Business verification · KYB · Fraud prevention
clearbound verifies businesses, maps their beneficial owners, screens them against global watchlists, and monitors risk continuously, all through one API and dashboard. Clear real companies in minutes; keep fraud out.
SOC 2 Type II · GDPR & CCPA ready · 200+ registries · No card required
Delaware · EIN 47-•••2231
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One platform
Stop stitching together registry lookups, sanctions APIs, and manual reviews. clearbound runs the full KYB workflow behind a single integration.
Confirm legal name, status, formation, and EIN against 200+ government registries across 130 countries.
Resolve the full ownership tree, map UBOs above your threshold, and verify each individual behind the entity.
Screen entities and owners against OFAC, EU, UN, and 1,000+ PEP and global watchlists in real time.
Capture and validate formation docs, EIN letters, and proof of address with automated authenticity checks.
Continuously scan news and enforcement sources for litigation, bankruptcy, and reputational risk signals.
Re-screen every approved business automatically and get alerted the moment its risk profile changes.
How it works
Send a name and registration number, or let your applicant fill a clearbound-hosted flow. We resolve the entity, its registry record, owners, and documents in a single call.
Read the API docs# verify a business in one call POST /v1/verifications { "legal_name": "Northwind Ventures LLC", "country": "US", "checks": ["registry", "ubo", "sanctions"] } → 200 OK · decision: approve · risk: 14 registry ✓ ubo ✓ (3) sanctions ✓ media ⚠ 1
Set risk rules once. clearbound auto-approves low-risk businesses, escalates edge cases to your reviewers with full context, and blocks known fraud patterns before they reach you.
Explore decisioningApproval isn't the end. clearbound keeps every business under continuous watch (new sanctions, ownership changes, adverse media) and alerts you the moment something shifts.
See risk monitoringBuilt for the teams who own onboarding
Meet KYB obligations for every business you bring onto your rails, without a manual review team for each one.
Verify the businesses behind your sellers and suppliers, then keep watching as they grow or change hands.
Know exactly who you're lending to: the legal entity, its real owners, and its risk trajectory over the life of the loan.
UK · Company 09•••443
Works with your stack
REST API, webhooks, and a hosted flow, plus first-class connectors for the systems your onboarding already runs on.
clearbound Signals
Every business you clear stays under continuous watch. When a new sanction lands, an owner changes, or adverse media surfaces, clearbound re-scores the entity and alerts your team, with the evidence attached.
Explore SignalsTrusted by compliance teams
“We cut merchant onboarding from nine days to under an hour and our SAR backlog disappeared. clearbound made KYB a single API call instead of a department.”
“The ownership tree is the best I've seen. We finally know exactly who is behind every business we approve.”
“Continuous monitoring caught a sanctioned owner months after onboarding. That alert alone paid for the year.”
“Our auditors accepted the clearbound trail with zero follow-up questions. First time that has ever happened.”
“Engineering shipped the integration in two days. The hosted flow handled the rest.”
Start verifying in minutes with 50 free verifications, no card, no sales call required.