What WireScreen does

WireScreen is a China-focused corporate and risk intelligence platform that aggregates Chinese corporate filings, trade records, patents, procurement documents, sanctions and regulatory disclosures from over 50 primary sources into a unified entity graph covering 14 million-plus companies and 25 million-plus individuals. The platform applies entity resolution, ownership-graph traversal and automated risk flagging to surface supply-chain exposure, beneficial ownership structures, and regulatory linkages for U.S. government agencies (including the Department of Defense, Treasury, Commerce, Interior, FCC, and the Defense Innovation Unit), think tanks, multinational corporations and financial institutions. WireScreen was founded in 2019 by David Barboza and Lynn Zhang and operates as a division of The Wire Digital Inc., headquartered in New York City.

WireScreen's commercial offering includes a web-based subscription platform, programmatic API access, curated data feeds, special reports, and marketplace sales through federal procurement channels, with pricing provided on a quote basis. Customers access curated datasets such as the Chinese Patent Intelligence dataset, the China-Russia Electronics Trade dataset, and proprietary metrics including "Controlled Capital" to support BIS/OFAC/UFLPA compliance, export-controls diligence, sanctions investigations and supply-chain risk workflows. The company also produces original investigative reporting through The Wire, which is distributed via partnerships with major outlets including the Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Reported headcount is 11–50 employees, consistent with a focused enterprise/government data and software operation.

Name

WireScreen

Legal name

The Wire Digital Inc.

Website

https://wirescreen.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

WireScreen aggregates Chinese corporate filings, trade data, patents and regulatory disclosures into a risk intelligence graph covering 14M+ companies and 25M+ individuals, serving U.S. government agencies, multinationals, financial institutions and think tanks for sanctions, export-control and supply-chain diligence.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Risk Intelligence Platform

akta.pro primary industry

Financial Crime Investigations & Intelligence (link analysis, network analytics) (FSAGAFAH)

Keywords

• China risk intelligence
• Corporate ownership data
• Export control compliance
• Sanctions screening platform
• Supply chain risk analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Web Platform Subscriptions: Recurring subscription access to the WireScreen interactive web platform for visual mapping and investigative workflows; offered as the primary entry point for analysts in government, financial institutions, and enterprises.
2. API Access: Full graph traversal REST API sold to enterprises for integrating WireScreen's China corporate intelligence into internal systems and existing workflows; typically contracted as recurring or multi-year enterprise agreements.
3. Curated Data Feeds: Subscribe-to curated datasets covering military end use, forced labor, sector-specific risks, Chinese patent intelligence, and China–Russia electronics trade; delivered directly into customer environments.
4. Special Reports and Research Briefings: Deep-dive Special Reports (e.g., GPU procurement report, KnownSec Files) and Research Briefs (e.g., Into the Deep) offered as gated access downloads; some briefings delivered via ongoing subscription model to the Briefings newsletter.
5. Government Marketplace / Awardable Solutions: Procurement-driven sales through the DoW CDAO Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, where WireScreen is listed as an 'Awardable' solution for government customers to acquire via the marketplace.
6. Journalist / Trial Access: Complimentary, trial, or special promotional access for practicing journalists, researchers, and media professionals for standard newsgathering and reporting purposes (subject to attribution and no-bulk-redistribution terms).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

WireScreen operates a China-focused risk intelligence platform that aggregates 50+ difficult-to-access primary sources — corporate filings, trade data, patents, procurement records, and regulatory disclosures — into an entity graph spanning 14M+ companies and 25M+ individuals. The platform exposes interactive network graphs, 100+ automated risk flags (including 20+ specific to the Chinese Defense Industrial Base), six-plus layers of ownership traversal, and full graph traversal via a REST API. It is sold to U.S. federal agencies, multinationals, financial institutions, and think tanks for sanctions screening, export-control compliance, CFIUS due diligence, and supply-chain risk assessment.

Product overview

WireScreen offers a single unified risk intelligence platform architecture built around one core WireScreen Platform that maps over 14M+ Chinese companies, 25M+ individuals, and 50+ primary sources. The core platform is augmented by feature modules including Network Graphs for visualizing hidden relationships, the Organization Screener for top-down entity filtering, the Controlled Capital metric and SmartCard summary view for influence quantification, and the Chinese Patent Intelligence Dataset and China–Russia Electronics Trade Dataset as add-on intelligence layers. The offering also includes a REST API and curated data feeds for enterprise integration, the BIS 50% Affiliates Rule compliance module, and a portfolio of subscription-based Briefings and Special Reports covering strategic sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• WireScreen Platform Core China risk intelligence platform that maps 14M+ Chinese companies and 25M+ individuals from 50+ primary sources into interactive profile pages, organization screener, network graphs, and risk flagging for government, enterprise, and journalist users.
• WireScreen REST API
• Curated Data Feeds Subscribable curated data feeds covering military end use, forced labor, and sector-specific risks, delivered directly into customer environments for compliance, investigative, and risk-assessment workflows.
• BIS 50% Affiliates Rule Solution Compliance solution providing ownership visibility required to maintain compliance under the BIS 50 Percent Affiliates Rule, identifying direct and indirect ownership that triggers the 50% threshold with timestamped ownership-history audit trails.
• Chinese Patent Intelligence Dataset Add-on dataset integrating 37 million Chinese patent records spanning approximately one million companies, universities, and research institutes into the WireScreen platform, with patent publication counts on entity profiles and a dedicated Patent Screener.
• China–Russia Electronics Trade Dataset Proprietary dataset tracking multiyear electronics trade activity between China and Russia, exposing high-risk intermediaries shipping to sanctioned jurisdictions, transshipment patterns for dual-use technologies, and Western-branded electronics moving through Chinese transshipment points.
• WireScreen Special Reports Subscription series of deep-dive special reports tracing ownership structures, investor relationships, and corporate affiliations across China's most critical industries, including reports on PLA GPU procurement, KnownSec, and China's underwater drone industry.
• WireScreen Briefings Recurring subscription briefings covering supply chain exposure, sanctions networks, export controls, and military-civil fusion risk, including The Patent Race, GPU & AI Compute, Smart TV, Humanoid Robotics, Advanced Materials, and Global Router Intelligence briefings.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces CFIUS and BIS due-diligence timelines from weeks to hours
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability7 records

Feature11 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core / flagship strategic partnership, recurring research collaboration partner and sister / affiliated company.

• Senzingcore / flagship strategic partnershipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 31 March 2026Announced March 31, 2026 as a strategic partnership to help governments, financial institutions, and enterprises uncover hidden ownership, state influence, and sanctions exposure across complex China-linked corporate networks. Combines WireScreen's intelligence on Chinese corporate ownership and influence structures with Senzing's real-time entity resolution technology to connect fragmented records, match entities across languages, and uncover indirect relationships traditional screening tools miss.
• Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)recurring research collaboration partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerWireScreen co-hosts recurring webinars with ASPI experts (e.g., Bethany Allen) on China defense research ties, China's military drone ecosystem, and other topics. ASPI is treated as a research collaborator on joint webinars analyzing Chinese military-civil fusion, defense universities, and dual-use technology ecosystems.
• TRM Labsrecurring research collaboration partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerWireScreen co-hosts government-only webinars with TRM Labs (Patrick Shortis) combining blockchain intelligence with corporate data to expose illicit networks — including fentanyl precursor supply chains and Russia-China sanctions-evasion payment ecosystems.
• DarkOwlrecurring research collaboration partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerWireScreen co-hosts a government-only webinar with DarkOwl combining dark web intelligence with corporate data to uncover China's contract-hacking ecosystem.
• SpyCloudrecurring research collaboration partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerWireScreen co-hosts a government-only webinar with SpyCloud combining corporate ownership data with digital identity and darknet intelligence to uncover hidden actors behind fentanyl precursor production.
• The Wire Chinasister / affiliated companyOthersThe Wire China is the affiliated weekly digital magazine also published by WireScreen's parent company, The Wire Digital Inc. The two units have separate employees, management, and editorial walls; WireScreen employees have no influence over Wire China's editorial coverage.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Sayari: Sayari provides corporate ownership, beneficial-ownership, and supply-chain intelligence covering emerging markets, with a particularly strong emphasis on sanctions, export controls, and complex cross-border entity structures. It is the closest direct competitor to WireScreen in the 'graph of hard-to-access corporate data for compliance and enforcement buyers' category.

Broad incumbents

• Refinitiv (LSEG): Refinitiv — now part of the London Stock Exchange Group — operates World-Check and the broader DataScope / PermID ecosystem used by virtually every global bank for KYC, sanctions, and beneficial-ownership screening. It competes with WireScreen for the same enterprise compliance wallet but from a horizontal, multi-jurisdiction vantage.
• S&P Global Market Intelligence: S&P Global Market Intelligence serves investment, due-diligence, and corporate development buyers with deep company-level data, ownership linkages, and risk analytics. WireScreen competes for the same PE and corporate development budget, with WireScreen specializing where S&P's coverage of opaque Chinese entities is thinnest.
• Moody's / Bureau van Dijk: Bureau van Dijk's Orbis platform, now owned by Moody's, is the dominant global corporate-ownership database for compliance, investment, and academic use. It competes with WireScreen on multi-jurisdiction ownership coverage and is the platform most enterprise risk teams default to before considering China specialists.
• Palantir Technologies: Palantir's Foundry and Gotham platforms are used by U.S. federal agencies and large enterprises to integrate and analyze structured and unstructured data, including for defense and intelligence missions. It competes with WireScreen for federal intelligence-analytics budgets, though at a much broader enterprise-data-fabric level.
• Recorded Future: Recorded Future (owned by Mastercard) provides threat intelligence and entity-risk analytics to governments and enterprises, including for nation-state and sanctions-related use cases. It overlaps with WireScreen's national-security and defense buyer base and competes for intelligence-analyst workflow mindshare.

Emerging players

• TRM Labs: TRM Labs specializes in blockchain intelligence for illicit finance and sanctions evasion, and is a WireScreen co-host on government-only webinars. It is adjacent rather than directly competitive, but increasingly relevant as WireScreen extends its dataset into Russia–China electronics trade and dual-use supply-chain risk.
• CB Insights: CB Insights provides private-company intelligence, market maps, and due-diligence data to corporate strategy and PE buyers — overlapping with WireScreen's investment-and-due-diligence segment. It is broader in geographic coverage but lacks WireScreen's depth on Chinese opaque-ownership structures.
• DarkOwl: DarkOwl aggregates darknet and deep-web intelligence and co-hosts government-only webinars with WireScreen. It is adjacent rather than directly competitive, but combines with WireScreen data in joint workflows for uncovering contract hacking and sanctions evasion.

Others

• Senzing: Senzing is an entity-resolution technology provider and a strategic partner (announced March 2026) that combines with WireScreen's China-specific data to deliver integrated identity and relationship analytics. Included here as a peer/ecosystem partner rather than a competitor — its distribution model extends WireScreen's reach into enterprise KYC stacks.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/WirescreenAI
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wirescreen-ai

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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