Overview#
Understanding who you are actually doing business with is harder than it sounds. A supplier might be registered under one name in the UK, operate under a trading name in Singapore, and be ultimately controlled by an individual on a sanctions list through a chain of nominee directors and shell companies across three jurisdictions. Financial crime analysts, compliance officers at global banks, and investigators working fraud or corruption cases spend significant time tracing these ownership structures manually. Organization Intelligence automates that process, pulling verified corporate data from registries worldwide and surfacing the beneficial ownership picture that matters for due diligence and regulatory compliance.
Simultaneous queries across 50+ corporate registries and databases eliminate manual research, providing verified corporate profiles in seconds rather than hours.
Key Features#
- Company Research: Automated corporate intelligence from 50+ registries providing registration details, ownership structures, financial performance, regulatory filings, and operational status
- Entity Resolution: Fuzzy matching algorithms identify companies across naming variations, subsidiaries, and jurisdictional registrations for comprehensive corporate mapping
- Beneficial Ownership Analysis: Trace ultimate beneficial ownership through corporate hierarchies, shell company structures, and nominee arrangements to identify controlling persons
- Financial Intelligence: Access financial performance data, credit ratings, revenue estimates, and financial filing analysis for risk assessment and due diligence
- Regulatory and Legal Monitoring: Track regulatory filings, litigation history, enforcement actions, sanctions involvement, and compliance status across jurisdictions
- Corporate Change Tracking: Real-time alerts on corporate status changes including dissolutions, name changes, address updates, officer changes, and ownership transfers
- Industry and Competitor Analysis: Benchmark companies against industry peers, identify competitive positioning, and analyse market presence through multi-source data
- Cross-Jurisdictional Research: Search corporate registries across multiple countries and jurisdictions to identify international operations, subsidiaries, and related entities
Use Cases#
- Due Diligence Investigation: Conduct comprehensive corporate background checks for mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and investment decisions with verified multi-source data
- KYC and AML Compliance: Screen business entities for customer onboarding, identify beneficial owners, and assess risk levels for regulatory compliance requirements
- Fraud Investigation: Investigate shell companies, phantom vendors, and corporate fraud schemes by tracing ownership structures and identifying hidden relationships
- Sanctions and Watchlist Screening: Check organisations against global sanctions lists, PEP databases, and adverse media sources with ongoing monitoring for status changes
- Supply Chain Risk Assessment: Evaluate vendor and supplier corporate health, ownership stability, and regulatory compliance for supply chain risk management
Integration#
The platform integrates with the broader Argus OSINT ecosystem for cross-domain intelligence, sanctions screening modules for compliance workflows, investigation management for case-linked research, and profile management for entity enrichment. Corporate intelligence findings export via STIX/TAXII to OpenCTI and MISP for structured sharing with partner organisations. Works with Maltego and Maltego CE for visual corporate structure mapping and connects to the 153 third-party provider integrations available through the Argus provider orchestration layer.
Open Standards#
- STIX 2.1 / TAXII 2.1 (OASIS CTI TC): Corporate intelligence findings and entity records are exported as STIX 2.1 bundles and distributed via TAXII 2.1 feeds to partner platforms such as OpenCTI and MISP, enabling structured sharing of organisation threat intelligence.
- ISO 17442 / Legal Entity Identifier (GLEIF): The platform resolves legal entities against the Global LEI Index via the GLEIF API, using the ISO 17442 LEI code as a canonical cross-jurisdictional identifier for corporate entities.
- FollowTheMoney (FtM) Schema (OCCRP/OpenSanctions): Bulk entity data ingested from OpenSanctions is consumed in the FollowTheMoney open schema format, mapping sanctions targets, beneficial owners, and related persons into the internal entity model.
- ISO 3166-1: Alpha-2 and alpha-3 country codes are used throughout the corporate registry and sanctions data models for consistent jurisdiction identification across 50+ registries.
- W3C PROV-DM / PROV-JSON: Entity merge operations and data provenance are recorded using the W3C Provenance Data Model, serialised as PROV-JSON-LD, providing an auditable lineage for every corporate intelligence finding.
- ISO 4217: Three-character currency codes conforming to ISO 4217 are stored against financial performance data retrieved from corporate filings and registry sources.
- GraphQL: The full organisation intelligence query and mutation surface is exposed via a typed GraphQL API, enabling structured cross-domain queries against corporate profiles, beneficial ownership trees, and sanctions screening results.
Last Reviewed: 2026-02-05 Last Updated: 2026-04-14