Anatomy of a dossier

Sections

• Identity and official records: which legal entity, which jurisdiction, status, as of when
• Ownership and control: shareholders and controllers where public; company-stated where not, labelled
• People: officers and related persons from official records
• Financial and capital: filings, offerings (amount offered and amount sold kept apart), public accounts; no estimated valuations without method
• Legal and regulatory: allegation, pending, decided and discontinued distinguished; same-name exclusions recorded
• Intellectual property: patents, trademarks, assignments, chain of title
• Web and documents: what the company says about itself, and what is corroborated
• Client and employee feedback: source, date, sample size and verification method; withheld below n=5
• Private data room: company-supplied, by grant only, never in the public dossier

Indicators, never one score

• Completeness: share of mandatory sections with full coverage
• Freshness: days since the oldest material source was refreshed
• Open questions: what is unresolved, listed
• Human review: who reviewed and when

Evidence chain

Source → original location → document date → retrieval date → entity match → verification status → contradictions. A number without a chain is not shown.