Step 1
INN and a set of checks
The procurement system passes the INN of the supplier, contractor or buyer and the list of required checks. For a one-off delivery — the basic set, for an advance and a long contract — the extended one.
NeuroVision solutions for industry, construction and foreign trade
Procurement pays an advance to a supplier, a general contractor lets a subcontractor with its workers onto the site, an exporter ships goods to a foreign buyer. In all three cases the tax authority, the bank and the procurement committee will later ask one thing: whom did you check before the deal. We check a company by INN, its director and founders — without namesakes, a foreign counterparty — against sanctions lists, and we recognise workers’ documents and subscribers’ applications without manual entry.
Data is stored in Russia Russian software registry no. 19972 152‑FZ
Choose a segment: manufacturing, construction, foreign trade, agriculture or energy
The card shows whom this business checks and what to connect for it. A detailed page for each segment will appear in this section.
Manufacturing, construction and energy
Suppliers and contractors before the contract, incoming documents without manual entry.
- KYB · Database checks · Document recognition
Manufacturing and procurement
The supplier before the contract and the advance: the company by INN and signs of a shell company, the director and founders — nominee status, debts, watchlists and sanctions, links with your employees, the representative’s passport without manual entry.
- KYB by INN · Document recognition · Ministry of Internal Affairs register
Construction
The contractor and subcontractor — by INN before admission to the site. Foreign workers’ passports and patents — into your records without retyping, the Ministry of Internal Affairs register of controlled persons — for each one.
- Document recognition · Handwritten text
Energy and utilities
The new owner’s passport and the subscriber’s handwritten application — as fields into billing. Forgery and a photo of a screen are visible before the contract is re-signed.
Foreign trade, commodities and agriculture
Buyers and suppliers — Russian and foreign — before payment and shipment.
- Sanctions screening · Compliance screening · KYB
Commodity trade and foreign trade
Exporters, importers and traders of metals, grain, coal and oil products check the counterparty before the contract and payment: directors, representatives and known owners — against OFAC, EU, UK and UN lists and PEP lists, the Russian side — by INN.
- KYB by tax number · Database checks
Agribusiness
The farm and the processor — by INN before the harvest is purchased. The head of the farm and the payment recipient — against databases without namesakes, self-employed status — before each payment.
Tax authority, procurement, bank and sanctions: who asks what about your counterparty
A manufacturing or trading company has no general obligation to check every counterparty, and 115‑FZ does not apply to ordinary trade. But the tax authority assesses whether you exercised due care in choosing a supplier. The procurement committee looks at the bidder, the bank — at the payee, and sanctions restrictions — at the foreign buyer.
NeuroVision collects information on the company and the people behind it from registers and lists and records the date and source of each check. Documents proving that the delivery was real, currency control and the decision on the deal remain with you.
- Counterparty due diligence
Tax authority: supplier and deductions
Tax Code of the Russian Federation, Art. 54.1; Federal Tax Service letter of 10.03.2021 No. БВ-4-7/3060@.
What the tax authority checks
- The deal is real and was performed by this very supplier, not by a “technical” company
- The main purpose of the deal is not to reduce tax
What is not in itself a ground for refusal
- Tax law violations by the supplier
- A signature on the primary documents by an unidentified person — if the deal is real
Commercial due diligence
- The Federal Tax Service assesses the supplier’s business reputation, solvency, risk of non-performance, resources and experience
- You exercised due care and did not know about the “technical” company — there is no offence
What the check gives you
- The date, source and result for the company and the people behind it — in the supplier’s file
- Resources, experience and the reality of the delivery are confirmed by your documents
- Counterparty checks
Procurement: bidder and contract
223‑FZ, Art. 3 and 5; 44‑FZ, Art. 31 and 104.
Requirements for the bidder
- A state customer — under 44‑FZ, state companies and natural monopolies — under their own procurement regulations (223‑FZ)
- Requirements for the bidder — in the procurement documentation
Register of unscrupulous suppliers
- Maintained by the Federal Antimonopoly Service, open in the unified information system
- The customer may set a requirement not to be listed in the register
Private company
- Its own procurement rules: tender committee, security service, supplier file
- Depth of the check — according to the amount and term of the contract
- Sanctions screening
Bank and sanctions: payment and foreign trade
115‑FZ, Art. 5, 7.6; 173‑FZ, Art. 19, 22; Presidential Decrees No. 79 and No. 81 (2022).
115‑FZ
- Manufacturing, construction and wholesale trade are not covered entities: they have no client identification obligations
- But you are a bank client, and the bank may request documents on the deal and the counterparty
Currency control
- The currency control agent is your bank: contract registration and repatriation of proceeds
- Violations — Art. 15.25 of the Code of Administrative Offences
Sanctions
- Deals with persons from unfriendly states in a number of cases require permission from the Government Commission
- Foreign lists are an assessment of payment and delivery risk, not compliance with foreign sanctions
Agribusiness, energy and utilities: checks that work right now
In agribusiness the risk lies in the harvest supplier and the payment recipient, in energy sales and utilities — in the paper that the subscriber brings or sends as a photo. Neither scenario needs to wait for a separate integration: checks and recognition work through the same API.
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A farm — harvest supplier
The farm — The INN of the head of the farm: bankruptcy, arbitration cases, account freezes and tax debts.
An intermediary reseller — the company by INN: signs of a shell company, a nominee director, links with dozens of firms. -
Recipient of a payment for raw materials or services
A self-employed person — professional income tax payer status on the date of payment, by Russian passport.
An individual — enforcement proceedings and wanted lists — before the transfer, without namesakes by INN. -
Change of owner in energy sales and utilities
The new owner’s documents — the passport is recognised from a photo, validity — against the Ministry of Internal Affairs database.
Authenticity — a photo of a screen, a printout and an edit in an editor are visible before the contract is re-signed. -
The subscriber’s handwritten application
A handwritten application and form — full name, address, personal account number and dates arrive as fields in JSON with a confidence level.
Disputed fields — to the operator, the rest — straight into billing. A signature is recorded as present, not “read”.
Before the contract, before the advance, before shipment: what to check about a counterparty in industry
- Status in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities or of Sole Proprietors: active, not in liquidation, registration date, director and founders
- Signs of a shell company: a nominee or serial director, links with dozens of companies, account freezes
- Arbitration cases, including bankruptcy cases, and debts to the budget
- Register of unscrupulous suppliers, SRO membership, licences and reporting
- The director and founders — by INN from the register, without namesakes: bankruptcy, arbitration, tax debts
- The Rosfinmonitoring list, sanctions lists and the foreign agents register — by full name
- A representative under a power of attorney — the passport is recognised, validity — against the Ministry of Internal Affairs database
- The signatory’s authority: articles of association, power of attorney, contact with the director
- Repeat check via the API before payment: status, account freezes, bankruptcy
- The supplier’s new bank details are a reason to check the company again
- Documents proving the delivery was real: primary documents, transport documents, acts
- The director and owners of the foreign buyer — against OFAC, EU, UK and UN lists in Latin script
- International screening: sanctions, politically exposed persons and negative publications
- Contract registration, repatriation of proceeds and questions on the payment
- Permissions for deals with persons from unfriendly states — as assessed by your lawyer
- NeuroVision — the item is covered by a NeuroVision check by INN and full name: the company, the people behind it, documents
- Procurement and legal — a step for the tender committee, lawyer or security service: procurement registers, authority, documents proving the delivery was real
- Bank — contract registration and repatriation of proceeds are handled by your bank; NeuroVision does not take part in currency control
Who stands behind the company: the director, founders and the representative under a power of attorney
An extract on a “technical” company is usually clean: it is active, a director is appointed, there is an address. The risk is visible in the people — dozens of firms are registered to the director, bankruptcy or frozen accounts. These checks run by the INN from the register, so people with the same surname do not get into the report.
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Links and nominee status
- Where the person is a founder or director, whether they have sole proprietor status
- A sign of a nominee or serial director
- A director with dozens of liquidated firms is visible before the contract, not after the tax authority’s demand
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Bankruptcy and arbitration
- Bankruptcy of an individual — in the Unified Federal Register of Bankruptcy Information
- Arbitration cases, including bankruptcy cases — in the card file of arbitration cases
- A guarantor-director with a bankruptcy case — a signal before deferring payment
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Taxes and accounts
- Account operation freezes — tax authority decisions: date, number and reason
- Tax arrears — from Federal Tax Service data
- Enforcement proceedings — with date of birth or passport, after the representative is checked
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Watchlists and sanctions
- Rosfinmonitoring list of terrorists and extremists
- OFAC, EU, UK and UN sanctions lists, the foreign agents register
- By full name — exact matches separately from probable namesakes
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Representative and signatory
- The representative’s passport is recognised from a photo — fields into the counterparty’s card without retyping
- Passport validity — against the Ministry of Internal Affairs database, forgery and a photo of a screen — document anti-fraud
- The power of attorney and articles of association are checked by your lawyer
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Where NeuroVision ends: registers are ours, the RNP, SRO, bank and lawyer are yours
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NeuroVision does
The company by INN. Status, signs of a shell company, courts and debts — in a single API request.
The people behind the company. The director and founders by INN without namesakes, watchlists and sanctions by full name.
Incoming documents. The representative’s passport, workers’ passports and patents, handwritten applications — as fields in JSON. -
Remains with you and the bank
Procurement registers and admissions. Register of unscrupulous suppliers, SRO membership, licences and reporting — in open sources and the bidder’s documents.
Reality of the delivery. Primary documents, transport documents and acts — in your file.
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Not part of NeuroVision
Admission and records by face. Site passes and working-time records by face — outside our product.
Transport and equipment. We do not check cars, special equipment or their pledges.
Legal assessment of sanctions. Whether a deal can go ahead is decided by your lawyer. We show matches in the lists.
We do not replace the tender committee, the lawyer or the bank. We remove the manual collection of extracts and card files on the company and every person behind it — and keep the date, source and result of each check in the file.
Construction: contractor, subcontractor and foreign workers on site
A fine for someone else’s worker — for each foreigner
The subcontractor brings a crew, and in half of the documents there is another region in the patent or an expired term. The person who engaged the foreigner to work is liable, and the fine is calculated for each person. The Ministry of Internal Affairs must be notified of a contract with a foreigner within 3 working days; an organisation faces a fine of 400,000–800,000 ₽ for being late, and a check against the register of controlled persons costs 5 ₽. For more on the employer’s duties, see the HR solutions.
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The contractor before the contract
The contractor company is checked by INN before admission to the site: status, signs of a shell company, bankruptcy and account freezes for the director. A shell company in a subcontract is both a tax risk under Art. 54.1 and an abandoned site.
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The crew’s documents
Workers’ passports and patents are recognised from a photo: full name in Latin and Cyrillic letters, number, term and region — into your records without retyping. The validity of a patent is checked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs service, not by us.
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Register of controlled persons
Every foreigner — against the Ministry of Internal Affairs register: a person on the register has no lawful grounds to be in Russia. A repeat check is needed also for those already on site: the status may change after admission.
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What we do not do on site
We do not admit people to the site by face and do not keep working-time records. Passes, timesheets and the contractor’s SRO membership remain in your systems and documents.
Schemes in which procurement, construction and exporters lose money
A shell-company supplier
The advance is gone, there is no delivery
The company was registered six months ago, and the director is listed in dozens of firms. A check of the people behind the company shows a serial director before the advance is transferred.
A technical link in the chain
Deductions are disallowed a year later
The goods are real, but the documents show an intermediary without resources. The tax authority asks why exactly this one was chosen. A report with the date and source shows that a check was made.
Substituted bank details
The payment goes to someone else’s account
A letter “from the supplier” with new bank details is a reason to check the company again. A recipient with frozen accounts or a different director is visible before payment.
A bankrupt subcontractor
The site is abandoned halfway
An operating company whose director is in bankruptcy proceedings or has arbitration cases over debts. This is visible by their INN before the crew is admitted.
A buyer from a sanctions list
The payment is frozen by the bank
The foreign buyer is clean, but its director or owner is on a list. Screening people in Latin script before shipment reduces the risk of a stopped payment.
Art. 54.1 of the Tax Code
Supplier checked before the deal
Foreign trade and commodity trade: the foreign buyer and its representatives before payment
In commodity and foreign trade a single deal is large, and the buyer is a company from another jurisdiction that cannot be found in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. The bank, the carrier and the insurer will ask who is behind the buyer. It is better to know the answer before shipment, not after a payment is stopped.
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The people behind a foreign company
The director, owners and signatories are checked against OFAC, EU, UK and UN lists — by the Latin spelling of the name. Matches are divided into exact ones and probable namesakes.
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International screening
Sanctions lists, politically exposed persons and their associates, regulators’ measures and negative publications — 36 ₽ per check, in one request with the basic lists.
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A Russian intermediary
If the deal goes through a Russian agent or trader, it is checked by INN: status, shell company, director and founders. A foreign company against foreign registers — as part of the KYB platform.
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The decision rests with your lawyer
Foreign lists are an assessment of payment and delivery risk, not compliance with foreign sanctions. Permissions for deals, currency control and the choice of bank are outside the service.
How a check of an industrial company’s counterparty works
Three steps from the INN in the supplier’s card to the procurement committee’s decision. The request goes from your ERP, CRM or procurement system, and the result returns to the same place.
Step 2
The company and the people behind it
The service finds the company in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities or of Sole Proprietors, takes the director and founders with their INNs and checks each against registers and lists. For a foreign counterparty — screening of the people in Latin script.
Step 3
A report in the counterparty’s file
For each check — “passed”, “failed” or “not enough data”, the records found and the source. The response arrives in JSON by webhook, clean counterparties go on, disputed ones — to a specialist.
What the solution for industry, construction and foreign trade is made of
The set for procurement, construction or export is assembled from six products of one platform. Connect only the ones you need — you pay for completed checks.
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Counterparty checks
The company by INN: status, signs of a shell company, courts and debts; the director and founders — 20+ checks without namesakes.
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Due diligence
Basic, extended and expert level of checking to match the amount and term of the contract, a report with the date and source.
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Sanctions screening
OFAC, EU, UK and UN lists in Latin and Cyrillic script, international screening: politically exposed persons and negative publications.
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Company beneficiaries
Owners with a share over 25% and their check — as part of the KYB platform.
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Document recognition
Representatives’ passports, passports and patents of foreign workers — 16,000+ document types from 195+ countries and territories.
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Handwritten applications and forms
Subscribers’ applications, forms and blanks filled in by hand — as fields in JSON with a confidence level.
How much it costs to check a contractor, a buyer and the people behind a company
You pay for completed checks, with no subscription fee or annual licence. You choose the set of registers — a different one for each type of counterparty.
- Check a buyer
International screening
36 ₽ per check
Sanctions lists, politically exposed persons and negative publications — for a foreign buyer and its owners.
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Director, founders and sole proprietors: bankruptcy, arbitration, watchlists, sanctions, enforcement proceedings. The basic set for a director and two founders — 135 ₽.
- Add documents
Document
from 16 ₽ per check
A representative’s or worker’s passport with an anti-fraud check, a patent and a residence permit — 10 ₽ each in the same check.
A check of the company itself by INN — as part of a KYB scenario, price on request. The register of controlled persons — 5 ₽. For large volumes the price is calculated individually.
How to build the check into procurement, ERP and CRM: API, widget or on-premises installation
A large manufacturer needs an API into the procurement system and a check of its whole supplier base. A general contractor and a trader can start with the widget and the web account.
Terms
- A 1-month trial period
- A dedicated manager
- Tickets-based technical support
- Payment for the checks performed
Why manufacturing and trading companies choose NeuroVision
Counterparty checks in industry are a flow: hundreds of suppliers, contractors with their crews, foreign buyers. You need one service for the company, the people behind it and incoming documents.
Company, people and documents — in one API
The company by INN, the director and founders without namesakes, sanctions lists and representatives’ passports are checked by one service. There is no need to combine an extract, a card file of cases and Federresurs in a spreadsheet by hand.
One request instead of an extract, a card file and a spreadsheet by hand.
A Russian developer
A Skolkovo resident; the platform is entry no. 19972 in the Russian software registry.
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
Terms of procurement, foreign trade and counterparty checks
A short guide to the concepts you meet when choosing a supplier, admitting a contractor and making a foreign trade deal.
- Commercial due diligence
- A check of the counterparty before a deal, which the Federal Tax Service expects from a reasonable market participant: reputation, solvency, resources and experience. In case law — “due diligence”.
- Technical company
- An organisation that appears in documents but carries on no real activity: it has no staff, assets or resources to perform the deal. Colloquially — a shell company.
- Nominee director
- A person who is listed as the director or founder but does not manage the company. A serial director is listed in dozens of companies at the same time.
- Register of unscrupulous suppliers
- The Federal Antimonopoly Service register of procurement participants that evaded a contract or failed to perform it. Maintained for procurement under 44‑FZ and 223‑FZ.
- RNP
- Self-regulatory organisation
- An association of builders, designers or surveyors. A contractor needs membership for most construction contracts.
- SRO
- General contractor and subcontractor
- The general contractor concludes the contract with the customer and engages subcontractors for individual works, answering to the customer for the result.
- Register of controlled persons
- The Ministry of Internal Affairs register of foreigners who have no lawful grounds to be in Russia. Maintained since 5 February 2025.
- Currency control agent
- An authorised bank that registers a foreign trade contract and monitors the repatriation of proceeds and payment for imports.
- Sanctions screening
- A search for the company and the people behind it in sanctions lists — Russian, UN, OFAC, EU, UK and those of other countries.
- Sanctions screening
- KYB
- A check of a client company or counterparty: registration, directors, owners, courts, debts and lists.
- Know Your Business
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Questions about counterparty checks in industry, construction and foreign trade
It is a check of the companies you work with: suppliers, contractors and buyers. By INN the service finds the company in the register, checks its status, courts and debts, and then the director and founders — for bankruptcy, tax debts, watchlists and sanctions. The result reaches your procurement system through the API.
The law contains no direct obligation. But under Art. 54.1 of the Tax Code the tax authority assesses whether the deal is real and whether you exercised commercial due diligence in choosing a supplier (Federal Tax Service letter of 10.03.2021 No. БВ-4-7/3060@). A check with a date and source is part of such confirmation, together with documents proving the delivery was real.
No: manufacturing, construction and ordinary trade are not on the list of organisations in Article 5 of the law and have no client identification obligations. The exception is precious metals and stones, jewellery and their scrap; trade in ferrous and non-ferrous metals is not on the list. At the same time, your bank under 115‑FZ may request documents on the deal and the counterparty.
No, the service does not include these checks. The register of unscrupulous suppliers is maintained by the Federal Antimonopoly Service and is open in the unified procurement information system; SRO membership is checked against the register of members of the self-regulatory organisation. We check the company by INN and the people behind it against registers and lists.
The buyer’s directors, owners and signatories are checked against OFAC, EU, UK and UN lists by the Latin spelling of the name, and for an extended check — through international screening. This is an assessment of payment and delivery risk; whether the deal can go ahead is decided by your lawyer.
No. Registration of a foreign trade contract and repatriation of proceeds are handled by your bank as the currency control agent. NeuroVision checks the counterparty before the deal — its result can be attached to your reply to the bank.
The company — by INN before admission to the site: status, signs of a shell company, bankruptcy and account freezes for the director. Foreign workers — by documents and the Ministry of Internal Affairs register of controlled persons. SRO membership and the validity of patents are checked in separate services.
No. Site passes and working-time records by face are not part of the product. We recognise workers’ passports and patents and check them against the Ministry of Internal Affairs register, while access control remains in your system.
By the director’s INN from the register: a sign of a nominee or serial director, links with other companies, bankruptcy, arbitration cases, account freezes and tax debts. The search runs by INN, so people with the same surname do not get into the report.
Yes. Each INN goes to the API as a separate request, and the procurement system can send the whole base. A repeat check before a large payment or when bank details change can be run on a schedule.
A check of a person behind the company against one register — 5 ₽, international screening — 36 ₽, a document with an anti-fraud check — from 16 ₽. A check of the company itself is part of a KYB scenario, on request. There is no subscription fee, the test period is 1 month.
We will select checks for your manufacturing, construction or foreign trade business
Tell us whom you check — suppliers, contractors with crews or foreign buyers — and how many a month. We will assemble a set of checks and give you test access.
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