Open-source investigation, official registries, and AI-assisted analysis, so you can identify the entity, verify relationships, and surface risk signals before you commit.
The same reasoning a skilled analyst would apply by hand, structured and reviewed before it reaches you.
Even from an approximate name, the wrong country, or only a related company or person you remember.
Corporate presence, directors, ownership, and the individuals materially connected to the business.
Registries, courts, sanctions lists, media, and known relationships to other companies or people.
Every finding is labelled fact, allegation, inference, or unverified — never blurred together.
Where evidence conflicts, where coverage is thin, and where something needs a closer look.
Structured, source-graded, with every claim linked back to where it came from.
Contextual and relational clues — a related company, a sector, a city — help identify the right entity even when the name alone doesn't.
We search from known connections, not just the name itself — often the fastest way to the right answer.
Material findings are checked against more than one source where the topic allows it, not left resting on a single link.
A confirmed registry filing is never presented the same way as a media allegation or our own inference.
We don't just look for what supports a finding — we look for what might contradict it too.
Material findings are re-checked by a second, independent process before they reach the report.
The investigation reviews its own coverage before the report is considered complete.
Every claim links back to where it came from — nothing asks you to just take our word for it.
Our own AI and internal tooling run the investigation end to end — this isn't a generic search wrapped in a nicer page.
Investigations consult and cross-reference, where available:
A full, illustrative sample report, with the same depth and structure as a real KYWHO deliverable.
Every KYWHO report follows the same format: scope and methodology, corporate identity and ownership, key commercial relationships, individual due diligence on directors, sanctions screening, a consolidated risk view, a verification checklist, and a full source register.
View sample reportWe confirm the exact company with you first. You only pay once you've said yes.
That's the normal case, not the exception. Give us whatever you do know — an approximate name, a related company, a sector, a city — and the resolution step works from there before anything is charged.
A structured process running on our own AI and investigation tooling: entity resolution, multi-source cross-referencing, fact/allegation/inference classification, active search for contrary evidence, and a gap-analysis pass — not a single search, and not a single source.
Yes. Material findings go through independent verification, and the report is reviewed before it's sent — this isn't an unreviewed automated output.
Official registries, sanctions lists, court records where publicly accessible, procurement and contract data, company websites, press archives, and open OSINT sources. See "What we analyze" above — source availability varies by jurisdiction.
No. KYWHO supports counterparty assessment processes. Reports do not replace legal advice, a formal audit, or regulated screening tools where legally required.