Know Your Business. Every Time.
Website to verified legal entity in one API call. Know who you're dealing with, who owns them, and who they're connected to.
Get 20 Free CreditsKYB Without the Manual Work
A new customer signs up with their website domain. Your compliance team needs to verify the legal entity behind it. Today, that means searching Companies House, the Handelsregister, SEC EDGAR, or a dozen other registries depending on the country. For each one, you need to know which registry to search and how to interpret the results.
DataMerge does this in one API call. Send us a domain, get back the verified legal name, registration country, national company ID, and corporate hierarchy. Our AI agents perform a live domain check, so even companies that registered yesterday are resolved correctly.
This turns KYB from a 20-minute manual process into a sub-second API call that plugs directly into your onboarding workflow.
Sanctions Screening Without False Positives
The OFAC 50% rule means that if a sanctioned entity owns 50% or more of a subsidiary, that subsidiary is also sanctioned. This makes corporate hierarchy data critical for sanctions compliance. But most hierarchy providers dump the entire corporate tree, giving you hundreds of entities to screen when you only need to check the direct ownership chain.
DataMerge's branch-aware hierarchy navigates to the specific entity matching your domain, then returns only the direct parents up to the global ultimate. You screen 3-5 entities instead of 200+. Fewer false positives. Faster clearing. Same compliance coverage.
Example: screening google.com returns Google LLC and its parent Alphabet Inc. You don't need to screen Waymo, Verily, or DeepMind because they're in different branches of the Alphabet tree.
Conflict of Interest Checks
Consulting firms, law firms, and accounting firms need to check whether a new client is connected to an existing client. If a prospect is a subsidiary of a company you already advise, that's a conflict. But you can only catch it if your data links subsidiaries to parents.
DataMerge enriches every client domain with its full parent chain. When a new prospect comes in, check whether their parent company (or any entity in their corporate group) matches an existing client. This check takes milliseconds via API instead of hours of manual research.
Vendor Onboarding at Scale
Enterprise procurement teams onboard hundreds of vendors per year. Each one needs KYB verification: legal entity name, registration country, ownership structure. When vendors submit a website on your intake form, DataMerge translates it to a verified legal entity instantly.
Plug the API into your vendor management system. New vendor submits their domain, DataMerge returns the legal name and hierarchy, your system runs the compliance checks automatically. Vendor onboarding goes from days to minutes.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is KYB and how does DataMerge support it?
KYB (Know Your Business) is the process of verifying the legal identity, ownership structure, and legitimacy of a business entity before entering a commercial relationship. DataMerge supports KYB by resolving any domain to its registered legal entity name, country of incorporation, and corporate hierarchy in one API call. This automates the registry search step that normally requires manual lookups across multiple national registries.
How does DataMerge help identify the ultimate beneficial owner (UBO)?
DataMerge provides the corporate hierarchy chain from the queried entity up to the global ultimate parent. Traversing this chain is the first step in UBO identification. You follow the ownership chain to the top-level entity, then identify the natural persons with significant ownership stakes in that entity. DataMerge handles the corporate chain; registry sources provide the individual UBO data at the final entity.
Can DataMerge check if a company is a subsidiary of a sanctioned entity?
DataMerge returns the full parent chain for any domain, including the global ultimate parent. You can compare this chain against your sanctions list. If any entity in the parent chain appears on a sanctions list (OFAC, EU, UN, etc.), that is a flag for further review. DataMerge provides the structural data; your sanctions screening tool handles the matching against lists.
How fresh is the data for compliance use cases?
DataMerge performs live domain checks for legal name resolution rather than serving static database snapshots. This means the data reflects the current state of the domain and its associated legal entity. For compliance use cases where accuracy is critical, live checking is significantly more reliable than quarterly-updated static databases.
What does DataMerge return for a domain that resolves to a shell or holding company?
DataMerge returns the legal entity associated with the domain, including any indication that it is a holding company with no independent operations. The subsidiaries array shows the operating entities owned by the holding company. This is useful for compliance purposes: a new vendor claiming to be a large company but whose domain resolves to a newly registered holding company is a red flag worth investigating.
