Overview & identity
Overview and identity is the core KYB check: is this a real, established business, what is its legal shape, how big is it, and who owns it. The difference between a credible supplier and a logo on a landing page.
Vendor vetting and supplier due diligence from the public record. Run a know-your-business (KYB) style check on a supplier, surface risk flags, and know who you are buying from before you sign.
Procurement is asked to move fast and to be careful, which are usually opposites. Every new supplier needs vetting — is this a real, stable business, who is behind it, and is there anything that should give us pause — but the volume of vendors means proper checks are the first thing to get cut. So a supplier gets onboarded on the strength of a slick website and a reference they chose themselves, and the risk only shows up later, when it is expensive.
A dossier is a fast know-your-business check you can run on every vendor. Point it at a supplier and it builds a public-record profile: corporate basics and ownership, the financial picture as far as the record shows, locations and footprint, the relationship web of who they work with, and a risk section pulling litigation, layoffs and reputation notes to the front. It is the supplier due diligence you'd run on every vendor if you had the hours — compressed into one search.
Five sections cover the questions a KYB-style vendor check needs to answer.
Overview and identity is the core KYB check: is this a real, established business, what is its legal shape, how big is it, and who owns it. The difference between a credible supplier and a logo on a landing page.
The money trail signals financial stability — funding, filings and revenue indicators that hint at whether a supplier can actually deliver and stay solvent through the contract. Vendor failure is a supply-chain risk you want to price in early.
Locations map the supplier's real footprint — where they operate and concentrate. It matters for jurisdiction, for logistics, and for spotting a "global" vendor that turns out to be one address.
The relationship web shows who the supplier already works with — reference customers you did not have to ask for, plus any concentration or fourth-party dependencies that become your risk once you sign.
Risk flags pull litigation, regulatory issues, layoffs and reputation notes forward — the third-party risk a vendor will never volunteer in a pitch, surfaced before it lands in your supply chain.
A check fast enough to run on every supplier, not just the big ones.
Run a dossier the moment a vendor enters the pipeline — before onboarding, before the contract, before the dependency exists.
Check identity, ownership and scale. A KYB-style read here weeds out shells and over-stated startups before they get further.
Go to the risk section for litigation, sanctions-adjacent issues, layoffs and reputation problems. This is the third-party risk you are signing up to inherit.
Approve, reject or escalate on a sourced first read — and keep the file as documentation of the check you ran.
For supplier-base management, the same file works on renewal and on your existing critical vendors: re-run it periodically and you catch a supplier's new lawsuit, ownership change or financial wobble before it disrupts your supply chain. A dossier covers the public-record layer of vendor vetting cleanly — for regulated KYB/AML obligations, pair it with your formal screening tools, and verify any material flag against primary sources before it changes a sourcing decision.
It is a fast public-record vendor check that covers the "is this a real, stable, clean-looking business" layer extremely well. For formal KYB/AML obligations — sanctions lists, beneficial-ownership verification, regulated record-keeping — pair it with your dedicated compliance tooling; the dossier is the fast first read, not the regulatory filing.
Yes — that is the point. Because it is fast and free and works on any company, you can vet the long tail of small vendors that normally skip checks entirely, which is often exactly where the unmanaged third-party risk hides.
Read that as "nothing surfaced in the public record," not a guarantee. A clean file is a good sign and a fast green light for low-stakes vendors; for critical suppliers, treat it as the start of the check and verify the important points against primary sources.
a know-your-business check in one search.