The record, including the parts that were deleted
Every claim in a ClientCouncil dossier carries its citation, its retrieval date and a confidence score. Nothing enters a verdict unsourced, and nothing that entered a verdict can be quietly removed from the record.
Web archives — Wayback and deleted history
Archived biographies, scrubbed press releases and vanished directorships. What a prospect's web presence said in 2009, what it says now, and precisely when it changed. A representative bio diff shows a directorship at a trading company present in the 2011 revision and removed in the 2013 revision.
Courts and police records — dockets, records, filings
Federal and state dockets, criminal records where lawfully accessible, arbitral awards, bankruptcy filings and asset disclosures. Matches are resolved to the party, not to a name string.
Sanctions and PEP — designation networks
OFAC, OFSI, EU and UN lists resolved through ownership graphs, so aggregated interest above the 50-percent threshold is surfaced as exposure rather than missed because no single holding crosses it. Politically exposed person status is tracked across its lifecycle, including mandates that have ended.
Corporate registries — ownership and control
Beneficial-ownership chains across more than 190 registries, shell-structure detection, director networks and historical filings, reconstructed into a single control graph per subject.
Adverse media — global press, weighted
Tier-weighted coverage in more than 40 languages, deduplicated into storylines rather than counted as articles, and scored for relevance and recency. Storyline velocity is tracked so an accelerating narrative is visible before it peaks.
Leaks and disclosures — offshore and leak corpora
Public leak databases and offshore registries, matched with entity resolution and flagged with explicit provenance caveats so a probabilistic match is never presented as a confirmed one.
Lawful processing
Sources are used within applicable data-protection, credit-reporting and fair-processing law in each jurisdiction the institution operates in. Where a source is restricted in a jurisdiction, it is excluded from processing for that jurisdiction rather than silently degraded.