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Screen the counterparty. And know the origin.

In agricultural commodities, the counterparty file has to carry three things at once: sanctions screening with food-security carve-outs, documentary-fraud checks on the trade paper, and deforestation-free origin evidence. Compliable.ai holds them in one record.

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01 · The problem

The trade paper is where the risk hides.

In agricultural commodities, financial-crime risk, sanctions carve-outs, and a new traceability mandate meet in a single counterparty file. The letters of credit and origin certificates are where money laundering and deforestation exposure both surface.

Documentary fraud

Riding on the trade paper

Trade-based money laundering rides on over- and under-invoicing, third-party payers, and needless transshipment across the trade documents.

The carve-out

Food trade is permitted

Sanctions carry food-security exemptions. Screening has to separate permitted food trade from a prohibited counterparty.

Know your origin

Geolocated and deforestation-free

New rules require deforestation-free, geolocated origin evidence for soy, palm, cocoa, coffee, and more.

02 · One platform, shaped to your trade process

The same three questions, asked of every trade. You configure how each is answered.

Who is this counterparty and who is behind it, what is the risk across the entity, the documents, and the origin, and can you defend the decision to a bank and a regulator. Compliable.ai answers all three on one platform, and every part is yours to set: the documents you require, the checks you run, the steps you keep or cut, and what happens at each event. Below is the default flow for an agricultural-commodities counterparty. Reshape it to your desk.

A default flow, ready to reshape
Request
Trade counterparty
Collect
Trade & origin docs
Screen
Sanctions & carve-outs
Validate
Document reconciliation
Assess
Money-laundering & origin risk
Authorize
Approve the trade
Monitor
Lists & origin rules
1

Collect

Documents you require
  • Incorporation and ownership records
  • Letters of credit, bills of lading, and phytosanitary and origin certificates
  • Geolocation and traceability statements
  • Bank references and trade documentation
2

Screen

Checks you run
  • Counterparty and beneficial-owner screening across the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), United Nations, and European Union lists with food-security carve-out logic
  • Ownership tracing via GLEIF, politically exposed person checks via Wikidata for emerging-market origination
  • Adverse media via GDELT
  • Trade documents reconciled for over- and under-invoicing and third-party payers
3

Decide

The call you make
  • Evidence measured against your policy and trade-finance red flags
  • Open questions resolved before the credit is drawn
  • A recommendation with the reasoning shown
  • A record built for a correspondent bank and a traceability authority
None of this is fixed. Cut a step a low-risk counterparty does not need, prefill the origin evidence you require, set a hold on a trade-based money-laundering red flag, or re-screen automatically when a list or an origin rule changes. The template is yours to configure. The platform keeps every version coherent and audit-ready.
Your documents become your workflow

The standard documents, validated today. The rest, configured with you.

Compliable.ai validates the critical documents every counterparty shares out of the box: articles of formation and incorporation, standard bank documents, and tax forms. The documents and checks specific to agricultural-commodities trading you give us as examples, and we turn them into validation and workflow with you, not in an engineering backlog. For the parts unique to your desk, we partner and refine against your real cases.

03 · The engine underneath

The AI does the gathering. Your analyst makes the call.

Every trade file runs through the same set of AI capabilities. Here is what that looks like pointed at an agricultural-commodities counterparty.

Document validation

Reads letters of credit, bills of lading, and phytosanitary and origin certificates in seconds, extracts the key terms, and flags a bad or missing document on upload.

Cross-document analysis

Reconciles the trade paper. Over- and under-invoicing, a third-party payer, or needless transshipment surfaces as a documentary red flag.

Beneficial-ownership resolution

Traces ownership through GLEIF and checks politically exposed person status for emerging-market origination exposure.

Screening triage

Runs multi-provider screening with food-security carve-out logic, then scores false-positive probability so permitted food trade is not stalled.

Enrichment linking

Matches the counterparty across open data for corporate structure, leaked-document exposure, and adverse media, and links what belongs together.

Executive summary

Writes the trade file into a defensible record for a correspondent bank and a traceability authority.

Screening providers, unified in one pass
OFAC World-Check Dow Jones UN & EU sanctions Internal watchlists
Enrichment across open data sources
GLEIF corporate structure Wikidata PEP status ICIJ leaked documents GDELT adverse media
04 · Diligence depth that scales with risk

Clear a known counterparty fast. Press hard where the trade paper calls for it.

Not every trade earns the same review. Compliable.ai scores each counterparty and tiers the work, so an established relationship clears quickly and a trade with documentary red flags or high-deforestation-risk origin gets the deeper look, automatically, by rule.

Tier 1 · Routine

Established, low-risk origin

A known counterparty trading from a low-risk origin. Identity, sanctions, and ownership screening at baseline depth.

Risk band: typically Low. Automated pass, exception review only.
Tier 2 · Elevated

Emerging-market or complex payment

Emerging-market origination or a complex payment structure. Adds politically exposed person and adverse-media review.

Risk band: Medium. Analyst review before the credit is drawn.
Tier 3 · Enhanced

Documentary red flags or high-risk origin

Sanctioned-adjacent trade, high-deforestation-risk origin, or documentary red flags. Full enhanced due diligence (EDD) and a complete record.

Risk band: High to Critical. Senior sign-off, full audit narrative.
What the risk score weighs
Counterparty and owner risk
Trade-finance red flags invoicing and third-party payers
Origin and deforestation risk
Sanctions carve-out applicability
Document completeness and validity
Adverse media and PEP exposure
05 · The agents, working a trade

The same four agents, pointed at a commodity trade.

Agentic Authority is not one AI making calls. It is specialized agents, each doing one job, collaborating through a controlled workflow, here configured for an agricultural-commodities counterparty.

Agent 01

Document Intelligence Agent

Reads and validates every trade document as it uploads, and reconciles the file. Over- or under-invoicing, or a missing origin certificate, surfaces the moment the file lands.

Agent 02

Agentic Screening Agent

Runs sanctions and watchlist screening with food-security carve-out logic on the counterparty and its owners in one pass, traces ownership through GLEIF, then explains and scores each hit.

Agent 03

Signal Agent

Applies your policy and trade-finance red flags to the evidence, then recommends the call: approve, hold, or escalate, with the reasoning shown.

Agent 04

Executive Synthesis Agent

Writes the trade into a defensible record for a correspondent bank and a traceability authority, with the audit trail attached.

Verify Once. Share Often.

A cleared counterparty becomes a profile reused across the chain.

Each completed onboarding turns into a compliance profile the counterparty controls and can share across the cooperative, processor, and trader chain. The next relationship that needs them starts ahead, collecting only the delta.

06 · After the trade clears

Lists change. Origin rules take effect. The platform keeps pace.

A counterparty cleared today can be designated tomorrow, and an origin-traceability rule can take effect mid-relationship. Compliable.ai keeps watching, so a change becomes an alert, not a surprise at a bank or in an audit.

Continuous re-screening

Active counterparties and their owners are re-screened on your schedule and the moment a sanctions list changes.

List and origin-rule events

A new designation or an origin-traceability deadline triggers a fresh look automatically, on rules you set.

Renewal without restart

An annual review reuses the existing file. The counterparty provides only what changed.

Clear the counterparty and the origin in one pass.

We will run one of your counterparty types through the agricultural commodities template, from document upload to a defensible decision, in a live walkthrough.