The number of third parties a software or technology company deals with has grown, and keeps growing. Customers, vendors, subprocessors, resellers, partners, investors, and much of it now crosses borders. None of them can be judged at face value. A buyer can be sanctioned; a vendor can be compromised; and neither shows on the surface. This is why continuous screening is the stronger discipline. You check the people and companies behind a relationship before you sign, and then you do not stop checking. Beady is what makes that workable in practice. Deep screening happens at onboarding, daily monitoring runs across your customers, vendors, and partners after it, and a sanction, scandal, or fraud signal reaches you as it happens, well before the damage is done, rather than after the contract has been signed.

The two moments carry different risks, and both matter. Before you sign, the question is whether a customer, vendor, or partner, and the people behind them, are who they claim to be, and whether anything, a sanction, an ownership link, a scandal, should stop you. After you sign, the question is whether anything has changed across the relationships you keep. Screen only at signing and you’re exposed for the whole contract; monitor only occasionally and you’re always behind. Beady covers both, a thorough check upfront and continuous monitoring after, so your view of every third party stays current.

AI is what lets a fast-moving tech company screen third parties without slowing the business down. Beady checks a customer, vendor, or partner 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 is fast, thorough, and defensible, without adding a team of analysts.

There are always people behind a customer, vendor, or partner, and this is often where the risk is concentrated. Beady screens those individuals, including owners, executives, directors, key hires, and connected parties. Each one is checked against sanctions, PEP, criminal, and most-wanted lists, together with adverse media spanning 100,000+ sources, and anyone politically exposed enough to raise the level of risk is flagged. Instead of taking the company name on a contract at face value, Beady looks past it to the people who truly stand behind a relationship, so you understand exactly who you are dealing with.

In many cases, the real risk is concealed within ownership, which is exactly the area a superficial check fails to examine. Beady addresses this by mapping beneficial ownership and the web of connections surrounding a company across a database covering more than 200 million entities and their officers. It works through holding companies and intermediaries to identify the people who truly own and control the entity. Along the way, it brings related parties, conflicts, and links to sanctioned or high-risk entities into view. Consequently, you gain insight not just into the customer or vendor before you, but into who is behind them and what further connections they hold.