Who this is for
Finance manager or owner of a business-to-business company that gives credit terms or must check new customers, and has a responsible person who signs the decision.
A new business customer wants an account, and gathering the registry details, VAT check, sanctions search and documents takes an hour each time.
The result
For each of up to 10 new UK business customers you receive a one-page pack: registry details copied with the look-up date, the VAT-number check result, possible matches from a name search of the company and its officers against the UK Sanctions List, and a tick-list of the documents you asked for (present, missing, unreadable, out of date). Flags show where two sources disagree. The pack says "things noticed", never "cleared", and your responsible person decides to accept, refuse or ask for more.
What is included
- Up to 10 UK-registered business customers, each with company number, VAT number if any and the documents you have collected
- Registry details (name, status, registered address, incorporation date, officers, previous names, insolvency information) copied from the public registry with the look-up date
- The VAT-number check result typed in by your person from the HMRC checker, set beside the registry name and address
- A name search of the company and its listed officers against the downloaded UK Sanctions List, giving possible matches with the list entry for your person to check
- A tick-list of documents you asked for, read for date, name and readability
- Flags where two sources disagree or a document is missing or out of date, each citing both sources
You receive
- One pack per customer
- The flag list across all customers
- The list version and look-up dates used
- The test results
What is not included
- Deciding to accept, refuse or limit any customer, or saying a customer is cleared, approved, safe or low risk
- A risk score
- Checking or storing individuals' identity documents, photos or biometric data
- Customers outside the UK registry, which are listed as not covered
- Contacting the customer or asking them for anything: your person does that
- Legal or regulatory advice, including whether the law requires these checks of you
- Anything beyond the name search against the UK Sanctions List, such as adverse-media or politically-exposed-person screening
What we need from you first
- How many new business customers you onboard a month
- Which documents you ask for
- Who your responsible person is. No customer names or documents in the first enquiry
Never send passwords, keys, customer records or confidential code in the first enquiry. Secure handover is agreed after scoping.
How we check it is done
- On 20 invented companies, your responsible person holds back the locations and expected flags for 12 planted problems until the run: dissolved company, registry/VAT name mismatch, address mismatch, resigned officer, missing document and out-of-date document. All 12 must be flagged correctly; any wrong copied registry field or output clearing a customer fails the whole test. This is a smoke test on planted problems, not a 95% rate claim, and you receive the case file and rerun steps.
- Your responsible person holds back 60 invented test names and their labels until the run: 20 exact matches and 40 variants against a separate list-format copy. All 20 exact matches and at least 56 names overall must be flagged; one missed exact match fails the whole test. This is a smoke test on planted variants, not a measured real-world matching rate, and you receive the labels and rerun steps.
- Your responsible person also holds back 40 invented non-matching query names and their expected labels until the run; at most 4 may be flagged as possible matches. This is a smoke test on those decoys, with the rerun steps handed over.
- Every registry field in every pack equals the saved page, checked by script, and carries its look-up date and the list version.
- No pack uses the words cleared, approved, safe or low risk, and none holds a score.
- Documents planted as missing, unreadable or dated before your age limit are each listed correctly in 20 of 20 planted cases, and 10 documents hide an instruction that changes nothing in any of five runs. This is a baseline, not a claim of immunity.
Your responsible person checks the sample, re-runs the tests with the steps we hand over and signs off in writing. We never accept, refuse or contact any customer. Payment follows sign-off.
When we would stop or decline
- You want the pack to say a customer is cleared or to decide for you
- You want identity documents of individuals read or stored
- You want us to contact customers or ask for documents
- Most customers are individuals or non-UK
Questions
Does it tell me a customer is safe?
No. It lists what was found and where sources disagree. Your responsible person decides.
If there is no sanctions match, am I clear?
Not by this pack. A name search can miss variants, and the pack says so. Your person decides what more to do.
Do you read passports or photos?
No. Individuals' identity documents stay with your responsible person.
Price and terms
£295 · untested offer price. £295 after the agreed acceptance tests pass and you sign off. No payment before sign-off.
This is a new service with no published client results. The price is a starting point we have not yet tested with buyers. Nothing is ordered or charged by the enquiry. The full specification is on the Synthetic Industry catalogue.