Illicit trade networks have corporate structures.
Narcotics, dual-use goods, and sanctions evasion all rely on legitimate-looking corporate networks. Sayari’s world model maps ownership chains, trade flows, and financial relationships – turning trade manifest data into actionable enforcement targets.
42%
of major trade enforcement actions in 2024 involved entities with no prior sanctions or enforcement history. Reactive, list-based screening consistently fails to flag novel networks before they operate.
CBP/BIS Enforcement Data 2024 · Sayari Research
THE PROBLEM
Why trade enforcement misses novel networks
The structural gaps that point solutions can’t close.
Clean-company layering
Illicit actors register clean intermediary companies specifically to move controlled goods. These entities have no prior enforcement history, making list-based screening ineffective by design.
Ownership opacity at scale
A single enforcement target may control hundreds of nominally independent trading entities across a dozen jurisdictions. Investigators can’t manually map this network in time to interdict.
Data fragmentation
Trade manifest data, corporate registry records, and financial intelligence are held in separate systems. Without integration, analysts can’t see the full network picture.
THE SAYARI APPROACH
Corporate network intelligence for trade enforcement.
Sayari integrates corporate registry data from 250+ jurisdictions with global trade flow records – giving enforcement analysts the full ownership and shipment picture in a single interface.
Network-First Investigation
Trade Flow Pattern Analysis
Cross-Jurisdiction Entity Matching
Bulk Screening for Enforcement Lists
shipment_analysis.log
> Shipment Intelligence Analysis
declared_origin: Malaysia (MYS)
⚠ Transit time: below ML baseline (72h min)
> Transshipment Detection
✗ Country-of-origin discrepancy confirmed
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HOW IT WORKS
From data to decision
Identify a company, individual, or shipment
Start from a known actor, an anomalous shipment, or a suspicious trade pattern identified by CBP or BIS.
Full network traversal
Sayari maps ownership chains, co-directors, affiliated entities, and trade relationships across 250+ jurisdictions.
Export evidence for enforcement action
Full network visualization, source documents, and audit-ready entity reports exportable for referral or prosecution support.
450M+
Corporate entities in Sayari’s unified world model
Sayari’s world model integrates corporate registries, trade data, beneficial ownership filings, and sanctions databases into a single persistent entity graph – giving enforcement analysts access to relationships that no single source can provide.
Sayari Research · 2025
WHY SAYARI
Sayari vs Legacy tools
SAYARI
- Network-first investigation – ownership traversal across 500M+ companies in 250+ jurisdictions
- Trade-ownership linkage – Sayari Map connects manifest data to corporate ownership structures
- Automated network mapping in minutes – not days of manual research
- Unified world model – all jurisdictions normalized to a single entity resolution layer
LEGACY TOOLS
- List screening only – misses novel, unlisted networks specifically designed to evade designation
- No trade flow linkage – can’t connect corporate ownership to shipment-level activity
- Manual research time of days or weeks to map a single network
- Jurisdiction silos – data sources don’t connect across registries
CLIENT RESULTS
Measured outcomes from production deployments
10×
Faster network mapping vs manual research across multiple database sources
500M+
Corporate entities resolved in Sayari’s world model across 250+ jurisdictions
3.8B+
Trade records linked to corporate ownership in Sayari Map
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
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