Knowledge base
What the records actually say.
Business verification explained from the filings up — what a registration proves, what it cannot, and how the answer changes when an AI agent is the one asking.
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Introducing KYB
Start here. Understand what KYB is, why it matters, and how it differs from KYC.
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Compliance
Regulatory requirements including CTA, CDD, EDD, and UBO verification.
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Implementation
Practical guidance for choosing software, automating workflows, and onboarding.
Entity resolution
Brands, legal entities, and locations; why matching is probabilistic; and what a precision figure does and doesn't say.
Read the article →Shell company detection
Why “registered” proves almost nothing, what is genuinely hard to fake, and how to read a thin file.
Read the article →What to automate, and where a person still has to look
Automate the confident ends. Widening them is a data problem, not a policy one.
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Industry
KYB applications across fintech, lending, marketplaces, and payments.
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Agentic KYB
How business identity works when AI agents do the onboarding, buying, and selling. Primers for teams building in agentic commerce.
Agentic KYB
Hallucination risk in research runs, corroboration over MCP, and why a cited answer survives an audit.
Read the article →Know Your Agent vs KYB in agentic commerce
Two trust problems, two layers. An authorised agent reading bad business data still produces a wrong answer.
Read the article →Why AI agents hallucinate about businesses
Wrong-entity match, stale state, ownership blindspot — and what a reliable identity layer has to expose.
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Records
The public-records substrate KYB runs on: state filings, registered agents, licensing, addresses, and the patterns that show up in the data.
The four states where an LLC need not name its owner
Four states, four mechanisms, one consequence: the formation record confirms an entity exists and nothing else.
Read the article →What a registered agent does and does not tell you
Volume at an agent is not a signal by itself. It becomes one only when the portfolio stops matching the agent.
Read the article →A business identity does not go stale all at once
Operating status moves in days. Officers can take a year. Beneficial ownership often never surfaces at all.
Read the article →The business is ten years old. The company is two months old.
Continuity hidden behind a legal discontinuity — and repetition, not re-formation, is what tells them apart.
Read the article →The name on the door is not the party that owes the money
Two businesses sharing a DBA can be unrelated. Two DBAs sharing a legal entity are the same business.
Read the article →Six kinds of address, and only one of them means work happens here
A virtual office is not a red flag. It is an address that does not answer the question people think it answers.
Read the article →A verification without a trail is an assertion
Four layers, and a threshold after the second. Two layers is not half a trail; it is a different kind of thing.
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