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What we are finding in the records.

Product releases, research from the graph, and the occasional dispatch about what U.S. business filings actually look like up close.

Company · 9 July 2026

Your Vendor's Last Invoice Might Have Come From Someone Else

Enigma and Proof are launching Business Certificates, verified credentials that bind live business identity to wires, vendor changes, and AI agent transactions.

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Industry · 18 June 2026

How Much Is a Verification Worth?

What $725 million in annual cargo theft exposes about the gap between a registered business and one that really operates.

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Industry · 4 June 2026

Enigma Newsletter: How to Sue a Company That Doesn't Even Exist

Coveted IP empires have spent five years suing online storefronts that were never registered US businesses. We pulled 1,197 defendants from federal dockets to examine what KYB systems do when there's no filing to check.

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Company · 27 May 2026

Proof and Enigma Partner to Launch a Verified Business Identity and Authorization Layer for U.S. Businesses

Every business needs to claim its identity online. We built the infrastructure to do it.

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Industry · 21 May 2026

Enigma Newsletter: Business Identity for Agents

AI agents are increasingly asked to verify businesses with data that just doesn't live in their model. Primary state filings, beneficial-ownership submissions, professional licenses, sanctions records: all of it lives in primary sources the model has never seen, changing on cadences model retraining can't track. This post walks through the reference layer we've been building for every KYB workflow, and looks at three ways of delivering that layer to agents in the field: our MCP server, our KYB Compliance Agent on Google Cloud, and Parallel's Index, the new model for compensating data providers by their actual contribution to grounding the answer given by an agent.

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Company · 19 May 2026

Enigma and Parallel: What Comes Next for Business Identity

Enigma's business identity data is now part of Parallel.ai's Index, a platform that measures and surfaces the contribution data providers make at the moment of agent inference.

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Product · 15 May 2026

What Shipped This Spring

Entity resolution, person graph, EIN coverage, smarter search, and new tools for builders. A roundup of everything that shipped this cycle.

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Product · 12 May 2026

Enigma KYB Agent on Google Cloud

The Enigma KYB Agent runs on Google Cloud's Vertex AI Agent Engine, pairing Gemini Flash with Enigma's verified business identity graph for compliance teams.

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Industry · 7 May 2026

Enigma Newsletter: Anatomy of a Shell Company

A standard KYB check confirms a business is on record. It can't tell you whether the business does anything in the world. Network analysis can.

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Industry · 9 April 2026

Can Business Data Predict March Madness?

We ran 590 business metrics against 10 years of March Madness games, and the ratio of divorce lawyers to wedding venues predicted winners 62% of the time.

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Product · 26 March 2026

Enigma Government Archive

Introducing Gov Archive — billions of government records across thousands of agencies, anchored in verified business identity.

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