Counterparty screening for NZ exporters
Sightline screens your overseas customers, distributors, suppliers and investors against company registries, sanctions and export-control lists, and global media — then hands you a cited memo with the questions to ask before the ink dries.
3 items require verification
Components from a respected NZ exporter surfaced in weapons systems on a foreign battlefield. Nobody at the company broke a rule. The buyer was legitimate — the buyer's buyer wasn't.
Diversion happens one hop away. That's where we look.
How it works
Registry records: directors, shareholders, addresses, history.
One hop out: officers, parents, shareholders. Risk hides one layer back.
70+ sanctions, export-control and watch lists — OFAC, BIS, EU, UK, AU, NZ — plus defence-linked institution trackers.
Adverse media, synthesised and cited. Signal, not keyword noise.
A memo: potential matches with evidence, what we couldn't verify, and the questions to ask before you sign.
Who it's for
You don't need screening every day. You need it the week that matters: a new distributor in a market you can't read, an unsolicited approach that's slightly too generous, a term sheet from a fund you'd never heard of. That's the week Sightline exists for.
The memo
Counterparty screening memo
Every claim cited. Every gap named. Decisions stay yours.
The NZSIS and NCSC's Secure Innovation guidance asks exporting firms to research who they're partnering with. Sightline is that research, done properly.
Read the Secure Innovation guidancePricing
Free
Registry check + sanctions and export-control lists. Human-reviewed. One business day.
Request a free screenNZ$299 one-off
Everything in Quick, plus one-hop ownership expansion, adverse media synthesis, and the full cited memo as a PDF.
Request a deep reportFounding cohort: every screen is reviewed by a human before it reaches you.
Prices are in NZD and include GST.
Questions
No. Sightline is research — a structured, cited starting point. Matches are potential matches requiring verification.
Public registries, official sanctions and export-control lists, and open media. Every finding is cited back to its source.
Only partially — foreign access is restricted. We treat it as a named blind spot in your memo rather than pretending otherwise.
It goes to a human, isn't shared, and is deleted on request.
Request a screen
One work email is enough to start. A human reviews every request and comes back within one business day.