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.
Sightline Watch — early access
A screen tells you who a counterparty was the day you asked. Sightline 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, re-checks the whole file as lists, registries and media move, and briefs you only when something needs your judgement.
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.
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.