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Q: How does Sayari help with BIS end-user verification requirements?

Sayari provides primary-source corporate ownership verification across 250+ jurisdictions, enabling exporters to confirm that end-users are not controlled by or affiliated with restricted parties, militaries, or sanctioned governments — satisfying the know-your-customer requirements under EAR Part 748 and related guidance.

Q: What is Sayari's coverage of entities on the BIS Entity List and military end-user lists?

Sayari integrates the BIS Entity List, MEU list, and Unverified List with its corporate graph, enabling analysts to screen counterparties and their ownership networks against all three lists simultaneously and identify connections that simple list-matching would miss.

Q: Can Sayari identify transshipment risk in export control compliance?

Yes. Sayari Map links trade shipment data to corporate ownership records, identifying freight forwarders and intermediaries with historical patterns of routing goods through transshipment hubs associated with export control evasion — including UAE, Turkey, Hong Kong, and other commonly used diversion points.

Q: How does Sayari support license determination and red flag analysis?

Sayari surfaces red flags including: end-users inconsistent with stated product use, incomplete or evasive ownership disclosure, connections to known procurement front companies, and shipment routing inconsistent with declared end-user location — providing analysts with the evidence base for license determination decisions.

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.

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THE REGULATORY REALITY

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

Sayari resolves corporate identities across 250+ jurisdictions — matching subsidiaries, affiliates, and aliases to their ultimate beneficial owner.

Trade Flow Intelligence

Sayari Map links HS code-level shipment data to corporate ownership networks — revealing the full re-export chain from manufacturer to end-user.

Denied Party Network Expansion

Query any denied party to see their full network: subsidiaries, co-directors, co-shareholders, and known transshipment partners.

Real-time Monitoring

Sayari Signal continuously monitors your licensed counterparty base for new red-flag relationships — alerting before exposure becomes liability.

export_license_review.log
> Export License Application
  applicant: “Advanced Photonics Corp (US)”
  item: High-power laser array (ECCN 6A005)
  end_user: “Meridian Research Institute (RU)”
✗ Restricted destination — Russia (EAR §746.8)
> End-Use Verification
✓ Resolved to canonical entity
✗ Ultimate beneficiary: Russian state entity
✗ Dual military-use application confirmed
license.deny(app=”EXP-24-71822″, reason=”§746.8 Russia”) → DECL

Sayari Graph — export license & end-use verification

HOW IT WORKS

From data to decision

SCREEN

Submit end-user or intermediary

Sayari accepts company names, addresses, identifiers, or HS codes. Batch submission or real-time API.

TRACE

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.

ACT

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.

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WHY SAYARI

Legacy tools vs Sayari

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

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

CLIENT RESULTS

Measured outcomes from production deployments

EFFICIENCY

70%↓

Reduction in manual screening review time after deploying Sayari entity resolution

COVERAGE

250+

Jurisdictions with corporate registry data in Sayari world model

SPEED

<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.

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Sayari Map

Trade-flow intelligence mapping shipment data to corporate ownership networks.

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Sayari Signal

Continuous monitoring that alerts on meaningful changes across your counterparty base.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Common questions about this use case

Sayari provides primary-source corporate ownership verification across 250+ jurisdictions, enabling exporters to confirm that end-users are not controlled by or affiliated with restricted parties, militaries, or sanctioned governments — satisfying the know-your-customer requirements under EAR Part 748 and related guidance.

Sayari integrates the BIS Entity List, MEU list, and Unverified List with its corporate graph, enabling analysts to screen counterparties and their ownership networks against all three lists simultaneously and identify connections that simple list-matching would miss.

Yes. Sayari Map links trade shipment data to corporate ownership records, identifying freight forwarders and intermediaries with historical patterns of routing goods through transshipment hubs associated with export control evasion — including UAE, Turkey, Hong Kong, and other commonly used diversion points.

Sayari surfaces red flags including: end-users inconsistent with stated product use, incomplete or evasive ownership disclosure, connections to known procurement front companies, and shipment routing inconsistent with declared end-user location — providing analysts with the evidence base for license determination decisions.

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