Proven on real cases — sandbox pilots

Before offering company (KYB) investigations, we validated the methodology on three real pilot cases — including one on ourselves.

SANITIZED VERSION IN REVIEW

Pilot #1 — external entity behind a crypto-MLM engine

A full KYB run on a company powering a crypto-MLM scheme: registry data, UBO trail, regulator footprint. The public, sanitized report will be published here once it passes review.

SANITIZED VERSION IN REVIEW

Pilot #2 — a Canadian shell LLP

A jurisdiction where the law itself hides the owners: this pilot produced our rule that structural UBO data gaps must be declared up front — they cannot be bought away, and pretending otherwise would mislead you.

SANITIZED VERSION IN REVIEW

Pilot #3 — Proof of Scam, investigated by itself

We ran the exact same public-sources-only methodology on our own site, as a paying customer would see it. It found a real error on this very website — which we fixed, publicly. We repeat this self-audit every quarter.

How we work on company (KYB) investigations

  • Fixed report skeleton: executive summary → Decision/Exposure Matrix → KYB dimensions (identity, legal entity, UBO/ownership, sanctions/PEP (planned), litigation & regulatory traces, reputation, size/financials) → “what would change this verdict” (falsifiability) → monitoring status → Confidence % / Evidence Coverage % → reproducible source chain.
  • Aggregator claims never stand alone. Commercial databases regularly produce false connections (one of our pilots refuted a name-collision “link” this way) — every aggregator-sourced claim must be confirmed by a primary (T1) source before it enters a report.
  • Watchdog press is used — and labelled. Where official registries are structurally opaque, watchdog sources can be the only usable signal; they are always marked “opinion, not an official fact” (T3), never upgraded silently.
  • Quarterly self-test. Proof of Scam audits its own site with this same methodology every quarter, and publishes the delta.