Beady AI, a continuous risk intelligence platform, gives compliance, procurement and investment teams an automated way to run Know Your Business (KYB) checks. Its KYB automation service checks that a company is real, finds out who actually owns and controls it, and screens both the business and those owners for risk. All of this happens in one automated pass, and the company being checked never has to send a document.

Why Manual KYB Falls Short

Verifying a business by hand is slow and incomplete. Analysts pull registry filings, trace ownership through holding companies and nominees across jurisdictions, and run each name against list after list. A single company can take days or even weeks. Even after all that work, the result is a one-time snapshot. A business cleared at onboarding is rarely reviewed again, so a new sanction, lawsuit or change of ownership can go unnoticed until it becomes a problem.

Beady replaces that process with an AI-driven workflow that returns a complete, source-linked profile in minutes.

How It Works

1. Add the company. Users enter a business by legal name, trade name or registration number.
2. Verify and map. Beady confirms the company against official public registries. It then maps ownership across a database of more than 200 million legal entities and officers to identify the people in control.
3. Screen. The business and its owners are screened against sanctions lists, adverse media, litigation records and more than 100,000 other sources.
4. Build the profile. The AI reads context rather than simply matching names. It removes up to 95% of false positives and ranks the remaining findings by severity.
5. Monitor and share. Companies can be kept under daily monitoring, and audit-ready reports can be shared with colleagues, compliance officers or auditors in a couple of clicks.

What Beady Checks

- Registration details, incorporation data and current active status
- Directors, officers and ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs)
- Global sanctions regimes, including OFAC, EU, UN and UK HMT lists, plus PEP databases and law-enforcement watchlists
- Litigation and court records tied to the company or its owners
- Adverse media and social media signals across 100,000+ sources
- Risk indicators associated with shell companies and opaque ownership structures

From One-Time Checks to Daily Monitoring

Teams can choose a fast one-time scan for an onboarding decision or ongoing monitoring for the whole relationship. With ongoing monitoring, every company is rescreened daily. Beady flags a new sanction, lawsuit or ownership change within hours instead of waiting for the next scheduled review. Daily alerts can be delivered through messaging platforms, so teams can review key findings without logging in to the portal.

Evidence That Holds Up Under Review

Beady works only with publicly available data, and every finding links directly to the registry or record it came from. The AI does not invent or embellish results, so each decision rests on evidence that can be checked against its original source. Users can bookmark relevant findings to build a consolidated KYB report for a specific company, case or decision.

“Most organizations clear a business partner once and never look again,” said the Beady AI team. “A company can be sanctioned, sued or quietly change hands the week after onboarding. Our goal is to give teams a complete, verified picture of every business they work with on day one, and keep that picture current for as long as the relationship lasts.”

Built for Every Team That Onboards Businesses

Beady’s KYB automation serves teams that need to know exactly who they are dealing with:

1. Fintech and crypto companies onboarding business customers
2. Venture funds and investment firms vetting targets and monitoring portfolio
3. Procurement teams verifying suppliers and vendors
4. Compliance teams meeting KYB and AML obligations
5. Law firms running due diligence for M&A and client onboarding
6. Financial institutions and regulated sectors such as insurance, healthcare and iGaming

Unlike per-report due diligence or volume-billed screening databases, Beady uses one plan sized by the number of entities watched. Ongoing monitoring is included, and entities can be swapped at any time. Teams can typically go live within 24 hours.

More information and demo booking are available on the Beady KYB automation page.