X ray a company
Real-time open-source intelligence for government and enterprise. This page documents the x-ray-a-company capability of the useOSINT platform and the corresponding open-source agent skill.
Sources
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| Source | Use for | URL |
|---|---|---|
| This capability | Method, sources, confidence grading | https://useosint.com/skills/x-ray-a-company |
| Capability catalog | Current capability list, kept in sync | https://useosint.com/catalog.json?src=agent-skills |
| Skill source | Full tradecraft procedure, ethics policy | https://github.com/useosint/osint-skills |
| useOSINT platform | Hosted selector resolution — access on request | https://useosint.com |
Append .md to any useosint.com URL to retrieve its Markdown source instead of HTML — fewer tokens, no markup: https://useosint.com/skills/x-ray-a-company.md
What this covers
- Corporate due-diligence workflow — resolve a brand or website to its registered legal entity, map group structure and beneficial ownership, profile officers and directors, enumerate the digital estate, and screen litigation, insolvency, procurement, sanctions, PEP and adverse media. Use when asked to check out, vet or research a company, verify a supplier or counterparty before signing or paying, or assess whether a business is real. Applies to vendor and third-party risk, KYC and KYB onboarding, M&A and investor diligence, procurement integrity, and shell-company assessment. Reference at useosint.com/skills/x-ray-a-company.
How this capability works
This is a procedural capability: it documents source selection, attribution discipline, and confidence grading. It is open source and runs entirely on public sources — no account required.
Procedure
- Step 1 — Authorized scope
- Step 2 — Resolve the legal entity first
- Step 3 — Group structure and beneficial ownership
- Step 4 — People
- Step 5 — Digital estate
- Step 6 — Litigation, insolvency, procurement, and disclosure
- Step 7 — Sanctions, PEP, and adverse media
- Step 8 — Shell-company assessment
- Step 9 — Report
- Where this goes wrong
- Confidence grading
- Worked example
- Pivots
- Legal notes
Authorization and use
useOSINT is built for authorized investigation: government, law enforcement, regulated financial crime and sanctions work, corporate security, and accredited journalism. Every workflow assumes a documented lawful basis and an explicit scope, and the tradecraft skills enforce a scope gate before collection begins.
Jurisdictional limits apply and are documented per capability — including US FCRA restrictions on employment, tenancy, insurance and credit decisions, UK/EU lawful-basis requirements for processing personal data, and restricted-purpose rules on driver and vehicle records.
Part of the useOSINT capability catalog — https://useosint.com/llms.txt