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.
Inside the app
Not a mockup — real screens from the product. A calm dossier for every counterparty: cited potential matches, neutral confidence, and the call left to you.
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.
Sightline Watch — early access
A screen tells you who a counterparty was the day you asked. Watch is what comes after. Connect the systems your counterparties already live in — CRM, inventory, even the spreadsheet — and a watchkeeper screens every new name as it arrives, then re-checks the whole file as lists, registries and media move. You hear back only when something needs your judgement.
Every name, re-checked as lists and registries move — you're briefed only when something changes.
A new name in the CRM is screened before the deal warms up. Nobody exports a CSV; nobody has to remember. Prefer to wire it in yourself? Sightline speaks REST and MCP.
Sanctions and export-control lists move almost daily. Ownership changes. Media breaks. Every name is re-checked against every change — and Watch stays silent when nothing has moved.
When something does move, you get a cited briefing: what changed, what we couldn't verify, the questions to ask. Potential matches, never verdicts — and a human reviews every briefing before it reaches you.
Connects to
Founding access
From NZ$249/mo · founding rate · incl. GST
We're building Watch with a small founding group. Tell us where your counterparties live and we'll hold you a place.
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.
Whole counterparty file to keep an eye on? Sightline Watch — continuous monitoring, early access from NZ$249/mo.
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.
Yes. Sightline exposes a REST API and an MCP server, both behind org-scoped API keys, so your own tools can request screens and pull cited briefings directly. Watch uses the same plumbing.
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.