Vektor is an automated background check for companies and the people behind them. Type in a name. 1–2 minutes later you have a report: who owns the company, who runs it, whether anyone is on a sanctions list, in court, insolvent or in the press for the wrong reasons — and, for every finding, where it came from.
No credit card. See what Vektor finds on a name you already know.
Before you buy a company, sign a distributor or take on a new client, you want to know what is on record about them. Vektor runs that check for you — no analyst, no consultant, no week of waiting.
A company, a fund or a person, anywhere in the world. That is all Vektor needs to start. If several entities share the name, it tells you which one it found and how sure it is.
Sanctions and export-control lists, court records, company registers, insolvency notices, regulatory filings and the international press — the public and official records a careful analyst would check by hand, one after the other.
One report: PROCEED, REVIEW or ESCALATE, a 0–100 risk score, and every finding with a link to where it came from. Export it as a PDF and it is your work product.
What Vektor is not: not a credit rating, not a bank's KYC system, and not a database of private information. It reads public and official records and tells you what they say — so you decide with evidence instead of a gut feeling.
Want to see a real report first? The Greensill example is below. Prefer to watch it run? The interactive demo comes right after that.
Banks have KYC teams, certified vendors and five-figure screening subscriptions. Most companies that buy, partner and sell across borders have none of that — and still have to answer the same question before they sign: who exactly are we dealing with?
Built in Germany for decision-makers in the DACH region and the United States. The records Vektor reads cover both: OFAC, the BIS Entity List, SEC filings and US federal and state courts on one side; the EU and UK lists, the Swiss commercial register, European patents and German-language press on the other.
You want a fast 360° risk picture of an acquisition target, an add-on or a joint-venture partner before the letter of intent goes out:
In 1–2 minutes you know everything about who owns it and who runs it, whether the company or anyone behind it sits on a sanctions, export-control or debarment list, and what the courts and the press have on record — every finding with its source, ready for the board pack.
Seven red flags, seven court proceedings: an $83M SEC fraud settlement, Chapter 11 with adversary proceedings running into April 2026, the founder's fraud conviction — each with its source. The caveat names what the verdict does not cover: the successor entities holding the assets.
You need to be sure you can sign a new distributor, agent or supplier abroad — third-party due diligence before the contract, not after — and there is no compliance department to ask:
Two minutes after typing the name you have the full picture on sanctions and US export-control status across the EU, UN and US lists, on debarment, insolvency and offshore ownership, and on what happens after you sign — Vektor keeps watching and tells you the day the partner lands on a list.
No news, nothing on Google. Vektor found the EU Council listing: Annex IV of the 21st Russia sanctions package, entry 926, in force since 23 July 2026 — with the EUR-Lex regulation linked under the verdict, so the check is one click.
You want a fast 360° risk assessment of your client's counterparty:
In just 1–2 minutes you learn everything about every flag and the evidence behind it, every namesake hit graded LIKELY, POSSIBLE or UNLIKELY with the reason written out, and you hold a PDF you can hand over as your own work product — nothing in it you cannot explain when the client asks what you checked.
Clean on every list, zero adverse media in 25 articles. Three individual name matches (Diana, Peter and Daniel Hilti) graded UNLIKELY with the reason written out; US court cases attributed to the US subsidiary, not the parent — each point explainable to the client.
No sales call, no procurement cycle. Your first three reports are free.
Every report ends in a clear verdict — PROCEED, REVIEW, or ESCALATE — backed by a 0–100 risk score, sourced red flags, and the full evidence trail.
Genuine Vektor output — report generated 23 July 2026 on Greensill Capital (in administration since March 2021); findings reflect public records and press reporting. Vektor verdicts are advisory decision-support for your own diligence — not a compliance attestation.
You know what Vektor does. Here it is on a real company: sanctions checks, litigation history, executive profiles, ownership structure and press coverage, from typing the name to the finished report.
Most diligence platforms start with a demo request, a discovery call and a procurement cycle. Vektor starts with a report. Sign up, type a name, and judge the output yourself.
No demo booking, no discovery call, no gatekeeper between you and the product.
The same pipeline paying customers run — all 20 live sources, every flag carrying its own evidence.
Pick a company whose story you already know and see whether our verdict matches what you'd have concluded.
No credit card. Three full reports, one time — yours to keep.
Questions first? Write to [email protected] — a founder answers, not a ticket system.
Every report queries every source in parallel. No cherry-picking, no blind spots.
Every source named, because a finding you can’t trace back isn’t one you can defend. Several of these are aggregators covering many registries and jurisdictions each, so the reach is considerably wider than the length of the list suggests.
Every sanctions match is checked against entity type, date of birth and nationality before it reaches you — and the reasoning is shown, so you can tell a real hit from a namesake without re-doing the work.
Adverse media is gathered from English- and German-language press, then each article is classified for whether it actually matters. You see the material coverage, not every mention of the name.
LEI records and UK Companies House PSC registers are assembled into an ownership network — so corporate structure and shared connections are visible rather than buried in filings.
Due diligence software has to survive due diligence. Here is exactly how Vektor handles data.
Most screening alerts are noise — namesakes and fuzzy matches someone still has to clear by hand. Vektor adjudicates every hit and shows its work.
| Legacy screening tools | Vektor | |
|---|---|---|
| Sanctions matching | Fuzzy name matching — every namesake becomes an alert someone has to clear | Every hit adjudicated against entity type, date of birth, and nationality — ~90% fewer false positives at zero recall loss in our labeled benchmark |
| Explainability | An unexplained score and a raw hit list | A reason for every flag, traceable to its evidence |
| Source freshness | Opaque update cycles — you find out when something was missed | All 20 sources health-checked daily; breakage is detected and logged, not discovered in an audit |
| Time to a report | Minutes to hours, plus manual review | Typically 1–2 minutes, verdict included |
| Pricing | Enterprise sales only — opaque, annual contracts | Transparent plans from €997/mo, self-serve |
Start free. Upgrade when you need more power. No hidden fees.
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Not sure which plan fits, or need something the tiers don't cover? Mail [email protected].
Built for deal teams, exporters and advisors in the DACH region and the United States who need answers before the ink dries — and don't have a bank's compliance department to ask.
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