Executive Summary

Large enterprises, compliance teams, and security/risk officers spend weeks reconciling ownership chains across inconsistent registries, filings, and intermediaries, creating audit gaps, regulator exposure, and manual remediation costs. This is especially acute for the ~30,000 organizations that drive enterprise corporate-data spend and need reliable, auditable parent-ownership resolution. Build an API-first service that programmatically maps each entity to its ultimate parent with source-backed provenance, confidence scores, continuous updates, and machine-readable audit trails, plus developer-friendly integration (webhooks, SDKs) and usage-based billing. The stack would combine LLM-powered extraction, structured registry ingestion, and legal-logic normalization to produce ownership graphs and risk signals (e.g., sanctions, opaque intermediaries). The timing is favorable: a $6.0B addressable market (30,000 buyers × ~$200K ACV) with a Market Score of 90/100 and Revenue Potential 86/100 reflects strong, recurring demand driven by rising regulatory pressure and the move to API-first enterprise tooling. Concurrent advances in document extraction and LLMs materially lower the cost of parsing global filings, making a programmatic, provenance-first product economically viable today. You can differentiate by prioritizing verifiable provenance, high-coverage global sourcing, and a developer-centric API that integrates into existing compliance workflows faster than heavy-licensed incumbents. That said, success requires overcoming nontrivial challenges—legal variability across jurisdictions, data quality and coverage, and long enterprise sales cycles—so focus early on a tight set of geographies and use cases to prove value before expanding.

Market Opportunity

Automate mapping of corporate ownership to the ultimate parent via API targets a $6.0B = 30,000 organizations × $200K ACV for enterprise compliance and corporate-data subscriptions total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% — estimated CAGR combining RegTech, compliance data, and corporate data vendor growth (industry reports and vendor growth trends).

Key trends driving demand: Regulatory pressure is increasing globally, which drives recurring demand for auditable ownership data and risk signals.; Advances in LLMs and document extraction make parsing registries and filings much cheaper, enabling programmatic provenance-first products.; API-first enterprise tooling adoption continues to grow, making flexible, usage-based data APIs more attractive than heavy licensing.; Sanctions and geopolitical risk regimes are expanding, increasing demand for deep ownership traces to detect state or sanctioned ownership..

Key competitors include Dun & Bradstreet, Bureau van Dijk (Orbis, Moody's), OpenCorporates, Clearbit / Similar company data APIs.

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