Business verification

Know who you’re
doing business with.

KeyWho reads a company’s documents, checks them against each other, screens the company and its people against sanctions and PEP lists, and gives you a clear outcome with the reasons behind it.

Know who. Before you deal.

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  • Check before you commit

    Verify a counterparty before you sign, pay or ship.

  • Less manual checking

    Documents are read, checked and cross-checked for you.

  • Outcomes you can explain

    Every decision comes with its reasons and a report.

How it works

From documents to a decision in four steps

  1. 01

    Collect the documents

    Upload them yourself, or send the company a secure link. They upload their documents without creating an account.

  2. 02

    Read and check every document

    OCR and AI read each document. KeyWho checks its fields — formats, dates and checksums — and compares the facts across all the documents in the case.

  3. 03

    Screen and look up

    The company and the people named are screened against sanctions and PEP lists. Public company registers are consulted where they are available.

  4. 04

    Get an explained outcome

    Approved, Rejected or Review Required — with a transparent score, the reasons, a PDF report and a certificate anyone can check through its QR code.

What we check

The documents businesses actually exchange

KeyWho is built for the paperwork behind real trade and onboarding — in many layouts, countries and languages.

  • Trade licences
  • Certificates of incorporation
  • VAT certificates
  • Passports and ID documents
  • Bank letters
  • ISO certificates
  • Invoices and packing lists
  • Bills of lading
  • Certificates of origin

Field checks

Formats, dates and expiry, and checksums such as IBAN, LEI and passport MRZ codes.

Cross-document consistency

Company names, numbers, addresses and transaction details compared across every document in the case.

Document integrity

Signs of editing, digital signatures, and QR codes or issuer verification links where the issuer provides them.

Sanctions and PEP screening

Companies and the people named in their documents, with matching that handles transliterated names.

Public registers

Lookups such as GLEIF, EU VIES and UK Companies House where available. Coverage varies by country.

Explainable report

A PDF report with the evidence for each finding, and a certificate verifiable on a public page by QR code.

KeyWho supports your decision; it does not guarantee that a company is legitimate. Results depend on the documents provided and on the registers and lists available for each country.

Who it is for

For teams that need to know who is on the other side

Trading companies

Check suppliers and buyers, and the trade documents behind a shipment, before goods or money move.

Compliance and onboarding

Run consistent business-verification checks on new customers and partners, with a record of every decision.

Finance and procurement

Verify new vendors and their bank details before the first payment.

Platforms and marketplaces

Build verification into your own onboarding through the API and webhooks.

Two ways to buy

A subscription for your team, or a single verification

Subscription

For teams that verify regularly. Each plan includes a number of verifications per billing period, user seats, report languages and, on plans that include them, API access and webhooks.

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One-time verification

For a single check. Pay once, with no subscription, and follow the result and download the report through a simple account that needs no password.

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Security and data

Built to handle sensitive documents

Encrypted, stored in the EU

Documents and data are encrypted and stored in the European Union (AWS, Stockholm region).

Tamper-evident audit trail

Every case event and configuration change is recorded in a chain that shows if it has been altered.

Your retention rules

Cases are erased automatically when their retention period ends, or earlier on request.

Six languages

The app in English, Arabic, French, German, Italian and Spanish; reports and emails in the languages your plan includes.

Know who. Before you deal.

Start a verification, or tell us what you need to check.

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