Prove where the metal came from. On both sides of the trade.
In metals, a smelter is both a supplier you must diligence and a sanctioned-origin risk you must screen. Compliable.ai runs Know Your Customer on buyers and Know Your Supplier on smelters and mines in one record, with a chain-of-custody trail that holds up to an exchange and a regulator.
The warrant is now a sanctions object.
Metals compliance is a two-sided provenance problem. Suppliers must prove conformant chain of custody to stay exchange-listed, while origin rules make a metal warrant a sanctions question. The smelter sits on both sides of that.
Behind a compliant-looking brand
Relabeling and blending obscure where metal was produced. A restricted origin can travel behind a compliant-looking brand.
Supplier and counterparty at once
A smelter is a supplier to diligence and a counterparty to screen. Most tools do only one of the two.
Shared, but never reused
One smelter audit is consumed by many downstream buyers, and everyone re-collects the same evidence.
The same three questions, asked on both sides. You configure how each is answered.
Who is this counterparty or supplier and who is behind it, what is the risk to origin and sanctions, and can you defend the chain of custody. 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 a metals counterparty or smelter. Reshape it to your process.
Request
Counterparty or smelterCollect
Certs & provenance docsScreen
Sanctions & originValidate
Chain-of-custody checkAssess
Provenance risk & bandAuthorize
Approve the relationshipMonitor
Ownership & warrant changesCollect
- Entity and ownership records
- Conflict-minerals templates and disclosure filings
- Mill test certificates and certificates of origin
- Exchange responsible-sourcing attestations
Screen
- Counterparty and smelter screening across the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), United Nations, and European Union lists
- Ownership tracing via GLEIF to unmask beneficial ownership behind relabeled brands
- Adverse media via GDELT on mine sites and operators
- Origin and production date reconciled against the documents
Decide
- Evidence measured against your policy and origin rules
- Open questions resolved before the trade or purchase
- A recommendation with the reasoning shown
- A record built for a disclosure filing and an exchange review
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 metals sourcing and trade 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.
The AI does the gathering. Your analyst makes the call.
Every counterparty and supplier file runs through the same set of AI capabilities. Here is what that looks like pointed at a metals smelter or buyer.
Document validation
Reads conflict-minerals templates, mill test certificates, and disclosure filings in seconds, extracts the key data, and flags a bad or missing document on upload.
Cross-document analysis
Reconciles provenance. If an origin or a production date does not line up across the documents, the provenance-washing surfaces immediately.
Beneficial-ownership resolution
Traces ownership through GLEIF to unmask the beneficial owner behind a relabeled brand and a restricted origin.
Screening triage
Runs multi-provider screening on smelters and buyers, then scores false-positive probability so a common name does not stall an approval.
Enrichment linking
Matches the entity across open data for corporate structure, leaked-document exposure, and adverse media on mine sites, and links what belongs together.
Executive summary
Writes the file into a defensible record, ready for a disclosure filing and an exchange review.
Clear a recycler fast. Press hard where the origin is in doubt.
Not every relationship earns the same review. Compliable.ai scores each counterparty and supplier and tiers the work, so a low-risk recycler clears quickly and a restricted-origin or opaque-ownership smelter gets the deeper look, automatically, by rule.
Recycler or low-risk supplier
A recycler or low-risk domestic supplier with simple ownership. Identity, sanctions, and ownership screening at baseline depth.
Conflict-affected or layered ownership
Sourcing from a conflict-affected or high-risk area, or layered ownership. Adds enhanced ownership tracing and adverse-media review.
Restricted-origin or opaque ownership
Restricted-origin exposure or opaque ownership behind a brand. Full enhanced due diligence (EDD) and a complete chain-of-custody record.
The same four agents, pointed at a metals 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 a metals smelter, mine, or buyer.
Document Intelligence Agent
Reads and validates every provenance document as it uploads, and reconciles the file. An origin or production date that does not match across the documents surfaces the moment the file lands.
Agentic Screening Agent
Runs sanctions and watchlist screening on smelters and buyers in one pass, traces ownership through GLEIF to unmask relabeled brands, then explains and scores each hit.
Signal Agent
Applies your policy and origin rules to the evidence, then recommends the call: approve, hold, or escalate, with the reasoning shown.
Executive Synthesis Agent
Writes the relationship into a defensible record, ready for a disclosure filing and an exchange or regulator review.
One smelter audit, verified once, reused by every buyer.
Each completed diligence turns into a compliance profile the smelter controls and can share. The next downstream buyer that needs it starts ahead, collecting only the delta, which is the network effect the fragmented smelter-audit ecosystem lacks.
Brands get relabeled. Ownership shifts. The platform keeps watching.
A smelter cleared today can be relabeled or change hands tomorrow, and origin restrictions can tighten. Compliable.ai keeps watching, so a change becomes an alert, not a surprise in a disclosure filing.
Continuous re-screening
Active counterparties and smelters and their owners are re-screened on your schedule and the moment a sanctions list changes.
Ownership and origin events
A change of ownership, a relabeled brand, or a new origin restriction 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.
Prove provenance once, on both sides of the trade.
We will run one of your counterparty or smelter types through the metals and mining template, from document upload to a defensible decision, in a live walkthrough.