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Enterprise-Grade Screening, Without the Enterprise Overhead

Screen customers, vendors, and partners against sanctions, ownership, and adverse-media risk, continuously.
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How mid-size companies can scale their risk screening

As a company grows from a startup into the mid-market, the number of parties it deals with, customers, vendors, suppliers, partners, and acquisition targets, grows with it, and so does the risk each one carries. The manual checks and spreadsheets that worked at a smaller scale start to break, but a full enterprise compliance team isn’t the answer yet. Beady bridges the gap, giving a growing company enterprise-grade screening without the overhead: it checks the people and companies behind every relationship against sanctions, ownership, and adverse media in minutes, and keeps them monitored as you scale.

Every party checked the same way: customers, vendors, partners, targets and hires screened at scale
Why manual checks stop working as you grow

Manual screening doesn’t scale. When you dealt with a handful of vendors and customers, a quick search was enough; at mid-market scale, with hundreds of third parties across procurement, sales, and partnerships, checking each one by hand is impossible, so most go unchecked. Ownership is a blind spot: the real party behind a company is often hidden behind holding structures a quick search never untangles. And a one-time check is a snapshot. A customer, vendor, or partner that was clean when you onboarded can be sanctioned, charged, or exposed later, and a stretched team will rarely catch it in time.

Manual checks vs Beady: where a quick search stops at the name
Why consistent screening and ongoing monitoring matter at mid-market scale

As you grow, two things start to matter more: consistency and continuity. Consistency, because when procurement, sales, and legal each screen differently, or not at all, risk slips through the gaps. Continuity, because a party cleared once can become a risk months later, and at scale you can’t re-check everyone by hand. Beady solves both: one consistent, source-linked check every team can run, and continuous monitoring that flags a new sanction, charge, or scandal as it happens. So your screening holds up across the business and stays current as you scale.

One check, every team, every day: procurement, sales and legal on the same source-linked screen
What one bad third party costs a growing company

For a growing company, one bad third party can cost more than the deal it came from. Onboard or pay a sanctioned party and you can breach the law, with fines and enforcement that hit harder than a large enterprise would feel. A compromised vendor or partner can disrupt your operations or your data. A bad acquisition can bring hidden liabilities onto your books. And as you professionalize and face audits, an unmanaged third-party risk becomes a finding. Most of it is avoidable with proper screening. Beady checks every customer, vendor, and partner, and who owns them, against sanctions and adverse media before you’re exposed, then keeps watching.

One party nobody checked: what a single bad third party can cost a growing company
How AI gives a lean team enterprise-grade coverage

AI is what lets a lean compliance or risk team cover a growing third-party base without growing headcount to match. Beady checks a customer, vendor, or partner, and the people and companies behind them, against sanctions, adverse media, litigation, 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 real risk, not false positives. Then it keeps monitoring daily, flagging a new sanction, charge, or scandal within hours. Every finding links back to its source, so your compliance scales with the business and stays defensible.

AI screening: every source read in minutes, noise filtered, findings linked to their source
01 Screen Customers and Buyers at Scale
As you sell into more markets, sanctions and export exposure grows. Beady screens the customers and buyers you sell to against sanctions and adverse-media risk in minutes, so a restricted or high-risk customer is caught before you close, across a sales operation too big to check by hand.
02 Screen Vendors, Suppliers and Subprocessors
Your vendor base grows with you, and so does the risk in it. Beady screens the companies and people behind your suppliers and subprocessors against sanctions, ownership, and adverse-media risk, so a compromised or high-risk vendor doesn’t become a problem for your operations, data, or compliance.
03 Screen Partners, Resellers and Distributors
As you build a partner and channel network, each one carries your brand and your risk. Beady screens partners, resellers, and distributors, along with the people behind them, against sanctions and adverse-media risk, so a compromised partner does not damage your reputation or route risk back to you.
04 Diligence Acquisition Targets and Investors
Mid-market growth often means M&A and new investors. Beady diligences acquisition targets, investors, and the people behind them against sanctions, litigation, ownership, and adverse-media risk, so a deal starts with a clear view of who and what you’re taking on, and no hidden liabilities.
05 Map Ownership and Uncover Who’s Really Behind a Party
A customer, vendor, or partner is only as clean as who really controls it. Beady maps ownership across 200M+ entities and officers, surfacing the real owners and hidden connections behind a company, so a sanctioned or high-risk party doesn’t sit hidden behind a legitimate-looking name.
06 Screen Against Sanctions and PEP Exposure
As you grow and go global, sanctions and PEP screening become real obligations. Beady screens every customer, vendor, and partner against OFAC, the EU, the UN, and the UK’s HMT, along with politically exposed persons data, all refreshed daily, so a sanctioned or politically exposed party is caught before you deal.
07 Give a Lean Compliance or Risk Team Leverage
Most teams like yours are in the same spot: a real compliance or risk function, just not enough hands for it. Beady closes that gap by automating the screening that eats up the day, trimming the false positives and consolidating what is left. So the small team you already have can cover a third-party base the size an enterprise handles, without you growing headcount to get there.
08 Keep Screening Consistent and Audit-Ready Across the Business
The more you professionalize, the more regulators, auditors, and customers expect to see consistency. Beady hands every team the same source-linked check and keeps a complete record of each screen, which means screening is consistent across procurement, sales, and legal, and ready for audit the moment you are asked to produce it.

Where Beady Fits Across a Mid-Size Business

Every team you run brings new parties to take on. Here is where Beady fits, from a sales deal to an acquisition.
Customer and buyer screening: every account cleared before the first invoice
Customer and Sales-Deal Screening
Your sales team closes more deals, and closes them faster, than any manual check could ever match. Beady checks customers and buyers, as well as the individuals behind them, against sanctions and adverse-media risk in minutes, which means a sanctioned or high-risk customer is caught before a deal closes, and sales never has to slow down for it.
Supplier and vendor onboarding: the company behind the supplier
Vendor and Supplier Onboarding
Bringing on a vendor or supplier comes down to knowing both the company and who owns it. Beady handles the KYB process and maps ownership, screening for sanctions, litigation, and adverse media, which keeps a high-risk vendor out of your supply base and gives procurement a consistent check to run on every occasion.
Partners, resellers and agents: whoever represents you carries your name
Partner, Reseller and Distributor Screening
Your partner and channel network carries your brand outward, and your risk right along with it. Beady reviews partners, resellers, and distributors, together with the people standing behind them, against sanctions and adverse-media risk before you sign, so that a compromised partner never gets anywhere near your customers or your reputation.
Investors, lenders and acquirers: diligence that works in both directions
M&A and Acquisition Due Diligence
Grow by acquisition and you take on everything you failed to spot. Beady puts a target, its owners, and its key people through sanctions, litigation, and adverse media, all in one report. So the hidden risks and liabilities show up while you are still doing diligence, not after the ink is dry.
Senior hires and appointments: what a proper check actually covers
Executive and Key-Hire Screening
Senior hires bring outsized risk, and yet they are frequently the ones given the lightest vetting. Beady checks executives, board members, and key hires against sanctions, criminal, and adverse-media sources before they come on board, catching the integrity risks that a reference check and an interview would never bring to light.
One-time screening: from every source to the findings that matter
Ongoing Monitoring Across the Third-Party Base
Long after onboarding is done, risk continues to change, and at scale there is no way to re-check everyone by hand. Beady maintains a daily watch over your customers, vendors, and partners, so that a new sanction, charge, or scandal surfaces as it happens, keeping your whole third-party base up to date.
Ongoing monitoring: a clean check at signing does not cover the relationship
Investigations, Alerts and Escalations
When an alert goes off, or your gut says something is wrong, the clock is already running. Beady gives your compliance or risk team what it needs to answer, a source-linked view of any company or person across sanctions, criminal, litigation, and adverse-media sources. The escalation gets settled quickly, and you have the record to show how the call was made.

One bad partner can cost more than the deal

Customers, vendors, partners, targets and hires screened before you commit.
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What Beady Checks

People

Behind every customer, vendor, partner, and hire is a person, and that’s often where the risk sits. Beady screens the individuals you deal with: owners, executives, directors, key hires, and the people behind your customers and suppliers. It checks each against sanctions, PEP, criminal and most-wanted lists, and adverse media across 100,000+ sources, and flags politically exposed people whose position adds risk. Rather than stopping at a company name on a contract, Beady looks past it to who really stands behind a relationship, so you know exactly who you’re dealing with across a growing business.

What Beady checks: people behind every customer, vendor, partner and hire
Organizations

Every company you sell to, buy from, or partner with brings risk along with it, and that risk is rarely obvious from a logo. Beady screens customers, vendors, partners, acquisition targets, and the entities connected to them against sanctions, litigation, adverse media, and watchlists. Shell companies and opaque structures draw particular scrutiny, since they are so often used to mask who truly controls a business. Because Beady traces ownership across over 200 million legal entities and their officers, a growing company gets to see the real organisation behind a name before it signs, buys, or acquires.

What Beady checks: organizations you sell to, buy from, partner with or acquire
Ownership and Connections

Look past any company and you often find the part that matters most, which is who owns it. That is where the real risk likes to hide, and it is exactly what a quick check skips over. Beady traces it. It maps beneficial ownership and the surrounding connections for a company across more than 200 million entities and their officers, and it does not stop until it reaches the people with real ownership and control, however many holding companies and intermediaries sit in between. Related parties, conflicts, links to sanctioned or high-risk entities, Beady brings them all into view. You end up understanding the customer or vendor and, more to the point, everyone behind it.

What Beady checks: ownership and connections behind the party you deal with

Across the Sectors You Operate In

Mid-size companies operate across every sector, and so does Beady. Screen and monitor the parties you deal with, whatever your business.
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Software in mid-size companies: customers, vendors, partners, vetted before you commit
Software and Technology
Screen customers, vendors, and partners against sanctions and adverse-media risk as you scale into new markets and deals.
Manufacturing in mid-size companies: suppliers, distributors, buyers, screened across the supply chain
Manufacturing
Screen suppliers, distributors, and customers against sanctions, export-control, and adverse-media risk across your supply chain.
Financial services in mid-size companies: customers, counterparties, partners, aml-ready screening
Financial Services
Screen customers, counterparties, and partners against sanctions, PEP, and adverse media, meeting growing AML obligations.
Healthcare in mid-size companies: vendors, providers, partners, exclusions and sanctions checked
Healthcare
Screen vendors, providers, and partners against exclusion lists, sanctions, and adverse-media risk as you expand.
Retail and consumer in mid-size companies: suppliers, sellers, partners, checked across every channel
Retail and Consumer
Screen suppliers, sellers, and partners against sanctions, forced-labour, and adverse-media risk across your products and channels.
Professional services in mid-size companies: clients and partners, know the client you take on
Professional Services
Screen clients and partners against sanctions, adverse media, and integrity risk, so a relationship doesn’t expose your firm.
Logistics in mid-size companies: carriers, suppliers, partners, screened across the network
Logistics and Supply Chain
Screen carriers, suppliers, and partners against sanctions and adverse-media risk across a growing network.
Energy and utilities in mid-size companies: partners, contractors, suppliers, checked before the contract
Energy and Utilities
Screen partners, contractors, and suppliers against sanctions and reputational risk across your operations.
Construction and real estate in mid-size companies: contractors, suppliers, partners, every project, every party
Construction and Real Estate
Screen contractors, suppliers, and partners against sanctions and adverse-media risk across every project.
Media and telecom in mid-size companies: partners, advertisers, vendors, protect the brand you built
Media and Telecom
Screen partners, advertisers, and vendors against sanctions and adverse-media risk, protecting your brand.
Education in mid-size companies: suppliers, partners, vendors, screened as you grow
Education
Screen suppliers, partners, and vendors against sanctions and adverse-media risk as you grow.
Hospitality in mid-size companies: suppliers, partners, vendors, checked across operations
Hospitality
Screen suppliers, partners, and vendors against sanctions and adverse-media risk across your operations.
Industrial machinery in mid-size companies: suppliers, distributors, partners, a complex supply base, screened
Industrial and Machinery
Screen suppliers, distributors, and partners against sanctions and adverse-media risk across a complex supply base.

Set Once. Monitor Daily

For a growing company, this is the right balance: a thorough screen when you onboard a party, then continuous monitoring, all without a big compliance team. Screen once, watch always.

One-Time Screening

When you take on a customer, vendor, partner, or hire, Beady runs a complete screen on the company or person, and the people who own it, against sanctions, PEP, criminal records, ownership, and adverse media, in a single pass, no documents required. It’s built for the decision in front of you, so your team can approve a clean party fast or flag a high-risk one before you commit.

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

Ongoing Monitoring

Once a party is onboarded, that screen becomes continuous coverage. Beady rescreens every customer, vendor, and partner daily, so a new sanction, charge, or scandal reaches you within hours rather than at a periodic review you may not have the team to run. Screen a party once, then keep your whole third-party base under a live, always-current watch as you grow.

Ongoing Monitoring

Clear Intelligence, Built for Your Workflow

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

How early they appear varies, but social monitoring runs across everyone you screen, so even a lean team gets the earliest possible warning of new risk.
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 your customers, vendors, and partners, 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 record it came from.

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

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, verified risk profile, then an always-current watch.
Add the Party
Step 1
Add the Party
Enter the customer, vendor, partner, or individual you want to screen, by name, to begin. No documents required.
Screen
Step 2
Screen
Beady checks it against sanctions, PEP, criminal, adverse media, ownership, and 100,000+ other sources in a single pass.
Map and Filter
Step 3
Map and Filter
The AI maps ownership, filters out noise and false matches, and surfaces only the risks that genuinely apply.
Build the Profile
Step 4
Build the Profile
Every confirmed finding is gathered into one audit-ready profile, ordered by severity, and each is linked back to its source.
Monitor and Share
Step 5
Monitor and Share
Add the party to daily monitoring, and share the report with your compliance, legal, or procurement team whenever you need it.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Beady do for a mid-size company?
The platform screens the customers, vendors, partners, acquisition targets, and hires you deal with, as well as their owners, against sanctions, politically exposed persons databases, criminal records, litigation, and adverse-media sources. On top of that, it maps their ownership across upward of 200 million entities and monitors them on an ongoing basis. What this offers a growing company is enterprise-grade screening without the overhead, so your risk coverage keeps pace as the business expands.
That’s exactly the gap Beady fills. It automates the screening that manual checks and spreadsheets can’t keep up with, without the cost and complexity of a heavyweight enterprise GRC suite. A lean compliance or risk team gets enterprise-grade coverage across a growing third-party base, and can scale it up as you grow.
Yes. What Beady does is automate the screening that would otherwise eat up a stretched team, trimming up to 95 percent of the noise, bringing findings together, and monitoring without pause. That allows a small compliance or risk function to cover a large third-party base with the same thoroughness as an enterprise team, and to do so without adding headcount.
Yes, it does. As you grow and sell into more markets, your sanctions and export exposure grows right along with you. Beady screens the customers, vendors, and partners you deal with against the major sanctions regimes, refreshed daily, and maps ownership to catch a restricted party hidden behind a company, so you stay compliant as you scale.
Yes. Growth by acquisition means inheriting whatever you don’t catch. Beady screens a target, its owners, and its key people against sanctions, litigation, ownership, and adverse-media risk in one report, so hidden risks and liabilities surface during diligence rather than after the deal is done.
Yes, this is one of its clear benefits. When procurement, sales, and legal each go about screening differently, risk finds its way through the gaps. Beady provides every team with a single consistent, source-linked check and holds a full record of each screen, so that screening remains uniform across the business and stays audit-ready whenever a regulator, auditor, or customer comes asking.
No. Beady screens the people and companies you deal with, customers, vendors, and partners, for sanctions, ownership, fraud, and reputational risk. It isn’t a SOC 2 or security-compliance tool, or a full enterprise GRC suite. It’s focused, best-in-class screening and monitoring that complements those systems, answering who you’re dealing with.
Usually seconds, at most a few minutes. In a single pass, Beady goes through every source, works out ownership, strips away the noise, and builds one consolidated profile out of it. For a business that is growing, that speed means you can screen a customer, a vendor, or a hire and keep going.
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, along with databases of politically exposed persons. The coverage extends to international most-wanted and criminal registries, regulatory and enforcement lists, and adverse media gathered from over 100,000 news sources. Beyond that, it reaches into corporate registries spanning more than 200 million entities and officers, as well as public social sources. Every one of these sources is refreshed daily.

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