We investigate the suppliers you can't see into, in countries where official records can't be trusted. You get evidence that holds up when a regulator, auditor or journalist asks how you know.
The registered owner is a nominee. Actual control traces to a company named in a forced labour complaint.
Illustrative example, not a real report.
In much of Latin America and Africa, a clean registry entry says very little. Owners are often nominees, addresses are shared across companies, and the connections that matter are never filed. That is where our analysts start.
Screening tools only find suppliers who are already on a list, and audits only see what a supplier chooses to show on the day. We research each supplier independently, and they don't need to know we're looking.
Whether there's a problem, and what it is.
Documented and dated, so you can show what you knew and when.
Much of the risk sits in a supplier's relationships.
Whether to replace a supplier, escalate, or continue monitoring.
Sanctions, watchlists, adverse media and company registries, checked across your whole list.
Our analysts research them in the local language.
That includes speaking to people who know the supplier and the area.
You get the full report, the evidence and our recommendations on a call with your team.
We work with companies sourcing from Latin America, Africa and other high-risk regions. Most engagements start with a specific event.
An investor weighing a refinery acquisition needed to know whether the asset justified paying a premium.
Refinery leadership had a private deal with the head of an organised crime network controlling fuel distribution across northern Argentina, and was enriching itself through kickbacks.
The client withdrew, judging the downstream risk too high to price in.
No. Latin America and Africa are where our work runs deepest, but we deliver engagements wherever your suppliers are. That includes China and Southeast Asia, where many of the supply chains we investigate begin. We’ve carried out projects across the Global South, and our research libraries span 122 countries and territories.
Every engagement has two layers. We screen your full supplier list, then apply full investigative depth only to the suppliers that screening flags as high-risk, so your cost follows your actual exposure rather than the size of your roster alone. Your final price is confirmed once screening shows how many suppliers need a closer look, so you're never billed for deep-dive work sight-unseen.
Work begins within 24 hours of the deposit being confirmed, and a standard engagement runs about 40 business days. Where timing is critical, we can discuss an accelerated schedule.
You do. The report and the evidence behind it are your work product, to use in your own compliance, audit and legal processes.
A supplier list, even a partial one, and whatever supplier documents you already hold. An MNDA and engagement letter are signed, and deposit received, before work begins.
Share your supplier count and sourcing countries. We'll outline what we would investigate and what the engagement would involve.