entity
Enter the company you want to know and watch, by legal name, trade name, or registration, to begin.
Step 2
Map & Verify
Beady maps the entity’s ownership across 200M+ companies and officers and verifies it against public registries, revealing who really controls it.
Step 3
Screen
The company and its owners are automatically screened against sanctions, adverse media, litigation, and 1,000+ other sources for risk.
Step 4
Build the Profile
The AI filters out noise and false matches, then builds a single entity profile ranked by severity, with each finding linked to its source.
step 5
Monitor & Share
Put the entity under daily watch for anything new on the risk front, and hand your team a clean, audit-ready report the instant it is needed.

Frequently
Asked Questions

Why is entity compliance tracking important?
The short version is that entities change, and so does their risk. Take a company that was perfectly clean when you first onboarded it. Months later it might be under sanctions, tied up in a lawsuit, or sold off to an owner who carries real risk, and you would never know unless you were watching. Continuous tracking is what catches those shifts in the moment. It gives you the chance to respond, and just as importantly, to show that you were keeping an eye on things, rather than finding out about a problem far too late to do anything about it.
A centralized legal entity registry is a single place that holds a complete, up-to-date record of every entity you care about, including its ownership, its officers, and its risk. Instead of that information being scattered across public registries, spreadsheets, and email inboxes, it all lives in one spot. Beady is what gives you that single view, drawing on a database of more than 200 million companies and officers. The benefit is that everyone works from the same trusted data, and nobody has to rebuild the whole picture from scratch every time.
Beady handles reporting in a few different shapes. You choose the entities and findings that are relevant, and from there you can build a consolidated report, an audit file, a board pack, or a due-diligence summary, then share it in just a couple of clicks. The useful part is that each finding traces back to where it came from, so your reports are audit-ready by default and every entry has solid evidence to stand on.
With Beady you can pull the entities and findings that matter to you into one place and turn them into whatever you need: a consolidated report, an audit file, a board pack, or a due-diligence summary. Sharing takes a couple of clicks. And because every finding links straight back to its source, the reports come out audit-ready without any extra work, with defensible evidence sitting behind each entry.
Manual tracking cannot keep up. That is the whole problem. Company data is scattered everywhere and it changes constantly. Ownership? Usually buried under layers that a manual search will almost never dig through. And once you have more than a handful of entities, checking each one by hand is just not something a person can realistically do. So you build your picture, and it is already incomplete. A little while later it is out of date too. Those gaps are where the risk you never saw was sitting the whole time.
Yes. Beady monitors the entities you watch daily and can send alerts the moment something changes, a new sanction, a lawsuit, an ownership shift. You can receive them in the platform or as daily summaries via Telegram, so you don’t need to log in to stay on top of your entities.

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