OSINT for Due Diligence: Counterparty Research in Minutes
Pre-deal due diligence demands verification across phone, email, address, beneficial ownership, breach exposure and sanctions. Skopio collapses that workflow from days to minutes.
Overview
Whether you're vetting a new supplier, evaluating an acquisition target, or onboarding a high-net-worth client, due diligence requires correlating identifiers across multiple OSINT layers. Phone confirms, email confirms, address confirms, public-registry ownership confirms, sanctions screen passes — each layer is a vendor or manual research step. Skopio aggregates them. The Dossier category combines all 22 OSINT sub-categories into one cross-referenced report, ranked by confidence.
Real-world scenarios
5 concrete situations and how Skopio solves each.
Pre-deal counterparty research
Your team is closing a $5M deal in 48 hours. You need to verify the principal is who they say they are — name, address, email continuity, beneficial-ownership chain.
Submit name + email + claimed company. Skopio cross-checks each across public registries, breach corpora, social platforms, OpenCorporates ownership data. Single dossier with confidence-ranked identity in one report.
Vendor onboarding
New supplier wants payment-on-delivery terms. You need OSINT validation before extending credit.
Phone + email + address + company-ID lookup confirms operational footprint, sanction status, and historical track record consistency.
Acquisition target diligence
Investment committee needs OSINT pass on the founders before authorizing diligence spend.
Founder name + email + previous company → social/breach/registry cross-link reveals consistent professional track record or unexpected gaps.
KYC enhancement
Standard KYC vendor approves the customer but you want a second-source OSINT view before high-risk approval.
Per-query API call returns enriched identity context: prior breaches, social-profile cross-link, address history, registered domains.
AML / sanctions screening
Pre-transaction sanctions check on a counterparty wallet, name, or entity.
OFAC + EU + UK + UN consolidated list screening across name, wallet address, company identifier.
Time savings
Traditional pre-deal OSINT: 4-8 hours analyst time per counterparty across 5-7 vendor tools. Skopio: one dossier query plus 5-10 minutes for analyst review. At 50 counterparties per quarter, that's 200+ hours of analyst time recovered.
Skopio is decision-support OSINT, not regulated CDD/EDD vendor data. For binding KYC/CDD compliance under EU AMLD or US BSA, combine with regulated vendor (Refinitiv World-Check, LSEG, Dow Jones Risk). We deliver the OSINT enrichment layer, not the regulatory compliance layer. EU-based, GDPR-compliant.
Frequently asked questions
Is Skopio a replacement for World-Check?+
No. World-Check and similar regulated CDD vendors offer curated PEP/sanctions lists with audit trails meeting AMLD requirements. Skopio's sanctions check is publicly-available OFAC/EU/UN data. Use both — Skopio for OSINT enrichment, World-Check for regulated compliance.
How do I structure a per-counterparty workflow?+
Typical pattern: bulk-API call with name + email + phone + claimed company → returns dossier with risk flags → analyst reviews flagged items only. We can pre-discuss workflow integration.
Beneficial ownership data?+
Via OpenCorporates integration we cover beneficial owners, registration changes, and corporate ownership chains across 130+ jurisdictions where publicly disclosed.
Can I get an audit trail of queries?+
Yes. Enterprise tier exports query history with timestamps, requester ID, hashed values, and source citations — suitable for internal audit. Plaintext values are never stored.
Pricing for due-diligence volumes?+
Typical mid-market team: 100-500 dossier queries per quarter. Pack of 200 queries is $49 ($0.245/q). For higher volumes, enterprise contracts drop to $0.07/q at 20K-pack and below at custom volumes.
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