Briefed Atlas
Ownership, resolved to the person who controls it.
Corporate ownership and control built from national registers, including the UK PSC register, Companies House filings and cross-border registry data. Ultimate beneficial ownership resolved through the chain. Every step carries the filing that put it there.
Evidence that stands up.
Anything can spit out an ownership percentage. A calculator can too. What matters is where the number came from when somebody finally asks, so the refusals sit right next to the features.
Ownership through the chain
Indirect ownership is resolved through corporate layers of any depth, including chains that cross jurisdictions and structures that loop back on themselves.
It does not stop at the first shareholder and call that an owner.
No band gets rounded to a number
Some registers declare control in bands rather than exact stakes. The UK PSC register is the obvious one: 25 to 50 per cent, 50 to 75, and so on.
It does not convert a declared band into a precise percentage.
Every edge has a filing
Each relationship links to the document that established it, when the fact became legally valid, and how confident the match is.
It does not return a number whose source you cannot open.
Coverage.
Full ownership resolution in a smaller set of jurisdictions today, entity and identity coverage reaching a lot further than that. Ask about a specific one directly, the map is honest about the gaps, most vendors aren't.
Depth still varies within both tiers, and grows with each engagement. The specific registers behind any answer are documented in your contract, not published here.
Built for work that cannot afford a guess.
KYB, beneficial ownership checks, PSC lookups and ownership-chain verification all draw from the same resolved graph.
KYB and onboarding
Verify the identity and ownership structure of a business counterparty before entering a regulated relationship. PSC data, director records and beneficial ownership chains from national registers, with provenance on every record.
Not a black-box score. The data comes with its source so your compliance team can check it.
UBO resolution for investigations
Trace ultimate beneficial ownership through corporate layers, across jurisdictions, to the natural person who actually controls an entity. The chain is queryable as it stood on any past date, which matters when the investigation concerns something that already happened.
Not limited to the immediate PSC. The resolution goes all the way through.
API and bulk delivery
Resolved entity and ownership data over an API, in bulk to your data warehouse, or landed into the pipeline you already run. For teams currently calling the Companies House API or building their own entity resolution layer, Atlas replaces that work with a resolved graph.
No dashboard to adopt. The data reaches your systems in the format your engineers already use.
Stop rebuilding the same answer.
Fragmented records, manual checks and brittle joins leave ownership work unfinished. Atlas resolves the chain and keeps the evidence attached.
Bureau van Dijk OrbisThe incumbent
The established product in the category, with coverage built over decades and a footprint in most large compliance functions. Its ownership figures are delivered as conclusions. Your obligation is to show the working, not cite a vendor, which is why teams run something alongside it.
Refinitiv, Dun & BradstreetAdjacent
Strong products in instrument data and credit risk respectively. Ownership is a supporting layer in both rather than the thing being built, so depth through multi-layer structures is not where their engineering goes.
Going to the registers yourselfThe honest alternative
Accurate, free, and completely defensible. It is also the approach that stops scaling the moment a structure spans five jurisdictions and the answer is due this week.
Briefed AtlasWhat it is for
Built so the working is the product. Every edge links to its filing, ownership is calculated by a stated method, and the graph is queryable as it stood on a past date, which is what an investigation into something that already happened needs.
"Show me why you believe this person controls that company."
Atlas is built to survive that question. You get the chain, the method that resolved it, and the filings underneath, as they stood on the date you are being asked about. If your current source cannot produce that, this is worth an hour of your time.
Book a discovery call
Come with the names that worry you.
Enterprise is scoped, so the first conversation is about your coverage rather than our product. There is no deck.
Coverage
Jurisdictions, depth, and how often it refreshes. Bring the list you already keep.
Delivery
API, bulk, or into the warehouse you already run. Your architects choose; the licence does not change.
When a register is wrong
Every compliance team asks this second. It is a better conversation against your cases than in the abstract.
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Enterprise
Under contract, and scoped to you.
The ontology, the document corpus and the ownership graph, delivered into systems you already run, or worked directly by our team when the problem needs it.