Step 1
Send the tax number
A single tax number — from a customer application, a supplier record or a seller's request. The request goes to the API from your system, or is entered in the web account.
Counterparty checks by tax number for business
A counterparty check by tax number in a single API call: the company's status, its director and shareholders, court cases, debts and sanctions. The result arrives as JSON straight in your onboarding flow, CRM or procurement system.
Data is stored in Russia Russian Software Registry No. 19972 Compliance with 152-FZ and 115-FZ
What a counterparty check by tax number shows
From a single tax number the service collects data from state registers about the company itself and about the people who run it. You see the risks before signing the contract, not after.
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Registration and status
A company is checked against the state register of legal entities and a sole trader against the register of sole traders: whether it is active, whether it is being wound up, when it was registered, and who the director and shareholders are.
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Signs of a shell company
A nominee or serial director, links to dozens of other companies, account freezes ordered by the tax authority.
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The director and shareholders
The people behind the company are checked by tax number, with no namesakes: bankruptcy, commercial court cases, tax debts, other companies and sole trader registrations. More in the section below.
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Court cases and debts
Cases in commercial courts, including bankruptcy cases, and debts to the state budget. For sole traders and directors — by tax number.
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Sanctions and watchlists
The director and shareholders are checked against the Rosfinmonitoring list, the OFAC, EU, UK and UN sanctions lists and the foreign agents register.
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Beneficial owners and monitoring
Where full KYB is needed, the service identifies the ultimate owners and watches for changes: a change of director, liquidation, an appearance on a list.
How the check works through the API
An online counterparty check runs without the company taking part: there is no need to request documents, the data comes from the registers. All you have to do is make a decision on the finished result.
Step 2
The service finds the company in the register
From the tax number the name, status, director and shareholders with their own tax numbers are pulled from the state registers.
Step 3
The company itself is checked
Status, signs of a shell company, court cases and debts.
Step 4
The people behind the company are checked
The director and shareholders — by the tax numbers from the register: nominee status, bankruptcy, court cases, watchlists and sanctions. You choose the set of checks yourself.
Step 5
The service returns the result
The outcome of each check — «passed», «failed» or «not enough data» — and the records found arrive as JSON and by webhook.
Step 6
You make the decision
Clean counterparties move on automatically, borderline ones go to a specialist. The report is stored: it can be shown during a tax inspection or an audit.
Checking the director and shareholders
A shell company is most often given away not by the company but by its director: dozens of firms, a bankruptcy or debts are listed against them. A sole trader is checked against the same registers. Each check costs 5 ₽ and is enabled separately.
- Links to other companies: where the person is a shareholder or a director, and whether they are registered as a sole trader
- Nominee or serial director
- Personal bankruptcy
- Commercial court cases, including bankruptcy
- Account operation freezes
- Tax arrears
- Personal debts
- Self-employed status
- The list of terrorists and extremists
- Sanctions lists
- The foreign agents register
- Criminal cases
- Civil and administrative cases
- Enforcement proceedings
- Wanted lists of the police, the prison service and the bailiffs
- Passport validity
- PEP status, sanctions from 50+ countries and adverse media — 36 ₽
- By name: the search may return namesakes. Results are split into exact matches and probable namesakes.
- With a date of birth or a passport: the state register holds the director's name and tax number but not their date of birth or passport. These checks run once the company's representative has passed KYC or you have supplied the data yourself.
The company, the director and the shareholders in one report
Checking a company without checking the people behind it misses the main thing. An active company with a clean record may have a bankrupt director or a shareholder with a dozen liquidated firms. NeuroVision brings both parts into one response: there is no need to look the director up in three services and assemble a spreadsheet by hand.
When free services are no longer enough
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Dozens of counterparties a day
A marketplace onboards sellers, a bank opens accounts, procurement manages hundreds of suppliers. Pulling extracts by hand does not scale to that volume: bulk counterparty checks are needed, with no employee involved.
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The result lands straight in your system
The response arrives as JSON and goes into your onboarding flow, CRM or procurement system. There is no need to copy data from a website into a spreadsheet and save screenshots.
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Checks on people, not just an extract
Free services show the register record. NeuroVision checks the director and shareholders against watchlists, sanctions, bankruptcy and debts in the same request.
For a one-off check the tax authority's free services will do — an extract from the state register of legal entities and «Transparent business». An API-based counterparty checking service is needed when there are many checks and the decision has to be made automatically.
Who needs counterparty checks through an API
Counterparty checks are needed wherever a company pays out money or grants access to another business. The set of checks is configured to your risk appetite.
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Banks and MFIs
- Counterparty checks at a bank when opening an account and issuing a loan
- The director and shareholders — against the Rosfinmonitoring list
- The result is stored for audit
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Marketplaces
- Checking a seller at sign-up
- Filtering out shell companies and serial directors
- A re-check before payout
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Leasing and factoring
- Bankruptcy and court cases before the deal is approved
- Account freezes and tax arrears
- Checking a director acting as guarantor
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Procurement and supply
- Checking a supplier before the contract
- The report as evidence of commercial due diligence
- Checking the entire supplier base
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Payment services and B2B SaaS
- Onboarding corporate customers with no manual review
- Lower receivables risk
- A check when bank details change
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What a counterparty check costs
You pay only for the checks performed, with no subscription fee and no annual licence. You choose which registers are needed for each type of counterparty.
Calculate the cost- 01
Checks on the director, the shareholders and sole traders — 5 ₽ per register
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The company check is part of a KYB workflow; price on request
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Volume discounts and a 1-month trial period
Counterparty check API
Terms
- A 1-month trial period
- A dedicated manager
- 24/7 support
- Payment for the checks performed
Licences and certificates
The project «Development of a multimodal system using artificial intelligence "Neuromed" for managing the diagnostic processes of a clinic on the basis of the "Neurovision" computer vision platform» is supported by the Innovation Promotion Foundation within the federal project «Domestic Solutions»
The Neurovision computer vision platform is registered with Rospatent (certificate No. 2023661508) and included in the Russian Software Registry (entry No. 19972 of 13.11.2023)
The right to use the Platform is granted under a licence agreement concluded by Neurovision with its customers
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Questions about counterparty checks
For a one-off check the tax authority's free services are enough: an extract from the state registers at egrul.nalog.ru and «Transparent business» at pb.nalog.ru. When there are many checks, NeuroVision accepts the tax number through the API and returns, as JSON, the company's status, the details of its director and shareholders, and the results of the register checks.
There is no universal obligation. In letter no. BV-4-7/3060@ of 10.03.2021 the Federal Tax Service sets out the standard of commercial due diligence. If it has been met and the company did not know that the counterparty was a shell, there is no offence. Organisations listed in article 5 and persons listed in article 7.1 of 115-FZ are required to identify their customers, their representatives and their beneficial owners.
By tax number, with no namesakes: links to other companies, the nominee or serial director flag, bankruptcy, commercial court cases, account freezes and tax arrears. By name: the Rosfinmonitoring list, sanctions lists, the foreign agents register and courts of general jurisdiction. Each check is enabled separately.
Yes. Through the API each tax number is sent as a separate request, and your system can submit your entire supplier or customer base.
A sole trader's tax number is their personal tax number, so every check in the «by tax number» group works with it: bankruptcy, commercial court cases, account freezes, tax arrears and links to companies. If the person works as self-employed, that status is also checked by tax number.
A check by tax number runs against the registers and does not require the company itself to take part. Full KYB adds what only the company holds: constitutional documents, details of beneficial owners, and KYC of the representative and the owners by link. Both workflows run on the same platform.
Yes, KYB includes counterparty monitoring: an alert arrives when the status or ownership changes or the counterparty appears on a sanctions list. For those already in your database you can set up periodic re-checks through the API.
Foreign companies are checked in the KYB workflow — against foreign company registers such as Companies House. Representatives and owners can be checked against sanctions lists and in extended compliance screening.
A check on a director, a shareholder or a sole trader against one register costs 5 ₽, and international compliance screening costs 36 ₽. There is no subscription fee, and a trial period is available.
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