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The counterparty was clean at signing. The contract outlives the check.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) offtake and charter contracts run for years, while European phase-out dates and sanctions designations move on their own clock and ownership hides behind intermediaries and sub-fifty-percent stakes. Compliable.ai screens the counterparty and its owners, then keeps re-screening every active contract as the rules change.

Liquefied natural gas carrier with spherical tanks at an export terminal
01 · The problem

A point-in-time check expires the day after you run it.

In natural gas and LNG, the risk is time-boxed and jurisdictional. A counterparty cleared at signing can be designated, reflagged, or caught by a phase-out date long before a multi-year contract ends.

The clock

Phase-out dates land mid-contract

New designations and phase-out cutoffs arrive after signing. What cleared at the start does not stay cleared.

The owner

Behind the intermediary

Ownership routes through third-country intermediaries and sub-fifty-percent stakes. The blocked owner is rarely on the front page.

The carrier

The registration has to reconcile

Carriers are reflagged and renamed to move sanctioned cargo. The registration documents have to reconcile against the trade.

02 · One platform, shaped to your contracts

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

Who is this counterparty and who is behind it, what is the risk across the entity and the jurisdiction, and can you defend the decision as the rules move. 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 LNG or gas offtake counterparty. Reshape it to your desk.

A default flow, ready to reshape
Request
Offtake counterparty
Collect
Contract & entity docs
Screen
Sanctions & ownership
Validate
Document reconciliation
Assess
Jurisdiction risk & band
Authorize
Approve the contract
Monitor
Designations & dates
1

Collect

Documents you require
  • Incorporation and ownership records
  • Offtake and charter contracts
  • Jurisdiction and end-user documentation
  • 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
  • Ownership tracing via GLEIF to test the fifty-percent rule through intermediaries
  • Adverse media via GDELT, politically exposed person checks via Wikidata
  • Carrier registration reconciled against the trade documents
3

Decide

The call you make
  • Evidence measured against your policy and the current phase-in dates
  • Open questions resolved before the contract activates
  • A recommendation with the reasoning shown
  • A closed, encrypted record built for a penalty regime
None of this is fixed. Cut a step a low-risk counterparty does not need, prefill the jurisdiction documents you require, set a date-specific hold against a phase-in cutoff, or re-screen automatically the moment a designation lands. 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 natural gas and LNG offtake 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 contract file runs through the same set of AI capabilities. Here is what that looks like pointed at an LNG or gas offtake counterparty.

Document validation

Reads offtake and charter contracts and registration documents in seconds, extracts the key terms and parties, and flags a bad or missing document on upload.

Cross-document analysis

Reconciles the trade. If a carrier registration or an end-user document does not line up with the contract and the jurisdiction, it surfaces immediately.

Beneficial-ownership resolution

Traces ownership through GLEIF to test the fifty-percent rule through third-country intermediaries and unmask the blocked owner behind a clean-named entity.

Screening triage

Runs multi-provider screening on the entity and its owners, then scores false-positive probability so a common name does not stall an approval.

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 contract file into a defensible record, ready for the approve-or-hold decision and for a penalty-regime review later.

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 jurisdiction calls for it.

Not every contract earns the same review. Compliable.ai scores each counterparty and tiers the work, so an established relationship clears quickly and a contract with sanctioned-jurisdiction or phase-in exposure gets the deeper look, automatically, by rule.

Tier 1 · Routine

Established, low-risk jurisdiction

A known counterparty in a low-risk jurisdiction. Identity, sanctions, and ownership screening at baseline depth.

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

New party or intermediary ownership

A new counterparty, a third-country intermediary, or layered ownership. Adds enhanced ownership tracing and adverse-media review.

Risk band: Medium. Analyst review before the contract.
Tier 3 · Enhanced

Sanctioned-jurisdiction or phase-in exposure

Exposure to a sanctioned jurisdiction, a phase-in-date-sensitive contract, or a reflagged carrier. 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 and the fifty-percent rule through intermediaries
Jurisdiction and phase-in exposure
Carrier registration named in the documents
End-user and destination of the cargo
Document completeness and validity
Adverse media volume and relevance
05 · The agents, working a contract

The same four agents, pointed at an LNG contract.

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 LNG or gas offtake counterparty.

Agent 01

Document Intelligence Agent

Reads and validates every contract document as it uploads, and reconciles the file. A carrier registration that does not match the trade, or a missing end-user document, surfaces the moment the file lands.

Agent 02

Agentic Screening Agent

Runs sanctions and watchlist screening on the counterparty and its owners in one pass, traces ownership through GLEIF for the fifty-percent rule, then explains and scores each hit.

Agent 03

Signal Agent

Applies your policy, the current phase-in dates, and the counterparty's risk tier to the evidence, then recommends the call: approve, hold, or escalate, with the reasoning shown.

Agent 04

Executive Synthesis Agent

Writes the contract into a defensible record, ready for the approve-or-hold decision and for a sanctions or penalty review as the rules move.

Verify Once. Share Often.

A cleared counterparty becomes a profile you reuse across desks.

Each completed onboarding turns into a compliance profile the counterparty controls and can share. The next desk or relationship that needs them starts ahead, collecting only the delta instead of the whole file.

06 · After the contract activates

Sanctions move faster than contracts. So does the platform.

A counterparty cleared today can be designated next week, and a phase-in date can arrive mid-contract. Compliable.ai keeps watching, so a change becomes an alert, not a surprise in an audit.

Continuous re-screening

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

Designation and date events

A new designation, a reflagged carrier, or a phase-in cutoff 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.

Keep every active contract on the right side of the line.

We will run one of your counterparty types through the natural gas and LNG template, from document upload to a defensible decision, in a live walkthrough.