The price problem
The tools that do this properly were built for institutions and priced accordingly — per seat, per module, with an implementation fee attached. A six-partner firm cannot sign that contract to check forty clients a year.
Due diligence AI for professional firms
Your compliance team, at a fraction of the cost.
AI handles the verification and paperwork such as client checks, ownership tracing, screening, and the record that proves you did it.
Connector for
- KYB & CDD
- UBO ≥25%
- Sanctions & PEP
What is Brif for compliance teams?
Brif is the customer due diligence plugin for AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or any open-source AI assistant, built for professional-services firms brought into scope for anti-money-laundering obligations without the infrastructure of a regulated institution. It verifies clients and the people who own them, screens sanctions, PEP and adverse media, and produces a sourced record of every check performed.
- No portal
- No new hire
- APAC registries
- Sourced & dated
You were made a regulated entity. Nobody gave you the department.
The obligation arrived. The budget, the headcount and the software did not.
The headcount problem
The other answer is to hire a compliance officer. For most firms that is a salary larger than the risk being managed, spent on work that is mostly repetitive lookups.
The hours problem
So it falls to the partners. Ownership chased across registries, names run against lists by hand, a file assembled at eleven at night by someone who bills for something else entirely.
How it works for compliance teams
Ask in plain language. Get the ownership picture in minutes.
Corporate Services
Company secretaries & CSPs keeping every incorporation compliant.
01 · Ask
“Using Brif, resolve the beneficial owners of Meridian Trading (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. down to 25%.”
02 · Resolve
- Entity verified
- Directors and shareholders named
- Beneficial owners resolved to 25%
- Sanctions and PEP screened
03 · Deliver
A RORC-ready ownership table, filed to standard — in one conversation, not a week of registries.
No new portal. Brif runs inside the tools and AI assistants your team already uses.
The checks
What Brif runs on every client.
Six checks, one question, one record you can file.
- 01
Identity & existence
Confirms the entity is registered, active and correctly identified against the official register.
You file · Registry record with retrieval date
- 02
Beneficial ownership
Traces shareholders through corporate, trust and offshore layers until named individuals above 25% are reached.
You file · Ownership chain with percentages
- 03
Sanctions & watchlists
Screens the entity, its directors and owners against global sanctions and watchlist records.
You file · Screening result with match evidence
- 04
Politically exposed persons
Identifies PEP status and close associates, with the class and position held.
You file · PEP determination with source
- 05
Adverse media
Sweeps published media in the language of publication, not only in English.
You file · Findings, each attributed and dated
- 06
Record-keeping
Assembles everything above into one exportable report for the client file.
You file · Evidence the check was performed
The workflow
It fits the intake you already run.
- 01
Receive the client
Nothing changes about how work comes in.
- 02
Ask Brif
One line, plain language, from the AI assistant your team already uses.
- 03
Review the exceptions
Most checks come back clean. Brif surfaces the ones that need a human.
- 04
File the report
Sourced and dated, into the client file, in the format you keep records in.
- 05
Re-check on your cycle
Batch the book on whatever schedule your policy sets.
The work that used to take an evening now takes the length of a phone call.
Built for firms of ten, not a thousand.
The four kinds of firm Brif was designed around.
Corporate Services
Company secretaries · CSPs
Company secretaries and corporate service providers keeping every incorporation compliant, including structures with offshore layers.
- Beneficial ownership registers kept current
- Nominee and offshore layers resolved to people
- Director and shareholder screening at incorporation
Legal & Accounting
Solicitors · Accountants · Auditors
Firms that cannot take on a client or open a matter without customer due diligence on file.
- Client intake checks without stalling the engagement
- Matter-level CDD and EDD
- Periodic re-verification of a long client book
High-Value Dealers
Real estate · Gold · Jewellery · Luxury
Sellers of property and high-value goods newly captured by AML rules, often with days to close.
- Buyer identity and source-of-funds red flags
- Corporate buyers traced to their owners
- Audit-ready buyer checks per transaction
Fund Advisors
Fund managers · Advisors
Fund managers and advisors onboarding investors and diligencing counterparties without an institutional compliance desk.
- Investor and LP onboarding checks
- Counterparty and co-investor screening
- Ongoing monitoring of the investor register
Enterprise-grade diligence, without the enterprise price tag.
How Brif compares with the two ways most firms run due diligence today.
| Category | The usual wayEnterprise portal | The usual wayDoing it by hand | The Brif wayBrif |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | |||
| Price | Priced and staffed for institutions | Analyst hours, or $1K–$3K per check in external fees | A subscription a small firm can absorb |
| Setup | |||
| Setup | Procurement, onboarding, training | Manual, no system to set up | Connect once |
| Ownership tracing | |||
| Ownership tracing | Yes, if you know how to drive it | Manual registry chasing across jurisdictions | Traced to a named person, automatically |
| Local-language media | |||
| Local-language media | Varies by provider | Only if someone on the team reads the language | Screened in the source language |
| Where it lives | |||
| Where it lives | Another portal, another login | Spreadsheets and email | Inside the tools you already use |
| What you get | |||
| What you get | Raw data to interpret | A file you assembled | A sourced report, ready for audit prep |
Questions compliance leads ask first
It is software that runs the client checks anti-money-laundering rules require — identity, beneficial ownership, sanctions, PEP and adverse media — and keeps a sourced record of each one. Brif does this for law firms, corporate service providers, accountants, high-value dealers and fund advisors without a portal or a new hire.
Compliance without the department
Your next client, checked before lunch.
Verify the client, trace the owners, screen the risk and file the record — inside the AI you already use.
- Company & individual briefs
- APAC registries
- Works in ChatGPT & Claude