Follow the money. Then follow everyone it touches.
Always-on sanctions and watchlist screening, corporate ownership resolution, and pivot-driven investigation across hundreds of millions of open-source entity records. Resolve the owner behind a vessel, the beneficial owner behind a trust-held aircraft, and the network behind a name - with provenance and confidence you can act on.
The Problem
The pieces are connected. Your tools see them in isolation. A sanctioned tanker goes dark off your coast. A trust-held jet files a flight plan that does not match its stated owner. A wallet, a domain, a shell company in three jurisdictions - all the same network, scattered across thirty registries that do not talk to each other. So you screen a single name against a single list, get no hit, and call it compliance. That is exactly the seam a sanctions evader, a trafficker, or a front company is built to exploit. They structure around the checkbox. Resolving who actually owns and controls something is slow, manual, and brittle. An analyst tabs between a maritime registry, a corporate filing portal, an offshore-leaks database, and a sanctions list, copying names into a notebook and hoping the spelling matches. Every pivot is a context switch. Every context switch loses the thread. By the time the network is mapped, the vessel has changed flags and the company has dissolved. The connections are there. Most tools never make them. This one does.
Who Has This Problem
Key Workflows
Capabilities
Platform Integration
Threat Finance & Entity Resolution is its own analytical domain with its own workspace, ingest, and engines - and it is the connective tissue between Empyrean's sensor domains and the legal and financial identity of what those sensors observe. It resolves Maritime tracks through PSIX and vessel ownership, Air tracks through the FAA Registry and trust-held detection, and feeds resolved sanctions and ownership findings back into the COP track detail panel. It shares the FollowTheMoney entity model across the platform, so an entity surfaced in one domain is the same entity everywhere. Forthcoming integration extends the resolution chain into the cyber lens (domain and infrastructure attribution via WHOIS/RDAP, reverse DNS, and certificate transparency), into Digital Force Protection (device-to-identity correlation), into EMSO (FCC licensee binding), and into automated response through the Policy Engine.
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