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Vendor Due Diligence

Know your vendors before you sign — and every day after.

Effective vendor due diligence depends on high-quality, integrated data and AI sharp enough to find the risk in it. ClearSignal screens vendors across 200+ countries, cuts false positives by up to 90%, and keeps watching after onboarding.

200+ countries · Up to 90% fewer false positives · Real-time alerts

VDD liveVENDOR · VDD-2050
▲ One signal to review
Orbit Freight Ltd
Vendor · UBO resolved
Review
Sanctions · PEP · adverse media · KYB
Risk signals · ranked
Sanctions & watchlist clear
UN · EU · OFAC · HMT
Sanctions
just now
Adverse media · relevant
Trade press · contract dispute
Adverse
1m ago
UBO resolved
Group structure mapped
KYB
3m ago
Sources · 200+ countries--:--:-- UTC

Integrated vendor risk intelligence

Sanctions & watchlistsPEPsAdverse media · 200+ sourcesKYB & UBOCCJs & payment performanceCompany data · 200+ countries

The cost of a bad vendor

A weak vendor check is a liability you signed up for.

01

Regulatory & reputational exposure

Inadequate vendor screening exposes you to compliance breaches and reputational damage you didn’t choose.

02

Financial loss from poor assessment

Weak risk assessment lets a fragile or compromised vendor into your supply chain and onto your P&L.

03

False positives drown the signal

Noisy screening tools bury the genuine risk under non-matches, so the one that mattered gets missed.

One-off check vs. perpetual

A vendor cleared on day one isn’t cleared for good.

Same vendor, same 90 days. Switch between a one-off check and ClearSignal’s perpetual monitoring, and see the change a single screen would never have caught.

⏸ Screened once · at onboarding

Cleared at signing. Then silence.

You screened the vendor before the contract and they came back clean. Everything since (the dispute, the judgment) happened off your radar.

Day 0Vendor onboarded — CLEARSanctions · PEP · KYB
Day 22Adverse media · relevantContract dispute
Day 41CCJ registeredRegister of Judgments
Day 63Ownership changeGroup structure shift
NowAlert raised · review queuedRanked by relevance

What changes with ClearSignal

More signal. Less noise. Always on.

01

Up to 90% fewer false positives

AI cuts adverse-media noise dramatically, so your team spends its time on risk that’s actually relevant.

02

5–20× more relevant signals

Surfaces materially more relevant risk signals than competing tools across the vendor base.

03

Real-time, event-based alerts

Perpetual monitoring flags critical account changes the moment they happen, not at the next review.

How it works

From vendor screen to perpetual watch.

Verify once, then never stop watching.

1

Screen the vendor

Run sanctions, watchlist and PEP screening against official government and international lists.

2

Verify the business

KYB resolves directors, shareholders and ultimate beneficial owners from multi-year accounts.

3

Scan adverse media

Real-time screening across 200+ news sources, with AI cutting the false-positive noise.

4

Rank by relevance

Signals are triaged and ranked so the genuine risk rises to the top of the case.

5

Monitor perpetually

Event-based alerts watch for sanctions changes, new media and ownership shifts after onboarding.

Capabilities

Full-coverage vendor risk intelligence.

Sanctions & watchlist screening

Check vendors against official government and international lists, updated continuously.

PEP identification

Enhanced checks for Politically Exposed Persons and their associates.

Adverse media monitoring

Real-time screening across 200+ news sources, with up to 90% fewer false positives.

Know Your Business (KYB)

Multi-year accounts, director and shareholder data, and UBO determination.

Group structure analysis

Extended ownership and UBO discovery across complex corporate groups.

Perpetual monitoring

Event-based alerts for ongoing KYC/KYB updates and critical account changes.

Evidence by default

Every vendor decision, on the record.

Vendor risk is your risk the moment you sign. ClearSignal records the screening performed, the ownership resolved, the signals triaged and the monitoring armed, so you can show exactly what you checked and when.

See a sample vendor report

Vendor VDD-2050 · risk log

Sanctions & watchlist clear

UN · EU · OFAC · HMT

Real-time

Adverse media · relevant

Contract dispute · trade press

Decision Assistant
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CCJ on record

£14,200 · Register of Judgments

Credit

Perpetual monitoring armed

Event-based alerts active

Today

Every day after

Know your vendors before you sign — and every day after.

A vendor that cleared at onboarding can change the next week. Continuous monitoring surfaces sanctions, adverse media and ownership changes the moment they land.

Monitoring · liveStartNow
Vendor onboardedKYB + AML clear
Sanctions listingNew OFSI entry
Adverse mediaRestructuring reported
Ownership changeNew controlling party
Reviewed · evidencedAction recorded
StartNow →

Frequently asked

Vendor due diligence, answered.

Sanctions and watchlist screening, PEP identification, adverse media, KYB with UBO determination, and group structure analysis across company data from 200+ countries.
Up to 90% on adverse-media screening, while surfacing 5–20× more relevant risk signals than competing tools, so your team focuses on what matters.
Yes. Perpetual monitoring raises event-based alerts on sanctions changes, new adverse media and critical account changes long after the contract is signed.
Through the web portal, Salesforce, the API, or AI Agents, whichever fits your workflow.

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Onboard vendors with confidence — and keep it.

See how ClearSignal screens vendors across 200+ countries, cuts false positives, and keeps watching with real-time, event-based alerts.

Sanctions & PEPAdverse mediaKYB & UBOPerpetual monitoring