Business risk screening — not KYB verification

This is business risk screening, not Know-Your-Business (KYB) verification. We do not verify business registration status, ownership, or legal existence — no free, unified path to state registry data exists. Findings are evidence-based signals for your own review, not a compliance guarantee.

• We do not verify business registration status, corporate standing, ownership, or legal existence. No free, terms-of-service-compliant, unified path to US state Secretary of State registry data exists, and building one would carry real legal risk we are not willing to take on your behalf — so we don't claim to offer it.
• Sanctions/watchlist matching is name-based and carries an explicit confidence band (HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW). Industry-wide, sanctions screening tools produce false-positive rates of 90%+ on name matching alone — a LOW or MEDIUM confidence match is a prompt for your own review, not a determination.
• A CLEAR result means no match was found against the sources we could screen this run — it is not a guarantee the company has no sanctions or exclusion exposure anywhere, and it is not legal or compliance advice.
• Domain-legitimacy and public-filing signals are informational. A private company will correctly show "not a public filer" — that is expected for the large majority of businesses, not a red flag.
• When a data source cannot be reached or doesn't cover a given company, we report INSUFFICIENT_DATA rather than guessing or defaulting to a clean result.
• Organizations with formal KYB, AML, or sanctions-compliance obligations should use a licensed KYB/AML provider and their own qualified compliance counsel — this product is a screening aid, not a substitute for that program.