About SONAR
Public-record due diligence on a company before the contract, not after the problem.
Most companies vet a new supplier, reseller or partner the same way: someone searches the name, opens the registry, skims a few articles and writes "looks fine" in an email.
The registry tab, open since Tuesday.
The sanctions search run on the company, but not on its directors.
The news article you meant to read before the partner agreement went out.
The "looks fine" email nobody can find when the auditor asks.
The information is public. What's missing is a check that covers the same ground every time and leaves a record of what was looked at.
The tools that do this well are built for banks under AML rules: long contracts, onboarding projects and a price set for a compliance department. For a procurement lead or a partner manager that is too much, so the check stays manual. The question stays the same:
Is this company real, who is behind it, and is there anything that should stop us signing?
There's a difference between a search result and a checked fact.
A search result
A company with that name shows up on a registry website.
A checked fact
Registered and active since 2014, two directors and one person with significant control, none of them on 8 sanctions lists or the PEP dataset, no ICIJ Offshore Leaks match, one adverse-media article to review. Every line links to its source, with the time it was retrieved. (An illustrative report.)
SONAR does the second one, the same way every time, and keeps the receipt.
One report per company, in about three minutes.
Not a dashboard to interpret or a feed of alerts. A report: the registry record, directors and owners, sanctions and PEP results for the company and each person found, ICIJ Offshore Leaks, regulatory registers and 10 years of adverse media.
Every check gets a verdict: PASS, REVIEW, FLAG or NOT RUN. A check that could not run is never shown as clear.
Every fact carries a receipt: the source, a link to the record or the registry ID, and when SONAR retrieved it. Share the report as a link or a PDF, or run the same checks from the API and the MCP server.
You read it in five minutes, and you can show anyone why you signed.
Teams that need a defensible check on a company but don't sit under an AML regulator.
You know your suppliers and partners. You don't need software to make the decision for you; you need the groundwork done and written down.
Procurement and vendor onboarding. Channel and partner managers vetting resellers and distributors. Finance teams checking a counterparty before payment terms. Consultancies and MSPs screening on behalf of their clients.
If AML rules apply to you, SONAR can support your process, but it does not replace your regulated customer due diligence.
Good-practice checks deserve a proper tool too.
Vetting partners and vendors is where most companies first meet sanctions, ownership and reputation risk, and it is usually done by hand, by someone with other work to do.
SONAR gives that check the depth of a compliance screen with the effort of a web search: enter the company name, country, website and registration number, and get a report you can file.
It checks public records, and says exactly what it checked.
Registry, ownership and sanctions tables are built directly from source data, not written by a language model. Claude (Anthropic) writes the summary and the risk flags from the collected evidence, and every flag points back to a source. The methodology page lists what we check, what we don't, and the known limits.
SONAR is made by UF Insula Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (No. 14157197).
If someone asks why you signed with this company, can you show them?
If yes, SONAR is working.
If no, we want to hear about it.
Not sources counted, not alerts fired: a check you can stand behind.
Due-diligence tools usually start with a demo call. We'd rather you read a report.
2 free reports a month, no credit card, no sales call. Enter a company you're about to sign and read what comes back.
If it isn't better than an hour of searching by hand, don't pay for it.
Plans from €29 a month. Not a regulated AML / KYC provider.