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Module · 03 · On its own or as an add-onPart of Argus Core

Argus Trace.
Follow the entity.
Follow the chain.

Screening against the full OpenSanctions dataset — about 1.2 million sanctioned entities, kept in step in real time. Beneficial ownership traced through holding companies and offshore vehicles across jurisdictions. Financial instruments at issuer level, by their standard identifiers. A clear read on how much pull a person has in the network and how much attention they have drawn. The full ten-view entity record, including the seven that Core hides.

What Trace is forTrace is a research and investigation tool. It is built on open datasets like Wikidata and OpenSanctions — which makes it the right tool for understanding entities, ownership chains and exposure, and the wrong tool for regulated checks that demand certified, auditable data. If certified due diligence is what you need, we will tell you so and point you elsewhere.
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Screening against the full OpenSanctions dataset Full ten-view record · seven added over Core Beneficial ownership chains
~1.2M
OpenSanctions entities screened
10
Views per record · 7 added over Core
15+
Connection types
±4%
Risk-score accuracy
02 · Eight things Trace adds

The depth Core hides.

Core tells you who. Trace tells you why it matters, who they are connected to, and what is moving around them right now. Eight capabilities, eight reasons to upgrade.

01 · Entity matching

Full OpenSanctions coverage

Screening against the full OpenSanctions dataset, kept in step in real time. Every entity is a single record: when the same person appears in five regimes, you see one entity, not five duplicates.

02 · Entity record

Full ten-view record

Profile, connections, timeline, documents, analytics, media, sanctions and risk, sources, social, news mentions. Core gives you three of these.

03 · Ownership chains

Beneficial ownership across jurisdictions

Trace through holding companies, trusts and offshore vehicles across jurisdictions. Each link shows the source registry it came from.

ExampleHuawei Technologies → Huawei Investment & Holding → Trade Union Committee → ~130,000 employee shareholders (4 levels, each registered)
04 · Financial instruments

Instruments at issuer level

Every bond and listing for every issuer in the record — ratings, maturity dates, exchanges — joined back to the entity so you do not lose the thread.

05 · Risk scoring

A risk score you can take apart

One risk score per entity, broken into five parts: sanctions, ownership, media, parliament and network. Each part ships with its confidence range.

06 · Network pull

How much pull a person has

For people: speeches, sponsorships, media reach and how central they are to the network. The measure that tells a backbencher with a motion from one with a campaign.

07 · Attention

A 12-month read on attention

How much audience and watchlist attention an entity has drawn over a year, weighed against the parliamentary action that actually followed. Separates signal from noise.

08 · Across jurisdictions

One record, every jurisdiction

An entity that turns up in a Czech Senate motion, a US Treasury list and a Brazilian hearing is one record, not three. Trace stitches them together.

03 · What ships with Trace

The full specification.

Trace can be bought on its own — for teams that do not need the parliamentary feed — or added to Core for clients who want full entity depth on top of their feed.

Entity matching
Screening against the full OpenSanctions dataset, kept in step in real time. One record per entity across regimes.
Entity records
Full ten-view record.Core ships 3 of the 10 — Profile, Sanctions flag, Sources.
Ownership chains
Beneficial ownership traced through holding structures across jurisdictions, with the source registry shown per link.
Financial instruments
Bonds and exchange listings at issuer level, by their standard identifiers, joined back to the entity record.
Risk scoring
A risk score broken into five parts — sanctions, ownership, media, parliament and network. Each part carries a confidence range so you can see how much to weigh it.
Network pull
For people: speeches, sponsorships, media reach and network centrality.
Attention
A 12-month read on audience and watchlist attention, weighed against the parliamentary action that followed.
Sold as
On its own — no Core required.As an add-on: full entity depth on top of Core’s basic lookup.
Who it is for
Due-diligence teams, investment risk functions, investigative journalists and legal teams who need entity research.Not a certified, regulated due-diligence tool.
UK MoD JAGGAER One registered supplier · Restricted access

Built for institutions that need to get it right.

Argus is sold to parliamentary research services, foreign-affairs ministries and accredited civil-society institutions. We do not run self-serve trials — we run a 60-day paid pilot against your real workflow, with a named engineer on the account from day one.

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Pilot terms · Q3 2026
Pilot length60 days
Seats includedUp to 6
JurisdictionsAll configured
DeploymentYour cloud, or Argus-hosted
Onboarding5 business days
Status● Accepting Q3 cohort