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Screen the Owners and Officers Behind Every Company

Find the beneficial owners, directors, and officers behind a company, screen each of them, and keep them under watch.
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Why UBO and officer screening matters

A company is only as clean as the people who own and run it. Sanctions, fraud and corruption risk rarely sit on the corporate name. They sit with a beneficial owner hidden two holding companies deep, a director with a history of failed companies, or a nominee fronting for someone on a watchlist. Every supplier, customer, counterparty and investment has people behind it, and each of them can expose you. Beady identifies those people across a database of 200M+ companies and officers and screens every one of them, so you know exactly who you are dealing with, not just the entity on the contract.

Why UBO and officer screening matters: a PEP behind a holding company, a director with dissolved companies, a nominee for a sanctioned individual and a clear signatory
Why manual UBO and officer checks fail

Tracing ownership by hand means pulling filings from scattered registries, following holding chains across jurisdictions and guessing at nominee arrangements. It takes hours, misses connections and produces a picture that is incomplete on the day you build it. Officer checks are no better: a director’s past companies, disqualifications and court cases live in different places and in different languages. And a manual check is a snapshot. When an owner changes, a director is appointed or someone on the cap table is sanctioned, nobody goes back to look, so the risk sits unnoticed until it becomes a problem.

Manual UBO checks versus Beady: hours per company and an incomplete picture against ownership traced to natural persons and re-checked daily
Why UBO and officer screening with AI works better

Beady turns a name into a full picture of the people behind it. It maps ownership through every layer to the ultimate beneficial owners, pulls the directors and officers from registries across 200M+ companies and officers, and screens each person against sanctions, PEP lists, litigation, criminal records and adverse media in a single pass. Its models read context rather than matching names, removing roughly 95% of the noise, so a common surname does not become a false alert. And with ongoing monitoring it keeps watching, flagging a new owner, a new appointment or a new designation within hours. Every finding links to its public source.

UBO and officer screening with AI: ownership mapped through every layer, each person screened by name, new owners and appointments flagged the same day
01 Preventing Financial Crime
Money laundering, sanctions evasion and fraud are run by people, and companies are the vehicles they use. Screening the owners and officers behind every entity you deal with brings those red flags to light before you are connected to them, so your business does not become a channel for someone else’s crime.
02 Identifying Ultimate Beneficial Owners
You cannot judge a company’s risk without knowing who controls it. Beady traces ownership through holding companies, trusts and nominees to the individuals who ultimately own the business, applies the 25% and 50% ownership thresholds regulators use, and screens each of them by name.
03 Screening Directors and Officers
The people who run a company carry its risk as much as the people who own it. Beady pulls the current and former directors, officers and authorised signatories from public registries, checks their other appointments and disqualifications, and screens them for sanctions, PEP status and adverse media.
04 Meeting Regulatory Requirements
AML rules across finance and most regulated sectors require you to identify and verify beneficial owners and to screen the people behind a business, and regulators expect proof. Beady keeps a source-linked record of every UBO and officer check as part of KYB, so you can meet the obligation and evidence it on demand.
05 Catching Sanctions Exposure Through Ownership
A company can be clean on its own name and still be blocked, because a sanctioned individual owns 50% or more of it. Beady screens beneficial owners and officers against global sanctions lists and applies the ownership rule, so a listed person hiding behind a corporate structure does not slip through.
06 Mitigating Fraud Risks
Shell companies, front businesses and serial fraudsters look fine on paper. Beady looks at the people: a director linked to a string of dissolved companies, an owner named in litigation, a signatory with a criminal record. Those are the red flags that reveal a risky counterparty before it costs you.
07 Safeguarding Supply Chains
Every supplier you onboard is run by someone. Beady screens the owners and officers behind the companies in your supply chain, so forced-labour exposure, sanctions or a fraud history in a supplier’s leadership surfaces before the first order, not after a shipment is held.
08 Building Investor and Partner Trust
Investors, acquirers and banks want assurance that the people behind the companies you work with are clean. Documented UBO and officer screening shows that diligence was done properly, so you can stand behind every counterparty, partner and portfolio company you have put your name to.

What Beady Checks

Beneficial Owners

Beady traces ownership through every layer of holding companies, trusts and nominee arrangements to the natural persons who ultimately own or control a company, across 200M+ companies and officers. Each UBO is screened against sanctions and watchlists, PEP lists, litigation, criminal records and adverse media, with the ownership chain and percentages shown, so you can see exactly how control is held and apply the thresholds your regulator expects.

What Beady checks for beneficial owners: ultimate owners, ownership percentages, trusts and nominees, sanctions and PEP status, litigation, adverse media
Directors and Officers

The people who run a company are pulled from public registries: current and former directors, officers, secretaries and authorised signatories. Beady checks their other appointments, disqualifications and the companies they have been connected to, and screens each of them for sanctions, PEP status and adverse media, so a director with a history of failed or sanctioned companies is visible before you sign.

What Beady checks for directors and officers: current and former directors, secretaries and signatories, disqualifications, other appointments, sanctions and media
Ownership Structures and Control

Beady maps the full structure: parent companies, subsidiaries, shell layers and cross-holdings, across jurisdictions and registries. It applies the 50% ownership rule used by OFAC and the EU, flags circular or opaque structures built to hide control, and screens every legal entity in the chain against sanctions lists, so a sanctioned party sitting one level up does not pass unnoticed.

What Beady checks in ownership structures: parents and subsidiaries, cross-border holdings, shell layers, circular holdings, the 50% rule, every entity in the chain

Built for Every Kind of Company

Every company deals with other companies, and needs to know who owns and runs them. Beady screens the people behind the entities you work with, whatever your size or sector.
Beady for Fintechs and Crypto
For Fintechs and Crypto
Identify and screen the beneficial owners and directors behind every business you onboard, meet UBO verification rules in each market, and keep those people watched as you scale.
Beady for Venture Funds
For Venture Funds
Screen the founders, owners and officers of a target before you invest, verify the cap table, and keep the people behind every portfolio company watched for sanctions and litigation.
Beady for Investment Companies
For Investment Companies
Keep a live view of who owns and runs every company in your portfolio, so an ownership change, a new director or a new designation surfaces within hours, not at the next review.
Beady for HR Departments
For HR Departments
Screen the executives and directors you hire and the owners behind the contractors and agencies you engage, against sanctions, PEP lists and adverse media before you rely on them.
Beady for Compliance Teams
For Compliance Teams
Verify UBOs and officers at onboarding and in periodic reviews, cut false positives by up to 95%, and attach source-linked evidence to every decision for records that hold up under examination.
Beady for Law Firms
For Law Firms
Identify and screen the owners and officers behind clients and counterparties for M&A, client onboarding and due diligence, with every finding traceable to its public source.
Beady for Financial Institutions
For Financial Institutions
Meet beneficial-ownership and KYB obligations on corporate customers and counterparties, with owners and officers screened at onboarding and re-checked daily.
Beady for Regulated Industries
For Regulated Industries
Meet sector-specific rules on knowing the people behind the businesses you work with, from iGaming to insurance to healthcare, tuned to your regulator’s expectations.
Beady for Large Corporates
For Large Corporates
Screen the owners and officers behind suppliers, vendors and partners across the enterprise, mapping ownership and monitoring risk at scale, in one place.

Look past the name on the contract

Beneficial owners, directors and officers identified, screened and kept current, not filed away.
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Works Across Industries

One platform, every industry. Identify and screen the owners and officers behind the companies you deal with, against sanctions, PEP lists, litigation and adverse media wherever you operate.
Software and Technology industry illustration
Software and Technology
Screen the owners and officers behind investors, acquirers and enterprise partners through funding, M&A and growth, so you always know who is behind a deal.
Finance and Insurance industry illustration
Finance and Insurance
Verify beneficial owners and screen directors at onboarding and daily after it, with new sanctions or a change of control flagged the day they emerge.
Supply Chain industry illustration
Supply Chain
Screen the owners and officers behind every supplier before onboarding and continuously afterward, so sanctions and forced-labour exposure in a supplier’s leadership surface early.
Government industry illustration
Government
Identify the owners behind contractors, grant recipients and partners and screen them for sanctions and conflicts of interest, with source-linked evidence for public accountability.
Law Enforcement industry illustration: 100,000+ open sources, source-verified leads
Law Enforcement
Investigate who owns and controls a corporate structure with source-verified searches across 200M+ entities and officers, sanctions, litigation and criminal records.
Human Resources industry illustration
Human Resources
Screen senior hires and the owners behind contractors and agencies for sanctions, PEP status and adverse media, catching risk a standard background check leaves out.
Healthcare industry illustration
Healthcare
Screen the owners and officers behind provider organisations, vendors and partners for sanctions and exclusion risk to protect patients and your standing.
Trading industry illustration
Trading
Know the people behind a counterparty and screen them for sanctions and adverse-media risk in minutes before you take a position.
iGaming industry illustration
iGaming
Screen the owners and officers behind partner and supplier companies for sanctions and AML risk to meet licensing obligations on beneficial ownership.
Energy and Utilities industry illustration
Energy and Utilities
Trace the owners behind partners, contractors and joint-venture companies and screen them for sanctions and reputational risk across every market.
Manufacturing industry illustration
Manufacturing
Screen the owners and officers behind suppliers, distributors and partner companies across your markets, so a sanctioned or high-risk person in the chain is caught early.
Media and Telecom industry illustration
Media and Telecom
Know the people behind advertisers, vendors and partners, screening them for sanctions and adverse-media risk before you enter agreements.
Retail industry illustration
Retail
Screen the owners and officers behind suppliers, franchisees and wholesale partners for sanctions and reputational risk as you expand.

Set Once. Monitor Daily

Screen the people behind a company once, then let Beady keep watching them. Choose a one-time check on a company’s owners and officers, or continuous daily monitoring for as long as the relationship lasts.

One-Time Screening

A one-time check identifies a company’s beneficial owners, directors and officers from public registries and screens each of them against sanctions, PEP lists, litigation, criminal records and adverse media in a single pass, no documents required. It is built for the moment you need to know who is behind a business, before you onboard, invest or sign.

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

Ongoing Monitoring

Owners and officers change, and so does their risk. Ongoing monitoring rescreens every person behind the companies you watch daily, so a new designation, a new director or a change of control reaches you within hours rather than at the next review. Drawing on 100,000+ sources refreshed daily, Beady keeps your view of every owner and officer current.

Ongoing Monitoring

Clear Intelligence, Built for Your Workflow

Trace every finding to its source, produce audit-ready reports, and feed owner and officer 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 owner or a director, an accusation, an arrest, a brewing scandal, often surface on social media hours or days before they reach the news or an official record. Social monitoring runs across every person you watch, so you get 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 the owners and officers 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.
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 ownership link and every finding carries a direct link to the registry or record it came from. The AI never invents or embellishes, so your view of who owns and runs a company rests on evidence you can verify, not assumptions.
Quality of the Data Provided
Report Consolidation
Bookmark the owners, officers 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 ownership picture by hand.
Report Consolidation

How It Works

A step-by-step look at how a company name becomes a complete, verified and always-current picture of the people who own and run it.
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Add the Party
Step 1
Add the Entity
Enter the company whose owners and officers you want to screen, by legal name, trade name or registration number, to begin.
Screen
Step 2
Identify Owners and Officers
Beady maps ownership through every holding layer to the ultimate beneficial owners and pulls the directors and officers from public registries across 200M+ companies and officers.
Map and Filter
Step 3
Screen
Each owner and officer is automatically screened against sanctions, PEP lists, litigation, criminal records, adverse media and 100,000+ other sources for risk.
Build the Profile
Step 4
Build the Profile
The AI filters out namesakes and noise, then builds a single profile of the company and its people ranked by severity, with each finding linked to its source.
Monitor and Share
Step 5
Monitor and Share
Put the owners and officers under daily watch for anything new, and hand your team a clean, audit-ready report the instant it is needed.

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 UBO screening?
UBO screening identifies the ultimate beneficial owners of a company, the natural persons who ultimately own or control it, usually above a threshold of 25% of shares or voting rights, and checks each of them against sanctions, PEP lists, litigation and adverse media. Beady does both parts: it traces ownership through holding companies and nominees to the real people, then screens them by name with the evidence attached.
Officers are the people who run a company: directors, company secretaries, executives and authorised signatories. They may own nothing and still carry the risk. A director who has been disqualified, who sits on the board of a sanctioned company or who is named in a fraud case is a problem for anyone dealing with the business. Beady pulls officers from public registries and screens each of them the same way it screens owners.
Beady works through the structure layer by layer, following shareholdings across registries in different jurisdictions until it reaches natural persons, and shows the chain and the percentages at each step. It flags nominee arrangements, circular holdings and opaque layers built to hide control, and applies the ownership thresholds regulators use, including the 50% rule for sanctions, so you see who is really behind the company and why.
Manual checks cannot keep up. Ownership data is scattered across registries, filings and languages, and it changes constantly. Following a chain of holding companies by hand takes hours and still misses connections, and once you have more than a handful of counterparties nobody re-checks them. So the picture is incomplete the day you build it and out of date soon after. Those gaps are where the risk sits.
You can pull the owners, officers and findings that matter into one place and turn them into whatever you need: a UBO report for onboarding, an audit file, a board pack or a due-diligence summary. Sharing takes a couple of clicks. Because every ownership link and finding traces back to its public source, the reports come out audit-ready without extra work.
Yes. Beady monitors the owners and officers behind the companies you watch daily and can send alerts the moment something changes, a new sanction, a new director, a change of control. You can receive them in the platform or as daily summaries via Telegram, so you do not need to log in to stay on top of the people behind your counterparties.

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