Executive Summary

Many compliance, KYC/AML and sanctions teams at banks, law firms and large corporations waste time piecing together fragmented public registry filings to determine ultimate beneficial ownership, a process that is manual, error-prone and hard to audit. This pain grows with cross-border structures and changing regulatory expectations, leaving teams exposed to fines and missed sanctions matches. Build an API-first service that maps corporate ownership to the ultimate parent using researched registry data, AI-assisted extraction of filings, and auditable provenance (UI, bulk exports, and webhook updates for integrations). The product should prioritize deterministic lineage, source-level citations, and coverage reporting so customers can both automate workflows and satisfy auditors. The market is attractive now: a $4.0B addressable opportunity (100,000 target organizations × $40K ACV) driven by global regulatory tightening and recurring demand for verifiable ownership lineage; internal scoring flags this idea with a Market Score of 90/100 and Revenue Potential of 88/100. Buyers increasingly prefer programmatic access and webhook updates, which aligns with an API-first approach. This can stand out by combining primary registry research and human QA for high-confidence records, AI to reduce marginal extraction costs, and clear audit trails—advantages over purely algorithmic or crowdsourced datasets. The realistic challenges are nontrivial: sourcing and normalizing global registries, legal/compliance complexity in some jurisdictions, and a medium competition level that will require rapid, demonstrable accuracy to win enterprise buyers.

Market Opportunity

Map corporate ownership to ultimate parent using researched registry data targets a $4.0B = 100,000 target organizations × $40K ACV total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% YoY — regulatory technology and data-as-a-service adoption growth (source: industry reports on RegTech and data vendors).

Key trends driving demand: Regulatory tightening — global focus on beneficial ownership and sanctions enforcement creates recurring demand for auditable ownership lineage.; API-first integrations — compliance workflows are increasingly automated, so buyers prefer programmatic access and webhook updates.; AI-assisted extraction — improvements in OCR/NER reduce marginal cost of extracting registry filings and accelerate coverage expansion.; Commoditization of basic company attributes — buyers are shifting from simple profiles to validated, auditable ownership chains that carry legal weight..

Key competitors include Bureau van Dijk / Orbis (Moody's), Dun & Bradstreet, OpenCorporates, LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

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