Sayari Foundation – Judgment Infrastructure
End-use evasion is harder to hide now.
Foreign adversaries route controlled technology through shell companies, intermediaries, and re-export networks. Sayari maps the full ownership and trade chain – so you can flag diversions before shipment, not after enforcement.
78%
of BIS enforcement actions in 2024 involved shell company intermediaries in third countries used to obscure end-user identity. Traditional end-user screening misses these structures.
BIS Annual Report 2024 · Sayari Research
THE PROBLEM
Why export controls enforcement keeps missing diversions
The structural gaps that point solutions can’t close.
Shell company intermediaries
Controlled items move through networks of nominally unrelated trading companies registered in permissive jurisdictions. These structures pass basic end-user screening because none of the intermediaries appear on entity lists.
Re-export routing opacity
Items licensed for Country A are re-exported to Country B through legitimate-looking transshipment hubs. Without shipment-level trade data linked to corporate ownership, this routing is invisible.
Alias and transliteration gaps
Restricted entities register subsidiaries with name variants, transliterations, or homoglyphs designed to defeat automated screening. BIS denied-party lists don’t always capture the full network.
THE SAYARI APPROACH
Map the full network before the shipment clears.
Sayari connects corporate registry data, trade manifest records, and sanctions/denied-party lists into a unified world model – so you can trace ownership chains and trade flows in a single query.
Entity Resolution Across 250+ Jurisdictions
Trade Flow Intelligence
Denied Party Network Expansion
Real-time Monitoring
export_license_review.log
> Export License Application
item: High-power laser array (ECCN 6A005)
end_user: “Meridian Research Institute (RU)”
> End-Use Verification
✗ Ultimate beneficiary: Russian state entity
✗ Dual military-use application confirmed
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HOW IT WORKS
From data to decision
Submit end-user or intermediary
Sayari accepts company names, addresses, identifiers, or HS codes. Batch ubmission or real-time API.
Ownership and trade graph traversal
Every entity is resolved against 500M+ corporate records and linked to trade flow data – surfacing hidden ownership and routing relationships.
Actionable alert with evidence chain
Alerts include the specific ownership path, trade flow evidence, and denial reason – audit-ready for BIS or EAR compliance documentation.
3.8B
Trade records linked to corporate ownership in Sayari Map
Sayari Map ingests and normalizes billions of global trade manifest records, linking each shipment to the corporate ownership network of both shipper and consignee – enabling the kind of network-level analysis that manual screening cannot replicate.
Sayari Research · 2025
WHY SAYARI
Sayari vs Legacy tools
SAYARI
- Full network screening – ownership chains, subsidiaries, and co-registrant networks across 250+ jurisdictions
- Trade flow linkage – Sayari Map connects shipment data to corporate ownership to reveal re-export chains
- Continuous monitoring – Sayari Signal alerts on meaningful new relationships in your licensed counterparty base
- Audit-ready evidence – ownership path, trade records, and source documents exportable per alert
LEGACY TOOLS
- Entity list screening only – misses unlisted subsidiaries and intermediary networks
- No trade flow data – can’t detect re-export routing through third countries
- Static batch screening – lists updated weekly, diversions happen daily
- No ownership graph – stops at the direct counterparty, misses beneficial owner
CLIENT RESULTS
Measured outcomes from production deployments
70%↓
Reduction in manual screening review time after deploying Sayari entity resolution
250+
Jurisdictions with corporate registry data in Sayari world model
<2s
Average query response time for full entity + trade network traversal via API
PRODUCTS FOR THIS USE CASE
Sayari products that power this workflow
Sayari Graph
Entity resolution and ownership graph for 500M+ companies across 250+ jurisdictions.
Sayari Map
Trade-flow intelligence mapping shipment data to corporate ownership networks.
Sayari Signal
Continuous monitoring that alerts on meaningful changes across your counterparty base.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Common questions about this use case
GET STARTED
See export control diversions before they ship.
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