What is director-network analysis?

The practice of looking at how individuals are connected across multiple companies as directors, officers, or beneficial owners. High cross-company exposure is a leading indicator of shell-network fraud, concentration risk, and beneficial-ownership concealment.

How does Prometiam expose this?

Two surfaces: the /people/{id} endpoint returns the full appointment history for one person across companies; the /directors/network endpoint queries the cross-corporate graph for people directing N or more distinct companies, filterable by country and minimum company count.

Why does this matter for underwriting?

A counterparty whose director runs 12 dissolved-within-18-months SLs is statistically much higher risk than one whose director runs only that company. Single-company KYB lookups miss this signal entirely.

What does a fraud-relevant pattern look like?

Three classic signals: a person directing 10+ active companies in a narrow sector (concentration), a person who has serially incorporated and dissolved companies within short windows (phoenix-pattern), and a person who directs companies whose registered addresses overlap with sanctioned entities.

Is this available on the free tier?

/people/{id} is on the records scope (Free tier covers it for ES). /directors/network is Professional-tier (€29.99/month) due to the heavier compute.

Director Network Analysis

Find people who direct multiple EU and UK companies and spot shell-network patterns, concentration risk, and serial-incorporation fraud signals before you underwrite. Single-company KYB lookups treat counterparties as isolated entities, but fraud patterns surface in the network — a person who has incorporated and dissolved 14 companies in three years, a director whose active companies share two registered addresses, a beneficial owner appearing across counterparties in different sectors.

Two endpoints, two questions

/people/{id} returns one person's full appointment history — past and current — across the entire registry. Useful when drilling into a specific officer flagged at KYB.
/directors/network queries the cross-corporate graph for people directing N or more distinct companies, filterable by country and minimum company count. Useful for building a pre-emptive watchlist of high-exposure individuals.

Three patterns worth detecting

Concentration: a person directing 10+ active companies in a narrow sector. Phoenix pattern: serial incorporation and dissolution within short windows. Address overlap: multiple companies under the same director sharing registered addresses — combined with sanctions and US export-control screening across six sources (EU, UN, OFAC, UK OFSI, French gels, US Consolidated Screening List / BIS Entity List, Denied Persons, ITAR; 44,000+ active entities), this surfaces shell-network laundering structures.

What you get back

The /directors/network response includes person_id, full_name, nif where available, company_count, active_company_count, country_codes, and up to 20 sample_companies. Note: beneficial ownership is UK PSC only; Ireland and Poland are company-level. Prices from EUR 29.99/month (Professional).

Frequently asked questions

What is director-network analysis?: The practice of looking at how individuals are connected across multiple companies as directors, officers, or beneficial owners. High cross-company exposure is a leading indicator of shell-network fraud, concentration risk, and beneficial-ownership concealment.
How does Prometiam expose this?: Two surfaces: the /people/{id} endpoint returns the full appointment history for one person across companies; the /directors/network endpoint queries the cross-corporate graph for people directing N or more distinct companies, filterable by country and minimum company count.
Why does this matter for underwriting?: A counterparty whose director runs 12 dissolved-within-18-months SLs is statistically much higher risk than one whose director runs only that company. Single-company KYB lookups miss this signal entirely.
What does a fraud-relevant pattern look like?: Three classic signals: a person directing 10+ active companies in a narrow sector (concentration), a person who has serially incorporated and dissolved companies within short windows (phoenix-pattern), and a person who directs companies whose registered addresses overlap with sanctioned entities.
Is this available on the free tier?: /people/{id} is on the records scope (Free tier covers it for ES). /directors/network is Professional-tier (€29.99/month) due to the heavier compute.