Entity Brief · cited · analyst-signed
Know who you are dealing with
before you pay them.
A cited, reviewed brief on any business you are about to pay, hire, lend to or partner with: its legal identity, who controls it, whether it appears on the UN, US, UK and EU sanctions lists, what its web and domain records show, what has been reported about it, and where its claims and the records disagree.
Request a briefRead the method
- US$295 fixed fee
- 48 hours from payment
- 4 official sanctions lists
- Every line cited and graded
What is in a brief
The same eight sections every time, so you can compare one company with the next. Every statement carries a numbered citation to the record it came from, with the date it was collected.
Summary
Who the company legally is, where it is registered, whether it appears on the sanctions lists screened, and the points that need your attention.
Registration and legal identity
Legal name, registration number, jurisdiction, status, incorporation date and registered office, from the national register where one is reachable, and the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) where one exists.
Structure and control
Direct and ultimate parent, subsidiaries, and directors and shareholders as the register records them. People appear only in that recorded role.
Sanctions screening
The UN Security Council consolidated list, US OFAC SDN, the UK Sanctions List and the EU consolidated list, with the number of entries screened on each.
Trading footprint
Domain registration, hosting and email providers, certificates, the website's own identity statements and its published social profiles.
Public record signals
Media reports of litigation, regulatory action or controversy, labelled as reports, never as findings.
Discrepancies
Where the company's own claims disagree with the records: trading name against legal name, claimed founding year against incorporation, stated country against registered country.
Coverage and limitations
Every source that could not be reached on the day, so nothing missing reads as clean.
How a brief is made
Collect
Automated queries to the official feeds that registers and list-keepers publish for machines: national company registers, the global LEI index, four sanctions lists, domain registries and news indexes. No scraping of search engines, no paid data brokers, no private databases.
Resolve
The legal entity is asserted only when independent sources agree: an exact register name in the right country, or an LEI that the company's own records and the global index both point to. A name shared by several organisations is reported as unresolved, never guessed.
Grade
Each item is graded on the Admiralty scale used in intelligence analysis: source reliability A–F and information credibility 1–6. "Confirmed by other sources" (1) is given only when a second, independent source agrees.
Review and sign
The analyst opens every cited source before signing. Sign-off is blocked while a critical warning is open, such as an identified company in a different country from the one the business records for itself.
What a brief will never do
- Research a private individual. People appear only in the role a public register records.
- Call a "no match" a clearance. It names each list and the number of entries screened.
- Present a failed check as a clean result. Every unreachable source is listed.
- Treat a media report as a finding. Reports are labelled as reports.
Pricing
Fixed fees in US dollars. Payment before work begins; the delivery time runs from payment.
Entity Brief
US$295
Delivered within 48 hours of payment
The full brief, reviewed and signed by the analyst.
RequestEntity Brief, Priority
US$495
Delivered within 24 hours of payment
The full brief, plus a manual check of the national register wherever the automated identity step could not confirm the legal entity.
RequestBatch of five
US$1,250
Delivered within 5 working days of payment
Five Entity Briefs for one client. Suited to supplier onboarding and portfolio reviews.
RequestWho it is for
Businesses that regularly pay, contract with or lend to companies they have never met, and have no research team of their own.
- Importers and freight forwarders checking new overseas suppliers
- Insurance brokers taking on commercial clients
- Equipment leasing and trade finance firms
- M&A and corporate-finance advisers screening targets and bidders
- Franchise systems vetting franchisee companies
- Law firms running counterparty checks for commercial clients
- Research firms and platforms supplying briefs to their own clients
Request a brief
Tell us which business and who the brief is for. We reply within one working day.
Questions
Is this due diligence?
It is the open-source research layer of due diligence: a cited, dated record of what public registers, official lists and public sources say about a business. It is not a legal opinion, a credit report or a certificate, and it does not replace advice from your lawyer or accountant.
Do you research individuals?
No. AetherOSINT researches businesses only. People appear solely in the role a public register records them holding in the company, with no personal identifiers. Requests about an individual are declined.
Which countries do you cover?
Any business can be researched. Identity is confirmed most strongly where the national register is open to automated queries (New Zealand, the United Kingdom, US-listed companies) and for any entity holding an LEI. Elsewhere the brief says plainly when the legal entity could not be confirmed, and the Priority option adds a manual register check.
What if the company cannot be identified with confidence?
The brief says so and names no entity. A confident wrong answer is the most expensive error in this work, so the method refuses to guess: a name shared by several organisations, or a register entry in the wrong country, is reported as unresolved.
Does a 'no match' mean the company is not sanctioned?
No. It means the name was not found on the lists screened, on the date screened. Each list is named, with the number of entries checked. A no-match is a statement about those lists, not a clearance.
How do I pay?
After you submit a request, we confirm the scope by email and send a payment link. Work begins once payment is received, and the delivery time runs from then.
Who sees the brief?
Only the named recipients you list in your request. Your brief is never reused, shown to anyone else or used as a sample.
Can research firms and platforms order on behalf of their clients?
Yes. Batch pricing applies, and briefs can be delivered to you for onward supply under the same terms.